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1. On which continent is the Amazon river?

2. Which is the largest planet?

3. What is the highest peak of North America?

4. Which is the fifth planet from the sun?

5. What is the name of the path along which a planet moves?

6. Which mountain range is found in South America?

7. Which line of latitude is a Great Circle?

8. What special name is given to the line along which the date changes?

9. Which line of latitude divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?

10. Use the map below to answer items 10 – 14.

Which mountain range is located on the continent numbered 6?

11. Which is the longest river on the continent numbered 1?

12. Which mountain range is found on the continent numbered 5?

13. What is the highest peak on the continent numbered 111

14. What is the longest river on the continent numbered 11?

15. Use the diagram to answer items 15 – 18.

Which two places are located in the same time zone?

16. What is the location of place B?

17. In which two hemispheres is place B located?

18. Which place would be in both the eastern and northern hemispheres?

19. If the time at 30 E is 1:00 p.m. what time will it be at 60 E?

20. In what year was Universal Adult suffrage granted in Jamaica?

21. A narrow strip of land joining two larger pieces of land is known as?

22. Which set shows the inner planets?

23. Which set shows the gaseous planets?

24. Pam and Sue went to school. It was hot and sunny when they were leaving home. Five minutes later it began to rain. There was a change in the ……..

25. Which line of latitude is located at 23 1/2 degrees north?

26. In which direction does the earth rotate?

27. Why could two places located in different hemispheres have the same time?

28. When it is 10 p.m in Jamaica, the people in England are most likely?

29. They came to Jamaica as indentured servants. Who are they?

30. Who represents the Governor General in every parish?

31. Who is the head of the Cental Govenment in Jamaica?

32. Use the map of Jamaica to answer 32 – 36.

Which National Hero was born in the parish labeled Z ?

33. Which parish capital is located at X?

34. Which is true about the parish labeled Z? It is ……

35. Which river is labeled ‘R’ ?

36. Which plain is labeled ‘P’?

37. Which parish is not found in the county of Middlesex?

38. What causes the changes in the earth’s position at different times of the year?

39. Which natural disaster is likely to affect countries in the ‘ring of fire’?

40. What is the likely effect of an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

41. What is a low lying area between two highlands

42. Which best describes the shape of the earth?

43. What name is given to the part of the earth on which we live?

44. Which best describes the culture of a people?

45. Which of these is an element of weather

46. Which is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

47. Which of the following is completely surrounded by the Caribbean Sea?

48. Jamaica’s closest neighbor to the east is..

49. In the Solar System, the word ‘solar’ refers to the..

50. Use the diagram below to answer items 50 – 53.

What is the name of the water body labeled B?

51. Which water body is labeled ‘C’ ?

52. Which water body is labelled A ?

53. Which water body is labelled D ?

54. What is conservation?

55. What name is given to small bodies which move around planets and do NOT produce light?

56. What best describes a group of living and non-living things which live in close proximity and depend on each other for survival?

57. Mark lives in Canada. He is afraid of hurricanes. When would be the best time for him to visit Jamaica?

58. Which planet’s year has almost as many days as earth’s year?

59. Which term is used to describe a system of government where a country is ruled by the laws of its mother land?

60. Which National Hero was born in the parish of Manchester?

61. Which event in Jamaica took place before slaves were freed?

62. What does the colour green on the Jamaican flag represent? The ….

63. The movement of the earth around the sun is called _____________

64. Why is a country’s human resource valuable? It …….

65. The point of origin beneath the earth’s surface where an earthquake begins is called the …

66. What is the blanket of air surrounding the earth called?

67. The movement of the earth on its axis is called _____ and causes _____?

68. What does the Richter Scale measure?

69. The opening at the top of a volcano from which magma flows is called the......

70. Which of our ancestors came from this continent?