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World Geography Final Pt.1 2023
World Geography Final Pt.1 2023
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1
What is the capital of Brazil?
Brasilia
Salvador
Rio de Janeiro
Santos
2
What is the main religion in Indonesia?
Buddhist
Catholic
Islamic
Christianity
3
The temperate zone doesn't have extremely cold or warm temperatures
True
False
4
Nepal and Bhutan lost their independence to the Europeans during the colonial era
True
False
5
What is the capital of France?
Venice
Paris
Vienna
Marseille
6
What is an archipelango?
A group of islands
A ring of low coral islands surrounding a lagoon
An area of water bordered by land on three sides
A narrow land bridge
7
What is the largest lake in South America?
Lake Baikal
Lake Titicaca
Lake Huron
Lake Maracaibo
8
Buddhism promotes the teachings of...
Loa-Tzu
Nanak
Siddhartha Guantama
Confucius
9
What is an Islamic building of worship?
Moshav
Kibbutz
Synagogue
Mosque
10
What is the defense alliance founded after World War II to counter the Soviet Union?
NATO
NAFTA
USMCA
ASEAN
11
What is the capital of China?
Taipei
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Beijing
12
What is the system of customs, traditions, and habits that a group of people use to make something of their world?
Diversity
Government
Society
Culture
13
What is the capital of Russia?
Samara
Novosibirsk
Rostov
Moscow
14
Agnosticism may be described as a belief system that rejects or excludes religion
False
True
15
The savana is a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions
True
False
16
What is the capital of India?
Bangalore
Mumbai
Kanpur
Delhi
17
The capital of Mexico is considered a primate city, the largest city in a country significantly larger than the rest
False
True
18
Which of the four main Japanses islands is the largest?
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Honshu
Shikoku
19
The religious group that embraces concepts of Christianity and revelations made by their founder, Joseph Smith is...
Catholicism
Evangelicalism
Methodism
Mormonism
20
What is the three hundred-mile-wide band of grass-covered plains in Africa between the Sahara and the tropical forests?
Sahel
Outback
Steppe
Savana
21
The capital of Mexico is Tijuana
False
True
22
What is the modern cocept that teaches all cultures are equally valid and none is better than the other?
Cultural Mosaic
Syncretism
Multiculturalism
Foundation of Society
23
Cash crops are raised specifically for sale
False
True
24
Shintoism identifies disharmony with nature as the basic problem with the world
True
False
25
The total land area drained by a river is?
Tributary
Drainage basin
River system
Gulf
26
The United States government functions as a ...
Federal republic
Limited oligarchy
Limited autocracy
Federal democracy
27
Which of the following is not an inland sea in the Caucasus and Central Asia?
Dead Sea
Aral Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
28
Which term refers to a land separated from the mian body of the country in belongs to?
Enclave
Exclave
29
The strong identification with a tribe that speaks the same language or dialect is collectivization
False
True
30
Japan is in constant threat of tsunamis, destructive waves resulting from an earthquake
False
True
31
What are areas of shallow water where boulders break the surfcae?
Channels
Cataracts
Escarpments
Estuaries
32
What river is known as the river of Paris and is the second largest in France?
The Seine
The Loire
The Danube
The Rhine
33
What is the largest island in Europe?
Greenland
Iceland
Ireland
Great Britain
34
Which of the following is not one of the Asian Tigers, known for their industrial and economic growth?
Singapore
Tokyo
Taiwan
Hong Kong
35
The South Korean government owns all industries and is known to operate illicit ones as well
False
True
36
Which of the following is a landlocked nation in West Africa?
Guinea-Bissau
Ghana
Benin
Burkina Faso
37
What is the longest river in Southeast Asia?
Chao River
Mekong River
Irrawaddy River
Saigon River
38
What is the largest lake in Africa and thrid largest in the world?
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Malawi
Lake Victoria
Lake Kivu
39
Is Islam growing faster than Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa?
Yes
No
40
What latitude zone has very little sunlight?
Tropics
Temperate
Tundar
Polar
41
What is the national capital of Canada?
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
Vancouver
42
The Chinese government presents its citizens with broad freedoms
True
False
43
Which term refers to a country or portion of a country surrounded by another country?
Exclave
Enclave
44
What are the peninsulas of mainland Southeast Asia?
Iberian and Malay
Indochina and Iberian
Malay and Philippine
Indochina and Malay
45
The Azerbaijani lifespan is...
Long
Short
46
Africapitalism is when Afica stops looking for aid abroad and invests in private services and economy
False
True
47
What is the largest physical region of Europe?
The Great European Plain
The Central Uplands
Alpine Mountains System
The Western Uplands
48
Who is known for being the first to take the gospel into the interior of Africa?
Hudson Taylor
David Livingston
William Carey
Adoniram Judson
49
A caste system is used in India to determine a person's social status
True
False
50
The Prime Meridian pases through which city?
