Chapter6 Review
Student name
Group/Class
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VOCABULARY
1 Look and complete.
1. d e s e r t
2. v
3. m
4. l
5. w
6. o
Score: /5
2 Read and circle . Then number.
1. Everest is a mountain / waterfall . It’s very tall.
2. The Sahara is a desert / an island . It’s a very dry place.
3. Vesuvius is a waterfall / volcano . It’s a dangerous mountain.
4. Greenland is a desert / an island . The ocean is all around it.
5. Angel Falls is a waterfall / volcano . The water comes down from a
mountain.
6. Victoria is a lake / mountain . You can fish in it.
a. b.
c. d.
1
e. f.
Score: / 10
3 Find six weather words. Then complete the sentences.
F Y R L Y F Q W N T
S O K U B R I G H T
N C G M C H Y B G U
T Z H G W Y U N M Y
V Q L I Y A I C M Z
I D F P L Z R R I S
V A T G E L O D S A
Z M U E C T Y A V X
R P R Y S D Y W O Z
K F U V T T C F B U
1. It’s raining today and it’s very windy. It’s stormy .
2. It isn’t warm today, but it isn’t very cold. It’s .
3. It’s very cold today and the lake is icy. It’s .
4. We can’t see the cars on our street today. It’s .
5. Today, it’s sunny! It’s warm and .
6. It isn’t raining now, but the weather is wet and .
Score: / 10
GRAMMAR
4 Read and complete using the comparative.
I live in Mexico City and my penpal Kiyo lives in Tokyo, Japan. Kiyo’s
I live in Mexico City and my penpal Kiyo lives in Tokyo, Japan. Kiyo’s
1 (old) older than me — she’s eleven and I’m ten. I visited her last
August. Tokyo is different from Mexico City. Mexico City is a big city, but
it’s 2 (small) than Tokyo. When I visited, Tokyo was
3 (hot) and 4 (sunny) than Mexico City, too.
Mexico City is warm in August, but it’s 5 (cold) than Tokyo.
We had lunch in a restaurant in the Tokyo Skytree. It’s 495 m. tall — that’s
6 (tall) than the pyramids at Tenochtitlan in Mexico!
Score: /5
5 Look at the chart. Then write sentences using the comparative.
Geography Fact File
Rivers the Amazon: 6,900 km. the Mississippi: 3,780 km.
Islands Australia: 7.69 million sq. Greenland: 2.1 million sq.
km. km.
Volcanoes Mt. Vesuvius: 1,281 m. Mt. Etna: 3,350 m.
Temperature Cairo: 34°C Rio de Janeiro: 27°C
short long big small hot tall
1. the Amazon / the Mississippi
1. the Amazon / the Mississippi
The Amazon is longer than the Mississippi .
2. Australia / Greenland
.
3. Mt. Etna / Mt. Vesuvius
.
4. Cairo / Rio de Janeiro
.
5. Greenland / Australia
.
6. the Mississippi / the Amazon
.
Score: /5
6 Complete the questions with what’s or where’s and the correct form of
the adjective.
1. Where’s the (cold) coldest place in the world? Antarctica.
2. the (high) mountain in the world?
It’s Mt. Everest.
3. the (long) river in the world? It’s in South
America. It’s the Amazon.
4. the (big) ocean in the world? It’s the
Pacific.
5. the (small) continent in the world?
It’s Australia.
6. the (sunny) place in the world? It’s in
Arizona.
Score: / 10
7 Write sentences using the superlative.
1. Bishop Rock / small island / world
Bishop Rock is the smallest island in the world .
2. Tokyo / big city / world
2. Tokyo / big city / world
.
3. Chile / long country / world
.
4. The Nile / long river / Africa
.
5. Death Valley / hot place / world
.
6. Mauna Loa / large volcano / world
.
Score: /5
READING
8 Read and write T (true), F (false), or DS (doesn’t say).
The Sahara Desert
The Sahara isn’t the biggest desert in the world, but it’s the largest hot desert.
The deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic are bigger than the Sahara but they
are cold deserts. The Sahara is 9.4 million sq. km. and covers most of North
Africa, including Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco. The desert has mountains,
mountain ranges, and volcanoes. The highest peak is the volcano Emi Koussi.
That is 3,415 m. high. It doesn’t often rain in the Sahara, but it’s often very
windy and sometimes there are sandstorms in the northeast of the desert.
1. The Sahara is the largest desert in the world. F
2. The desert in Antarctica is bigger than the Sahara.
3. There is one lake in the Sahara.
4. The highest volcano in the Sahara is called Emi Koussi.
5. There aren’t any animals in the Sahara.
6. It sometimes rains in the Sahara.
Score: /5
WRITING
9 Write questions for a world geography quiz. Use the superlative.
high big small long hot cold
mountain city river volcano continent desert
Geography quiz
1. What’s the highest mountain in the world ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
Score: /5
