Questions for a Geographical Dictation

The use of geographical dictation as a form of testing students' knowledge is very great. What are the advantages of this method? There are a lot of them: variety in the lesson, introducing an element of amusement, the formation of competent speech among schoolchildren, independence, saving the teacher’s time to test the knowledge gained.

Many teachers have been successfully using these dictations for a long time, as they are able to shape the image of the territory and fix them in memory. In the course of studying the course of geography, the teacher can first compose them independently, and then give them as homework: draw up a similar dictation for the next topic.

our planet

For the convenience of conducting a dictation, it is possible in advance for each student to print small cards separately. If this is not possible, then children can dictate questions or write them on the board. Since the device of our planet is being studied in the fifth grade, kids should not be overloaded. Our first dictation contains only four tasks.

1. It is necessary to answer a few questions. Based on the level of knowledge, students can be offered a schematic drawing of the solar system. First question: how many planets are in the SS? The second question: what planet from the Sun is the Earth? Third question: between which planets is the Earth located?
2. Write: what is the name of the path along which the planet moves around the Sun.
3. What do you think are the reasons for the change of seasons?
4. What is the name of the satellite of the Earth, and what role does it play?

Knowledge card

The first task in the geographical dictation of knowing the map, we propose to fill out a small table. The left column is a view of the geographical map, the right column is what is shown (students must fill it out independently).

The second task - select the largest scale among those listed: 1: 500000; 1: 1,000,000; 1: 25000 and 1: 7500. Explain how scale is read correctly.

The third task should also contain a detailed answer. It is necessary to determine the scale of the map, on which 2.5 thousand kilometers are depicted by a section of twenty centimeters. Write down the answer and explain how you got it.

Lithosphere

In this topic, we will strengthen our knowledge on the topic of the Lithosphere, give the most popular questions for a geographical dictation. By geography, you can offer many questions, but these are the most interesting.

1. What is the name of the molten substance of the mantle, which is saturated with gases and water vapor?
2. Is the statement true: the thickness of the earth's crust on the continents is greater than the oceanic?
3. Choose the correct answer: sedimentary rock is: granite, basalt, marble or rock salt.
4. What form of relief was formed as a result of wind activity: ravine, volcano, moraine ridge, dune.

Hydrosphere

To the geographical dictation on the topic "Hydrosphra" we can offer the following options for questions:

1. What is the name of the water shell of the Earth (biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere or atmosphere)?
2. Water is (3/4, 2/3, 1/4 or 4/5) of the Earth.
3. What resources account for a large proportion of water (rivers and lakes, groundwater, glaciers or the oceans)?
4. What is the name of the sea without coasts (Black, Marmara, Sargassovo or Arabian)?
5. What is the largest ocean (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, or Arctic)?
6. What is mineral water (pure groundwater, sea, glacial or underground with impurities of salts and gases useful to humans)?

As you can see, this dictation can also be carried out in the form of a test to test the knowledge of the topic.

Atmosphere

Now we turn to the topic "Atmosphere", questions, answers of a geographical dictation are presented in this section. Here, students have to give detailed answers.

1. What gases does air consist of? Answer: nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen.
2. How does the air temperature in the troposphere change with height and why? Answer: the higher the height, the lower the temperature. This is due to the fact that the sun's rays heat the Earth, and it, in turn, gives off heat to the atmosphere.

Biosphere

Now we will list the questions for the geographic dictation to test the concepts of terms in the topic “Biosphere”.

Define the following terms: biosphere, aerosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, living matter, artificial biosphere.

For convenience, you can divide the class into two options and offer each of them three terms.

Oceans

Questions for the geographical dictation on the topic “Oceans” are presented in this section of the article.

1. Which ocean has only southern borders?
2. Using the atlas, make a description of one ocean according to the plan (name, GP, dimensions, prevailing depths, maximum depth, types of economic activity).

Russia

Geographic dictation may contain the following questions:

1. Most of Russia is located on ...
2. How many entities are there in the Russian Federation?
3. How many time zones are there in Russia?
4. How many states borders on the Russian Federation?
5. How many seas wash the territory of Russia?
6. How many federal districts are there in the Russian Federation?
7. The highest point in Russia ...
8. The lowest point in Russia ...

We draw your attention to the fact that this dictation can be used as a control test. It remains to add only four answers.

Global problems

First question: what is the most acute problem of mankind (environmental problem, food or demographic)?

The second question: what is the impact of environmental degradation (population quality, quality of life or health)?

Third question: what will the destruction of the ozone screen lead to (development of oncology, climate change, restructuring of the gene pool)?

Fourth question: where was the first UN conference in 1954 (Cairo, Rome or Mexico City) held?

Fifth question: what is sustainable development?

Sixth question: what is an environmental map ?