9th Grade Geography Final 2021

What cave in Kentucky is one of the largest caves in the world?

What is the most important river in India?

Which English explorer sailed around Antarctica in 1773 searching for a fabled southern continent?

China is slightly larger in area than the United States.

What percentage of the earth's ice is locked in the Antarctic ice cap?

Hindu society is divided into different classes called what?

The largest system of freshwater lakes in the world are ________

The word geography comes from two roots meaning "written description".

Capital of Japan

Which country was nicknamed the "banana republic"?

The longest nonmilitarized border in the world.

What is the border separating North and South Korea?

A large group of people with a common history and language who have developed a strong sense of identity

The waters around Antarctica are different from other oceans.

What is another name for service industries?

The term aboriginal comes from a Latin word meaning....

The rigorous policy of racial separation practiced in South Africa from 1948-1997 was called

capital of India

The longest river in Asia is...

What entity is the foundation of society

The tendency of a region made up of many ethnically and religiously diverse minorities to break into countries is

Which country is the financial and high-tech hub of Southeast Asia?

Which is the highest mountain in The Alps?

The highest point in North America is which of the following mountains?

What Is the Capital Of China

the goal is to reach nirvana or enlightenment or to escape the cycle of life

capital of Chile

Brahman is the universal spirit of what religion

The capital of Germany is...

What has Russia historically lacked that has influenced its foreign policy?

This mapmaker's system is still used today is

What is the highest mountain in Europe?

Costa Rica means...

What is the world's highest mountain range.

Natural removal of small pieces of rock or soil

Capital of Lebanon

By what name do the Japanese refer to their country?

_____ had mixed Indian and Spanish Ancestry.

What is the longest river in the world

the primary instrument for transmitting culture

What term describes the entire region of the Levant with the river valleys of Mesopotamia?

the word "pacific" means

Vast herds of large mammals still migrate here

What is the capital of Australia?

Deep cracks in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions

Which mountains are the backbone of Italy?

The idea that the forces that shaped the earth as we now see it operated in the past at the same rate.

What is the capital of Ghana?

What civilization was found in the Andes?

The only Portuguese speaking country in the Western Hemisphere is

China considers Taiwan to be the legitimate government of an independent China.

What does the name Buddha mean?

Capital of Egypt

oldest continually inhabited city in the world

Christ's command for believers to spread the Gospel throughout is called..

What Indian group founded the walled city of Tenochtitlan which is modern-day Mexico City?

What verse is generally cited when discussing the Creation Mandate?

What mountain range dominates the Swiss countryside?

The climate of the earth stabilized quickly after the Flood.

The minority religion in India that attempts to combine certain teachings of Hinduism and Islam

A group of people comprising a nation who have established their own government is called a...

What chain of mountains stretches from Alaska to South America?

What term refers to all of the most basic industries?

Capital and largest city of Kenya

The capital of Honduras is...

What monument reads "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."

What is the main religion in Japan?

Which is the tallest mountain in the world?

largest coral formation in the world

Some believe all of the continents were once linked together as one supercontinent called

Which king of the Mali Empire made a pilgrimage to Mecca with great wealth and a caravan of sixty thousand people'

birthplace of one of the worlds earliest civilizations

Art of mapmaking

Capital of Vietnam

Which of these countries has NOT has sought to become a rigid islamic state?

What is the area of the Pacific that experiences numerous and regular earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity

What Indian civilization once dominated the Yucatán Peninsula?

Capital of Syria

Grasslands in Africa

A majority of illegal immigrants in the United States come from

More than three-fourths of an iceberg is above the surface of the water.

another name for Russia during communist rule

Christians believe the earth's features were altered dramatically by a great:

What businesses take raw materials and change them into useful forms?

Capital of Iran

The system of customs, traditions and habits that a group of people uses to make something of their world.

Whats the world's largest desert?

The first known inhabitants of New Zealand were the

Theory that the earth's surface is broken into pieces that crash into and pull apart from each other causing earthquakes

The language with the most speakers today is...

The view that all cultures are equally good; each has its own truths and values that must be accepted by other cultures

The main problem with any flat map is

What is the name of the island 2,600 miles off the coast of Chile that has rows of mysterious stone heads?

Which religion follows Allah?

Which river carries the largest volume of water?

first black republic in Africa

believed humans become gods

Capital of Iraq

Which city has become the epitome of a remote and mysterious civilization?