1. What ocean is west of the United States?   California Standard 2.1 Students differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday.

Map of Morth America

a. Atlantic Ocean
b. Artic Ocean
c. Indian Ocean
d. Pacific Ocean

2. What do we call the study of Earth?    California Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

a. geography
b. biology
c. history
d. math

3. Which answer is an example of a landform?   California Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

a. a skyscraper
b. a valley
c. a piece of cheese
d. a video game

4. What is a peninsula?   California Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

a. a landform that is surrounded by water on all sides
b. a landform surrounded by water on all sides but one
c. the highest kind of landform
d. the land between mountains

5. What is in square A1?   California Standard 2.2.1 Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).

Neighborhood map

a. Movie Theatre
b. Apartment Building
c. School
d. Post Office

6. What is in square D3?   California Standard 2.2.1 Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).

Neighborhood map

a. the Library
b. the Movie Theatre
c. the Barber Shop
d. the Fire Department

7. What country is north of the United States?   California Standard 2.2.2 Label from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, [MORE]

Map of Morth America

a. Mexico
b. Canada
c. Alaska
d. Greenland

8. In what season does San Francisco have the least rainfall?   California Standard 2.2.4 Compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.

Rainfall chart

a. Winter
b. Spring
c. Summer
d. Fall

9. What might you find in an urban community?   California Standard 2.2.4 Compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.

a. plains
b. farms
c. forests
d. tall buildings

10. What word means to make something able to be used again?   California Standard 2.2.4 Compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.

a. natural resource
b. destroy
c. recycle
d. peninsula