WorksheetsGeography Final Assessment
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
This river flows through the south of China, providing water for ⅓ of the country’s population:
Yangtze River
Yellow River
Ganges River
Mekong River
This mountain range separates Australia’s populated coasts from its dry, arid center:
Himalayan Range
Ural Range
Great Dividing Range
Carpathian Range
Referred to as the “Roof of the World” this elevated plain is 5x the size of France:
Great Dividing Range
Great Rift Plain
Himalayan Shelf
Tibetan Plateau
Nelson Mandela was key figure in fighting racial discrimination, known as apartheid, in:
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Central Africa
Visible from space, this 1400 mile stretch of land is threatened by global warming and rising water temperatures:
Tibetan Glaciers
Yellow River
The Outback
Great Barrier Reef
This is the Australian colloquial term for a sparsely populated rural area:
The Outback
The Bush
The Sahel
The Savannah
Africa’s climate zones can best be described as:
Hot in the North near the Sahara Desert, but growing increasingly colder in the South
Dry and arid in the West, but wet and humid in the East due to River Valleys, such as the Nile
Mirrored along the equator, rainforests in Central Africa with steppe and desert climates located towards the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
Primarily desert due to rapid deforestation and advancing desertification of the Sahara and Kalahari
This African desert is the largest non-Polar desert in the world and is roughly the same size as the United States:
Sahara Desert
Gobi Desert
Kalahari Desert
Atacama Desert
Originally settled by the British as a Penal Colony in 1788, Australia wasn’t granted their independence until:
1865
1887
1901
1914
This is the tallest peak in Australia:
Mt. Aconcagua
Mt. Kosciuszko
Mt. Atacama
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Just as the _____ Desert is located in Northern Africa, the _____ Desert is in Southern Africa:
Sahara, Gobi
Kalahari, Sahara
Kalahari, Namib
Sahara Kalahari,
Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, and the Marshall Islands are all part of:
Pacifica
Micronesia
Peloponnese
Oceania
This mountain range is located in Nepal and India:
Great Dividing Range
Atlas Mountain Range
Andes Mountain Range
Himalayan Mountain Range
This island state located off of Australia is promoted as a natural state with nearly half of its area dedicated to natural parks and World Heritage Sites
New Zealand
Queensland
New South Wales
Tasmania
Located in Tanzania, the tallest mountain in Africa is:
Mt. Aconcagua
Mt. Kosciuszko
Mt. Manaslu
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Asia is noteworthy due to its size and population as it represents _____ percent of the Earth’s total landmass and is home to _____ percent of the global population:
25, 50
30, 50
30, 60
35, 60
The only non-European country ranked inside the top 5 on the Human Development Index is:
Japan
China
The United States
Australia
The Strait of Hormuz is located between these two oil-producing countries:
Iran, Iraq
United Arab Emirates, Iran
Iraq, Afghanistan
Yemen, Oman
Just as the _____________ provided water and life to early Egyptian civilization, the ______________ is considered the cradle of Chinese society:
Nile, Yellow
Nile, Yangtze
Nile, Tigris
Nile, Euphrates
The influence of divergent tectonic plates can be seen in the:
Tibetan Plateau
Great Rift Valley
1883 Eruption of Krakatoa
Great Dividing Range
This mountain range divides the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea coasts from the Sahara Desert near Morocco:
Great Dividing Range
Andes Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
Atlas Mountains
This group migrated through Central Asia, providing much of the continent with a more common language and lifestyle based around cultivation of livestock:
Masai
Zulu
Bantu
Swahili
Scientists are concerned about a growing global warming concern in Northern Asia as melting permafrost releases this greenhouse gas:
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
Fluorinated Gas
This region is known as the Maghreb which is Arabic for sunset and was subject to Arab Muslim conquest during the 7th Century:
Northern Africa
Central Asia
Eastern Asia
Western Asia
This area is colloquially known as the “stans” which translates to “land of” in Persian. This area is called the stans due to the number of countries with the suffix of “stan” such as Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan:
Northern Asia
Eastern Asia
Central Asia
Western Asia
This region is historically rich and home to the “Fertile Crescent”
Western Asia
Central Asia
Eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Despite being the sixth-largest country by area, this country has a low population density:
Australia
Japan
China
Russia
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 is evidence of the tectonic activity of this region, which is geographically part of the “Ring of Fire”
Eastern Africa
Central Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia
The tallest mountain in the Himalayan Range is:
Mt. Kosciuszko
Mt. Aconcagua
Mt. Everest
Mt. Kilimanjaro
This region was home to the historic Kingdom of Mali and produced historical figures Mansa Musa and Sundiata:
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa
This population-dense region of Asia represents 38% of total Asian population, which is enough to account for over ⅕ of the global population:
Central Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Eastern Asia
The ________________ historically connected Europe and Asia for the purpose of trade:
Silk Road
Eurasian Highway
Trans-Mediterranean Partnership
Road of Nomads
The “Fertile Crescent” was the birthplace of many early civilizations including Mesopotamia which translates to “the land between the rivers.” What two rivers was this land located between?
Nile, Tigris
Tigris, Euphrates
Euphrates, Yangtze
Yangtze, Yellow
This coastal desert of Africa features massive sand dunes pushed right up against the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and can be found in Botswana and Namibia:
Kalahari
Sahara
Gobi
Namib
Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia make up the:
Northern Deserts of Africa
Eastern Horn of Africa
Central Plains of Africa
Western Gulf of Guinea Africa
Despite providing roughly _____% of Russia’s total landmass, Siberia is only home to roughly ____% of their total population: 65, 35
75, 25
77, 27
70, 30
60, 40
Afrikaaners are a South African ethnic group descended from
British colonizers
Bantu Tribe
Dutch settlers
African Americans
Apartheid in South Africa is similar to _________ in the United States.
Separation
Segregation
Civil war
Prison
Australopithecus, otherwise known as Lucy, was discovered by Mary Leakey in
1999
South Africa
Ethiopia
Central Africa
Famous wildlife expert from Australia Steve Irwin was tragically killed in 2006 while filming for his show. What killed him?
A giant jelly fish
Sponge Bob SquarePants
A giant spider
A Stingray
