5th Grade Geography Based on E.D. Hirsch's "What Your 5th Grader Needs to Know" These questions are copyright 1997 Karen Crowther and are not endorsed nor sponsored by the Core Curriculum Foundation nor E.D. Hirsch. They are brought to you as a public service by Redwood Games (http://www.maui.net/~redwood/hs.html) You may use them for personal use provided you do not remove this notice and provided you do not distribute them. ASSIGNMENT #1 ============= _______Read p 88-93 Which are the latitude lines?________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Which are the longitude lines?_______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ What is the 0 degree latitude line called?______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ What is the 0 degree longitude line called?___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Which are the latitude lines?________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ What places does the thirtieth parallel (north) pass through? _________________ ________________________. What does meridian mean in Latin? ______________________________________________ Describe where the following are: 1N 60W ___________________________________________ 40S 20W __________________________ 50S 60W __________________________ 55N 1W ___________________________ 20S 20E ____________________________ Who named the Western and Eastern Hemisphere and why did they call them "west" or "east"? ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ What is the scale on the map on: Page 92 ______________________________ P93 on left ___________________________ p 93 on right ___________________________ How far is it from San Fancisco to New Jersey? _________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #2 ============= _______Read p 93-99 What imaginary feature is at 67 degrees N Latitude? ___________________________ What is the frozen Arctic Ocean called? ____________________________________ What imaginary feature is at 67 degrees S Latitude? ___________________________ How far is it from S. America to Antarctica? __________________________________ Where is most of the world's fresh water located?_______________________________ What is the latitude at 23 degrees N called?____________________________________ What is the latitude at 23 degrees S called?____________________________________ Where are the Tropics? __________________________________________________ Where are the temperate zones? _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ How many time zones are there? ___________ If you go from East to West, does it get earlier or later? __________________ What happens when you cross the International Date Line from East to West? ________________________________________________________________________ From West to East? ________________________________________________________________________ Where is the International Dateline? (longitude, oceans, between which countries?) ________________________________________________________________________ What does AM stand for? _____________________________________ What does PM stand for? _____________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #3 ============= _______Read p 99-102 What do physical maps show? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Name the types of lakes and say how they are made: (hint: they are scattered through all pages of your reading assignment including the last paragraph.) 1.______________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________________________________ 6.______________________________________________________________________ 7.______________________________________________________________________ 8.______________________________________________________________________ What "seas" are really salty lakes and what countries are they in? 1. __________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________ Which is the highest large lake in the world and what country is it in? _________________________________________ Name 3 lakes made by faults in the earth's crust and say which countries they are in: 1.______________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #4 ============= _______Read p 102-105 How many colonies formed the first states of the United States? ________ To what 3 regions did the original states belong? 1. ___________________ 2.___________________ 3. ___________________ What other regions of the U.S. were added later? 4. ___________________ 5.___________________ 6. ___________________ 7. ___________________ 8.___________________ Which two states don't belong to any of these regions? _______________ _______________ What is the Canadian Shield and how does it affect Canada? Where is it? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Name the 10 provinces of Canada 1.______________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________________________________ 6.______________________________________________________________________ 7.______________________________________________________________________ 8.______________________________________________________________________ 9.______________________________________________________________________ 10_____________________________________________________________________ Name the two Canadian territories. 1.______________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #5-10 ================ DATE ________Memorize locations of all Canadian provinces and territories _______ Memorize locations of California, Oregon, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Nevada and Utah _______ Memorize locations of Arizona Montana, Idaho, Wyomingg, Colorado and New Mexico _______ Memorize North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma Texas _______ Memorize Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana _______ Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio Kentycky _______ Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama Georgia, Florida _______ South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Verginia, Maryland, Washington DC _______ Delaware, New Hersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont _______ Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine _______ Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, St. Lawrance River _______ Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cascade Range _______Colorado River, Rio Grande, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Erie Canal, Hudson, James,Columbia