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AS Geo Review 1

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the number of deaths each year per 1000 people?

a)

population growth

b)

population density

c)

birth rate

d)

death rate

2.

What is the number of births each year per 1000 people?

a)

birth rate

b)

population growth

c)

population density

d)

migration

3.

What is the number of people in a defined area such as a square kilometer or square mile?

a)

population density

b)

birth rate

c)

death rate

d)

population

4.

Birth rates tend to be higher in

a)

LICs

b)

MICs

c)

NICs

d)

HICs

5.
If a country has a death rate of 30 and a birth rate of 45 the natural rate of increase would show the population is ______.
a)
Increasing
b)
Decreasing
c)
Staying the same
d)
Fluctuating too much
6.
What is a population pyramid?
a)
A type of graph showing the number of males and females in different age groups.
b)
A type of graph showing the number of males in different age groups.
c)
A type of graph showing the number of females  in different age groups.
d)
A type of graph showing the number of males and females in only one age group.
7.
If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?
a)
It will increase.
b)
It will decrease.
c)
It will stay the same.
d)
It will fluctuate.
8.

Stage of the demographic transition model in which the birth rate begins to decrease.

a)

Stage 1

b)

Stage 2

c)

Stage 3

d)

Stage 4

9.

Stage of the demographic transition model in which the birth rate is very high and the death rate begins to decrease rapidly.

a)

Stage 1

b)

Stage 2

c)

Stage 3

d)

Stage 4

10.
The average year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in an area is called 
a)
Climate
b)
Weather
c)
Conditions
d)
Temperature
11.

The part of the water cycle when water falls from the clouds.

a)

evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

d)

collection

12.

The solar energy that reaches a planet

a)

insolation

b)

insulation

c)

germination

d)

gestation

13.

Which term is a measure of the amount of moisture in the air?

a)

precipitation

b)

humidity

c)

heat

d)

pressure

14.
How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks?  The freezing water—
a)
keeps the rocks in place
b)
makes the rocks last longer
c)
expands cracks and breaks rocks
d)
causes rocks to fall in landslides
15.
Physical weathering is also known as ______________ weathering.
a)
chemical
b)
mechanical
c)
breakdown
d)
heat
16.
The slowest type of mass movement is called a _____________________.
a)
slump
b)
creep
c)
landslide
d)
mudflow
17.
The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ____________.
a)
Ring of Earth
b)
Ring of Fire
c)
Ring of Stone
d)
Ring of Diamond
18.
Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ____________________________.
a)
lava
b)
magma
c)
volcano
d)
earthquake
19.

This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

a)

New Madrid

b)

Denali Fault

c)

Ramapo Seismic Zone

d)

San Andreas Fault

20.

Subduction zones occur along

a)

Transform boundaries

b)

Continental-Continental boundaries

c)

Divergent boundaries

d)

Oceanic-Continental boundaries

21.

Earthquakes can happen along

a)

All boundaries

b)

Divergent and transform boundaries

c)

Convergent and divergent boundaries

d)

Transform and Convergent boundaries

22.
An oxbow lake is an old
a)
meander bend
b)
floodplain
c)
terrace
d)
channel bed
23.

Surface run off/overland flow can best be described as....

a)

The upper area of the saturated zone

b)

Water flowing in a river channel

c)

Water that flows over the surface of land before it reaches a river channel

d)

Water that flows from the river's source

24.

The process by which water enters the soil from the surface is known as....

a)

infiltration

b)

insolation

c)

saturation

d)

base flow

25.

What is it called when trees get in the way of rain reaching the surface?

a)

Evapotranspiration

b)

Interception

c)

Infiltration

d)

Photosynthesis

26.

The difference between Peak Flow and Peak Rainfall is known as:

a)

Time Lag

b)

Too Long

c)

Rising Limb

d)

Falling Limb