Students will be responsible for all vocabulary words introduced in Unit 2: Maps and Globes. This includes Week 2 Earth's Grid System, Week 3 Time Marches on and Week 4 What Time Is It?/Time Zones
Students should be prepared to answer questions we have discussed during the first 4 weeks of this school year. The specific objectives below will be covered on the test. In order to review students need to go to the resource page for each week, review the material there (power point presentation, songs, movies) in order to prepare for the test.
Objectives
- Locate the 7 continents and 4 major oceans on a blank
map
- Identify cardinal directions on a map (north, south, east
and west)
- Identify and locate the equator, prime meridian and the
four hemispheres of the earth (north, south, east and
west)
- Utilize longitude and latitude lines to locate absolute
locations
- Distinguish between absolute and relative location
- Read a timeline of historical events
- Identify and explain the different historical time periods
- Identify the five themes of geography
- List the characteristics of the five themes of geography
- Describe how time crosses over from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D
- Explain why recorded time does or does not have a zero
year.
- Identify what a time zone is
- Describe how time zones on Earth are divided and how
many time zones we have
- Identify the importance of the relationship between
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the prime meridian and
how time is computed using GMT
- Locate and describe the importance of the International
Date Line
Students should be prepared to answer questions we have discussed during the first 4 weeks of this school year. The specific objectives below will be covered on the test. In order to review students need to go to the resource page for each week, review the material there (power point presentation, songs, movies) in order to prepare for the test.
Objectives
- Locate the 7 continents and 4 major oceans on a blank
map
- Identify cardinal directions on a map (north, south, east
and west)
- Identify and locate the equator, prime meridian and the
four hemispheres of the earth (north, south, east and
west)
- Utilize longitude and latitude lines to locate absolute
locations
- Distinguish between absolute and relative location
- Read a timeline of historical events
- Identify and explain the different historical time periods
- Identify the five themes of geography
- List the characteristics of the five themes of geography
- Describe how time crosses over from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D
- Explain why recorded time does or does not have a zero
year.
- Identify what a time zone is
- Describe how time zones on Earth are divided and how
many time zones we have
- Identify the importance of the relationship between
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the prime meridian and
how time is computed using GMT
- Locate and describe the importance of the International
Date Line