WorksheetsW Geo Final Ex Rev Questions
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 57mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a form of government that is governed by officials who are regarded as being divinely guided?
a)
Monarchy
b)
Theocracy
c)
Dictatorship
d)
Democracy
2.
What is a government that enforces strict control of all aspects of life?
a)
Democracy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Totalitarianism
d)
Dictatorship
3.
What is a form of government in which absolute power is held by one person or small clique, usually as a result of a takeover?
a)
Theocracy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Totalitarianism
d)
Dictatorship
4.
What is a form of government in which elected officials carry out the wishes of the people who elected them into office?
a)
Direct Democracy
b)
Constitutional Democracy
c)
Representative Democracy
d)
Theocracy
5.
What is a form of government in which the power is solely with the people, who vote on policies and their changes?
a)
Direct Democracy
b)
Dictatorship
c)
Representative Democracy
d)
Republic
6.
What is a form of government with a king or queen, but also a Parliament that helps to ensure that laws are fair?
a)
Direct Democracy
b)
Theocracy
c)
Monarchy
d)
Constitutional Monarchy
7.
What is a form of government in which undivided or absolute rule is held by one person, usually passed down through family lines?
a)
Consitutional Monarchy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Dictatorship
d)
Totalitarianism
8.
What is the statistcial study of human populations?
a)
population density
b)
demographics
c)
push factors
d)
pull factors
9.
What studies what has happened to population in the past and tries to guess what will happen in the future?
a)
demographics
b)
population change
c)
natural increase
d)
population trends
10.
What is the change in population based on birth and death rates, emigration and immigration?
a)
demographics
b)
population change
c)
population trends
d)
migration
11.
What is the study of how people are distributed across Earth?
a)
population change
b)
population density
c)
population change
d)
population distribution
12.
What is the average number of people living in a given area?
a)
population density
b)
population distribution
c)
population trends
d)
demographics
13.
What is the cooling effect that occurs when air if forced to rise over a mountain?
a)
the rain effect
b)
the orographic effect
c)
the dry effect
d)
the desert effect
14.
What causes ocean currents?
a)
wind and rotation
b)
gravity and revolution
c)
wind and revolution
d)
gravity and rotation
15.
What causes global wind belts?
a)
gulf stream
b)
prevailing winds
c)
air pressure
d)
doldurms
16.
What object does the North Pole always point toward?
a)
The sun
b)
The moon
c)
The North Star
d)
The South Star
17.
What is one complete spin of Earth on its axis?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
c)
satellite
d)
radiation
18.
What is one elliptical orbit of Earth around the sun?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
c)
satellite
d)
radiation
19.
What affect does the moon have on the Earth?
a)
provides coolness
b)
produces light at nighttime
c)
equinoxes
d)
tides
20.
What causes the Earth's seasons?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
c)
tilt of axis
d)
solstice
21.
What affect does the sun have on the Earth?
a)
provides oxygen
b)
provides heat
c)
provides coolness
d)
provides rain
22.
What is a fan shaped deposit of mud and gravel often found along the bases of mountains?
a)
alluvial fan
b)
mountain fan
c)
base fan
d)
area fan
23.
What is the movement of surface material from one location to another by water, winds, or ice?
a)
sediment
b)
magma
c)
weathering
d)
erosion
24.
What is the process by which rocks break and decay over time?
a)
erosion
b)
weathering
c)
folding
d)
faulting
25.
What are large sea waves created by undersea tectonic activity like earthquakes?
a)
hurricanes
b)
typhoons
c)
tsunamis
d)
tropical depressions
26.
What is a sudden shaking of Earth's crust?
a)
earthquake
b)
fault
c)
fold
d)
erosion
27.
What are mountains that expunge hot lava?
a)
abyssal plains
b)
volcanoes
c)
alluvial fans
d)
plateaus
28.
What are places on Earth's surface where the crust stretches until it breaks?
a)
trench
b)
rift valleys
c)
abyssal plains
d)
desertification
29.
What happens when tectonic plates push against one another, pushing ground upward?
a)
rift valleys
b)
valleys
c)
mountains
d)
faults
30.
