SOCIAL STUDIES GUIDE FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM

 

 

I.              Study the vocabulary from every chapter.

 

Chapter 1, Part I: INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY

II.             Match the following questions to the answers you already have from the rally:

1.     What is geography?

2.     What is a social science?

3.     Which are the levels of geography?

4.     Provide characteristics of regions:

5.     They are a geographer’s tools:

6.     They are two out of five themes of geography:

7.     What is absolute location?

8.     What is relative location?

9.     What is movement?

10.  What is physical geography?

11.  It is the study of the world’s people, communities and landscapes.

12.  It is the science of making maps:

 

13.  What is meteorology?

 

Chapter 2, Part II: PLANET EARTH

 

 

I.              Answer the Standardized Test Preps in the book:

·         p.23: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7

·         p.47: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

 

II.            Match the two columns.

A.

1. solar energy ____

2. rotation         ____

3. revolution     ____

4. tilt                 ____

5. axis              ____

B.

a. trip around the sun that takes 365¼ days

b. one complete spin of Earth on its axis

c. energy from the sun

d. imaginary line through the North and South Poles

e. angle of 23½ degrees from vertical, inclination

 

 

III.           Read and complete the information. Use words from the box.                                                          

 

ARE     MAKES UP     COVER     GOLFS     GLACIERS     SURFACE     WATER    SALTWATER     FRESHWATER    3%     OCEANS     RIVERS     PRECIPITATION

 

Oceans ____________ 71% of the Earth’s ____________.   Oceans __________ vast bodies of ___________.  Seas, ___________, bays and straits are smaller parts of _______________.  This water is _______________.  People cannot drink saltwater. _______________ is water with no salt and people can drink it.  Freshwater ____________ only ______ of our total water supply.     Much of that freshwater is locked in Earth’s _________.  One form of freshwater is surface water.  Surface water is found in Earth’s streams, _____________, and lakes. Streams form after precipitation.  ________________ is water that falls to Earth’s surface.

           

IV. Paste the water cycle diagram.          

 

  

 

 

 

V.            Answer.

 

a) What is the water cycle? ____________________________________________________________

b)    What drives the water cycle? _______________________________________________________

c)     Name and describe the different types of water that make up Earth’s water supply. *

d)    What are some common landforms: _________________________________________________

e)     What is the theory of Plate Tectonics? _______________________________________________

f)     Draw a diagram with the three layers of Earth:

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 3, Part III: Climate and Environment

 

VI.           Answer.

 

1. What is the short-term changes in the air for a given place and time? __________________

2. Define climate:  _____________________________________________________________

3. Which climate zone is on or near the equator; it is hot and humid?  _____________________

4. Which climate zone is far from the equator and contains Subarctic and Tundra Climates?  ___

5. Which climate zone means “moderate” because it is not too hot, not too cold? _____________

6. Which climate zone is defined for the mountains in it?  ______________________

7. Which climate zone is extremely hot during the day and cold in the night and contains the

Desert and Steppe Climates? __________________________

8.     Which three major climate zones occur at certain latitudes?  _________________________

9.     In which type of dry climate do you think the fewest people live?  _____________________

Why?  ____________________________________________________________________