Liverpool, England
Stockholm, Sweden
Greenwich, England
Oslo, Norway
51
What is the first Indian empire?
Mali
Mauryan
Gupta
Mughal
52
What is the highest plateau in the world?
Tibetan Plateau
Braziilian Plateau
Deccan Plateau
Antarctic Plateau
53
Which of the four main Japanses islands has the largest prefecture?
Hokkaido
Honshu
Kyushu
Shikoku
54
The ending "stan" means "people of"
True
False
55
The Equator is a line of longitude
True
False
56
A group of two or more clans form a tibe
True
False
57
What term is often used to describe the religion of India?
Islam
Sikh
Judaism
Hinduism
58
Jihad refers to the Muslim "holy war"
False
True
59
Climate may be defined as the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place
False
True
60
Domino Strategy is the belief that if Vietnam fell to communism the rest of Southeast Asia would fall and then the world
False
True
61
The countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia barely depend on remittances, money sent back from family working abroad
True
False
62
What is the largest river in Ausrtalia?
Warrego River
Murrumidgee River
Lachlan River
Murray River
63
What is a Jewish building of worship?
Kibbutz
Synagogue
Mosque
Moshav
64
Pakistan is considered a subcontinent, a large landform that is bigger than a peninsula and smaller than a continent
True
False
65
Commercial farmers produce enough food to meet the needs of their own household
True
False
66
What are deep cracks in the Earth's surface?
Faults
Drifts
Fractures
Subduction
67
What kind of people occupy the highest caste in the Indian caste system?
Priests, teachers
Merchants, artisans, farmers
Laborers
Rulers, warriors
68
A region that is under continual political pressure and is often fragmented by waring factions is a covergence zone
True
False
69
What latitude zone contains very warm temperatures?
Tropics
Polar
Tundra
Temperate
70
The Sahel has some of the lowest fertility rates in the world
False
True
71
What is the larest country in Southeast Asia?
Thailand
Malaysia
Philippines
Indonesia
72
Which nation in Equatorial Africa escpaed imperialism because of its ties to the US?
Liberia
Senegal
Guinea
Nigeria
73
Most of the countries in the Sahel are engaged in subsistence farming and have some of the lowest per capita GDP
False
True
74
The religious group with the largest church and one of the oldest international institutions
Evangelicalism
Catholicism
Methodism
Mormonism
75
What was the communist party in Cambodia?
Viet Cong
Pol Pot
Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge
76
Which of the following is not a major religion of the Middle East?
Orthodox
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
77
A typhoon is a wind that changes directions with the seasons
False
True
78
Confucianism teaches people that peace can be found by living in harmony with nature
False
True
79
What is the religion of North Africa
Protestant Evangelical
Orthodox
Animism
Sunni Islam
80
Which of the following is a landlocked nation in Central Africa?
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
81
What sport native to Central Asia consists of two teams on horseback competing to get a goat carcass across their goal?
Abula
Dambe
Buzkashi
Kokawa
82
The idea that plates crash into and pull apart from one another, causing earthquakes and volcanoes is called?
Continental drift
Cataclysms
Faulting
Plate tectonics
83
Which important river runs through India and Bangladesh and also has a religious significance to the Hindus?
Indus River
Brahmaputra River
Yamuna River
Ganges River
84
What is the world's largest desert?
Sahara Desert
Arabian Desert
Kalahari Desert
Gobi Desert
85
What term used by the Canadians means the varied people who have settled in Canada have retained their diverse cultures?
Cultural diffusion
Multiculturalism
Cultural covergence
Cultural mosaic
86
What is the capital of Italy?
Venice
Naples
Rome
Florence
87
Which of the following is not a major body of water?
Rivers
Oceans
Lakes
Channels
88
Apartheid is an oppressive political system of segregation in South Africa
False
True
89
Which country has the most arable land and natural resources?
Japan
North Korea
South Korea
90
The DMZ that serves a boundary between North and South Korea is located at which parallel?
Twenty-Seventh
Thirty-First
Thirty-Eighth
Sixteenth
91
What is the beleif that all things have a spirit?
Animism
Taoism
Shamanism
Shintoism
92
What was the only Southeast Asia country to escape colonialism?
Thailand
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
93
The tendency of ethnically and religiously diverse territories to break into small, hostile nations is Balkanization
False
True
94
What is the foundation of society?
Religion
Language
Nation
Family
95
Which of the following countries is not located of the Iberian Peninsula?
Andorra
Portugal
Spain
France
96
A collective community where labor, housing, and resources are shared is a moshav
False
True
97
Lines of longitude are the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
True
False
98
South Korea underwent a period rapid economic transformation called the "miracle on the Han"
False
True
99
A clan is a self-contained group of families living in close proximity in a rural area
True
False
100
Which of the following are the sacred books pertaining to sharia law?
Apocrypha, Tanakh
Qur'an, Tanakh
Qur'an, Hadith
Apocrypha, Hadith