National Geography Challenge part 2 (6th)

National Geography Challenge (6th)

Multiple Choice

Using its name as a clue, where is Desert Valley Elementary School located?

• Florida

• Maine

• Arizona

• Oregon

There are 4 major deserts in the USA

Multiple Choice

Of the following landforms, which one historically has been the most often used site for human settlements?

• coastal plains

• flood plains

• mountain valleys

• piedmont regions

Types of Landforms

The surface of the Earth is a collaboration of the various physical features. These natural physical features on the earth’s surface called landforms. Landforms are defined as the natural physical features found on the surface of the earth created as a result of various forces of nature such as wind, water, ice, and movement of tectonic plates. Some landforms are created in a matter of few hours, while others take millions of years to appear.

There are many types of landforms on the earth’s surface. The main types of landforms are Mountains, Plateaus, Valleys, Deserts, Dunes, Islands, Plains, Rivers, Oceans, Loess, Glaciers, Peninsulas, and Deltas. (School Tutoring Academy)

Multiple Choice

Cartographers (mapmakers) use picture symbols and colors to represent physical and human features on a map. What parts of a map identified these symbols?

• scale

• compass rose

• distance markers

• legend

Cartography

Cartography is the method through which maps are studied, created, and designed. A confluence between practice, science, and art, cartography guides the principles and practical standards behind maps and map-making.

With overlap between geography, earth science, topology, and even politics, cartography is a highly intersectional discipline. Despite this, it does have one centering idea: location.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has most affected the development of suburbs in the United States

• automobiles

• computers

• electricity

• rail transportation

Effects of Railroads on the US

• Bound Counties Together and Allowed for Distant Travel

• expanded the available markets for goods

• allowed for new settlements to thrive along the rail networks

• altered the landscape, leading to the disappearance of wild game,such as, the American buffalo or bison

• disrupted and impacted the Indigenous peoples that lived in the Plains states

• provide greater opportunity through extending markets, but they also stimulated more people to start businesses and thereby enter the markets

• played a vital role in the American Civil War

Multiple Choice

The picture shown is the

• Taj Majal

• Pyramids of Egypt

• Great Wall of China

• Pueblos in Colorado

Taj Mahal

Pyramids of Egypt

Multiple Choice

The corn belt in the United States is an example of an agricultural ________

• state

• territory

• region

• landscape

agricultural regions

Multiple Choice

Canyons such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona and Bryce Canyon in Utah are the result of what physical process

• volcanic eruptions

• water erosion

• extremes in temperature

• global warming

National Geographic

Multiple Choice

What conclusion can be drawn about the distribution of the population in the United States by studying this map of the nation's interstate highway system?

• the population of the US is evenly distributed

• Most people live within a few miles of the border with Mexico

• Since this is a road map, it is impossible to tell

• Most of the population lives east of the Mississippi River.

Multiple Choice

What are the most common forms of precipitation on earth?

• rain and snow

• summer and winter

• fog and dew

• weather and climate

Precipitation

The most common types of precipitation are rain, hail, and snow. Rain is precipitation that falls to the surface of the Earth as water droplets. Raindrops form around microscopic cloud condensation nuclei, such as a particle of dust or a molecule of pollution.

Multiple Choice

Most of the world's water supply is___________

• fresh

• polluted

• non recylcable

• salty

All about H₂O

Water covers about 71% of the earth's surface. 97% of the earth's water is found in the oceans (too salty for drinking, growing crops, and most industrial uses except cooling). 3% of the earth's water is fresh.

Multiple Choice

The theory of plate tectonics explains the reason for ___________

• hurricanes

• thunderstorms

• earthquakes

• tornados

Theory of Plate Techtonics - Live Science

• Developed from the 1950s - 1970s

• modern version of continental drift unifying theory of Geology

• first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener didn't have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now.

• The nine major plates are North American, Pacific, Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, Australian, Indian, South American, and the Antarctic. The largest plate is the Pacific Plate at 39,768,522 square miles. Most of it is located under the ocean. It is moving northwest at a speed of around 2.75 inches per year.

Multiple Choice

Of which ocean system is the Gulf of Mexico apart?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

Multiple Choice

On a globe, latitude is represented by ______________.

• straight lines

• circular lines

• shaded spaces

• dashes

Multiple Choice

In their study of weather, the sixth grades at Central School learned about symbols on weather maps. The symbol below was on the weather map their teacher game them for NYC for July 1, 2022. What kind of weather was New York having that day?

• overcast and rainy

• scattered showers

• partly cloudly

• thunderstorms

Multiple Choice

Study these clues to decide what country is being described.

- It borders the US on its northern boundary.

- English and French are its official languages

- Much of the western part of the country is mountainous.

- Most people live in the southeastern part of the country

• Canada

• Russia

• Colombia

• Mexico

Multiple Choice

Two years ago the Morton family moved from Maryland's Chesapeake Bay area to St. Louis. Now they own a restaurant featuring the specialty food of their former home in eastern Maryland. What have they most likely named their new restaurant?

• The Yankee Steak House

• The Crab Shack

• The Lobster Pot

• The Dutch Pancake Diner

Multiple Choice

Study these clues to decide what country is being described.

- It borders the US on its northern boundary.

- English and French are its official languages

- Much of the western part of the country is mountainous.

- Most people live in the southeastern part of the country

• Canada

• Russia

• Colombia

• Mexico

Multiple Choice

Geographers identify the movement of people, ideas, products, and technology across the world as _______________

• globalization

• trade

• diffusion

• specialization

Multiple Choice

Where was Christopher Columbus born?

• Asia

• Spain

• Portugal

• Italy