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5th Period Fall Semester World Geography Vocab Reveiw Quiz

Total questions: 93

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What region in the US are the Rocky Mountains primarily located in?
a)
West
b)
Southwest
c)
Northeast
d)
Midwest
2.

What does one rotation of the earth cause?

a)

seasons

b)

years

c)

day

d)

Day and Night

3.

On what day does the fall equinox occur?

a)

April 1

b)

March 31

c)

March 16

d)

March 20

4.
What is absolute location?
a)
The location of a place during a specific time.
b)
The location of places on a globe
c)
latitude and longitude of a specific place
d)
Absolute location doesn't exist
5.

What word bests describes Highland?

a)

Flat region

b)

Mountainous region

c)

Swamp region

d)

Desert region

6.

When is hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere?

a)

June 1 to November 30

b)

January 2 to January 8

c)

November 30 to June 1

d)

December 1 to April 1

7.

What are jet streams?

a)

When a jet flies fast

b)

A narrow, very strong air current in the sky.

c)

An airline

d)

The long strand of cloud that follows behind a plane.

8.

What is an atmoshpere?

a)

Clouds and water

b)

Ground and soil

c)

Gases surounding the earth or another planet.

d)

Ocean, Gulf and Bays

9.

A biome is a large community of flora and fauna.

a)

True

b)

False

10.
What is a divergent boundary?
a)
The U.S. and Mexico border
b)
When two plates moveaway from each other.
c)
A scene from the movie Divergent
d)
Two plates coming together.
11.
Society changes because it accepts innovation.
a)
Acculturation
b)
Developing Country
c)
Cultural Divergence
d)
Urbanization
12.
Which shows a population´s age/sex distribution?
a)
Urbanization
b)
Population Pyramid
c)
Coriolis Effect
d)
Culture Region
13.

Cultural convergence is a theory that two cultures will become more and more like each other the more interactions they have?

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What is religion?

a)

A system of faith and worship

b)

A system where the people are given the same amount of money and the prices are all the same

c)

People that vote for a leader

d)

Not a way of life

15.
What is electoral voting?
a)
A way to tie your shoe
b)
A system that gives people the ability to elect their representatives
c)
People that run for president
d)
Communism
16.

Communism is private and you vote for your leaders.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

A megalopolis is a very populated and urban area.

a)

False

b)

True

18.
What does a convergent boundary do?
a)
Slide past each other
b)
They go up and down
c)
They come together
d)
They move apart
19.

A typhoon is another name for hurricane.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

Tropical dry is a wet and cold climate?

a)

true

b)

false

21.

A steppe is a very dense forest.

a)

true

b)

false

22.

Mediterranean is a cold climate ?

a)

true

b)

false

23.

Language is a method of human communication, either spoken or written.

a)

true

b)

false

24.
What is cultural region?
a)
an area defined by subjective perceptions that reflect the feelings and images about key place characteristics
b)
a region defined by similar cultural traits and cultural landscapes features
c)
an area characterized by similarity or by cohesiveness that sets it apart from other areas
d)
the shared understandings that guide behavior and values and condition a groups perception of the world
25.

What does it mean to immigrate?

a)

to leave a country, and enter another country

b)

to enter a country illegaly

c)

to be in a country

d)

to be country

26.

Population density is the number of people living in each unit of area.

a)

true

b)

false

27.
What language do most people in Quecec speak?
a)
Spanish
b)
English
c)
French
d)
Russian
28.
Where is the San Andreas Fault?
a)
Canada
b)
Texas
c)
California
d)
Quebec
29.

The great plains runs from Canada to Mexico.

a)

true

b)

false

30.
Subsistence agriculture ...
a)
supply is sold for money
b)
supply is used by farmer and their family, and some is sold
c)
half of the supply is to sell, and half is to keep
d)
the whole supply is for the use of the farmer and his family
31.

Which way do latitude lines run?

a)

North to South

b)

West to South

c)

North to West

d)

West to East

32.

Forest is an covered area with trees and undergrowth.

a)

true

b)

false

33.
What is one complete movement of the earth around the sun called?
a)
Revolution
b)
Rotation
c)
Equinox
d)
Latitude
34.

Is a biosphere occupied by living organisms?

a)

True

b)

False

35.

Coriolis Effect makes objects move to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic weather systems.

a)

true

b)

false

36.
On what date does the Spring Equinox occur?
a)
March 2nd
b)
February 21st
c)
March 21st
d)
April 1st
37.

Relative location is the exact location where something is.

a)

true

b)

false

38.
A Humid Subtropical location is characterized by....
a)
Cool summers ; cold winters
b)
Hot summers ; cold winters
c)
Hot summers ; mild winters
d)
Hot winters ; mild summers
39.

A Tundra is a flat treeless cold biome.

a)

true

b)

false

40.
Transform boundaries move in which kind of direction?
a)
Away
b)
Together
c)
Sliding past each other
d)
No direction
41.
How many lakes are in the Great Lakes?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
5
42.

Humid Continental is in North and South Hemisphere.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

In a Mid Latitude Zone is you can have mild winters and warm summers?

a)

true

b)

false

44.

Were the American Indians the first people in America?

a)

true

b)

false

45.
What is the process of making a place more urban?
a)
Urbanization
b)
ruralization
c)
suburbs
d)
cities
46.
What state is Niagara Falls in?
a)
New York
b)
Pennsylvania
c)
Ohio
d)
Vermont
47.

