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Period 2 & 4 World Geography Fall Semester Vocab Review

Total questions: 84

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where are the Great lakes located?

a)

Canada - USA border

b)

Texas

c)

Mexican border

d)

Alaska

2.
What is el nino?
a)
cold water
b)
warm phase
c)
hot water
d)
cold phase
3.
What is air pressure?
a)
atmosphere pressing down on the earth
b)
atmosphere pressing up on the earth
c)
the weight of the earth
d)
not here
4.

What are some examples of rural?

a)

country, countryside

b)

city, malls

c)

construction, building

d)

sports, jobs

5.

What are some examples of Biomes?

a)

Forest

b)

Tundra

c)

Gulf

d)

A and B

6.
What are some examples of urban?
a)
country,land
b)
city,town
c)
faster food
d)
sports
7.
How many years does it take for El Nino to occur?
a)
2 to 7 years
b)
88 to 100 years
c)
1 year
d)
6 years
8.

IMR is the number of deaths in children under the age of 2 per 1000 live births in the same year.

a)

True

b)

False

9.
Where are typhoons formed?
a)
Northeast Pacific Ocean
b)
Southwest Pacific ocean
c)
Northwest pacific ocean
d)
Southeast Pacific Ocean
10.
What are divergent boundaries?
a)
Two plates sliding past eachother
b)
Two plates colliding
c)
Two plates moving apart
d)
None of the above
11.

The U.S. uses free enterprise.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Where does a democracy government get it's power?

a)

The people vote

b)

From Candidates

c)

Inherited power

d)

Small group of people

13.
The government is in control of which of the following?
a)
region
b)
nation or state
c)
city
d)
town
14.
What are some shared characteristics of a formal region ?
a)
land
b)
politics
c)
governments
d)
economic activities
15.

What can be a pull factor?

a)

your country is at war

b)

forced immigration

c)

job oppurtunites

d)

bad economy

16.

What does migrate mean?

a)

Moving from one country to another

b)

Staying

c)

Going to McDonalds

17.

What is a Steppe?

a)

Large piece of ice

b)

Jungle

c)

RainForest

d)

Large area of flat grassland

18.
What is language?
a)
Something spoken by humans
b)
Food
c)
Region
d)
State
19.

What is it called when the Earth takes a trip around the sun one time?

a)

Revolution

b)

Rotation

c)

North Pole

d)

North Star

20.
What is U.S Birth rate?
a)
1.8
b)
1
c)
2.5
d)
3.7
21.

What is Culture Region?

a)

Shared activities that happen in an area

b)

World War 1

c)

Big War

d)

Natural disaster

22.

Where does the Winter Solstice take place on Dec 21?

a)

Indonesia

b)

Northern hemisphere

c)

Southern Africa

d)

Southern hemisphere

23.

What is a mid latitude zone?

a)

A zone in the middle of the world

b)

Above or below the Arctic/Antarctic Circle

c)

A zone 30 to 60 degrees away from the equator

d)

Temperate climate near and away from the equator

24.

The summer solstice occurs on June 21?

a)

true

b)

false

25.
What do Divergent boundaries do?
a)
Move apart<>
b)
Slide past
c)
Come together><
d)
None are correct
26.
What do Convergent boundaries do?
a)
Move apart<>
b)
Slide past
c)
Come together><
d)
None are correct
27.

What do transform boundaries do?

a)

Slide past each other

b)

Come together><

c)

Come apart<>

d)

None are correct

28.
What does the hydrosphere not include?
a)
lakes
b)
seas
c)
groundwater
d)
soil
29.
What can you not find in an tundra?
a)
tress less regions
b)
98 degree weather
c)
cold weather
d)
strong cold winds
30.

What is air pressure?

a)

weight of the atmosphere pressing down on earth

b)

weight of people

c)

weight of water

d)

weight of soil

31.
What is it called when you move from place to another?
a)
migrate
b)
outsider
c)
citizen
d)
texan
32.
What is a group of houses where people live outside of cities?
a)
city
b)
suburbs
c)
urban
d)
projects
33.

Divergent boundaries come together.

a)

true

b)

false

34.

Convergent boundaries go away from each other.

a)

true

b)

false

35.
What is El nino?
a)
warm phase
b)
cold phase
c)
wet phase
d)
dry phase
36.
What is the atmosphere?
a)
Gas surrounding the planet
b)
Air in the air
c)
A place
d)
A layer of our planet
37.
What are jet streams?
a)
wind
b)
air currents
c)
Jets with streams
d)
streams with jets
38.

What is a revolution?

a)

The earth moving around the sun for 365 days

b)

The earth spinning around for 24 hours

c)

Earth tilts

d)

Earth's axis

39.

What is true about a biome.

a)

They are grasslands

b)

They are winds

c)

It is an ocean

40.

A Delta is a land form that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river

a)

true

b)

false

41.

Pull factor is something that pushes away people.

a)

true

b)

false

42.

When does winter solstice start in the Southern Hemisphere?

a)

June 21

b)

September 22

c)

December 21

d)

October 21

43.

What is a tsunami?

a)

A wave that expands by the power of a tropical storm (hurricane).

b)

A wave that is created by a huge disruption on land.

c)

A wave that occurs by an earthquake or a huge disruption in the ocean.

d)

It is just like any other wave one would find on the coast.

