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Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 41mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is vegetation?
a)
Plants considered collectively, especially those found in a particular area or habitat
b)
Vegetables that you eat
c)
When people cut down plants they are called vegetation
d)
Farming
2.
Which of the following is not one of the four factors of production?
a)
Entrepreneurs
b)
Capital
c)
Education
d)
Land
3.
What is cultural diffusion?
a)
Experiencing culture shock when moving from one culture to another
b)
The process of spreading new knowledge and skills to other cultures
c)
Pushing your religious beliefs on other cultures
d)
Sitting by someone of a different culture
4.
How do we learn about humans and human ancestors in prehistoric times, before there was writing?
a)
Oral History
b)
Folk Tales
c)
Artifacts
d)
Fossils
5.
What does an archaeologist study?
a)
Studies modern human history
b)
Studies human prehistory
c)
Studies all of human history
d)
Studies human antiquity
6.
The end of the Paleolithic Era brought in what revolution?
a)
The Agricultural Revolution
b)
The Bronze Era
c)
The Iron Era
d)
The Industrial Revolution
7.
The switch to farming allowed all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
Food Surpluses
b)
New Languages
c)
New Food Storage methods
d)
Denser Areas of Population
8.
As farming technology developed, less people had to farm allowing for what to happen?
a)
Larger Families
b)
New specializations or jobs
c)
New types of food
d)
More time for recreation
9.
Number 7 on the map is...
a)
Africa
b)
China
c)
The Balkans
d)
Russia
10.
Number 5 on the map is...
a)
Africa
b)
The Balkans
c)
The Middle East
d)
The Near East (Russia)
11.
The United States & Canada are located in which hemispheres?
a)
Northern & Eastern
b)
Southern & Eastern
c)
Northern & Western
d)
Southern & Western
12.
Which ocean borders the EAST coast of the United States and Canada?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Indian Ocean
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Southern Ocean
13.
Which uses latitude and longitude to find an exact place on earth?
a)
Relative location
b)
Absolute location
c)
Formal Region
d)
Prime Meridian
14.
Line that separates the globe North and South.
a)
Equator
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
Latitude
d)
Longitude
15.
What does Geography mean?
a)
explore
b)
the study of geology
c)
The study of Earth and its peoples, places, and environments.
d)
the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become mixed
16.
How many continents are there?
a)
4
b)
1
c)
5
d)
7
17.
What are the cardinal directions?
a)
North, South, East, West
b)
North, Northeast, South, Southeast
c)
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
d)
West, Southwest, East, Southeast
18.
What are the intermediate directions?
a)
South, North, East, West
b)
South, Southwest, North, Northeast
c)
Northwest, East, Southeast, West
d)
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
19.
What is another name for a legend?
a)
key
b)
map
c)
title
d)
hero
20.
What is a primary source?
a)
the only source
b)
record of an event created later by people not present at the event
c)
description of an event from someone who witnessed or lived through that event
d)
the number 1 source
21.
What type of map is this?
a)
Population
b)
Physical
c)
Political
d)
Climate
22.
What type of map is this?
a)
Political
b)
Physical
c)
Economic Activity
d)
Population
23.
_____________ is the set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people has in common.
a)
culture traits
b)
Culture
c)
culture region
d)
ethnic group
24.
Which of the following describes poaching?
a)
killing wildlife illegally
b)
supplying drinking water
c)
buying and selling goods
d)
West Africans trading natural resources
25.
Which of the following is a renewable resource?
a)
wind energy
b)
oil
c)
natural gas
d)
coal
26.
Which of the following is NOT a cultural trait?
a)
language
b)
eye color
c)
religion
d)
beliefs
27.
What are most economies today?
a)
Traditional
b)
Command
c)
Mixed
d)
Market
28.
What characteristics do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common?
a)
They all follow Allah
b)
They all call the house of worship a church
c)
They were all founded by Abraham
d)
They are all monotheistic
29.
Which religion's belief system includes the five pillars of faith?
a)
Judaism
b)
Christianity
c)
Monotheism
d)
Islam
30.
Jews are the followers of which religion?
a)
Buddhism
b)
Christianity
c)
Islam
d)
Judaism
31.
