Social Studies Midterm

What are the 5 Parts of a Map?

Title, Compass Rose, Key, Legend, Scale

Title, Grid, Lines, Equator, Scale

Landform, Country, County, Capitol, Province

Mountain, Key, Scale, Desert, Anarctica

What are the names of the 5 Oceans?

Indiana, Pacific, Northern, Atlantic, Pacific

Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic

Asian, American, Pacific, India, Australian

What are the 7 Continents?

Russia, Asia, New Zealand, Africa, East America

North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, Africa, Austrailia

Greenland, Iceland, Germany, Australia, North America, South America, Asia

What are the 5 Themes of Geography?

Walking, Lines of Latitude, Lines of Longitude, Equator, Prime Meridian

Place, Landforms, Regions, Territories, Movement

Driving, Place, Location, Territories, Regions

Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, Regions

What is Location?

Where your GPS tells you to go

Where someone or something is

Where your phone is

Where you can get some donuts

What is the difference between absolute and relative location?

Absolute is very specific like a street address while relative is something in relation to another place

Relative is very specific like a street address while absolute is in relation to another thing

Absolute tells you where something is in a city while relative tells you where something is in a neighborhood

Relative tells you where something is in a city while Absolute tells you where something is in a neighborhood

What is place?

Characteristics in the world

Characteristics in a city

Characteristics in a location

Characteristics in a country

In which countries/continents was the triangle trade route established in?

Asia, America, Africa

Europe, Africa, America

Europe, France, Mexico

Mexico, Canada, Spain

Who was the Louisiana Purchase bought from?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Henry Clay

Stephen Douglas

Thomas Jefferson

What were the three parts of the Missouri Compromise?

California - Free State, Missouri - Slave State, 36 30 Line Slave/Free State Divider

California - Slave State, Missouri - Free State, 36 30 Line

Maine - Free State, Missouri - Slave State, 36 30 Free/ Slave State Divider

Why did Texas annex with America?

For protection from Mexico

To have more military power

To have higher defense against Mexico

To regulate America's laws

Why did the Mexico surrender in the Mexican cession?

The US had killed their leader

The US declared war on them, and made them surrender

Texas raided all of their cities until the would give them their land

The US had killed all of their army

What land did Mexico surrender from the US in the Gadsden Purchase?

Colorado

1/3 of New Mexico

1/4 of Utah

1/3 of Arizona

What is the line that separates Canada and the USA called?

36" 30" Line

The 48th Parallel

The 49th Parallel

30" 36" Line

When one state believes their interests are more important than the whole country that is called....

Nationalism

Controversy

Sectionalism

Propoganda

What were the three reasons to move west?

Cheap Land, opportunities, and to get rich quick

Cotton, Textiles, Land

Religion, Food, Opportunties

Cotton, Cheap Land, Slaves

Who made the Resolution for the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Frederick Douglass

Stephen Douglas

Henry Clay

Dred Scott

Why did Dred Scott believe he was free?

He was an educated man

He lived in a free state

His family lived in a free state

He was amazing

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