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Geography Semester Exam 2025

Total questions: 97

Worksheet time: 49mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What river in South America travels about 3,000 miles from west to east through Paraguay and Argentina?

a)

Amazon River

b)

Orinoco River

c)

Parana River

2.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What are Savannas with flat terrain and moderate rainfall that make them suitable for farming called?

a)

rain forest

b)

cerrado

c)

slash and burn

3.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Factors that “pull” people toward cities?

a)

push factor

b)

pull factor

c)

infrastructure

4.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What are areas of grasslands and rich soil in South Americas?

a)

pampas

b)

pull factor

c)

terraced farming

5.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Factors that “push” people to leave cities

a)

Push factor

b)

Pull factor

c)

llanos

6.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A way of clearing fields for planting by cutting trees, brush, and grasses and burning them?

a)

push factor

b)

terraced farming

c)

slash and burn

7.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The current free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and The United States?

a)

USMCA

b)

NAFTA

c)

USA

8.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the ancient Aztec capital ?

a)

Reggae

b)

Tenochtitlan

c)

Calypso

9.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The heartland or place of origin in a major culture?

a)

Cultural Hearth

b)

Panama Canal

c)

Mestizo

10.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A style of music that developed in Jamaica in the 1960’s and is rooted in African, Caribbean, and American music?

a)

Spanish

b)

Reggae

c)

Calypso

11.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and Indigenous people?

a)

NAFTA

b)

Calypso

c)

Mestizo

12.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A martial art dance that developed in Brazil from Angolans who were taken there by the Portuguese from Africa?

a)

Capoeria

b)

Samba

c)

Quechua

13.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A member of the Quechua people of South America who built a civilization in the Andes Mountains in the 15th and 16th century?

a)

Inca

b)

Carnival

c)

Samba

14.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A Brazilian dance with African influences?

a)

Inca

b)

Samba

c)

Mercosur

15.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The language of the Inca empire?

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

Quechua

16.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The most colorful feast day in Brazil?

a)

Carnival

b)

Samba

c)

Treaty of Tordesillas

17.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What country is larger than all of the other Caribbean islands combined?

a)

Guatemala

b)

Cuba

c)

Dominican Republic

18.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The Caribbean was settled and claimed by what powers?

a)

Mexican

b)

Caribbean

c)

European

19.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Who landed in the Caribbean Islands in 1492 and thought it was the East Indies in Asia?

a)

Cortez

b)

Columbus

c)

Trudeau

20.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What crop provides the largest export crop in the Caribbean?

a)

Corn

b)

Bananas

c)

Sugar

21.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What was the major religion in Central America?

a)

Catholicism

b)

Protestant

c)

Muslim

22.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What style of music started in Trinidad?

a)

Country

b)

Calypso

c)

Reggae

23.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What do the rivers that flow through Brazil provide?

a)

fish

b)

Hydro-electric power

c)

agriculture

24.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What two regions is South America divided into?

a)

Spanish and Portuguese speaking

b)

Spanish and French

c)

French and Portuguese

25.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Who conquered the Inca empire?

a)

Aztecs

b)

Settlers

c)

Pizarro

26.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. High earthen platforms used in seaworks?

a)

polder

b)

seawork

c)

Terpen

27.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A hill or very low mountain that may also contain mesas and high plateaus?

a)

meset

b)

uplands

c)

peat

28.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Land that is reclaimed from the sea or other body of water by diking or draining?

a)

polder

b)

mistral

c)

terpen

29.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Partially decayed plant matter found in bags.

a)

fjord

b)

polder

c)

peat

30.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is a geographer?

a)

someone who paints

b)

someone who creates tasty dishes

c)

someone who analyzes the earth from many points of view

31.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A long narrow deep inlet of the sea between steep slopes?

a)

fjord

b)

dike

c)

seawork

32.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. An earthen bank used to direct or prevent the passage of water?

a)

polder

b)

dike

c)

inlet

33.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What are two basic questions that guide a geographer’s work?

a)

What occurred hundreds of years ago

b)

Where are things located

c)

why are they there

34.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the mantle made of?

a)

magma

b)

iron

c)

rock

35.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What theory states that earth was once a supercontinent that divided and drifted apart?

a)

the hydrologic drift

b)

the continental divide

c)

the continental drift theory

36.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the crust made of?

a)

magma

b)

thin layer of rock

c)

iron and nickel

37.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What are the motions of the oceans and the seas?

a)

tides,pools,currents

b)

currents,streams,pools

c)

waves,tides,currents

38.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the continuous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth?

a)

hydrolic cycle

b)

hydrologic cycle

c)

water movement

39.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What was the name of the supercontinent before it drifted apart?

a)

ponga

b)

pangea

c)

pandora

40.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What moves water to and from larger bodies of water?

a)

rivers and streams

b)

lakes and swamps

c)

beaches and deltas

41.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is groundwater?

a)

rainfall

b)

puddles

c)

water held in pores

42.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the fracture of the earth’s crust known as?

a)

fault

b)

cataract

c)

track

43.

What is the largest country that borders one country?

a)

united states

b)

Canada

c)

Russia

44.

Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Physical and chemical changes processes that change the characteristics of rock on or near the earth’s surface?

a)

blasting

b)

climate

c)

weathering

45.