What is the theory that Earth's crust is divided into rigid plates that slowly move across the upper mantle?
a)
continental drift
b)
rift valleys
c)
mantle
d)
plate tectonics
31.
What is the part of Earth that includes all life?
a)
atmosphere
b)
biosphere
c)
lithosphere
d)
hyrdosphere
32.
What includes Earth's water in all its forms?
a)
lithosphere
b)
hydrosphere
c)
biosphere
d)
atmosphere
33.
What is the solid crust of the earth?
a)
biosphere
b)
hydrosphere
c)
lithosphere
d)
atmosphere
34.
What is the envelope of gases that surround a planet?
a)
atmosphere
b)
lithosphere
c)
hydrosphere
d)
biosphere
35.
What are halves of te globe divided by the equator or a meridian?
a)
sides
b)
hemispheres
c)
spheres
d)
parts
36.
What is the parallel that is 66 and 1/2 degrees south of the equator?
a)
Arctic Circle
b)
Antarctic Circle
c)
Alaskan Circle
d)
Siberian Circle
37.
What is the parallel that is 66 and 1/2 degrees north of the equator?
a)
Arctic Circle
b)
Antarctic Circle
c)
Alaskan Circle
d)
Siberian Circle
38.
What is the parallel that is 23 and 1/2 degrees south of the equator?
a)
Tropic of Cancer
b)
Tropic of Capricorn
c)
Tropic
d)
Tropic Circle
39.
What is the parallell that is 23 and 1/2 degrees north of the equator?
a)
Tropic of Cancer
b)
Tropic of Capricorn
c)
Tropic
d)
Tropic Circle
40.
What is an imaginary line that arises the globe halfway between the North and South Pole?
a)
longitude
b)
latitude
c)
equator
d)
prime meridian
41.
What is an imaginary line drawn from the North Pole through Greenwich, England to the South Pole?
a)
longitude
b)
latitude
c)
equator
d)
prime meridian
42.
What are lines on a globe drawn in a north-south direction and measured in degrees?
a)
longitude
b)
latitude
c)
grid
d)
prime meridian
43.
What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees?
a)
longitude
b)
latitude
c)
grid
d)
equator
44.
What organizes Earth into geographic areas with one or more shared characteristics?
a)
areas
b)
places
c)
countries
d)
regions
45.
What concept deals with how people and things change locations and the effects of these changes?
a)
cartography
b)
geography
c)
gridding
d)
movement
46.
What covers the ways people and environmental interrelate with and effect each other?
a)
human/environment interaction
b)
perecption
c)
landscapes
d)
topography
47.
What are the physical and human features of a location?
a)
perception
b)
place
c)
perspective
d)
landscapes
48.
What is made up of different places liked together and working as a unit?
a)
formal region
b)
functional region
c)
perceptual region
d)
region
49.
What reflects human feelings and attitudes toward a certain place?
a)
formal region
b)
perceptual region
c)
functional region
d)
region
50.
What is one or more features that make an area different from those around it?
a)
formal region
b)
perceptual region
c)
functional region
d)
region
51.
What type of map is primarily used to show boundary lines of states or countries?
a)
physical
b)
political
c)
population
d)
land use
52.
What type of a map shows the different climates of a region?
a)
climate map
b)
precipitation map
c)
resources map
d)
elevation map
53.
What type of map would you use to find the elevation and shape of the land of a place?
a)
political
b)
physical
c)
topographic
d)
precipitation
54.
What type of map would you use to find mountains, plains, and rivers of an area?
a)
political
b)
physical
c)
elevation
d)
topographic
55.
What is the latitude of the South Pole?
a)
90 degrees N
b)
90 degrees S
c)
90 degrees E
d)
90 degrees W
56.
What is the latitude of the North Pole?
a)
90 degrees N
b)
90 degrees S
c)
90 degrees E
d)
90 degrees W
57.
What deals with the exact or relative spot of something on Earth?
a)
movement
b)
place
c)
location
d)
perspective
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