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Geography Pretest

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What continent do you live?

(a)  

2.

In what country do you live?

(a)  

3.

In what state do you live?

(a)  

4.

Examines the relationship between the people and their environment: How people adapt to the environment, and how they change it.

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

e)

Human Interaction with the Environment

5.

An area that has unifying characteristics.

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

e)

Human Interaction with the Environment

6.

Relationships between people in different places, shaped by constant movement of people, ideas, materials, and physical systems such as wind.

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

e)

Human Interaction with the Environment

7.

Position on the Earth’s surface

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

e)

Human Interaction with the Environment

8.

How you tell you are there based on human and/or physical features.

a)

Location

b)

Place

c)

Region

d)

Movement

e)

Human Interaction with the Environment

9.

A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water

a)

Archipelago

b)

Strait

c)

Isthmus

d)

Plateau

10.

A piece of land that has water on three sides

a)

Canyon

b)

Strait

c)

Isthmus

d)

Peninsula

11.

An area that is high in elevation and basically flat

a)

Archipelago

b)

Canyon

c)

Strait

d)

Plateau

12.

A group of islands

a)

Archipelago

b)

Canyon

c)

Strait

d)

Isthmus

13.

What is the mountain range that extends from central Alabama up through New England?

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

The Sierra Nevadas

c)

The Grand Tetons

d)

The Appalachians

14.

What is the name of the large mountain chain that extends along the western coast of South America?

a)

The Andes

b)

The Himalyas

c)

The Alps

d)

The Ural Mountains

15.

What is the name of the largest tropical rainforest in the world?

a)

The Central African Rainforest

b)

The Costa Rican Rainforest

c)

The Southeast Asian Rainforest

d)

The Amazon Rainforest

16.

What empire ruled in modern-day Mexico until the 1520s?

a)

The Egyptians

b)

The Sumerians

c)

The Aztecs

d)

The Myans

17.

What is the name of the highest peak in the world?

a)

Mount Kenya

b)

Mount Everest

c)

Mount Kilimanjaro

d)

Mount Saint Helens

18.

What country is home to a giant wall that extends over 13,000 miles?

a)

India

b)

America

c)

China

d)

Nepal

19.

What country did America go to war with from 1964-1973

a)

Cuba

b)

North Korea

c)

Germany

d)

Vietnam

20.

This sea is found to the north of Africa, and to the west of South West Asia.

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Black Sea

c)

Arabian Sea

d)

South China Sea

21.

Christians, Muslims and Jews call this place their holy city.

a)

Cairo

b)

Baghdad

c)

Jerusalem

d)

Istanbul

22.

This country built the Great Man-Made River.

a)

Libya

b)

Morocco

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Tunisia

23.

This country is home to the great pyramids of Giza.

a)

Morocco

b)

China

c)

Thailand

d)

Egypt

24.

This country had legal separation of the Black and White people in their country between 1948-1994.

a)

South Africa

b)

The United States

c)

Canada

d)

France

25.

What is the name of the valley that was caused by faults, and extends 4,000 miles from the Red Sea to Mozambique?

a)

San Fernando Valley

b)

Great Rift Valley

c)

Kashmir Valley

d)

Great Appalachian Valley

26.

What is the name of the large island found to the East of Africa?

a)

Madagascar

b)

Austrailia

c)

Sri Lanka

d)

Borneo

27.

Most European countries operate under a common currency and trade rules ran by this organization.

a)

Great Britain

b)

The United Kingdom

c)

The United Nations

d)

The European Union

28.

More than ⅓ of Oceania’s largest island is a…….

a)

Forest

b)

Desert

c)

Lake

d)

Plateau

29.

How hard was this pretest?

a)

Super hard, I knew less than 25% of the answers

b)

A little hard, but I knew half of the answer

c)

I'm not sure, I most likely knew more than 60% of the answers

d)

Good, I knew at least 75% of the answers

e)

Amazing....I knew at least 85% of the answers.