Time Zones
Landforms & Bodies of Water
Earth's Revolution and Seasons
The Globe
Climates and Biomes
Random Geography
6th Grade Social Studies
100
The time is takes for the Earth to rotate (spin around)?
What is 24 hours?
100
Rivers, lakes, and oceans are ______________.
What are Bodies of Water / Waterways?
100
The four seasons.
What are Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter?
100
There are four halves of the Earth, also known by this term.
What is a hemisphere?
100
The term used to describe rain, snow, sleet and hail.
What is precipitation?
100
The four cardinal directions.
What are North, East, South, and West?
100
This ancient civilization was located on the Nile River in Northern Africa.
What is Egypt?
200
The imaginary line which runs through the center of the earth, and is tilted in comparison to the sun.
What is an axis?
200
The name for a group of mountains.
What is mountain range?
200
One year is this long.
What is 365 1/4 days?
200
These vertical lines run from north to south and measure points in the eastern and western hemispheres.
What are lines of longitude?
200
The climate zone in which Rhode Island is located.
What is the temperate climate zone?
200
The globe is this 3D round shape.
What is a sphere?
200
This ancient civilization was included thinkers such as Socrates, Pericles, and city-states like Sparta and Athens.
What is Greece?
300
The time zone that all of New England, including Rhode Island follows.
What is Eastern Standard Time?
300
A body of water that is fresh water and surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
300
This happens 2 times a year where daylight is longest in one hemisphere and shortest in another.
What is a solstice?
300
These horizontal lines run from east to west and measure points in the northern and southern hemispheres.
What are lines of latitude?
300
The 3 zones which separate the earth into different climates.
What are tropical, temperate, and polar?
300
The biggest continent with the most people.
What is Asia?
300
This civilization was located on the Italian peninsula and eventually controlled all of the Mediterranean Sea. Julius Caesar was an important person in this civilization.
What is Rome?
400
Complete the blanks: The sun rises in the ____________ and sets in the _____________.
What is "The sun rises in the east and sets in the west?"
400
This is a piece of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
400
This happens 2 times a year where daylight is equal in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is an equinox?
400
These 2 important lines, one of latitude and one of longitude, separate the Earth into the four hemispheres.
What are the Equator and Prime Meridian?
400
This biome is characterized by less than 10 inches of rainfall - it is the driest biome.
What is a desert?
400
These 2 continents are located fully in the western hemisphere.
What are North America and South America?
400
This ancient civilization was located in Asia, and had lasted more than 2000 years. Confucius was an important thinker in this civilization.
What is China?
500
Drake is performing in California. There is a live stream on YouTube which begins at 7pm Pacific Time. You are in Texas at your friend's house and want to watch the live stream which begins at this time.
What is 9pm?
500
A natural depression in the surface of the land which creates a bowl-like shape, sometimes with a lake at the bottom.
What is a basin?
500
This day is celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere on December 21st.
What is the Winter/December Solstice?
500
The term used as a location found with longitude and latitude.
What are coordinates?
500
This biome is located in the tropical climate zone, and has the most precipitation and biodiversity (amount of plant and animals).
What is a rain forest?
500
This is a type of map that shows the location and boundaries of cities and states.
What is a political map?
500
The ancient land of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia?