ALKAWTHAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

SECOND SEMESTER REVISION WORKSHEET

Social Studies
Answer Key
YEAR 2022 / 2023

GRADE 7
Student's Name: ___________________________
Date: /02/2023

Question 1

Choose the correct answer.

INSTRUCTION: Choose the correct options below.

1. Who united Arabia under the religion of Islam?
a. Abu Bakr
b. Muhammad
c. Abd al-Rahman

2. What family first came to power over the Islamic Empire after the first four caliphs?
a. Abbasids
b. Seljuk Turks
c. Umayyads

3. While the Umayyads were ruling, Islam's religion split into what two branches?
a. Fatimid and Shi'a
b. Abbasid and Sunni
c. Sunni and Shi'a

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4. A teacher who leads services at a mosque is called a(n) ...?
a. emir
b. imam
c. prophet

5. Which group was responsible for the end of the Umayyad Empire?
a. Abbasids
b. Byzantines
c. Fatimids

6. What was the capital of the Umayyad empire in the west?

a. Damascus (Syria)
b. Cordoba (Spain)
c. Mecca (Saudi Arabia)

7. People who create maps are called:

a. calligraphers
b. cartography
c. scholars

8. What is the name of the scientist that rewrote and corrected the works of geography
by Ptolemy?
a. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
b. Al-Kindi
c. Michael Faraday

9. The Arabian Desert is ------------------- largest desert in the world.

a. second
b. first
c. third

10. What Caliphate was established after the rule of the First Four Caliphs?
a. Rashidun Caliphate
b. Umayyad Caliphate
c. Abbasid Caliphate

11. The first caliph of the Sufyan branch of the Umayyad was:
a. Yazid I
b. Muawiya II
c. Muawiya I

12. What is happening to Lake Urmia?

a. its salt levels are decreasing
b. the lake is decreasing in size
c. the number of fish in the lake has increased

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13. The word ‘transcontinental’ means:
a. a breakfast made of different types of food
b. a group of countries that have all got the same name
c. crossing more than one continent

14. The term ‘prevailing wind’ means:

a. a period when there is no wind
b. the wind does not bring with it any moisture
c. the strongest wind

15. Non-renewable energy is a type of energy source that:

a. can be found underground
b. will never run out
c. cannot be replaced

16. Energy can be produced from:

a. diamonds
b. aluminium
c. biomass

17. A human activity that does NOT contribute to greenhouse gases is:
a. riding a bicycle to work
b. producing cement
c. cutting down trees

18. Grey water’ is:

a. used water that contains things like soap, hair, and fat
b. water that falls as precipitation and is stored in plants
c. water that has come into contact with human waste

19. The percentage of all the water on Earth that is fresh water is:
a. 22%
b. 2%
c. 5%

20. Hydroponics’ is a way of:

a. growing crops using huge amounts of water
b. growing crops without soil
c. growing crops in space

21. What is the name of the 7-star hotel in the world?

a. Burj Al Arab hotel
b. Atlantis hotel
c. Carlton Palace hotel

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22. A ‘sustainable city’ is:
a. a city that has a serious, negative environmental impact
b. a city that uses resources carefully to preserve them for future generations
c. a city built to house workers who are on a large-scale building project

23. A resource that can be replaced fairly quickly, is called

a. Non-Renewable Resource
b. Oil
c. Renewable Resource

24. A resource that cannot be replenished once it is used up, such as fossil fuels, is called
a. Non-Renewable Resource
b. Oil
c. renewable Resource

25. What is the main greenhouse gas can cause global warming?
a. Oxygen
b. Nitrogen
c. Carbon Dioxide

26. What is the major cause of global warming?

a. Human activity
b. Change in the sun
c. Change in the earth’s core

27. What is used to heat homes and cars that causes global warming?
a. Fossil Fuels
b. Gold
c. Silver

28. Which activities are the largest contributors of greenhouse gases?

a. Transportation
b. Electricity generation
c. All of the above

29. What is the greenhouse effect?

i. Certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat and warm the Earth
ii. Life on Earth 'exhales' gas that warms up the atmosphere
iii. The tilt of the Earth changes the amount of solar energy the Earth receives

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30. If we stopped burning fossil fuels today, what would happen to the climate?
a. Earth's average temperature would continue to rise.
b. Temperatures would continue to warm, then begin to cool down in 100 years
or more.
c. Temperatures would stop increasing once greenhouse gas concentrations
stopped increasing

