This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An area of human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of a built environment with the characteristic of a city or town. A) Urban area. B) Precipitation. C) Company. D) Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urban area. 2. Trees that lose (shed) their leaves periodically are called ..... A) Coniferous. B) Deciduous. C) Chia pets. D) Bonsai. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deciduous. 3. Maps that show man-made divisions, borders, states, and cities are A) Physical maps. B) Thematic maps. C) Political maps. D) Monochromatic maps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Political maps. 4. If a country has a low infant mortality rate, high life expectancy, and a high literacy rate, it can best be defined as a ..... A) Developed or Industrialized Country. B) Developing Country. C) Command Economy. D) Republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developed or Industrialized Country. 5. What is the policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries? A) Interdependence. B) Multinationalism. C) Isolationism. D) Importing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Isolationism. 6. The Chinese philosophical system advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of nature. A) Polytheism. B) Taoism. C) Shintoism. D) Confucianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taoism. 7. A reading of 36 degrees North latitude and 140 degrees East longitude provides A) An absolute location. B) A global reckoning. C) A relative position. D) A planar projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An absolute location. 8. What is the major cause of poverty in South America? A) Inequality of landownership. B) Lack of natural resources. C) Ethnic tensions. D) Lack of education. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inequality of landownership. 9. Which is an example of a monarch? A) The Chancellor of Germany. B) The President of the United States. C) The King of Saudi Arabia. D) The Prime Minister of Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The King of Saudi Arabia. 10. The head of a government; the majority party's leader in parliament A) Prime Minister. B) Monarch. C) Head of State. D) President. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prime Minister. 11. What is natural increase in a population? A) The movement of people from place to place. B) The difference between an area's birthrate and its death rate. C) The number of deaths per year for every 1, 000 people. D) The number of years it takes a population to double in size. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The difference between an area's birthrate and its death rate. 12. How do geographers use numerical measurement in their research? A) Observing the landscape of a tundra. B) Determining landform sizes from satellite images. C) Asking questions of individuals who are part of a group. D) Studying age, ethnicity, and gender in a region. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Determining landform sizes from satellite images. 13. The Great Plains is an example of? A) Movement. B) Region. C) Place. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Region. 14. The ..... River Watershed drains a substantial portion of the United States. A) Mississippi. B) Maine. C) California. D) Louisiana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mississippi. 15. A giant core of rock anchoring North America and centered on Hudson Bay and James Bay is known as the A) Interior Lowlands. B) Pacific Ranges. C) Canadian Shield. D) Great Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canadian Shield. 16. A collection of maps A) Books. B) Globes. C) Atlas. D) Maps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atlas. 17. The limit beyond which the stars suffer internal collapse is called the A) Raman Effect. B) Chandrasekhar limit. C) Aurora Borealis. D) Quasan Zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandrasekhar limit. 18. Concerned with or engaged in commerce, making or intended to make money. A) Commercial. B) Politics. C) Gambling. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commercial. 19. Weather conditions over time; long term A) Climate. B) Elevation. C) Forests. D) Currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climate. 20. The Palaeozoic era starts at ..... million years ago and ends at ..... million years ago. A) 570, 225. B) 500, 100. C) 470, 150. D) 470, 225. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 570, 225. 21. Who has complete control over the market in a command economy? A) Government. B) People. C) Supply. D) Demand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Government. 22. How do scientists think that Pangaea separated? A) Continental drift. B) Climate changes. C) Weathering. D) Glaciers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continental drift. 23. The steady or initial phase of the magnetic storms is A) Preceded by storm sudden commencement. B) Magnetic storm at middle and low altitudes. C) A sharp increase of the field. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preceded by storm sudden commencement. 24. The patterns and habits of people is called? A) Relgion. B) Customs. C) Geography. D) Culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Customs. 25. Describing where a city is situated is part of which element of geography? A) Physical systems. B) Environment and society. C) Places and regions. D) The world in spatial terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The world in spatial terms. 26. AN illustration that depicts the distribution of a population by age and gender A) Metropolitan area. B) Ethnic group. C) Population density. D) Population pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population pyramid. 27. Northern Canada has no trees and moss/lichen for vegetation. What type of biome is it? A) Desert. B) Tundra. C) Grassland. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tundra. 28. Which of the following is the most common type of map? A) Mercator Map. B) Robinson Map. C) Algebraic Map. