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Year 8 Geography End of Year Assessment

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 53mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Geography class are you in?

4 lines
2.

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Charles Darwin

3.

What is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago, which later broke apart to form the current continents?

a)

Atlantis

b)

Laurasia

c)

Gondwana

d)

Pangaea

4.

Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

a)

crust

b)

core

c)

mantle

d)

atmosphere

6.

What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?

a)

Constructive, Destructive, Conservative

b)

North, South, East

c)

Solid, Liquid, Gas

d)

Mountains, Valleys, Volcanoes

7.

What type of plate margin is shown in the diagram?

a)

Constructive

b)

Collision

c)

Conservative

d)

Destructive

8.

What hazards are found at this type of margin?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Volcanoes

c)

Earthquakes and volcanoes

9.

What type of plate margin is shown in the diagram?

a)

Destructive

b)

Conservative

c)

Collision

d)

Constructive

10.

What type of margin is shown in the diagram?

a)

Destructive

b)

Collision

c)

Conservative

d)

Constructive

11.

What is the name of the large desert that covers most of northern Africa?

a)

The Sahara Desert

b)

The Mojave Desert

c)

The Nile Desert

d)

I don't know

12.

Which of these major lines of latitude runs roughly through the middle of Africa?

a)

Tropic of Cancer

b)

Equator

c)

Tropic of Capricorn

13.

Metamorphic rocks are...

a)

Composed of lava or magma that has cooled to form a solid rock

b)

Composed of rocks that have been changed by heat and/or pressure

c)

Composed of small particles called sediments

14.

Clastic sedimentary rocks are formed from

a)

Weathered rock sediments

b)

Chemical rock sediments

c)

Organic rock sediments

15.

What type of rock is this?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Igneous

c)

Metamorphic

16.

What type of rock is this?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Igneous

c)

Metamorphic

17.

What type of rock is this?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Igneous

c)

Metamorphic

18.

How do igneous rocks become sedimentary rocks?

a)

they melt

b)

through pressure

c)

their particles enter the sea from rivers

d)

from lava erupting from volcanoes

19.

How do sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rocks?

a)

through heat and pressure under ground

b)

through rivers

c)

through lava erupting from volcanoes

d)

through weathering

20.

How does metamorphic rock become igneous rock?

a)

through rivers

b)

through heat and pressure under ground

c)

from lava erupting from volcanoes

d)

through weathering

21.

The largest flow of migrants is from more developed to less developed countries.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

What is it called when people enter a country as a permanent or semi-permanent resident?

a)

Immigration

b)

Wandering

c)

Emigration

d)

Migrant

23.

Factor that affecting growth population are

a)

Education and rate natural increase

b)

Birth rate and death rate

c)

Population density and distribution

d)

Level of technology and climate

24.

Population density is a measurement of:

a)

the number of people per square mile.

b)

the total number of people living somewhere.

c)

the number of immigrants living somewhere.

d)

the average income of a group of people.

25.

What two continents have the highest percentage of the world population?

a)

North America and South America

b)

Australia and Antarctica

c)

Europe and North America

d)

Asia and Africa

26.

Which two countries are considered "population billionaires"?

a)

Nigeria and Russia

b)

China and India

c)

US and Mexico

d)

Japan and Canada

27.

The world population is larger in 2021 than it was in the year 1.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Longshore drift is a process of

a)

Erosion

b)

Transportation

c)

Deposition

29.

A headland is made from

a)

Hard rock that is more resistant to erosion

b)

Soft rock that is less resistant to erosion

30.

Material is deposited in

a)

Low energy conditions

b)

High energy conditions

c)

When there is to much material

31.

Which of these is the definition for hydraulic action?

a)

Bits of rock and sand grind down the coast line like sandpaper

b)

The waves smash rocks and pebbles into the shore, and each other, they break and become smoother

c)

Acids contained in the water will dissolve some types of rock

d)

Air may become trapped in cracks in the coast. The trapped air is compressed which weakens the rocks

32.

What is meant by transportation?

a)

The wearing away of the landscape

b)

When eroded rock is moved to another place by the sea

c)

When transported material is dropped by the sea

d)

The breaking down of rock

33.

Which erosional features can you see in this photo?

a)

Arch

b)

Stack

c)

Stump

d)

Cave

34.

Which type of transportation is when 'large material like boulders are pushed and rolled along'

a)

Suspension

b)

Solution

c)

Saltation

d)

Traction

35.

Which type of transportation bounces along the sea bed like a bouncy ball?

a)

Suspension

b)

Solution

c)

Saltation

d)

Traction

36.

What is the name of the wind that controls the direction of longshore drift?

a)

Strong wind

b)

Tidal wind

c)

Prevailing wind

d)

Coastal wind