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7th Grade Geography/Economics Pre-Post Assessment 2016
Assessment & Answer Key
1. What do geographers study?
a. Geography is the study of human and nonhuman features of the Earth,
our home.
b. Geography is the study of rocks
c. Geography is the study of space.
d. Geography is the study of human biology.
2. One of the five themes of geography is location. What is a location
according to the five themes?
a. Location is how people interact.
b. Location is how we move and breathe.
c. Location is where a place exits exactly or where a place is relative to
another place.
d. Location is the strengths and weaknesses of a country.
3. What is a region according to the five themes of geography?
a. A region is a cultural norm is society.
b. A region is an area with at least one unifying physical or human
feature such as climate or landforms.
c. A region part of Washington D.C in the United States.
d. A region is part of the Compass Rose home.
4. What is a place according to the five themes of geography?
a. Place refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given
location.
b. A place describes where and how people move.
c. A place describes how latitude works on a map.
d. A place is the legend on a political map.
5. What is movement according to the five themes of geography?
a. Movement is how people dance in different cultures.
b. Movement is human-environment interaction.
c. Movement explores how people, goods, and ideas get from one place
to another.
d. Movement is where the mountain ranges cover the valleys.
6. What is human-environment interaction according to the five themes of
geography?
a. Human-environment interaction considers how people effect their
environment or their natural surroundings or how the environment
affects them.
b. Human-environment interaction considers how people move from place
to place for employment.
c. Human-environment interaction happens in places where there is zero
human population.
d. Human-environment interaction finds exact location.
7. On a map a Compass Rose is used to find?
a. A location of a place
b. Direction
c. Different heights
d. Distance between locations
8. A map key explains?
a. Where you can unlock land regions
b. How a scale bar works
c. The symbols and shading on a map
d. Longitude
9. A scale bar on a map represents?
a. A scale bar shows the weight of the oceans
b. A scale bar shows how much space there is in the desserts.
c. A scale bar shows the topography
d. A scale bar shows how much space on the map represents a given
distance on the land.
10.On a map a grid represents?
a. The lines of longitude and latitude
b. The population
c. Economic status
d. Distance
11. What is the opportunity cost of choices we make?
a. The cost of gas
b. The cost of what you have to give up when you make a choice.
c. The amount of unemployment or employment in an area.
d. The decrease in colleges available to all society.
12. What is the definition of gross domestic product (GDP)?
a. The food and grain demands of the people
b. Goods and services made by local talent
c. The total value of all goods and services
d. Underdeveloped societies