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Geography Final
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Basic concepts of geography taught at the beginning of the year and tested as a final.
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1
Which of the following IS one of the 5 themes of geography?
Water
Nonrenewable
Movement
Continents
2
The Earth is divided into seven large land masses known as:
Legends
Continents
Mountains
Deserts
3
Which comparative advantage does India have in attracting IT jobs from the US?
Many Hindi speakers
India's brain drain
Many English speakers
India's caste system
4
The tool on a map that shows the distance an inch on a map represents is called:
Compass rose
Scale
Key/Legend
Place
5
A war between people in the same country is a(n)
Gender-based war
Poverty war
Informal war
Civil war
6
What are coal, iron, uranium, and petroleum?
Economic activity
Natural resources
Land use
Vegetation zones
7
What three European countries have the lowest overall population density?
Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia
Spain, Portugal, Italy
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
Iceland, Finland, Sweden
8
The imaginary line running vertically from the North Pole to the South Pole is called
Equator
Longitude
Latitude
Prime meridian
9
The movement of large numbers of people to cities is known as
Distortion
Urbanization
Emission
Immigration
10
Which of these is the most important "pull factor" that draws people from farms to cities?
Communal land
Economic opportunity
Apartment living
Spatial inequality
11
Which two continents are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere?
There aren't two entirely in the western hemisphere
Asia & Antarctica
North America & South America
Europe & Africa
12
Which of these climate zones covers most of Canada?
Humid continental
Marine west coast
Tundra
Subarctic
13
_____ are resources can be used once.
Nonrenewable
Human-environment interaction
Water
Renewable
14
A micro-entrepreneur is a person who
employs many workers
starts a very small business
inherits a thriving big business
runs a large business
15
Which of the following IS NOT one of the 5 themes of geography?
Place
Location
Renewable
Human-environment interaction
16
A meridian of longitude is an imaginary line that runs
From the North Pole to the South Pole
What's a meridian?
Parallel to the Arctic Circle
Parallel to the Tropic of Cancer
17
The imaginary line around the middle of the Earth is known as the _____.
Prime meridian
Longitude
Equator
Latitude
18
Which of these Monsoon Asia countries has the highest overall population density?
Indonesia
Japan
Philippines
Vietnam
19
Global warming is predicted to lead to all of the following except:
rising sea levels
newly endangered species
expanding ice caps
widespread crop failures
20
________ are areas where water is scarce and it rarely rains.
Mountains
Deserts
Region
Continents
21
Landforms that rise from the Earth to a height far above the surrounding land are called _____
Place
Region
Deserts
Mountains
22
The Earth always rotates from _____ to _____.
North to south
West to east
South to north
East to west
23
Which of these is an example of a failed state?
European Union
Azerbaijan Republic
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
24
A map that shows population density is a type of
Regional map
Political map
Physical map
Thematic map
25
The imaginary lines that run from north to south across the Earth are called _____ lines
Latitude
Equator
Longitude
Prime meridian
26
Most of the Earth's surface is covered in _____.
Continents
Deserts
Mountains
Water
27
Symbols to communicate information on maps are in boxes. These boxes are called _____
Scale
Place
Location
Key/Legend
28
Hiring someone outside a company to do work that was once done by the company workers is
division of labor
outsourcing
recycling
smart growth
29
A tool that is on most maps that shows the four directions is called the _________.
Prime Meridian
Compass rose
Scale
Legend
30
Water and wind are called _____ resources because they can be used more than once.
Human-environmental interaction
Water
Nonrenewable
Renewable
31
Which of the following will you find on a map that shows physical features?
Landforms
Businesses
Vegetation
Population
32
Which feature runs through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile & Argentina?
Andes Mountains
Caribbean Sea
Yucatan Peninsula
Amazon River
33
What is the feeling of pride and loyalty toward one's country called?
pluralism
nationalism
self-respect
cultural identity
34
What is a biome?
an arid continent
a large watershed
a large ecosystem
an ice cap habitat
35
How were the Great Lakes created?
damming of rivers
shrinking of oceans
melting of glaciers
the clearing of forests
36
The imaginary horizontal lines that run from east to west are known as _____ lines.
Longitude
Location
Latitude
Equator
