MID TERM TEST 2012 5.

Which river IS NOT matched to the

continent on which it is located?
NAME:_____________________________
(a) Murray-Darling - Australia
GRADE:____________________________ (b) Volga - Europe
SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES (c) Nile - North America
DATE:_____________________________ (d) Amazon - South America

SECTION 1 6. Which planet does the numeral 6 represent

on the diagram below?
Choose the best answer for each of the
following.(1 mark each)

1. What type of map shows valleys,

mountains, plains and rivers?
(a) Road (b) relief
(a) Neptune (b) Jupiter
(c) population (d) political
(c) Saturn (d) Uranus
Use the map below to answer questions 2 4.
7. The inner planets include:
2. Which ocean is located at X on the diagram (a) Earth and Jupiter
below? (b) Mars and Venus
(c) Saturn and Neptune
(d) Mercury and Uranus
A
Use the diagram to answer questions 8 and 9.
D X

E 8. Which continent is shown on the map

below?

(a) Atlantic (b) Pacific

(c) Arctic (d) Southern

3. Which mountain range can be found on the

continent labelled E? (a) North America (b) Africa

(a) The Rockies (b) The Himalayas (c) Asia (d) Europe

(c) The Atlas (d) The Andes 9. Which mountain range can be found on this

4. If one flew directly from D to A, which continent?

ocean would one have flown over? (a) East African Highlands

(a) Atlantic (b) Pacific (b) Rocky Mountains

(c) Andes
(c) Indian (d) Arctic (d) Alps

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10. A highland area between 100m and 600m is 19. Terrestrial planets are said to be rocky,
known as a ________________. which of the following planets is not a
(a) Mountain (b) hill terrestrial planet?
(a) Mercury (b) Earth
(c) plain (d) isthmus
(c) Saturn (d) Mars
11. Which is not a landform?
(a) Gulf (b) plain 20. The Andes Mountain is a fold mountain
found in __________________.
(c) mountain (d) island
(a) Europe (b) Africa
12. The most abundant gas in Earths
(c) South America (d) Asia
atmosphere is __________________.
(a) Carbon Dioxide (b) Nitrogen 21. __________________ is a continent on
which farming is practically impossible.
(c) Nitrogen (d) Water Vapour
(a) Antarctica (b) North America
13. Earths heat comes from:
(c) Asia (d) Africa
(a) The moon (b) the sun
(b) the planets (d) the atmosphere 22. There are many bodies in the solar system,
14. Which of these planets is the brightest? the largest being_________________.
(a) Mars (b) Venus (c) (a) The moon (b) Jupiter
Mercury (d) Saturn
(c) the sun (d) Earth
15. Which of the following best describes the
sun? 23. Planet Earth is made up of approximately
(a) A fiery disc (b) a planet seventy percent ____________________.
(a) Landmass (b) water
(c) a sphere of hot burning gas
(c) gas (d) mountains
(d) a sphere of rock and metal
24. Which of the following is not the name of a
16. The _____________ of the sun keeps the
sea?
planets from colliding.
(a) Red (b) Black
(a) Orbit (b) revolution (c)
gravity (d) closeness (c) Caribbean (d) Antarctic
17. Earths galaxy is known as the
25. Which continent is referred to as the island
_____________________.
continent?
(a) Cluster of planets (b) a cluster of
(a) Europe (b) Asia
moons (c) Asteroid Belt (d) Milky
Way (c) Africa (d) Australia
18. Planets are spherical bodies that rotate on
a/an ______________ orbit.
(a) Circular (b) elliptical

(c) spherical (d) round

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SECTION 2 ____________________________________

Answer the following questions in sentences. ____________________________________

____________________________________
26. Define the following terms: (1 mark each)
____________________________________

Orbit:_______________________________
____________________________________
SECTION 3
____________________________________
____________________________________ 32. Draw and label the following landforms in
the boxes provided:(1 mark each)
Revolution:__________________________ i. plateau ii. valley
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________

27. State two reasons astronauts travel to outer

space. (2 marks)
____________________________________
____________________________________ Use the table to answer questions 33 - 35. (1
mark each)
____________________________________
____________________________________ Continents Mountain Height
Peaks (metres)
Africa Kilimanjaro 5895
28. Explain why the planets do not collide. Antarctica Vinson 4987
Massif
(3 marks) Asia Mount 8863
____________________________________ Everest
Australia Kosciuzko 2230
____________________________________ Europe Mont Blanc 4808
____________________________________ North Mount 6194
America McKinley
____________________________________ South Mount 6960
America Aconcagua
29. Landmasses are divided into
________________________ and 33. The lowest mountain range
____________________. (2 marks) is________________________________.
34. Which mountain is almost half the size of
30. Why is Earth unique?(2 marks) Mount Everest?
____________________________________ ________________________________.
____________________________________ 35. Round the sum of Mounts McKinley and
____________________________________ Kilimanjaro to the nearest thousand.
____________________________________ ____________________________________
____________________________________
31. Why do we have a Solar System and not a
Lunar System? (2 marks)
____________________________________
____________________________________

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Use the map below to answer questions 36
40.

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36. Draw and label Antarctica on the map. (1

mark)

37. Fill in the names of the continents labelled

1,2 and 3 respectively.(2 marks)

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

3.______________________________

38. Which rivers can be found at the continents

labelled 1, 2 and 3 respectively?( mark

each)

1.__________________________________

2.__________________________________

3.__________________________________

39. Which two continents are completely in the

Southern Hemisphere? (1 mark)

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

40. Insert a compass on the map and label it

accurately.( 2 marks)