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Pre-AP Geography! @ HSPVA Fall 2014
Pre-AP Geography! @ HSPVA Fall 2014
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1
The Empire famous for building this reached such power because of the...?
Industrial Optimum
Wisconsian Interglacial
Medieval Optimum
2
This is an example of a/an
Map of Bad Intentions
Physical Map
Map of Agression
Representative Map
3
Which of the following is not one of the Koppen climate zones?
Mediterranean, Moist
Desert, Dry
Midlatitude, Mild
Continental, Harsh
4
Which country attempts to control population growth through gov't backed sterilization efforts?
China
Bangledesh
Nigeria
India
5
What district of London did Dr. Snow track a cholera epidemic in?
Soho
Greenwich
Wimbledon
Mayfair
6
Which of the following is a country facing problems due to ZPG?
USA
Italy
Bolivia
Bangledesh
7
What climatic event made the Black Death even more deadly to Europeans?
The Younger Dryas
The Medieval Optimum
The Little Ice Age
the "real" Little Ice Age
8
What Epoch are we in?
Cenozoic
Juraasic
Holocene
Pleistocene
9
What percentage of the earth's population stay where they are born?
97%
98%
3%
1%
10
What was wrong with Wegener's Continental Drift Theory?
Only thought there were two continental plates
did not understand plate tectonics
supercontinent was not accurate
11
Who were the very first cartographers (according to archeological records?)
Mesopotamians
Mayan
Egyptians
12
Who was the biggest loser when US textbooks stopped using Mercator Projections?
United States
Germany
Russia
Australia
13
Male dominated society
Matriarchy
Patriarchy
14
Who taught that filial piety (devotion to one's family) was of utmost importance?
Confucious
Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Mao
15
Which volcano is most likely responsible for the legend of Atlantis?
Mt. Toba
Thera
Pompeii
Mt. Tambora
16
About when, according to de Blij, did humans appear and where?
Sub-Great Rift Valley and 170,000 years ago
Saharan Africa, 100,000 years ago
West Africa, 170,000 years ago
Great Rift Valley, 240,000 years ago
17
What is the most recent glaciation?
Wisconsian
Illinoisan
Kansan
Iowan
18
To what degree is the earth tilted?
24.5
23.5
26.5
22.5
19
Who aided in bringing the Black Death to Europe?
The Mongols
The Chinese
The Italian Merchants
The Romans
20
The first group of modern humans reached the ___________ before dying out.
Middle East
the Levant
Tigris-Euphrates River Valley
Sinai Peninsula
21
Name an island country formed by tectonic activity along the mid-atlantic ridge
Greenland
Ireland
Hawaii
Iceland
22
What is the name of the interglacial period we are living in now?
Holocene
Pleistocene
Anthropocene
Wisconsian
23
What is the language of Geography?
Espanol
Deutsch
Maps
English
24
How far north were the Romans able to grow vineyards during the Medieval Optimum?
Britain
Spain
Sweden
Germany
25
Which century was Jamestown founded?
<p>1700s</p>
1800s
1900s
1600s
26
Into which ocean did an ice sheet slide into during the Younger Dryas?
North Pacific
North Artic
North Indian
North Atlantic
27
What year did human population begin to really grow exponentially
1820
1450
1940
1970
28
Why are chimpanzees so similar to orangutans?
ancestrally linked
an ice age
different ancestral groups
29
Mt. Toba was on the island of
Indonesia
Bali
Sumatera
Sumatra
30
How old am I?
4.6 million years
4,600 million years
4,600 thousand years
4.6 hundred years
31
What causes the Ring of Fire?
volcanos
Plate Tectonics
tsunamis
subduction only
32
Which of the following is not one of the five major glaciation of the Pleistocene?
Wisconsian
Illinonian
Iowan
Kansan
33
Where is the Ring of Fire?
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
34
Who was responsible for the Great Famine?
Mao
Sao
Tao
Dao
35
What is the wild card in the ice cycles of the earth according to de Blij?
human activity
geo-political decisions
asteroid impacts
de Blij
36
Which mass extinction involved humans?
Mt. Toba
Chixculub
Snowball Earth
Permian Ice Age
37
Name a country that appeared on the map after the breakup of the Soviet Union?
Poland
Germany
Estonia
France
38
Where did most people get cholera from in London?
chamber pots
fleas on mice and rats
water pumps
39
What year did the earth's population reach seven billion?
2010
2011
2009
2008