SUPER QUIZ!! Geography Chapter 2

Question 1

Which is NOT considered a fossil fuel (2.7)

Accepted Answer

Uranium

Question 2

Warm, rainy/humid summers & cool snowy winters describes a (2.4)

Accepted Answer

Humid Continental climate

Question 3

Which is NOT considered a physical feature? (2.3)

Accepted Answer

Strong Middle School

Question 4

What is a thematic map? (2.1)

Accepted Answer

a map that presents information related to only one topic.

Question 5

One example of a thematic map that shows human geography is (2.2)

Accepted Answer

a map showing the economic activity in Panama

Question 6

Which of these places would have the HIGHEST Population Density? (2.6)

Accepted Answer

Rhode Island

Question 7

What is precipitation? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

Any form of measurable moisture

Question 8

What can this climagraph tell you? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

This is a Southern Hemisphere city

Question 9

Earth's natural vegetation is NOT dependent on...(2.5)

Accepted Answer

Human intervention

Question 10

Which factor DOES NOT affect a region's climate? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

A place's longitude

Question 11

A regional map can focus on (2.8)

Accepted Answer

Any / all of these

Question 12

There are such things as "cold deserts" like areas around the ice caps or high elevations? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

A fossil fuel is any fuel that is made from the remains of (2.7)

Accepted Answer

prehistoric plants and animals

Question 14

Which is NOT considered Physical Geography? (2.2)

Accepted Answer

Economic activity

Question 15

There is a distinct highlands climate zone, but there is no highland vegetation zone? (2.5)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The lush green valley is the result of which body of water? (2.3)

Accepted Answer

River Delta

Question 17

What is a climagraph used for? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

Shows average temperature and precipitation in a place over a whole year

Question 18

Which would NOT be associated with arid? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

Forests

Question 19

What is Physical Geography? (2.2)

Accepted Answer

The study of Earth's natural features

Question 20

What is climate? (2.2)

Accepted Answer

The pattern of weather over a long period of time

Question 21

Based on this image, the area with the LOWEST pop density is colored... (2.6)

Accepted Answer

light yellow

Question 22

Which of these vegetation zones cannot support plant life? (2.5)

Accepted Answer

Ice Cap

Question 23

A climate consistently hot AND rainy all throughout the year is (2.4)

Accepted Answer

tropical wet

Question 24

To calculate pop. density you would (2.6)

Accepted Answer

divide its population by its land area

Question 25

A body of WATER that cuts deeply into the shoreline and is surrounded by land on three sides is known as... (2.3)

Accepted Answer

gulf

Question 26

Which of these is an example of land use? (2.7)

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 27

Which word would NOT fit a place with a LOW pop. density (2.6)

Accepted Answer

congested

Question 28

What mystery did John Snow solve in 1854 by thinking like a geographer? (2.1)

Accepted Answer

how cholera spread through polluted drinking water

Question 29

Other than climate, what factor can affect what plants grow where? (2.5)

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 30

FAST: How many climate zones does Australia have? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

7

Question 31

A political map shows (2.2)

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 32

The seven continents are synonymous with the seven regions? (2.8)

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

What is a region? (2.2)

Accepted Answer

An area defined by characteristics that set it apart from other areas.

Question 34

What is a peninsula? (2.3)

Accepted Answer

A piece of land bordered by water on three sides

Question 35

Which would NOT be considered a natural resource? (2.2)

Accepted Answer

plastic

Question 36

Connecticut has a pop of @3,500,000 and land area of @5,000 sq miles. It's pop. density is? (2.6)

Accepted Answer

700 per square mile

Question 37

On average, one inch of rainfall would be how much snow? (2.4)

Accepted Answer

10 inches of snow

Question 38

What map feature is central to understanding a thematic map? (2.2)

Accepted Answer

The legend

Question 39

Which is NOT an example of economic activity (2.2)

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Government

Question 40

Based on where this is on earth, the green is probably? (2.5)

Accepted Answer

Evergreen Forest (keeps its leaves all year)

SUPER QUIZ!! Geography Chapter 2

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SUPER QUIZ!! Geography Chapter 2

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