Geography Final Assessment

This river flows through the south of China, providing water for ⅓ of the country’s population:

• Yangtze River

• Yellow River

• Ganges River

• Mekong River

This mountain range separates Australia’s populated coasts from its dry, arid center:

• Himalayan Range

• Ural Range

• Great Dividing Range

• Carpathian Range

Referred to as the “Roof of the World” this elevated plain is 5x the size of France:

• Great Dividing Range

• Great Rift Plain

• Himalayan Shelf

• Tibetan Plateau

Nelson Mandela was key figure in fighting racial discrimination, known as apartheid, in:

• Northern Africa

• Eastern Africa

• Southern Africa

• Central Africa

Visible from space, this 1400 mile stretch of land is threatened by global warming and rising water temperatures:

• Tibetan Glaciers

• Yellow River

• The Outback

• Great Barrier Reef

This is the Australian colloquial term for a sparsely populated rural area:

• The Outback

• The Bush

• The Sahel

• The Savannah

Africa’s climate zones can best be described as:

• Hot in the North near the Sahara Desert, but growing increasingly colder in the South

• Dry and arid in the West, but wet and humid in the East due to River Valleys, such as the Nile

• Mirrored along the equator, rainforests in Central Africa with steppe and desert climates located towards the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn

• Primarily desert due to rapid deforestation and advancing desertification of the Sahara and Kalahari

This African desert is the largest non-Polar desert in the world and is roughly the same size as the United States:

• Sahara Desert

• Gobi Desert

• Kalahari Desert

• Atacama Desert

Originally settled by the British as a Penal Colony in 1788, Australia wasn’t granted their independence until:

• 1865

• 1887

• 1901

• 1914

This is the tallest peak in Australia:

• Mt. Aconcagua

• Mt. Kosciuszko

• Mt. Atacama

• Mt. Kilimanjaro