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WorksheetsWorld Geography Final Review T4
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 3600secs
The Earth rotates around its...
Axis
Equator
Epicenter
Core
What is the largest desert in the world?
Sahara
Gobi
Mohave
Sonora
What is the name of this map projection:
Mercator
Goode's Interrupted Homolosine
Voltari
Cylindrical
If a country has a high fertility rate and a high infant mortality rate it would be considered?
Advanced
Developed
Developing
Third world
What is the longest river in the world?
Amazon
Nile
Volga
Mississippi
What is the most spoken language in the world?
Mandarine Chinese
English
Bengali
French
What language has the highest number of native speakers in the world?
Mandarin Chinese
English
Bengali
French
A Muslim who practices their faith prays to…
Allah
Jesus
The Buddha
The prophet Mohamed
Give an example of a major polytheistic religion today.
The Roman pantheon
Hinduism
Christianity
Islam
What language is predominantly spoken in Brazil?
Spanish
Portuguese
English
Brazilian
What term refers to the amount of all goods and services produced in a country?
Gross Domestic Product
Complete Consumer Index
National Production Rate
Net Average Produce
In regards to immigration/migration what would be considered a pull factor?
Available job opportunities
A poor economy
Political instability
Low air quality
Which of the following is a religion that did not originate in the Middle East
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
What does landlocked refer to?
A company who only does business in one country
A group of people who are not allowed to leave their country
A country with no access to the ocean or sea
A border created by a mountain range
Which of the following is a primary economic activity?
A pig farmer
A bacon processing plant
A marketeer for bacon
A professor of agricultural techniques specializing in porcine reproduction.
Which of the following is a secondary economic activity?
A pig farmer
A bacon processing plant
A marketeer for bacon
A professor of agricultural techniques specializing in porcine reproduction.
Which of the following is a tertiary economic activity?
A pig farmer
A bacon processing plant
A marketeer for bacon
A professor of agricultural techniques specializing in porcine reproduction.
Which of the following is a quartenary economic activity?
A pig farmer
A bacon processing plant
A marketeer for bacon
A professor of agricultural techniques who specializes in porcine reproduction.
Which theme of geography describes how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another?
Movement
Place
Human/environmental interaction
Regions
Which of the following is NOT an example of Human/Environment interaction?
Building a dam
Plowing the land for crops
Building a freeway
Publishing an informational pamphlet
People who share common beliefs, customs, laws, and ways of life are a what?
Ethnicity
Culture
Nation State
Club
A government ruled by a religious leader is called a what?
Theocracy
Democracy
Oligarchy
Autocracy
What is a government where the people elect its leaders called?
Theocracy
Democracy
Oligarchy
Autocracy
What line divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Prime Meridian
International Date Line
What line divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres?
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
International Date Line
Prime Meridian
A form of government where one person holds all political power is called what?
Theocracy
Democracy
Dictatorship
Oligarchy
What country has the tallest building in the world?
United Arab Emirates
The United States
China
Thailand
Which of the following do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam NOT have in common?
They are all three Monotheistic
They all pray the same way
They all hold Jerusalem to be a holy city
They all developed in the Middle East
Which of the following is the largest archipelago in the world?
Hawaii
Indonesia
Galapagos
Japan
Which mountain range contains the tallest mountains in the world?
Himalayas
Rockies
Andes
Alps
Which of the following countries is not in Africa?
Algeria
Kenya
Lesotho
Bhutan
Which of the following countries is not in Asia?
Thailand
Azerbaijan
Turkey
Madagascar
Cuba is located in which sea?
Mediterranean
Caribbean
Red
Baltic
Which sea lies between Europe and Africa?
Mediterranean
Baltic
North
Adriatic
What is the strait that divides Europe from Asia called?
Bosphorus
Magellan
Gibratar
Turkey
Which of the following areas make up the UK?
England
Great Britain
Scotland
Ireland
Northern Ireland
The country of England lies on what island?
Great Britain
Shetland Island
Churchill Island
Hibernia
What is the tallest mountain in North America?
Mt. McKinley
Mt. Evans
Mt. Shasta
Mt. Renier
The southwestern states of the United States used to belong to what country?
France
England
Mexico
Portugal
What is meant by "relative location?"
Where your parents live
A place's location in terms of north, south, east, and west of another location.
A place's location in terms of its longitude and latitude on a map
The place you are at in any given moment of the day.
What is this map projection called?
Goode's Interrupted Homolosine
Mercator
Fair
Terracentric
What area of the world has the most Tsunami's?
Western Pacific Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
North Atlantic
Indian Ocean
What is the smallest country in the world?
Morocco
Vatican City
Lichtenstein
Cyprus
Lesotho is completely surrounded by which country?
The U.S.A
South Africa
The Sudan
Russia
What does absolute location refer to?
Your location on a map at any given moment.
Any place's location in terms of latitude and longitude on a map.
Any place's location in terms of north, south, east, and west of another location.
The location of your phone at any given moment in time.
What is the largest country in the world?
U.S.A.
China
Russia
Canada
Latitude measures which direction on a map?
North and South
East and West
Lateral directions
Medial directions
What is the range of longitudes in a given hemisphere?
0-90
0-180
90-180
0-360
What is a subduction zone?
An area where flooding has eroded the top soil
A plate boundary where one plate is being pushed under another
An area where erosion has created underground water cisterns
A plate boundary where one plate is pulling away from another
According to Geologists predictions, where will the greatest population growth occur in the next 50 years.
China
Africa
Indonesia
Australia
What type of distortion is caused by the Mercator projection?
The direction from one country to another is distorted.
Distance is stretched the further from the equator you move.
Distance is condensed the closer you get to the poles.
Distance is condensed the further from the equator you move.
What statistic measures the average number children born per woman in a given area?
Birth Rate
Reproduction Coefficient
Fertility Rate
Population Growth Rate
What is the largest factor in lowering the birth rate in a given area?
Economic opportunity for women
Education for men
Liberal abortion laws
Publicly funded birth control programs
How many degrees does the Earth tilt?
17
-10
23
41
What kind of plate boundary is causing Africa's Great Rift Valley?
Divergent zone
Subduction zone
Transverse Zone
Rift Zone
The Panama Canal links the Pacific Ocean with what body of water?
Atlantic Ocean
Caribbean Sea
The Gulf of Mexico
The Adriatic Sea
The Suez Canal connects which two bodies of water?
The Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
The Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
The Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
Which of the themes of Geography attempts to describe the physical features of an area?
Human/Environmental Interaction
Place
Location
Regions
Which theme of Geography makes an attempt to group areas together by a common feature?
Place
Location
Regions
Motion
Who is the coolest teacher at Solstice?
Jamie
Brandon
Cameron
Angela
Ashley
