Checkpoint #1

Landforms, continents, and oceans

1. In your bellwork section number 1-7

2. You will have 30 seconds to answer each slide, they will not loop back!

3. Good luck!

1. Look at the pictures below of a strait and isthmus …What do they have in common?

A. They are both waterways

B. They are both land bridges

C. The are both passage ways

D. They are both large areas of land

2. How is bay and Gulf similar?

a. They both are landforms

b. They are both surrounded by water

c. They are both partially surrounded by land

d. They are usually the same size

3. What is the landform below called?

A. Island

B. Peninsula

C. Isthmus

D. Valley

4. Which statement about a mountain and a hill is most accurate?

A. One is located in a desert and the other in a valley

B. Neither one will have valleys by them

C. They are both elevated

D. Both have little vegetation growing on them

5. What makes a continent different from an island?

A. The size, continents are extremely large land masses

B. Their elevation, island usually are much higher in elevation

C. The location, Continents are not surrounded by water

D. The weather, Islands are always tropical in climate

6. Which continent is not in the picture below?

A. Australia

B. Africa

C. Asia

D. Antarctica

7. Which sequence is the correct one for labeling the oceans? (40 sec)

X

Y

Z

A. X- Atlantic, Y – Indian , Z – Pacific

B. X- Indian, Y – Pacific, Z – Atlantic

C. X- Pacific, Y – Indian, Z – Atlantic

D. X- Pacific, Y – Atlantic, Z - Indian

Check your answers

1. Look at the pictures below of a strait and isthmus …What do they have in common?

A. They are both waterways

B. They are both land bridges

C. The are both passage ways

D. They are both are large areas of land

2. How is bay and Gulf similar?

a. They both are landforms

b. They are both surrounded by water

c. They are both partially surrounded by land

d. They are usually the same size

3. What is the landform below called?

A. Island

B. Peninsula

C. Isthmus

D. Valley

4. Which statement about a mountain and a hill is most accurate?

A. One is located in a desert and the other in a valley

B. Neither one will have valleys by them

C. They are both elevated

D. Both have little vegetation growing on them

5. What makes a continent different from an island?

A. The size, continents are extremely large land masses

B. Their elevation, island usually are my higher in elevation

C. The location, Continents are not surrounded by water

D. The weather, Islands are always tropical in climate

6. Which continent is not in the picture below?

A. Australia

B. Africa

C. Asia

D. Antarctica

7. Which sequence is the correct one for labeling the oceans? (30 sec)

X

Y

Z

A. X- Atlantic, Y – Indian , Z – Pacific

B. X- Indian, Y – Pacific, Z – Atlantic

C. X- Pacific, Y – Indian, Z – Atlantic

D. X- Pacific, Y – Atlantic, Z - Indian