This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Saffir-Simpson scale measures the intensity of A) Earthquakes. B) Volcanoes. C) Hurricanes. D) Tornadoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hurricanes. 2. The Appalachian Mountain Range is located in ..... A) Europe. B) United States. C) Belgium. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) United States. 3. Which of the following landforms runs through both the United States and Canada? A) The Interior Lowlands. B) The Rocky Mountains. C) The Great Plains. D) The Canadian Shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Rocky Mountains. 4. The number of major ports in India is A) 10. B) 12. C) 13. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13. 5. The highest sand dunes are found is A) The Atacama desert. B) The Sahara desert. C) The Gobi desert. D) The Kalahari desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Sahara desert. 6. The subatomic particles arriving from outer space having high energy are called A) Protons. B) Electrons. C) Cosmic rays. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cosmic rays. 7. The primary purpose of the irrigation of the Colorado River is to A) Reduce the water supply. B) Bring water to dry areas and farms. C) Create aqueducts. D) Increase ocean depths. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bring water to dry areas and farms. 8. Using lines of latitude and longitude to find an exact location is ..... A) Absolute Location. B) Place. C) Relative Location. D) Prime Meridian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absolute Location. 9. What does the Greek word 'geographia' mean? A) Definition of the Earth. B) Description of the Earth. C) Development of the Earth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description of the Earth. 10. Which sector of the economy includes industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction? A) Secondary Sector. B) Quaternary Sector. C) Primary Sector. D) Tertiary Sector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary Sector. 11. Most people in Europe live in A) Rural areas. B) Urban areas. C) Highlands. D) Lowlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urban areas. 12. Land that is completely surrounded by water. A) Island. B) Plain. C) River. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Island. 13. A regional ecosystem A) Ecosystem. B) Climate. C) Weather. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biome. 14. Which city is sacred to the three monotheistic religions? A) Istanbul. B) Cairo. C) Jerusalem. D) Mecca. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jerusalem. 15. What type of map would you need to use to see a country's boundaries? A) Physical Map. B) Globe. C) Political Map. D) Robinson Projection Map. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Political Map. 16. A movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another group A) Equal Rights. B) Separatism. C) Freedom of Religion. D) Colony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Separatism. 17. Which continent primarily colonized African territory during the late nineteenth century? A) South America. B) Europe. C) Asia. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Europe. 18. What is the most populated country A) United States of America. B) India. C) Indonesia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) China. 19. Both Hindus and Buddhists believe that ..... A) The soul can be reincarnated. B) Faith will lead one to salvation. C) Social order is based on five key relationships. D) Daily prayer will allow one to gain entrance to heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The soul can be reincarnated. 20. The place where material is excavated when the zone of maximum stream velocity approaches the stream's bed is called A) Flood plain. B) Riffles. C) Scoured pools. D) Ox-bow lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scoured pools. 21. The North American Free Trade Agreement MOST affects this country A) England. B) Italy. C) Saudi Arabia. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canada. 22. What is latitude? A) The line that runs north and south of the equator. B) The line that runs east and west of the prime meridain. C) The movement of a group of people. D) An imaginary line around the middle of the earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The line that runs north and south of the equator. 23. Which of the following is concerned with the description and mapping of the main features of the universe? A) Cosmography. B) Cosmology. C) Geomorphology. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cosmography. 24. Physical process of Erosion is ..... A) Wearing down of rocks by wind and water. B) Breaking of the Earth's crust that causes a fault. C) Movement of weathered materials by wind, ice, or water. D) Mixing of weathered rock with decayed plant & animal material. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movement of weathered materials by wind, ice, or water. 25. Factories are an example of which economic activity level? A) Secondary. B) Quarterly. C) Tertiary. D) Primary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary. 26. Greenwich Mean is in which country A) U.S.A. B) U.K. C) Holland. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) U.K. 27. Which part of the biosphere provides oxygen? A) Atmosphere. B) Lithosphere. C) Asthenosphere. D) Hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere. 28. Houston is at 45 degrees South latitude and 95 degrees West longitude. This describes its A) Absolute location. B) Vernal equinox. C) Perceptual location. D) Relative location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absolute location. 29. Which of the following are NOT one of the biggest challenges facing Northern Africa? A) Illiteracy. B) Laundry. C) Speaking. D) Food Exchange. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Illiteracy. 30. The southernmost part of the world is A) Cape of Good Hope, Africa. B) Cape of Horn, S. America. C) Colombo, Sri Lanka. D) Wellington, New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cape of Horn, S. America. 31. Is a system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned and production and prices are determined by supply and demand. A) Feudalism. B) Market Economy System. C) Mixed Economy. D) Traditional Economy System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Market Economy System. 