44.
The Coriolis effect in a...
a)
straight line going up
b)
curved path to the right
c)
zig-zag to the left
d)
coiled path going down
45.

Which place is in a Humid Subtropical climate zone?

a)

Maine

b)

Montana

c)

Alaska

d)

Texas

46.
What is a characteristic the tundra?
a)
Desert like
b)
Many trees
c)
treeless
d)
Very moist
47.

People in Quebec mainly speak French

a)

True

b)

False

48.

The San Andreas Fault is located in New Mexico.

a)

True

b)

False

49.
Were would you find permafrost
a)
Low latitude
b)
Mid latitude
c)
High latitude
d)
At the equator
50.
What is rotation?
a)
The earth rotating on the axis
b)
The moon going around the earth
c)
Spinning of the earth around the moon
d)
The earth spinning in a circle
51.
What is a cottage industry?
a)
A business ran by four people
b)
A business that is passed down from generation to generation
c)
A factory
d)
A business ran in a persons home
52.

Where is marine west coast located?

a)

North

b)

West

c)

South

d)

East

53.
What is Population Distribution?
a)
Where people live
b)
peoples religion
c)
Who people live with
d)
what the eat
54.

A Social Group is the group of people you are around.

a)

true

b)

false

55.
Which one is a type of Population Pyramid?
a)
Expansive
b)
Construtive
c)
Stationary
d)
All of the Above
56.
How many stages are in a Demographic Transition?
a)
2
b)
1
c)
4
d)
9
57.

What is a Acculturation?

a)

a group

b)

A place where you live

c)

climate

d)

cultural modification of an individual group or people

58.
What is it called when the Earth is at an angle?
a)
Revolution
b)
Tilt
c)
Rotation
d)
None of the above
59.

Every four years voters go to the polls and select a candidate for President and Vice-President.

a)

true

b)

false

60.

The U.S. a communism country?

a)

true

b)

false

61.
What is the worlds biggest desert?
a)
Sonoran Desert
b)
Arctic Polar Desert
c)
Sahara Desert
d)
The Carcross Desert
62.

What was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S.?

a)

Hurricane Katrina

b)

Hurricane Harvey

c)

Okeechobee Hurricane

d)

The Great Galveston Hurricane

63.

You need a GPS to find your absolute location

a)

True

b)

False

64.

What is the date of a Fall Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere?

a)

March 20

b)

March 15

c)

March 19

d)

March 5

65.
What is the correct definition for Convergent Boundaries?
a)
Tectonic plates that are moving away from other plates
b)
Tectonic plates that collide with other tectonic plate(s)
c)
Tectonic plates that grind against each other creating tension
d)
Tectonic plates that create volcanoes
66.
Where are the High Latitude Zones located?
a)
Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle, at 60 1/2 N; 60 1/2 S degrees
b)
Arctic Circle and Austrailian Continent, 60 1/2 N: 23 1/2 S Capricorn
c)
Antarctic Circle and Arctic Circle, 60 1/2 S: 23 1/2 S
d)
Antarctic Circle and Atlantic Ocean, 60 1/2 N: 23 1/2 N
67.
What is a desert?
a)
Hot and humid place.
b)
Dry area with very little (nothing) of rainfall
c)
Very humid place with a lot of rainfall.
d)
Very mountainous region with mild climate.
68.
What does the lithosphere consist of?
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
crust and mantle
d)
nothing
69.
What should come to your mind when you think of elevation?
a)
something lifted to a certain height
b)
below
c)
under
d)
middle of eye level
70.

What is a mouth in geography?

a)

Where you chew your food

b)

A place where river water empty

c)

Place where sun rises

71.
What regions consits of grasslands?
a)
tropical
b)
subtropical
c)
temperate
d)
all of the above
72.
What could be a possible by product of desalinization?
a)
acorns
b)
beans
c)
salt
d)
leaves
73.
What is the opposite of a convergent boundary?
a)
divergent boundary
b)
transform boundary
c)
boundary
d)
convegernt boundary
74.

Tropical wet is located in Hawaii.

a)

true

b)

false

75.

Which option would be considered something you would find in a highland?

a)

mountains

b)

hills

c)

flat land

d)

mountains and hills

76.

Where in Niagara Falls located?

a)

Florida

b)

New York

c)

California

d)

New Mexico

77.

Death rate: the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year

a)

True

b)

False

78.
Urbanization
a)
The process of making an area more urban.
b)
The population shift from rural or suburban to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.
c)
To move around
d)
Get some space from someone
79.
What is a pull factor?
a)
Pulling something
b)
Religious freedom
c)
Moving away
d)
Something that gets your attrition
80.

Democracy is a system of government by the whole population decides who a leader is by exercising their right to vote?

a)

true

b)

false

81.
Relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
a)
Totalitarian
b)
Government
c)
Migrate
d)
Culture Region
82.

Language the system of communication used by a particular community or country.

a)

true

b)

false

83.
A pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
a)
Religion
b)
Rural
c)
Culture Region
d)
Acculturation
84.
What is usually shown as the number of people per square kilometer.
a)
Population Distribution
b)
Developing Country
c)
Culture Region
d)
Population density

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