The Holy book of Islam is called:
a)
The Bible
b)
The Torah
c)
The Quran
d)
The Book of Truth
32.
A car dealer has too many cars of last year’s model still on his lot left to sell. The new models will be delivered next week. What will happen to the price of last year’s model cars?
a)
Price will increase
b)
Price will decrease
c)
Price will stay the same
d)
Nothing
33.
Which is the most profitable natural resource in the middle east?
a)
wheat
b)
lumber
c)
cotton
d)
oil
34.
Which of the following countries is a communist country led by communist party officials?
a)
India
b)
South Korea
c)
China
d)
Russia
35.
Movement of people from one place to another in search of food.
a)
migration
b)
hibernation
c)
hunting
d)
farming
36.
Someone who wrote things for others.
a)
scribe
b)
writer
c)
author
d)
Mr. Araoz
37.
The use of canals to bring water where it was needed.
a)
irrigation
b)
migration
c)
cultural diffusion
d)
surplus
38.
An extra supply.
a)
surplus
b)
social class
c)
artifact
d)
agriculture
39.
The belief in many gods.
ex. the ancient Egyptians and Greeks
ex. the ancient Egyptians and Greeks
a)
polytheism
b)
monotheism
c)
Christianity
d)
Judaism
40.
People with no permanent homes who are always on the move.
a)
nomads
b)
scribes
c)
farmers
d)
pharaohs
41.
Early farming settlements always developed near this kind of area.
a)
a river valley
b)
a high mountain range
c)
a deserted island
d)
frozen tundra
42.
Which abbreviations go in the blank boxes?
a)
Top box: A.D.
Bottom box: C.E.
Bottom box: C.E.
b)
Top box: C.E.
Bottom box: A.D.
Bottom box: A.D.
c)
Top box: A.D.
Bottom box: B.E.
Bottom box: B.E.
d)
Top box: B.C.
Bottom box: A.E.
Bottom box: A.E.
43.
What is the absolute location of Abuja, Nigeria?
a)
North of Cameroon, southwest of Chad
b)
8*N, 8*E
c)
8*E, 8*N
44.
Which vocabulary word fits best in the blank?
Scarcity leads to _____________.
Scarcity leads to _____________.
a)
Consumption
b)
Specialization
c)
Production
d)
Supply
45.
The ability of humans to control animals, including for sources of meat and milk, as well as performing work, began in the Neolithic Age and is still done today. What is this ability to control animals called?
a)
mastication
b)
extinction
c)
domestication
d)
inhalation
46.
equipment or goods (machinery, tools, factories, stores, vehicles, etc.) that are used to produce other goods and servcies
a)
capital resources
b)
natural resources
c)
human resources
d)
global resources
47.
workers and their abilities, talents, training, skills, and knowledge used to produce goods or services
a)
human (labor) resources
b)
natural (land) resource
c)
capital resources
d)
global resources
48.
King of Babylon who complied the first written set of laws.
a)
Hammurabi
b)
Big Man
c)
Mr. Coffin
d)
Shi Huangdi
49.
Movement of people from one place to another in search of food.
a)
migration
b)
hibernation
c)
hunting
d)
farming
50.
A set of laws that became an important part of three major religions.
a)
The Ten Commandments
b)
Code of Hammurabi
c)
The New Testament
d)
The Roman Tablets
51.
This made the land of Egypt fertile; "the giver of life"; it deposited rich, black silt after flooding.
a)
The Nile River
b)
The Mediterranean Sea
c)
The Dead Sea
d)
The Mississippi River
52.
The land between the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates).
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
Madagasgar
c)
Greece
d)
Rome
53.
__________ proclaimed that he had received the enlightenment and became known to his followers as the "Buddha".
a)
Muhammad
b)
Siddhartha
c)
Abraham
d)
Isaac
54.
The belief that, after someone dies, he or she is reborn as a new being is ____________.
a)
karma
b)
reincarnation
c)
polytheistic
d)
hindu
55.
They believe in one God and Jesus is the Messiah. Their holy book is the Bible and they follow the Ten Commandments. These statements describe the believers of which faith?
a)
Islam
b)
Hinduism
c)
Christianity
d)
Judaism
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