31. In 2016, tourism added ------------------- amount of money to the economy of the
Middle East region.
a. $44 billion
b. $31 billion
c. $36 billion

32. The advantages of hydroponics include:

a. Food can be grown anywhere
b. Computers helps in controlling growing environment
c. Both a and b

Question 2

Fill in the blanks

Tourism -- Koppen – Hydroponics – Ecotourism – Finite resources --

disposable income – stewardship -- Masdar City – scarcity --
Indigenous – Methane – glaciers – Green fund – 2% -- Green

1. Hydroponics is a solution to land and water scarcity.

2. Koppen climate classification is a common system used to put climate zones into
categories.
3. The older people have large amounts of disposable income.

4. People who live in the foothills of the Himalayas rely on the slow melt of glaciers to
feed rivers, which they use for drinking water and for farming.
5. The percentage of freshwater on earth is 2% .

6. Methane is release from animals as they digest their food, and form wetland areas as
the wet vegetation decays.

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 7. Masdar City in Abu Dhabi in the UAE is an excellent example of a man-made
environment that has very little impact on the earth.
8. Ecotourism is a tourism that does not damage the natural environment.
9. Indigenous plants are naturally occurring plants in a particular place.
10. There is scarcity of fresh water around the world
11. The job of taking care of something is called stewardship.

12. Tourism provides employment, either directly or indirectly, for one-third of the
world’s population

13. Non-renewable energy resources are also called finite resources.

14. Dubai’s Clean Energy Strategy includes a Green Fund, which provides loans to
companies who invest in ‘green energy’

15. Green water falls as precipitation.

Question 4

Answer only THREE questions out of the FOUR questions in this section

INSTRUCTION: Answer the following questions below.

1. Outline the categories of the climate based on based on annual rainfall and temperature

a. Tropical
b. Dry
c. Temperature
d. Continental
e. Polar

2. With the climate map, list the climate zones of the Middle East

a. Warm desert climate ( BWh )

b. Cold semi-arid climate (Bsk)
c. Warm semi-arid climate (Bsh)
d. Warm Mediterranean climate (Csa)

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3. What do you understand by Global warming.

Global warming is the slow increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere
near the earth’s surface
Or
Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature due to
the burning of fossil fuels.

4. Outline the human activities that have added more gases to our environment and discuss two

a. Burning down trees

b. Growing fossil fuels
c. Transport
d. Landfill
e. Buildings
f. Agriculture

Discuss two points you listed

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5. The world is experiencing scarcity of water. What is the reason behind this and how
can we solve the problem of water scarcity.

There is water scarcity of fresh water around the world because only about 2% of
fresh water on the Earth is fresh the rest is salty. Only 0.3% of fresh water is easy
for people to access, in places like rivers and lakes. The rest exist as ice sheets, as
glaci-ers and below the ground.

Solution or how to solve it:

a. Education
b. New technologies
c. Reducing water footprints
d. Shared water
e. Recycling grey water
f. Catching rain

6. With four different examples of water, explain water footprint

Water foot print:

The water foot print of a person or group of people is the amount of water they

use.

a. Blue water
b. Green water
c. Black water
d. Grey water

7. What are the negative effects of tourism.

a. Tourism can cause more litter, erosion and destruction of habitats.

b. Scarce resources, such as water, become less available for the local population

and environment.

c. Increased traffic can cause congestion and pollution.

d. Local jobs in tourism are often seasonal and many are poorly paid.

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 e. Local culture and traditions can begin to change as outside influence increases.

f. The local companies do not receive benefits as the tourists book their plan with the large

companies.

8. What are the criteria for ecotourism

a. Create a positive relationship between the people who visit and the local

people, animals and plants.

b. Involve local people in planning the developments for tourism.

c. Allow local people to benefit from the income from tourism.

d. Make sure that improvements, such as new roads and power supplies,

benefit local people as well as the tourists.

e. Respect local traditions and customs.

f. Help environmental conservation, rather than damage it.

9. With THREE examples each, differentiate between renewable resources and non-
renewable resources
i. Renewable resources:

a. Sunlight
b. Wind
c. Water
d. Biomass/Biogas
e. Geothermal

ii. Non-renewable resources:

a. Crude oil
b. Coal
c. Natural gas
d. Uranium