WorksheetsGeography Semester Exam 2025
Total questions: 97
Worksheet time: 49mins
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?
Amazon River
Orinoco River
Parana River
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?
rain forest
cerrado
slash and burn
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Factors that “pull” people toward cities?
push factor
pull factor
infrastructure
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?
pampas
pull factor
terraced farming
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Factors that “push” people to leave cities
Push factor
Pull factor
llanos
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?
push factor
terraced farming
slash and burn
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?
USMCA
NAFTA
USA
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the ancient Aztec capital ?
Reggae
Tenochtitlan
Calypso
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?
Cultural Hearth
Panama Canal
Mestizo
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?
Spanish
Reggae
Calypso
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?
NAFTA
Calypso
Mestizo
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?
Capoeria
Samba
Quechua
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?
Inca
Carnival
Samba
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A Brazilian dance with African influences?
Inca
Samba
Mercosur
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The language of the Inca empire?
Spanish
French
Quechua
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The most colorful feast day in Brazil?
Carnival
Samba
Treaty of Tordesillas
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?
Guatemala
Cuba
Dominican Republic
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?
Mexican
Caribbean
European
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?
Cortez
Columbus
Trudeau
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?
Corn
Bananas
Sugar
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?
Catholicism
Protestant
Muslim
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What style of music started in Trinidad?
Country
Calypso
Reggae
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?
fish
Hydro-electric power
agriculture
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?
Spanish and Portuguese speaking
Spanish and French
French and Portuguese
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Who conquered the Inca empire?
Aztecs
Settlers
Pizarro
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. High earthen platforms used in seaworks?
polder
seawork
Terpen
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?
meset
uplands
peat
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?
polder
mistral
terpen
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Partially decayed plant matter found in bags.
fjord
polder
peat
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is a geographer?
someone who paints
someone who creates tasty dishes
someone who analyzes the earth from many points of view
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?
fjord
dike
seawork
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?
polder
dike
inlet
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?
What occurred hundreds of years ago
Where are things located
why are they there
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the mantle made of?
magma
iron
rock
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?
the hydrologic drift
the continental divide
the continental drift theory
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the crust made of?
magma
thin layer of rock
iron and nickel
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?
tides,pools,currents
currents,streams,pools
waves,tides,currents
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?
hydrolic cycle
hydrologic cycle
water movement
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?
ponga
pangea
pandora
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?
rivers and streams
lakes and swamps
beaches and deltas
Multiple Choice: Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is groundwater?
rainfall
puddles
water held in pores
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?
fault
cataract
track
What is the largest country that borders one country?
united states
Canada
Russia
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?
blasting
climate
weathering
The change in accuracy of the shapes and distances of places?
distortion
currents
seismograph
What is sediment?
mud,sand,silt
clay,mud,water
silt,rocks,juice
The relative distance on a map to the real world is?
focus
scale
epicenter
What are rivers in the oceans like?
tides
currents
comets
What are spheres of ice and dust?
asteroid
comets
foces
The swells or ridges produced by wind?
epicenter
scale
waves
What is a group of places that share a common physical or human characteristic?
location
region
place
Features of a place that are created by people are called?
natural characteristic
human characteristic
physical characteristic
A broad, flat area of land higher than the surrounding land?
cliff
mesa
plateau
What is a body of land surrounded by water?
glacier
bay
island
What is a large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land?
glacier
swamp
canyon
What is a narrow, deep channel with steep sides?
canyon
mountain
valley
A wide, flat topped mountain with steep sides larger than a butte?
volcano
mesa
bay
A large, level area of grassland with few or no trees?
glacier
swamp
prairie
The steep, almost vertical edge of a hill, mountain, or plain.
cliff
valley
canyon
The part of an ocean or lake enclosed by land.
island
bay
swamp
Who is the main leader of Judaism?
God
Abraham/Moses
Buddha
What is migration?
movement of people within the U.S.
human geography of the U.S.
shaping an abundant land
Who believed that Jesus is the Messiah?
Christians
Buddha
Abraham/Moses
What is the sacred writing of Judaism?
The Torah
The Bible
The Vedo
What is a suburb?
communities outside of a city
communities inside of a city
communities around a school
A lowland region that is saturated by water.
swamp
flood plain
river mouth
What are the 5 themes of Geography
location, place, Human environment interaction
location,place, Human Environment interaction,region
location,place,human environment interaction,region,movement
The exact location of an area?
absolute
relative
theme
What is an export?
goods sold to another country
goods traded to the U.S.
good brought into the U.S.
What is the capital of California?
Raleigh
Sacramento
Tallahassee
What is the capital of Minnesota?
St. Paul
Atlanta
Albany
What location describes how a place is related to it's surrounding areas?
absolute location
relative location
theme
What is the capital of Arizona?
Little Rock
Phoenix
Denver
What is the capital of Tennessee?
Houston
Baton Rouge
Nashville
What state has the capital of Annapolis?
Maine
Maryland
South Dakota
What is the capital of Iowa?
Madison
Topeka
Des Moines
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The Inca was the native culture in Mexico before the arrival of the Spanish.
True
False
What state has the capital of Carson City?
Nevada
Oklahoma
Tennessee
What state has the capital of Baton Rouge?
California
New Mexico
Louisiana
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Chocolate originates in Mexico where the Aztecs and Mayans first cultivated the Cacao plant.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Cortez and the Spanish conquered the Aztec empire and destroyed most of the capital.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The Aztec empire was located 8,000 feet above sea level.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Jobs pay more in rural Mexico than in cities.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Mexico started to industrialize in the 20th century.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The oil and manufacturing are huge industries in Mexico.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Native Americans constructed temples and public buildings shaped like missions.
True
False
What state has the capital Raleigh?
South Dakota
North Dakota
North Carolina
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Safety, education, and jobs are the biggest concerns in Mexico.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Literacy rates are low in Spanish-speaking South America and Chili.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Emigration is not a concern in Mexico.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Mexico declared independence from Spain in 1921.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: South America was colonized by Spain and Portugal.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: Brasilia is the largest city in Brazil.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The earth has an inner and outer core.
True
False
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.
True
False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false: The coniferous forest is not a source of lumber for Canada.
True
False
What state has the capital Salem?
Oregon
Washington
Oklahoma
