This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What country has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites? A) Spain. B) France. C) China. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Italy. 2. What continent is Mount Everest in? A) Europe. B) Asia. C) North America. D) Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asia. 3. Which is the southernmost continent in the world? A) South America. B) Australia/Oceania. C) Africa. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antarctica. 4. Which one is the largest tropical rainforest in the world? A) Daintree rainforest. B) Amazon. C) Bosawas. D) Southeast Asian rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amazon. 5. The ..... of a region is/are an example of a physical feature. A) Religion. B) Soils. C) Trade networks. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soils. 6. Which of these is the focus of a famous competition in Bhutan? A) Cattle roping. B) Flute playing. C) Mountaneering. D) Archery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Archery. 7. Highest court in the land A) Trial courts. B) Supreme Courts. C) District courts. D) Appellate courts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supreme Courts. 8. A tropical storm, like a hurricane, that occurs in the western Pacific A) Typhoon. B) Hurricane. C) Tornado. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Typhoon. 9. The geographic theme of location deals with ..... A) How people and environments interrelate with each other. B) The absolute or relative spot of something on Earth. C) How people and things change location. D) The physical and human features of a location. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The absolute or relative spot of something on Earth. 10. The process of soil development is called A) Pedogenesis. B) Illuviation. C) Eluviations. D) Leaching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pedogenesis. 11. A group of people who share a common cultural background or descent is known as a? A) Civilization. B) Culture. C) Ethnic Group. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethnic Group. 12. What percent of the earth is covered in water? A) 70%. B) 80%. C) 50%. D) 60%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 70%. 13. What is a cottage industry? A) Goods made in the home. B) A factory that looks like a cottage. C) A factory that fits inside a cottage. D) Industry done in a small neighborhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Goods made in the home. 14. Who is known as the 'Father of Geography? ' A) Erasmus. B) Homer. C) Eratosthenes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eratosthenes. 15. The world's three major financial center are London, England; Tokyo, Japan; and A) Brasilia, Brazil. B) Paris, France. C) New York City, US. D) Beijing, China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York City, US. 16. Which two basic questions do geographers always ask when they study the earth? A) What is the climate? Why has it changed?. B) Where are things located? Whay are they there?. C) Who lived where? When did they move?. D) When did the earth form? What is it made from?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where are things located? Whay are they there?. 17. Which sector is based on pure knowledge and skill of a person? It consists of intellectual industries providing information services. A) Tertiary Sector. B) Primary Sector. C) Quaternary Sector. D) Secondary Sector. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quaternary Sector. 18. Primary economic activities take place A) Near natural resources. B) Near city centers. C) In factories. D) At places of business. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near natural resources. 19. How many general climate regions are there? A) 7. B) 4. C) 6. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 20. The tertiary winds on the north of the Alps (Europe) are called A) The loo. B) The foehn. C) The sirocco. D) The Chinook. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The foehn. 21. Which human geographic factor has facilitated the growth of the European Union? A) Political stability. B) Cultural divergence. C) Nationalism. D) Spread of communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political stability. 22. Territory surrounded by another political unit that it does not belong to A) Enclave. B) Exclave. C) Hajj. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enclave. 23. For at least ....., people have lived in almost every part of North America. A) 40, 000. B) 10, 000. C) 20, 000. D) 100, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10, 000. 24. *Buddhist temples are found in Japan*Most Indonesians study the Koran*Catholicism is the dominant religion in Latin AmericaThese statements illustrate a result of A) Economic nationalism. B) Fundamentalism. C) Cultural diffusion. D) Westernization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural diffusion. 25. An Imaginary line running East to West through the middle of the Earth at 0 degrees. A) Equator. B) Prime Meridian. C) Trump's wall. D) Spotify. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equator. 26. The shape of earth is A) Spheroid. B) Circular. C) Sphere. D) Oblate spheroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oblate spheroid. 27. The names of the oceans are A) Antarctica, Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. B) Antic, North America, Australia, Indian, and Arctic. C) Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Southern. D) Michigan, Superior, Erie, Huron, Ontario. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Southern. 28. Which country controlled Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century? A) Soviet Union. B) Austro-Hungarian Empire. C) People's Republic of China. D) The Republic of Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soviet Union. 29. Due to heavy natural resource extraction, Canada's ..... has been shrinking. A) St. Lawrence Seaway System. B) "green" energy supply. C) East coast aquaculture industry. D) Boreal forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boreal forest. 30. The magnetosphere becomes unstable during the magnetic storms during a period of A) Initial phase. B) Storm sudden commencement phase. C) Main phase. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Main phase. 