People, ideas, and goods/services traveling from one place to another would best fit under which of the five themes?
a) Movement
b) Regions
c) Human environment interaction
d) Location
a) movement
U-shaped valleys have been carved out by:
a) Glaciers
b) earthquakes
c) Mountains
d) volcanoes
a) glaciers
If you traveled north of the equator, you'd be in which hemisphere:
a) northern hemisphere
b) southern hemisphere
c) eastern hemisphere
d) western hemisphere
a) northern hemisphere
List the 5 boroughs of New York City
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island
The idea that the earth's crust is broken into moving plates is called:
a) Landforms
b) Erosion
c) Movement
d) Plate Tectonics
This image best shows what type of region?
a) Formal region
b) Functional region
c) Perceptual region
a) formal region
B
Name this continent:
I am the third largest continent.
My continent experiences every type of climate that exists on Earth.
I am home to the country of Mexico.
North America
Which landform is not located in NYS?
a) mountains
b) plateaus
c) volcanoes
d) peninsulas
c) volcanoes
What is the name of the center of the earth?
a) Core
b) Mantle
c) fault
d) lava
a) core
A group of places with at least one thing in common form a:
a) Location
b) relative location
c) Government
d) Region
d) region
What is the name of this landform?
a) mountain
b) hill
c) plateau
d) valley
c) plateau
Name that continent:
I am the smallest continent but I have one of the largest countries on Earth.
My seasons are reversed! (Summer is cold and Winter is hot)
On my continent you can find marsupials (kangaroos, Wallabies, Koalas)
Australia and Oceania
Explain how the hills in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were made:
The hills in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island are made from the glaciers pushing and bunching the surface of the earth. The glaciers deposited dirt, rocks and boulders onto the land and made hills.
What might concern you most if you lived near the boundary of two tectonic plates?
a) Tropical storms
b) Tornadoes
c) Earthquakes
d) Tsunamis
c) Earthquakes
The image below best shows what type of region?
a) Functional region
b) Formal region
c) Perceptual Region
c) perceptual region
Oceanic islands have been created by:
a) Earthquakes
b) Volcanoes
c) Erosion
d) Geology
b) volcanoes
Name this ocean: #12
Southern Ocean
Explain how the Mohawk and Hudson River Valley were created:
The moving glaciers weren’t tall enough to cover the mountain range, so they pushed around the mountain range and made a pathway, separating the Appalachian Plateau from the Adirondack Mountains. This pathway is now called the Mohawk River Valley. The glacier continued its pathway south, creating the Hudson River Valley
What are the three main causes of erosion?
a) fire, air, and movement
b) water, wind, and ice
c) volcanoes, earthquakes, and tornadoes
d) rocks, soil, and sand
b) water, wind, and ice
A pilot flying for the first time to an airport on a Pacific island would most likely want to know the island's:
a) Human-environmental impact
b) absolute location
c) relative location
d) place
b) absolute location
What is this landform called?
a) peninsula
b) island
c) archipelago
a) peninsula
Name this ocean: #8
Arctic Ocean
Explain how the Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario) were created:
The glaciers carved deep crevices in western New York, which became the Great Lakes. As the ice sheets melted and retreated into Canada, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie were created.
Why was fossil evidence significant to prove continental drift?