This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 27 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The mean surface temperature of the sun is estimated to be of the prder of A) 5500$^ \circ$C. B) 4000$^ \circ$C. C) 1000$^ \circ$C. D) 2000$^ \circ$C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5500$^ \circ$C. 2. The time interval from when the given star passes directly overhead to when it next passed directly overhead, is defined as A) One sidereal day. B) One solar day. C) Both the terms are similar, so any of these may be used. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One sidereal day. 3. In a command economy, economic activity is controlled by A) The business owners. B) The people. C) The industries. D) The government. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The government. 4. What is a map that highlights differences in height between mountains and lower regions called? A) A physical map. B) A thematic map. C) A political map. D) A mental map. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A physical map. 5. God and religious law are the government's authority. A) Anarchy. B) Theocracy. C) Direct Democracy. D) Oligarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theocracy. 6. Frequently cloudy, foggy, and damp; precipitation is evenly distributed throughout the year A) Marine West Coast. B) Highlands. C) Mediterranean. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marine West Coast. 7. How does wind impact climate? A) Wind brings winter. B) Helps move the sun's energy. C) Winds make the earth warmer. D) Winds move rain clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helps move the sun's energy. 8. The average distance from the sun to earth is A) 778.2 mkm. B) 57.8 million km. C) 150 mkm. D) 227.9 mkm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 150 mkm. 9. The countries of Iraq, Afghanistan, China, India, Japan, and Israel are located on which continent? A) Europe. B) North America. C) Asia. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asia. 10. Worlds biggest island is A) Borniyo. B) Greenland. C) Medagasker. D) Newgini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greenland. 11. The Atacama Desert in Peru is considered to be the driest place on the earth. Which geographic factor is most responsible for producing this phenomenon? A) Mountain barriers. B) Latitude. C) Longitude. D) Position on continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountain barriers. 12. During which season is the northern half of the earth tilted toward the sun? A) Summer. B) Fall. C) Spring. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summer. 13. A cult differs from organized religion in that cults are usually organized around A) Powerful Personality. B) Powerful Character. C) Powerful Creativity. D) Powerful Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Powerful Personality. 14. Which of the following is true about places in high latitudes? A) Warmer climates. B) Has no affect on climate. C) A mix of hot summers and cold winters. D) The coldest climates on earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The coldest climates on earth. 15. A group of people who share a common culture and ancestry are A) An ethnic group. B) Interdependent. C) Globalized. D) Adaptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ethnic group. 16. What is a plateau? A) -An area containing geographically related mountains. B) An area of high, flat terrain. C) -Citizens vote on people to represent them in government. D) -The Himalayas (pictured) are the world's tallest mountain range. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An area of high, flat terrain. 17. Which resource would one most likely use to travel from school to the city park? A) Vegetation map. B) Globe. C) Contour map. D) Mental map. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mental map. 18. A system of authoritarian government, usually headed by a King, and whose position is usually inherited. A) Autocraticatism. B) Monarchy. C) Federation. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monarchy. 19. The Mississippi River empties into A) Indian Ocean. B) Gulf of Mexico. C) Pacific Ocean. D) Antarctic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gulf of Mexico. 20. Which theme helps geographers understand the culture? A) Place. B) Human-environment interaction. C) Regions. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movement. 21. ..... is formed at the river mouth and is often affected by incoming tides. A) Plateau. B) Delta. C) Canyon. D) Fjord. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delta. 22. The Alps, Ural, and Pyrenees are examples of A) Densely populated countries. B) Natural borders that divide states. C) Eastern European Rivers. D) Migration patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural borders that divide states. 23. If the winds are blowing east to west across a mountain range, which side will be hot and dry? A) West. B) South. C) North. D) East. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) West. 24. The ancient religion of Japan characterized by worship of nature spirits and ancestors A) Taoism. B) Hinduism. C) Shintoism. D) Confucianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shintoism. 25. The plants grown in equatorial regions include A) Wheat, barley, maize. B) Groundnuts, soyabeens, potatoes. C) Evergreen dense forests, rubber trees, groundnuts. D) Evergreen coniferous forests, oats, cocoa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evergreen dense forests, rubber trees, groundnuts. 26. Canada is north of the United States A) Region. B) Place. C) Movement. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Location. 27. What is the main purpose for global positioning technology? A) To determine the physical characteristics of regions. B) To determine absolute locations on Earth. C) To determine relative locations on Earth. D) To determine elevations of geographic features on Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To determine absolute locations on Earth. 28. Which of the following might be considered an optimistic effect of rapid population growth? A) Housing shortage. B) Increased levels of government. C) Increased levels of technology. D) Food shortage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased levels of technology. 29. The advantage of a globe is A) It is very accurate. B) It is very practical. C) It is inexpensive. D) It clearly shows all five themes of geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is very accurate. 30. A street address is an example of? A) Relative Location. B) Movement. C) Absolute Location. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolute Location. 