What could be considered a push factor in a country?

a)

Great Economy

b)

War

c)

Job Opportunities

d)

Healthy environment

48.

IMR is the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age?

a)

true

b)

false

49.

A developing country is a country that is so Rich?

a)

false

b)

true

50.

Migration is when people or living things travel to a different climate.

a)

False

b)

True

51.

Economic activities is what people dont do on a daily.

a)

true

b)

false

52.

Totalitarian is a system relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

a)

false

b)

true

53.
What is a region?
a)
a area or division
b)
the weather based on the day
c)
weather based on a long period of time
d)
place with a lot of people
54.

Which is Secondary Economic Activity?

a)

Manufacturing goods from first level

b)

Getting/Mining the goods

c)

Technology ideas

d)

Selling goods at market value

55.

What is the Tertiary Economic Activity?

a)

Manufacturing the products

b)

Selling the products

c)

Mining a product

d)

Marketing ideas for a product

56.

Is Quaternary economic activity intellectual industries providing information services, such as computing and ICT?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

.

d)

.

57.

Permafrost is temporarily frozen.

a)

true

b)

false

58.
What is the definition of urbanization.
a)
People leave a city
b)
Leaving a state
c)
An area becoming more urban
d)
Entering a country
59.

The Rocky Mountains are east of the great plains.

a)

true

b)

false

60.

What is the tilt of the Earth?

a)

0 degrees

b)

24.5 degrees

c)

23.5 degrees

d)

22.5 degrees

61.
What does the lithosphere contain?
a)
gas
b)
water
c)
living things
d)
land
62.

Cultural Divergence is a culture separating from one another.

a)

true

b)

false

63.
What is a convergent boundary?
a)
Where 2 plates meet up and start to push together.
b)
Where 2 plates slide against one another
c)
Where 2 plates pull apart from each other
d)
Where a single plate divides.
64.

A tsunami can reach heights of a hundred feet.

a)

true

b)

false

65.

High Latitude zones usually have hotter weather and are typically rainy.

a)

true

b)

false

66.

Most deserts are found inside the band of 30 degrees north latitude and south latitude.

a)

false

b)

true

67.
Subarctic is a climate characterized by ____, usually very cold winters, and short, ____ to mild summers.
a)
Long, Hot
b)
Short, Cool
c)
Short, Hot
d)
Long, Cool
68.

Desalinization is the removal of salt or other chemicals from something, such as seawater or soil.

a)

true

b)

false

69.

Where do you experience the most air pressure?

a)

on a mountain

b)

at or below sea level

70.
What are horse latitudes?
a)
subtropical regions known for calm winds and little precipitation.
b)
subtropical regions known for harsh winds and much precipitation.
c)
a mixture of both
d)
neither
71.

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water?

a)

false

b)

true

72.

In the tundra, there is the permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen ground?

a)

true

b)

false

73.

The winter solstice this year will fall on December _ _.

a)

20th

b)

21st

c)

22nd

d)

23rd

74.

The summer solstice in 2019 will be on June 21.

a)

true

b)

false

75.
What contry has the highest GNI PPP?
a)
Norway
b)
Monaco
c)
United States
d)
China
76.

The U.S. is a developed country.

a)

true

b)

false

77.

Which is NOT a pull factor?

a)

Money

b)

Job opportunities

c)

war

d)

Natural resources

78.

The United states is not a democracy.

a)

True

b)

False

79.
What government does the U.S. have?
a)
Monarchy
b)
Communism
c)
Democracy
d)
Dictatorship
80.
When did the French first settle in Canada?
a)
1608
b)
1965
c)
1895
d)
1902
81.

The U.S. and Canada share the St. Lawrence river.

a)

true

b)

false

82.
What is the birthrate in the U.S.?
a)
2
b)
1.8
c)
3.2
d)
10
83.

What is commercial agriculture primarily used for?

a)

Survival

b)

Food

c)

Profit

d)

Secondary Activities

84.
What is emigrate?
a)
The act of leaving a country and moving to another
b)
Person from a foreign land
c)
Traveling of information
d)
Public Transportation
85.
What is a place or region with farms and little to no buildings?
a)
Suburb
b)
Urban
c)
Farmland
d)
Rural
86.
What is a place or region with tall buildings and lots of traffic?
a)
Suburb
b)
Industrialization
c)
Urban
d)
Rural
87.
What irregularly occurs and has a complex series of climate changes?
a)
El Nino
b)
Tsunami
c)
Episodic wave
d)
Tidal Wave
88.

A functional region is a place based on shared feelings and attitudes of people who live in the area.

a)

true

b)

false

89.
What is an economic system in which private business operate in competition and largely free of state control?
a)
Mixed economy
b)
Free Enterprise
c)
Command Economy
d)
Free economy
90.
What is the climate in the desert?
a)
Hot, humid
b)
Hot, Dry
c)
cool
d)
humid
91.

A cottege industry is business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home.

a)

True

b)

false

92.
What is Topography?
a)
Study of ocean currents
b)
Study of landforms
c)
Study of the shape and features of land surfaces.
d)
Study of the earths rotation
93.

Demographic transition is the transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates.

a)

true

b)

false

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