YEAR 5 SUMMER EXAM REVISION QUESTIONS

2017

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YEAR 5 SUMMER EXAM REVISION QUESTIONS

The exam will be forty minutes long. Answers will be short sentences or just one-

word answers. The exam will be based upon the work that you have covered in Year

Five so far this year.

To revise we suggest that you read through your exercise book and make a mental

note of all the important geographical words.Then try to answer the following

questions. Perhaps you can find an adult to read the questions out to you and you

can tell them the answers? Alternatively you might want to jot down brief answers in

the back of your book. In particular, make good use of the blank maps attached

when practising global locations.

There is a big section of global locations in the exam.

What is Geography?

What types of topics are studied in Physical Geography?

What types of topics would a Human Geographer study?

What is Environmental Geography?

What are the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources?

Can you give examples of each?

The UK

On the map of the UK attached can you label the following?

Countries: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland

Seas: English Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea

Islands: Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Orkneys, Shetlands

Rivers: Trent, Severn, Thames, Clyde, Shannon

Hills: Grampians, N.W. Highlands, Pennines, Southern Uplands, Lake District,

Cambrians, Snowdonia, Dartmoor

European Union

Can you label the twenty-seven countries of the EU on the map attached?

(Do not revise the capitals.)

Longitude and Latitude Why do we have lines of latitude and longitude?

What is the difference between lines of longitude and latitude?

On the world map attached can you label the Poles, Arctic and Antarctic

Circles, Equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Prime (Greenwich)

Meridian?

Could you use longitude and latitude to describe where somewhere is?

Time Zones

Why do we have time zones?

Where is the Prime (Greenwich) Meridian?

Do we put clocks forwards or backwards as we go east from the Greenwich

Meridian?

What happens as you cross the International Dateline going eastwards?

Continents and Oceans

Can you label all the continents and oceans on the world map attached?

Could you identify some of the most important countries of the world on the

world map? (E.g. Japan, USA, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, China,

Australia, Indonesia, Canada)

Ordnance Survey Map Skills (We will practise these skills in class with OS

maps)

Could you label the eight major points of the compass?

What does a scale tell you? How is scale shown on a map?

What does a scale of 1:50 000 mean?

Could you measure distances using a scale on an O.S. map?

Can you use a key to recognise symbols on a map?

Can you use four and six figure grid references to locate a square or point on

a map?

Name three ways in which height is shown on a map? Could you describe the shape of a slope or the land (relief) by looking at the

contour pattern?

Could you describe a route on an O.S. map (mentioning human and physical

features that you would see)?

New Zealand

Which main islands make up the country?

Which oceans surround New Zealand?

What is the largest lake?

What are the major mountain ranges?

What natural hazards have New Zealand had to face.

How has New Zealand prepared for the effects of natural hazards?

Can you name 4 major ethnicity groups of New Zealand?

Where does the weather mainly come from?

Which of New Zealand’s 3 main islands are generally warmer? Why is this?

Where is the driest part of the country?

Development

What is an MEDC?

What is an LEDC?

Can you name examples of both?

What are the different indicators that determine how developed a country is?

(Clue: Birth rate is one!)

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