31. Shows where the area on the map located within a larger area A) Locator Map. B) Physical Map. C) Political Map. D) Senate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locator Map. 32. The ..... industry provides significant wealth to most of the nations in the Middle East. A) Petroleum (oil). B) Agriculture (farming). C) Mining. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Petroleum (oil). 33. What would be a pull factor to bring many Europeans east to west? A) Escaping from civil war. B) Fleeing oppressive government. C) Avoiding natural disasters. D) Seeking economic Opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seeking economic Opportunities. 34. What are the Great Plains of the United States? A) The flat, desolate area in central Alaska. B) The flat area between the Pacific Ranges and the Rocky Mountains. C) The flat region surrounding the Great Lakes. D) The flat landscape east of the Rocky Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The flat landscape east of the Rocky Mountains. 35. What are the outlying areas of cities? A) Suburbs. B) Megalopolis. C) Towns. D) Metropolitan area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suburbs. 36. What country made the first Declaration of Rights? A) France. B) USA. C) Sweden. D) Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 37. Women living in rural areas of Africa are generally involved in the economic activity of A) Retail sales. B) Subsistence farming. C) Transportation. D) Mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subsistence farming. 38. What can teach people about the need to conserve Northern Europe's vulnerable environments? A) Ecotourism. B) Industrialism. C) Wetlands. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecotourism. 39. What is movement? A) Tells us how people, goods, recourses, and ideas move from one place to another. B) Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area. C) Tells us ways in which the places in an area are alike. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tells us how people, goods, recourses, and ideas move from one place to another. 40. Which modern people/nation did the slaves start? A) London. B) New England. C) Russia. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Russia. 41. A day on which the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn A) Greenhouse gas. B) Solstice. C) EL Nino. D) Greenhouse Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solstice. 42. Which religion is practiced by the majority of India's population? A) Christianity. B) Judaism. C) Hinduism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinduism. 43. The longest ship canal in the world is the A) St. Laurence Seaway (USA and Canada). B) Suez canal, Egypt. C) Kiel canal, Germany. D) Panama canal, Central America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St. Laurence Seaway (USA and Canada). 44. The slow down slope movement of soil and sediment because of frost heaving and thawing is called A) Solifluction. B) Gelifluction. C) Frost creep. D) Rockfall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frost creep. 45. The pyramidal peaks that form when several cirques chisel a mountain form three more sides are called A) Aretes. B) Cirques. C) Horns. D) Medial moraines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horns. 46. Cutting down trees to build houses is an example of which? A) Movement. B) Human-Environment Interaction. C) Location. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human-Environment Interaction. 47. Who was the Ancient Indian King who brought India into a golden age through conquest but tolerance also? A) Kyle. B) Asoka. C) Oscar. D) David. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asoka. 48. Spain and Portugal are located on which peninsula? A) Italian. B) Crimean. C) Iberian. D) Jutland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iberian. 49. The largest fish exporting region in the world is A) The south-east asian region. B) The north-east pacific region. C) The north-west pacific region. D) The north-east atlantic region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The north-east atlantic region. 50. A common cultural element that distinguishes Latin America includes A) A belief in isolationism. B) The predominance of Roman Catholicism. C) The widespread use of the Portuguese language. D) A lack of cultural diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The predominance of Roman Catholicism. 51. The source of power in a theocracy is A) The people. B) Economics. C) Religion. D) The queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religion. 52. A system of government in which leaders rule with the consent of its citizens. A) Theocracy. B) Oligarchy. C) Democracy. D) Monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Democracy. 53. Which of the following is an example of a perceptual region? A) The Bible Belt. B) United States. C) Antarctica. D) The European Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bible Belt. 54. What was the period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds called? The exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. A) Isolationism. B) Columbian Exchange. C) Nationalism. D) Command Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Columbian Exchange. 55. A severe weather condition that forms quickly off the coast of Africa is A) Blizzard. B) Tornado. C) Hurricane. D) Typhoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hurricane. 56. Which is the largest continent in the world? A) Africa. B) North America. C) Antarctica. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asia. 57. The least explosive type of volcano is called A) Basalt plateau. B) Cinder cone. C) Shield volcanoes. D) Composite volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Basalt plateau. 58. The sidereal month may be defined as A) The period in which the moon completes an orbit around the earth. B) The period in which the moon completes an orbit around the earth and returns to the same positions in the sky. C) The period of rotation of moon. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The period in which the moon completes an orbit around the earth and returns to the same positions in the sky. 59. Which of the following is the most important raw material for generation of power in India? A) Coal. B) Almunium. C) Mineral Oil. D) Lithium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coal. 60. Protection of ..... is an example of how Canada is taking steps to protect its renewable resources. A) Pacific salmon. B) Trees producing sap for maple syrup. C) Niagara Falls. D) Deep sea drilling areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific salmon. ← 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