The change in accuracy of the shapes and distances of places?

a)

distortion

b)

currents

c)

seismograph

46.

What is sediment?

a)

mud,sand,silt

b)

clay,mud,water

c)

silt,rocks,juice

47.

The relative distance on a map to the real world is?

a)

focus

b)

scale

c)

epicenter

48.

What are rivers in the oceans like?

a)

tides

b)

currents

c)

comets

49.

What are spheres of ice and dust?

a)

asteroid

b)

comets

c)

foces

50.

The swells or ridges produced by wind?

a)

epicenter

b)

scale

c)

waves

51.

What is a group of places that share a common physical or human characteristic?

a)

location

b)

region

c)

place

52.

Features of a place that are created by people are called?

a)

natural characteristic

b)

human characteristic

c)

physical characteristic

53.

A broad, flat area of land higher than the surrounding land?

a)

cliff

b)

mesa

c)

plateau

54.

What is a body of land surrounded by water?

a)

glacier

b)

bay

c)

island

55.

What is a large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land?

a)

glacier

b)

swamp

c)

canyon

56.

What is a narrow, deep channel with steep sides?

a)

canyon

b)

mountain

c)

valley

57.

A wide, flat topped mountain with steep sides larger than a butte?

a)

volcano

b)

mesa

c)

bay

58.

A large, level area of grassland with few or no trees?

a)

glacier

b)

swamp

c)

prairie

59.

The steep, almost vertical edge of a hill, mountain, or plain.

a)

cliff

b)

valley

c)

canyon

60.

The part of an ocean or lake enclosed by land.

a)

island

b)

bay

c)

swamp

61.

Who is the main leader of Judaism?

a)

God

b)

Abraham/Moses

c)

Buddha

62.

What is migration?

a)

movement of people within the U.S.

b)

human geography of the U.S.

c)

shaping an abundant land

63.

Who believed that Jesus is the Messiah?

a)

Christians

b)

Buddha

c)

Abraham/Moses

64.

What is the sacred writing of Judaism?

a)

The Torah

b)

The Bible

c)

The Vedo

65.

What is a suburb?

a)

communities outside of a city

b)

communities inside of a city

c)

communities around a school

66.

A lowland region that is saturated by water.

a)

swamp

b)

flood plain

c)

river mouth

67.

What are the 5 themes of Geography

a)

location, place, Human environment interaction

b)

location,place, Human Environment interaction,region

c)

location,place,human environment interaction,region,movement

68.

The exact location of an area?

a)

absolute

b)

relative

c)

theme

69.

What is an export?

a)

goods sold to another country

b)

goods traded to the U.S.

c)

good brought into the U.S.

70.

What is the capital of California?

a)

Raleigh

b)

Sacramento

c)

Tallahassee

71.

What is the capital of Minnesota?

a)

St. Paul

b)

Atlanta

c)

Albany

72.

What location describes how a place is related to it's surrounding areas?

a)

absolute location

b)

relative location

c)

theme

73.

What is the capital of Arizona?

a)

Little Rock

b)

Phoenix

c)

Denver

74.

What is the capital of Tennessee?

a)

Houston

b)

Baton Rouge

c)

Nashville

75.

What state has the capital of Annapolis?

a)

Maine

b)

Maryland

c)

South Dakota

76.

What is the capital of Iowa?

a)

Madison

b)

Topeka

c)

Des Moines

77.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The Inca was the native culture in Mexico before the arrival of the Spanish.

a)

True

b)

False

78.

What state has the capital of Carson City?

a)

Nevada

b)

Oklahoma

c)

Tennessee

79.

What state has the capital of Baton Rouge?

a)

California

b)

New Mexico

c)

Louisiana

80.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Chocolate originates in Mexico where the Aztecs and Mayans first cultivated the Cacao plant.

a)

True

b)

False

81.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Cortez and the Spanish conquered the Aztec empire and destroyed most of the capital.

a)

True

b)

False

82.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The Aztec empire was located 8,000 feet above sea level.

a)

True

b)

False

83.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Jobs pay more in rural Mexico than in cities.

a)

True

b)

False

84.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Mexico started to industrialize in the 20th century.

a)

True

b)

False

85.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The oil and manufacturing are huge industries in Mexico.

a)

True

b)

False

86.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Native Americans constructed temples and public buildings shaped like missions.

a)

True

b)

False

87.

What state has the capital Raleigh?

a)

South Dakota

b)

North Dakota

c)

North Carolina

88.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Safety, education, and jobs are the biggest concerns in Mexico.

a)

True

b)

False

89.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Literacy rates are low in Spanish-speaking South America and Chili.

a)

True

b)

False

90.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Emigration is not a concern in Mexico.

a)

True

b)

False

91.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Mexico declared independence from Spain in 1921.

a)

True

b)

False

92.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: South America was colonized by Spain and Portugal.

a)

True

b)

False

93.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Brasilia is the largest city in Brazil.

a)

True

b)

False

94.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The earth has an inner and outer core.

a)

True

b)

False

95.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The NAFTA was an important trade agreement creating a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues in North America.

a)

True

b)

False

96.

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The coniferous forest is not a source of lumber for Canada.

a)

True

b)

False

97.

What state has the capital Salem?

a)

Oregon

b)

Washington

c)

Oklahoma