Grade 7 Social Studies

Review Sheet: Cluster 1

World Geography
I. You should understand the following terms:
1. lines of latitude
2. lines of longitude
4. parallels
5. meridian
7. South Pole
8. map
10. Goode Homolosine projection 11. Mercator projection
13. polar projection
14. Winkel-Tripel projection
16. precipitation
17. temperature
19. wind
20. prevailing westerlies
22. moderate climate
23. extreme climate
25. windward slope
26. leeward slope
28. polar climate
29. temperate climate
31. tropical climate
32. Mediterranean climate
34. demography
35. dense
37. uninhabited
38. population cluster
40. emigration
41. internal immigration
43. natural disasters
44. political unrest
46. International Date Line
47. Prime Meridian
49. Greenwich Mean Time
50. developed countries

3. equator
6. North Pole
9. projections
12. weather
15. climate
18. sunlight
21. ocean currents
24. elevation
27. climate zone
30. arid climate
33. mountain climate
36. sparse
39. immigration
42. overcrowding
45. time zone
48. Universal Time
51. resources

II. You should be able to locate the following on a map:

1. North America
4. Europe
7. Antarctica
10. Indian Ocean

2. South America
5. Africa
8. Pacific Ocean
11. Arctic Ocean

3. Asia
6. Australia
9. Atlantic Ocean
12. Southern Ocean

III. You should be able to answer the following questions:

1. What imaginary lines run parallel to the equator?
2. What is another name for lines of latitude?
3. What line of latitude is located at 0?
4. What imaginary lines run north and south around the globe?
5. What is another name for lines of longitude?
6. What line of longitude is located at 0?
7. True or False: Lines of latitude are always the same distance apart?
8. True or False: Lines of longitude are always the same distance apart?
9. Why are lines of latitude and lines of longitude important?
10. A flat drawing of all or part of the earth is called what?
11. The different ways of drawing maps are called what?
12. True or False: Map projections are distorted.

13. List four examples of map projections.

14. What do you call a map projection that shows how the earth would appear if you were
looking straight down at one of the poles?
15. The day-to-day state of the air or atmosphere is called what?
16. The pattern of weather in a particular place over many years is called what?
17. List five factors that affect climate?
18. True or False: Different parts of the earth receive more or less direct sunlight at
different times of the year.
19. What part of the earth gets the most direct sunlight?
20. True or False: It is hot around the poles.
21. True or False: If you are farther from the equator, you will experience a wider range
of temperatures from season to season.
22. What is air in motion called?
23. What two things do winds move?
24. Winds that blow in special patterns and change with the seasons are called what?
25. What type of prevailing winds does our area get?
26. Water in motion is called what?
27. True or False: All ocean currents are basically the same temperature.
28. True or False: The temperature of an ocean current is affected by where it originated.
29. True or False: Ocean currents have little or no effect on the lands they flow by.
30. True or False: Land closer to water will have colder winters and hotter summers.
31. What heats up quicker, land or water?
32. True or False: Killarneys climate could be described as extreme.
33. The height above sea level is called what?
34. What happens to the air coming off the Pacific Ocean when it meets the Rocky
Mountains?
35. Which is drier, the windward or leeward slopes of a mountain?
36. List the six major climate zones of the world.
37. True or False: Most of the worlds population lives close to water.
38. The study of how people are distributed around the world is called what?
39. True or False: In general, people are distributed evenly around the world.
40. Areas where many people live close together in a small area are described as what?
41. Areas where people are not crowded together are described as what?
42. True or False: More people live in the town of Killarney than on the continent of
Antarctica.
43. The movement of people into a country is called what?
44. The movement of people out of a country is called what?
45. What is it called when people move from place to place within a country?
46. List at least five reasons why people move from place to place around the world.
47. How many standard time zones are there in the world?
48. True or False: At any time, the time of day is different at different places on earth.
49. What is the imaginary line on the earth that separates two consecutive calendar days?
50. True or False: The International Date Line is located on the Prime Meridian.
51. True or False: The International Date Line is a straight line.
52. What is another name for Greenwich Mean Time?
53. Why are some countries more developed than other countries?

Answers:
1. lines of latitude or parallels
2. parallels
3. equator
4. lines of longitude
5. meridians
6. Prime Meridian
7. True
8. False
9. They help us describe and locate any place on the earth. They also make it easier to
calculate distances between any places on earth.
10. map
11. projections
12. True
13. Mercator projection, Goode Homolosine projection, Winkel-Tripel projection, and
polar projection,
14. polar projection
15. weather
16. climate
17. sun, wind, ocean currents, nearness to land or water, elevation
18. True
19. the equator
20. False
21. True
22. wind
23. heat and moisture
24. prevailing winds
25. prevailing westerlies
26. a current
27. False
28. True
29. False
30. False
31. land
32. True
33. elevation
34. It is forced to rise and when it does it cools. Because cold air cant hold as much
moisture as warm air, it rains.
35. leeward slopes
36. Polar, Temperate, Arid, Tropical, Mediterranean, Mountain
37. True
38. demography

39. False
40. densely populated
41. sparsely populated
42. True
43. immigration
44. emigration
45. internal immigration
46. natural environment, overcrowding, natural disasters, economic reasons, political
unrest, social reasons
47. 24
49. International Date Line
50. False
51. False
52. Universal Time
53. They may have more resources or they may use their resources better. They also may
have fewer people to share their resources with.