QUIZ NO. 5

World body with 143 member countries that set governing rules in economic relations and trade.

• a. World Trade Organization
• b. United Nations
• c. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• d. UN Conference on Trade and Development

Which of the following does not belong to the group.

• a. Notion that the significance of an event is uncontested
• b. Belief in presentism or seeing history through a present-day lens too much
• c. Dependence on the result or consequence of an event
• d. Challenging or supporting other’s judgements about significance

He was the Greek scholar and librarian of Alexandria who introduced the word geography from the Greek word which means “earth” and “graphos” which means to write.

• a. Aristotle
• b. Plato
• c. Eratosthenes
• d. Socrates

Among the Ancient Greeks this poet is the founder of geography due to his works which contained much geographical information.

• a. Thales
• b. Aristotle
• c. Socrates
• d. Homer

In which area of the globe is the sun low in the sky with its rays slanted?

• a. North pole
• b. Nemo point
• c. Equator
• d. Middle latitude

What is true about the “Ring of Fire?”

• a. The seasons of Earth are reversed at this location.
• b. There is only one season at this location, hot and very dry.
• c. Major tectonic activity occurs at many locations along this zone.
• d. Volcanic activity is located only in the southern portion of this zone.

The following are facts except:

• a. The Philippines is an archipelago.
• b. The development of a country depends on its human resources.
• c. The capital of the Philippines is Manila.
• d. Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines.

It is a vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by scattered trees above a continuous tall grass.

• a. Savanna
• b. Steppe
• c. Prairies
• d. Desert

A sea is a great body of salty water smaller than an ocean, more or less landlocked, which is _________

• a. Canal
• b. Strait
• c. Lake
• d. Gulf

Which natural disaster can bring havoc to the country’s coastline twice as long as that of continental United States?

• a. Earthquakes
• b. Diastrophism
• c. Flooding
• d. Tidal waves