Social Studies
Geography Review for the Final Exam
· You should be able to identify all
the continents and oceans. (Practice on Map [POM] )
· You should be able to identify,
locate and use the elements of TODALSIGS on a map.
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T____________________ S___________________
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O
___________________
I___________________
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D___________________ G__________________
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A___________________ S___________________
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L
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· You should be able to find a specific
location given latitude and longitude.
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Use
a map with grid lines and tell what countries are at the following absolute
locations:
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48°
N, 2° E _______________________ 30° N,
31° E ____________________
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35°
S, 149° E _____________________ 19° N,
99° W ____________________
· You should be able to identify the
Equator, the Prime Meridian and each hemisphere. (POM)
· You should be able to figure out time
changes between Pacific, Mountain, Central and/or Eastern time zones.
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If
you called your grandma in NYC from home at 2:00 pm your time, what time will
it be for her? ______________ If Uncle Bob wants you to turn on the TV in
your house at exactly 3:15 pm Pacific, what time will that be for
you?________________
· You should be able to identify the
following countries we have studied “in snap shot” this year: Canada, USA,
Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, England, Greece, Italy, Germany,
Spain, France, Russian Federation (Russia), Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria,
Jordan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Madagascar, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South
Africa, China, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Australia.
(POM)
· You should be able to name the three
longest rivers in the world and what continent they are on.
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1
____________________________
in_____________________________
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2
____________________________
in_____________________________
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3 ____________________________ in_____________________________
· You should be able to explain why and
how physical features are often used as political borders.
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Examples:
_______________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________
· You should be able to identify these
desserts: Sahara, Kalahari, Gobi, Arabian (POM)
· You should be able to identify these
mountain ranges: Andes, Rockies, Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pyrenees, Ural. (POM)
· You should be able to identify any of
the landforms on pages 2 of your ISN.
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Name
a country that is an archipelago _________________________________
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A
caldera is a giant ______________________ caused by a giant volcanic ex- or
im-plosion.
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Bay
is to Cape as Isthmus is to _______________________
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Name
a well-known barrier island______________________________
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What
do we call the place where a river builds up silt as it empties into a large
body of water?
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Plains
are usually at high or low (circle
one) elevations and covered in __________________
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We
learned about the Great ______________ ________________ in Africa. An area of low land between high lands cause
by geological faults. What will eventually happen to the land east of this
geological formation? _______________________________________________________
Social
Studies Culture Review for the Final Exam
·
You should be able to identify the elements of PERSIA and evaluate
examples to determine which element(s) they represent. What element of PERSIA is most represented
by the following examples?
______Ancient China was ruled by a series
of dynasties lead by an emperor with the “mandate of heaven”.
______The Quin Dynasty encouraged farmers and soldiers
while punishing merchants, aristocrats, scholars, and other classes that were
seen as useless.
______Landscape
painting was popular during the Quin Dynasty.
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You should be able to identify types of and examples of
governments as given on pages 11 & 12 of your ISN.
A country with a limited government where all the adults can vote
for leaders who make the laws is a ________________________ . A country with
unlimited government that is ruled by a small group of who seized power by
force is an ______________________. An
unlimited government run by the leader of the religious majority of the country
is a _________________.
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You should be able to analyze demographic information to make
inferences and generalizations about elements of PERSIA.
If you’re given the percent of a country
that is urbanized, what can you infer about the remaining percent of the
country? ________________________
If a
country has universal suffrage for 18 and up, what does that mean?
__________________ A high rate of literacy in country is often linked to high
rates in what other demographic categories? ________________________________________________________________
·
You should be able to identify the major beliefs of the world’s
top 5 religions and analyze the effect they have had on cultural regions.
Name the top 5 practiced religions in the world and 3 important
facts about that religion.
______________________ ____________________________________________________
______________________ ____________________________________________________
______________________ ____________________________________________________
______________________ ____________________________________________________
______________________ ____________________________________________________
Which one of the top 5 religions in the world is polytheistic? _________________________
Which one does not believe in a supreme being?
_________________________ The other three are all _________-theisitc. Those three religions all started where?
_____________________
What prophet do they all share? _______________________________
What do we call a group or division within a religion?
____________________________
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You should be able to explain or recognize the general trend of
development for human civilizations and name an exception. Mostly people went
from ______________________
___________________________________________ to _______________________________
which eventually developed
into ___________________________________________________.
One group who never settled
into villages were the ____________________________________.
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You should be able to demonstrate understanding of the causes and
consequences of the rise and fall of European colonization.
What were the three
reasons/excuses for European colonization? __________, __________, and
______________. What were the biggest
disadvantages for those who were colonized? ___________________________________________________________________________
What was the main advantage
for those who were colonized?____________________________
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You should be able to identify leaders of non-violent revolutions
and their methods/inspirations. Who developed the philosophy of Satyagraha?
_________________
What was his purpose?
__________________________________________________________
Name three leaders of peaceful rebellions who followed his
strategies?_____________________
____________________________
__________________________
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You should be able to explain reasons why people revolt against
their governments and why there was a wave of Communist revolutions in the
first half of the 1900s. __________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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You should be able to show how our absolute need for water has
influenced human civilizations.
______________________________________________________________
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Name three revolutions we studied this year and the impact they
had on history/culture/humans.
___________________________________________________________________________
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You should understand the meaning of and be able to give examples
of the following terms:
colonization____________________________________________________________________
economy ____________________________________________________________________
cultural values _________________________________________________________________
migration ____________________________________________________________________
desertification
__________________________________________________________________
deforestation
___________________________________________________________________
refugee _______________________________________________________________________
infrastructure
__________________________________________________________________
cultural region__________________________________________________________________
What river in
Asia is important to ALL 6 parts of P.E.R.S.I.A.? ____________________________
What is the
“Ring of Fire”? ___________________________________________________________
Which Asian
country falls along its border? _______________________________