32. What country used to be a part of the Indian landmass but is now an island? A) Sri Lanka. B) Bangladesh. C) Pakistan. D) Nepal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sri Lanka. 33. Is a system in which factors of production are privately owned. A) Traditional Economy System. B) Free Enterprise. C) Capitalism. D) Market Economy System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capitalism. 34. Plate tectonics often cause what phenomenon? A) Global warming. B) Earthquakes. C) Tornadoes. D) Hurricanes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquakes. 35. What landform causes the rain shadow effect? A) Mountains. B) Lakes. C) Plains. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountains. 36. Which geographic factor most likely contributed to the pattern of urbanization for Latin America? A) Immigration. B) Natural disasters. C) Industrialization. D) Building national highways. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Industrialization. 37. What is not one of the 5 themes of Geography A) Interaction. B) Movement. C) Location. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climate. 38. Which two cultures blended together to shape the current culture of Mexico? A) Spanish and Portuguese. B) Native peoples and Spanish. C) Maya and Aztec. D) Spanish and African. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Native peoples and Spanish. 39. Geographers divide the world into ....., which are areas in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems, and values. A) Culture regions. B) Ethnicities. C) Nationalities. D) Culture hearths. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Culture regions. 40. The Jamaican music that deals with social problems and religion A) Reggae. B) Samba. C) Pastafari. D) Rastafari. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reggae. 41. The ancient Incan city located in the Andes Mountains of Peru is A) Machu Picchu. B) Taj Mahal. C) Angkor Wat. D) Tikal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Machu Picchu. 42. Desalination is most used A) In places where freshwater is scarce. B) In economically challenged countries. C) In areas where there are also freshwater facilities. D) In places where it will affect marine life the least. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In places where freshwater is scarce. 43. The reaction between compounds and oxygen is called A) Solution. B) Oxidation. C) Carbonation. D) Hydrolysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxidation. 44. What impact do immigrants have on a society A) Immigrants are always welcome into society. B) Immigrants have very little impact on a society. C) Immigrants generally stay for a very small amount of time. D) Immigrants may change a society's culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigrants may change a society's culture. 45. In the 1800s ..... opened up the western United States to immigration and business. A) The transcontinental railroad. B) The Underground Railroad. C) Route 66. D) Cattle farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The transcontinental railroad. 46. The average weather conditions over several years A) Weather. B) Rain Shadow. C) Climate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate. 47. Lawlessness, political disorder and violence; the absence of government control. A) Supranationalism. B) Anarchy. C) Universal Suffrage. D) Devolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anarchy. 48. Which is an example of a pull factor? A) Religious freedom. B) Lack of economic opportunities. C) Political persecution. D) War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Religious freedom. 49. What branch is Congress? A) Executive Branch. B) Legislative Branch. C) Judicial Branch. D) Democratic Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legislative Branch. 50. With the time zones when you are going from West to East what do you do? A) Divide. B) Multiply. C) Subtract. D) Add. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Add. 51. The Tibetan Plateau is considered a physical region because A) It has its own governement. B) Its people share a common religion. C) Its people have their own language. D) It shares the same landforms, climate and vegetation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It shares the same landforms, climate and vegetation. 52. The ..... RIver's Drainage Basin covers almost one half of the United States. A) Indus. B) Mississippi. C) Yellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mississippi. 53. How do seas, gulfs, and bays differ from oceans? A) They are larger. B) They are freshwater. C) They are partially enclosed by land. D) They are deeper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are partially enclosed by land. 54. The number of births compared to the number of deaths in a given time frame is called? A) Culture. B) Growth Rate. C) Society. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growth Rate. 55. What U.S. state includes areas that have a subarctic climate that supports a variety of wildlife, including grizzly bears, bald eagles, wolves, and bobcats? A) Alaska. B) Idaho. C) Maine. D) Michigan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alaska. 56. ..... & ..... are direct factors of a climate's precipitation and temperature. A) Weathering & Erosion. B) Proximity to water & Latitude. C) Convection & Subduction. D) Latitude & Longitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proximity to water & Latitude. 57. The use of the Euro and the removal of trade barriers in the European Union have led to what? A) High unemployment in non-EU countries. B) Increased demand for agricultural products. C) A large united trade zone across Europe. D) A shift from manufacturing jobs to service industries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A large united trade zone across Europe. 58. Which Brazilian dance has African influence? A) Carnival. B) Samba. C) Cariocas. D) Capoeira. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samba. 59. Which of the following is not a kharif crop? A) Mustard. B) Rice. C) Jute. D) Maize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mustard. 60. The major control over the form of the developing slope is exerted by A) Inputs to the hill slope. B) Outputs from the hill slope. C) Balance between inputs and outputs from the hill slope system. D) None of the above. 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