Geography Final Exam 2025

Question 1

What is the chief natural resource of Turkmenistan?

Accepted Answer

Oil and natural gas

Question 2

When was the Trans-Siberian Railroad completed?

Accepted Answer

1904

Question 3

What is the term for the system of racial segregation in South Africa until 1994?

Accepted Answer

Apartheid

Question 4

What was the focus of the protests by tens of thousands of demonstrators in Budapest, Hungary, in October 1956?

Accepted Answer

Communist oppression

Question 5

What geographic feature lies on Kenya’s southwest corner?

Accepted Answer

Lake Victoria

Question 6

Approximately how many Jews lived in Rome during the time of Augustus?

Accepted Answer

7,000

Question 7

What is Britain’s largest national park, located in Northwest England?

Accepted Answer

Lake District

Question 8

What is the name of the swampy, grassy land covering most of northern Siberia?

Accepted Answer

Tundra

Question 9

What is the main access route through the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Accepted Answer

Khyber Pass

Question 10

What is the common term for the ethnic group whose largest tribe is the Mbuti?

Accepted Answer

Pygmies

Question 11

What is the largest ethnic group in Mali?

Accepted Answer

Bambara

Question 12

What is the second largest country in Africa?

Accepted Answer

Algeria

Question 13

What indigenous group lives primarily within the Arctic Circle and is associated with reindeer?

Accepted Answer

Sami

Question 14

What is the world leader in the export of cocoa and cashews?

Accepted Answer

Cote d’Ivoire

Question 15

What is the longest river in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Volga

Question 16

What is the term for a journey with a religious purpose?

Accepted Answer

Pilgrimage

Question 17

What country is completely surrounded by South Africa?

Accepted Answer

Lesotho

Question 18

Which continent has the point closest to Antarctica?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 19

What is the largest country in the world without a river?

Accepted Answer

Saudi Arabia

Question 20

What fraction of the world’s fresh water is contained in Lake Baikal?

Accepted Answer

\frac{1}{3}

Question 21

What is the largest country in the world by land area?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 22

What geographic feature begins in Turkey and extends to Kenya?

Accepted Answer

Great Rift Valley

Question 23

What economic event in the Netherlands was driven by the tulip trade?

Accepted Answer

Tulip Mania

Question 24

What are the two holy cities in Saudi Arabia for Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Mecca and Medina

Question 25

What ethnic areas formed Czechoslovakia in October 1918?

Accepted Answer

Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia

Question 26

What did Paul say about God’s invisible attributes?

Accepted Answer

They are clearly seen through what has been made

Question 27

What is the longest canal in the world without locks?

Accepted Answer

Suez Canal

Question 28

What is the largest lake in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Lake Ladoga

Question 29

What is the Arabic name for the region of North Africa stretching from Libya to Morocco?

Accepted Answer

Maghrib

Question 30

What is the largest ocean in the world?

Accepted Answer

Pacific

Question 31

What was the main economic activity of the Berbers in the Mediterranean?

Accepted Answer

Trade

Question 32

What geographic feature influenced the Battle of the Bulge during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Ardennes Forest

Question 33

What country is named after prawns, a type of shellfish?

Accepted Answer

Cameroon

Question 34

What is the origin of the name Himalaya?

Accepted Answer

Sanskrit for “snow abode”

Question 35

How many time zones does Russia span?

Accepted Answer

11

Question 36

What large geographic feature runs through Malawi north to south?

Accepted Answer

Great Rift Valley

Question 37

What is the term for the Jews who lived away from Canaan?

Accepted Answer

Diaspora

Question 38

What is the Fertile Crescent?

Accepted Answer

An arc of land from Iraq to Egypt

Question 39

What is the largest ethnic group in South Africa, making up about 20% of the population?

Accepted Answer

Zulu

Question 40

What is the capital of Rwanda?

Accepted Answer

Kigali

Question 41

What was the secret agreement to divide the Ottoman Empire called?

Accepted Answer

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Question 42

What is the dominant agricultural activity in Tajikistan?

Accepted Answer

Cotton growing

Question 43

What was the goal of the Marshall Plan after World War II?

Accepted Answer

To rebuild Europe’s economy

Question 44

What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

Accepted Answer

Kinshasa

Question 45

What is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, located on the Arabian Peninsula?

Accepted Answer

Empty Quarter

Question 46

What is the unofficial name for the region where many Kurds live?

Accepted Answer

Kurdistan

Question 47

What is the tall, black, square shrine in Mecca?

Accepted Answer

Kaaba

Question 48

What is the lake discussed in the lessons located in Ghana?

Accepted Answer

Lake Volta

Question 49

What is the name of the thick porridge made of maize, a dietary staple in Malawi?

Accepted Answer

Nsima

Question 50

What is the deepest lake in the world?

Accepted Answer

Lake Baikal

Geography Final Exam 2025

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Geography Final Exam 2025

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