7th Grade Midterm Review

7^th Mid-term Review

You’re going to have 50 multiple choice questions on the mid-term exam on Friday, January 25^th.

Look for the answers in all of the notes that we’ve read in class since September 2012.

·         What do you call a person who professionally makes maps?

·         What is the best representation of earth? 

·         The two most commonly used maps are physical and political maps.

·         Know the five parts of a map and the functions of each.

·         Know that the earth has 7 continents and 4 oceans.

·         Know the names of the 7 continents and 4 oceans.

·         Know the definitions  for the following landforms and bodies of water: archipelago, delta, island, lake, strait, peninsula, valley, volcano.

·         The equator is at 0 degrees latitude.

·         The North Pole is at 90 degrees North latitude.

·         Lines of latitude and longitude are measured in units called: degrees.

·         How many states does the United States have?

·         The population of the United States is 300 million.

·         The study of ancient people is: archeology

·         Things left behind by early people (stone tools, weapons, baskets, carvings) are: artifacts

·         The land bridge that once joined Alaska and Siberia (Russia) was: Berengia

·         People who move from place to place for hunting and gathering purposes: nomads

·         Native Americans learned how to raise this crop: maize

·         This method is used by scientist to tell how old an artifact is: carbon dating

·         Through archeological evidence, we now know that these people were the first Europeans to come to America: Vikings

·         The Aztecs lived in present-day: Mexico

·         The Inca lived in present-day: Peru

·         The Maya lived in what today is: The Yucatan Peninsula

·         The Andes Mountains are found in: look up a map of Andes mountains on google images.

·         The first contact that the Inuit had with Europeans was: a commercial type of relationship (that means that they traded with the Europeans).

·         This individual was responsible for calling the Native Americans “Indians”: ________

·         Know this order: First the Native Americans walked across the land bridge into North America, then thousands of years later the Europeans spread disease among the natives, and then the Indians were forced onto reservations.

·         Know about the Inuit: the food they eat, what their unofficial name means “Eskimos”, why they eat raw meat.

·         Why did Columbus call the Native Americans, Indians?

·         Why did Native Americans become hunters and gatherers after they were nomads?

·         Leif Erikson was the first Viking to land in what today is New Foundland in Canada in the year 996C.E.

·         We now know through archeological evidence that the maps that Columbus had may have included Vinland (New Foundland)

·         What year did Columbus arrive in the New World?

·         Hernando Cortes conquered the ______________.

·         Francisco Pizarro conquered the ______________.