Great Questions of Geography [Term 1]
Relief, Water & Climate
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TERM 1 Evaluation Exam [Relief, Water & Climate]
- Salt water is found in which two places?
- Can you explain the water cycle?
- Can you label a map of the water cycle below?
- Can you label an image of a river’s course with the following vocabulary? Canyon – Delta – Alluvial plain – Meanders – Waterfall – Tributary – Source
- Can you complete a text about the water cycle using the following vocabulary? Condensation – Runoff – Evaporation – Transpiration – Precipitation – Collection
- What type of water do oceans and seas both contain?
- What is a sea current?
- How are currents important for the earth’s climate?
- Name some famous lakes in the world?
- Why is the Caspian sea not considered a lake?
- What is a drought?
- What is a famine?
- What are the three types of precipitation?
- What are the Earth’s three climate zones?
- Write the word next to the correct definition
a. ___________________________ : A group of islands
b. __________________________________ : leads down to deeper parts of the ocean
c. __________________________ : An area of land surrounded by water on all sides except one
d. _______________________________ : A part of the coast which extends into the sea
e. ____________________________ : A large area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land
f. _______________________ : Vast plateau in the ocean which can reach a depth of up to 150 m
g. ________________________________ : Large, deep depression in the ocean floor
21. What do you call a period of time when there is no rainfall?
22. What are the principal agents of erosion?
23. Rain, snow and hail are all forms of what?
24. Rivers, seas, oceans, rain water and groundwater all provoke what?
25. Relief is formed by which two forces?
26. What are the three basic processes that shape the earth’s relief on the surface?
27. What is a valley? (write a clear definition for this and all vocabulary questions)
28. What is a cliff?
29. What is an isthmus?
30. What is a cape?
31. What is an abyssal plain?
32. What is an aquifer?
33. Complete the following phrase about the water cycle: The water vapour rises and c________. It c_______________ and forms c___________.
34. in which country do we find the Mississippi river?
35. What is an alluvial plain?
36. What is an estuary?
37. Convectional, orographic and frontal are all types of what?
38. Atmospheric pressure is higher or lower in mountainous areas?
39. An anticyclone is an area of high pressure or low pressure?
40. What do anticyclones cause: dry stable weather with clear skies or unstable stormy weather with cloudy skies?
41. What are the three types of rainfall?
42. Depressions are areas of _________ pressure that cause u______________ weather.
43. What is another word for Tropical Cyclone beginning with ‘H______________’?
44. What is the name for a very strong wind that rotates at a speed of up to 300km per hour and causes great storms?
45. In Asia they have another name for the phenomenon described in question
46, beginning with the letter ‘T____________________.’ What is the name?
47. The hot zone is found between the T____________ of C_______________ and the T____________ of C_______________.
48. What are the three climates found in the hot zone?
E___________________: temperatures are high all year round. Precipitation is regular and abundant
T___________________: temperatures are high. Precipitation is abundant in the rainy season
H______ D__________: temperatures are high and precipitation is very scarce
59. The temperate zones are between the T_______________ and the P____________ C___________________.
60. There are four seasons because of the inclination of the Sun’s rays, what are the following climate zones:
M__________________________: summers are hot and winters are mild. Precipitation is irregular and mainly occurs in the summer
H________________ s_____-t________________: climates have similar temperatures to the Mediterranean climate, but pecipitation is greater
O_________________: temperatures are mild all year, and precipitation is abundant
C___________________: summers are hot and winters are very cold. Precipitation mainly occurs in the summer
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