World Geography Quiz 59 (25 MCQs)

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1. A man-made waterway

2. What are intermediate directions?

3. What part of a map shows the approximate distance between two places?

4. Permanently frozen soil beneath the ground's surface

5. On which continent would you find the Amazon River and the Andes Mountains?

6. A government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and some powers are reserved for the local governments.

7. Which might cause death rates in a country to fall?

8. How has China and India benefited from globalization?

9. Cold or warm stream of seawater that flows in the oceans, generally in circular patterns

10. What is the largest freshwater lake in Central America?

11. What is the largest body of water?

12. A map which shows state/country boundary lines, names of cities, and waterways is a _____ map.

13. What is the acronym to remember the Five Themes of Geography?

14. Largest continent in the world

15. The smallest glaciers are

16. The term for the flat, grassy, mostly treeless plains in the tropical grassland region

17. What are steep-walled inlets, reaching like fingers of water from the sea into coastal mountains?

18. Which climate has the least amount of vegetation?

19. The separation of Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland is an example of

20. The climate in the Sahara desert is really hot and dry

21. Which is a characteristic of a developed nation?

22. What effect do large bodies of water have on climate?

23. A land mass that is surrounded entirely by water is

24. Which sector of the economy extracts raw materials and basic goods from the earth?

25. The soils common to the south eastern USA are called