End of Year Review - My World Geography

Which ecosystem in Africa does the photograph show?

• desert and desert brush

• mountain grassland and brush

• grassland or savanna

• Mediterranean brush

Read the description written by a Spanish conquistador.

“The road over the mountains is a thing worth seeing, because, though the ground is so rugged, such beautiful roads could not in truth be found throughout Christendom. The greater part of them is paved. There is a bridge of stone or wood over every stream. . . . The country is populous. There are mines in many parts of it. . . . They have stores of fuel and maize and of all other necessaries. They count by certain knots on cords, and so record what each chief has brought.”

—Hernando Pizarro, 1533

What accomplishment particularly impressed the author of this passage?

• the wonders of Tenochtitlán

• the engineering skills of the Inca

• the accomplishments of the Maya

• the vast wealth of the Aztec

Look at the table.

What historical development is illustrated by this table?

• the Columbian Exchange

• the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

• mercantilism

• the triangular trade

Which part of the government of the European Union is composed of officials elected by the citizens of member countries?

• European Council

• European Commission

• European Parliament

• European Court of Justice

In the early 1500s, plantation owners in the Spanish colonies in the Americas began to import enslaved Africans because

• so many American Indian workers had died of disease and abuse.

• Africans had experience harvesting sugarcane and tobacco.

• it was inexpensive to bring Africans to the Americas.

• Spanish missionaries wanted to convert Africans to Christianity.

Most maps have a key and a scale bar in order to

• indicate degrees of longitude and latitude.

• show directions such as north, south, east, and west.

• provide information on map symbols and distance.

• represent the area on the map in relationship to a larger area.

A corporation in the United States moves its manufacturing to a country outside of North America where wages and taxes are lower. This is an example of an effect of

• liberalism.

• trade barriers.

• deregulation.

• globalization.

A major breakthrough of the Maya was

• building chinampas.

• domesticating animals.

• inventing the wheel.

• developing the concept of zero.

Where in Europe is Protestant Christianity the leading religion today?

• northern Europe

• southern Europe

• eastern Europe

• western Europe

Examine the process that creates an atoll.

What physical process causes Step 2?

• deposition

• erosion

• plate tectonics

• volcanic eruptions