31. Areas of Europe affected by a Mediterranean climate most likely experience A) Cold, snowy winters. B) Short growing seasons. C) Heavy rains. D) Warm, dry summers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warm, dry summers. 32. With the invention of the internet, how has American businesses changed? A) Gentrification. B) Globalization. C) Americanization. D) Urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Globalization. 33. Which of the following is a Theme of Geography? A) Location. B) Place. C) Movement. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 34. The eastern and western regions of which continents were divided by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War? A) North America. B) Africa. C) Europe. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Europe. 35. The major cause of species extinction is A) Agricultural activities. B) Extraction (including mining, fishing, logging). C) Development (human settlements, industry). D) Habitat loss and degradation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Habitat loss and degradation. 36. Most major cities, or megalopolis, are located next to what geographic feature? A) Bodies of water. B) Mountains. C) Deserts. D) Valleys. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bodies of water. 37. A body of land surrounded by water on three sides is a A) Island. B) Peninsula. C) Glacier. D) Lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peninsula. 38. How many rivers are there in Russia? A) 1, 000. B) 100. C) 10. D) 100, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100, 000. 39. Geography is important to which type of job? A) Military. B) Land surveying. C) Piloting. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 40. What climate region do we live in? A) Humid Subtropical. B) Tundra. C) Tropical Wet. D) Mediterranean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humid Subtropical. 41. The belief that there is no god. A) Polytheism. B) Atheism. C) Monotheism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atheism. 42. A partially self-governing country with close ties to another country is called a A) Province. B) First Nation. C) Colony. D) Dominion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dominion. 43. The majority of the population in Mexico lives in which region? A) Central America. B) Central Africa. C) Central Playdoh. D) Central Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Central Plateau. 44. This is the act of leaving one's home country to go to another country permanently. A) Infrastructure. B) Emigration. C) Disrimination. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emigration. 45. The highest mountains on earth namely Mount Everest, K2, Kanchenjanga are located in A) The greater Himalayas. B) The Lesser Himalayas. C) The outer Himalayas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The greater Himalayas. 46. When it is noon IST at Allahabad in India, the time at Greenwich, London, will be A) 0800 hours. B) 1730 hours. C) Midnight,GMT. D) 0630 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0630 hours. 47. What are latitude lines? A) I don't know. B) Lines Drawn up and down. C) Lines. D) Lines Drawn East-West. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines Drawn East-West. 48. The phenomenon of an opening occurring in the earth's surface through which a jet of hot water and steam is forces out at irregular intervals is called A) Volcano. B) Crater. C) Geyser. D) Hot spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geyser. 49. A regional ecosystem with distinct plants and animals A) Greenhouse gas. B) EL Nino. C) Desert. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biome. 50. Of the Five Themes of Geography, which would most likely focus on patterns of migration from one region to another? (WG.6B) A) Location. B) Human-Environmental Interaction. C) Place Movement. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movement. 51. Earth is divided into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres by the prime meridian and the A) 360 degree meridian. B) 240 degree meridian. C) 90 degree meridian. D) 180 degree meridian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 180 degree meridian. 52. Fruit grown in South America is shipped to your local grocery store. A) Region. B) Human Interaction. C) Movement. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movement. 53. What was the sea faring group of traders that greatly influenced our modern alphabet? A) Europeans. B) Americans. C) Africans. D) Phoenicians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phoenicians. 54. A planar projection map is most useful for A) Finding the shortest distance between two places particularly at the Poles. B) Visualizing overall shape and size of land. C) Sea navigation. D) Mapping the continents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finding the shortest distance between two places particularly at the Poles. 55. Geographic Information System (GIS) A) Conditions that impact environment. B) Computer software used to make maps. C) Study of the earth's people. D) System that uses satellite data to pinpoint exact locations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Computer software used to make maps. 56. An increase in urbanization results from A) Industrialization. B) Urban Sprawl. C) Low Population. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industrialization. 57. The science or practice of drawing maps is known as A) History. B) Photography. C) Cartography. D) Sociology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartography. 58. An independent political unit occupying a defined, permanently populated territory and having full control over its internal and foreign affairs. A) Country. B) Nation-State. C) State. D) Nation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Country. 59. What is the world's second longest river that runs through the rain forest? A) Amazon River. B) Congo River. C) South Pole River. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amazon River. 60. A political border that is established by a physical geographic feature such as a mountain range or a river is a (WG.14A) A) Ethnic boundary. B) Natural boundary. C) Cultural boundary. D) Geometric boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural boundary. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesWorld Geography Quiz 1World Geography Quiz 2World Geography Quiz 3World Geography Quiz 4World Geography Quiz 5World Geography Quiz 6World Geography Quiz 7World Geography Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books