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercator Map. 29. Which plate boundary is responsible for earthquakes? A) Convergent. B) Divergent. C) Transform. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transform. 30. A subduction zone is formed ..... A) At every type of convergent plate boundary. B) At transform boundaries. C) At every type of divergent plate boundary. D) When one tectonic plate sinks below another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When one tectonic plate sinks below another. 31. What type of region is based on peoples feelings and opinions. A) Formal region. B) Homogeneous culture. C) Functional region. D) Perceptual region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perceptual region. 32. Russia's wealth comes from ..... A) Its abundant natural resources. B) Its endless supply of memes. C) Its service industry. D) Its large population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Its abundant natural resources. 33. The mean radius of the earth is approximately A) 12,800 km. B) 6,400 km. C) 9,600 km. D) 32,000 km. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 32,000 km. 34. What is the primary factor that influences climate? A) Latitude. B) Longitude. C) Climate zone. D) Elevation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latitude. 35. The smallest state, population wise, in the world is A) Nauru. B) Monaco. C) Liechtenstein. D) Vatican City. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vatican City. 36. Which map shows man-made features like countries, states, and cities? A) Physical. B) Political. C) Thematic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Political. 37. What are the main factors that influence climate? A) Desalinization of ocean water. B) Electric cars. C) Burning fossil fuels. D) Logging forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burning fossil fuels. 38. All life on earth falls into the A) Hydrosphere. B) Lithosphere. C) Biosphere. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere. 39. The theme of ..... involves the study of how people and things change locations and the effects of those changes. A) Region. B) Movement. C) Location. D) Human-environment interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Movement. 40. What causes day and night A) Revolution of the earth. B) Orbit of the earth. C) Rotation of the earth. D) All of the above are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rotation of the earth. 41. What is the largest country in South America? A) Brazil. B) Colombia. C) Argentina. D) Chile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brazil. 42. Humans are most likely to heavily populate a ..... area. A) Tundra. B) River delta. C) Mountain top. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) River delta. 43. Increased educational opportunities, high levels of air pollution, and the loss of traditional beliefs are changes that are associated with A) Cultural diffusion. B) Nationalism. C) Urbanization. D) Colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urbanization. 44. What are conditions of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time A) Climate. B) Climate Change. C) Climate Zone. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weather. 45. The cultural diversity found throughout much of South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia is due in large part to A) Geographic factors. B) A market economy. C) Political unity. D) Traditional religious practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geographic factors. 46. How many STATES are there in the United States? A) 100. B) 50. C) 25. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50. 47. Because of its immigration history, ..... in the United States. A) Cities are the most ethnically uniform areas. B) There are abundant natural resources. C) A postindustrial economy emerged. D) Many different religions are practiced. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many different religions are practiced. 48. What internal process leads to earthquakes in places like California? A) Eroding. B) Faulting. C) Plating. D) Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faulting. 49. The major events of Pre-Cambrian era include A) Formation of crust, continents and oceans. B) Formation of crust, birth of oldest known rock, origin of life. C) Formation of present day atmosphere. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 50. This type of map depicts features such as mountains, plains, and bodies of water. A) Resource. B) Physical. C) Topographic. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical. 51. When warm air moves into a region of cold air it leads to the formation of A) Cold front. B) Warm front. C) Anticyclone. D) Cyclone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Warm front. 52. A change to the U.S. constitution is A) Statue. B) Representative. C) Amendment. D) Rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amendment. 53. Mountains, such as the Rocky Mountains, are usually considered this type of boundary. A) Imaginary. B) Human-made. C) Political. D) Physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Physical. 54. The way people eat in their country such as with forks, chopsticks or fingers is an example of A) Cultural diffusion. B) Cultural region. C) Ethnic group. D) Cultural trait. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural trait. 55. All of the following are included in the measurement of HDI EXCEPT A) GNI per capita. B) Life expectancy. C) Population growth. D) Mean years of schooling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population growth. 56. The largest dune files are found in A) Middle East. B) North Africa. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (a) and (b). 57. What is the majority religion of Pakistan? A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Christianity. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Islam. 58. Geographers use History to do which of the following? A) Make future predictions. B) Determine the latitude and longitude of a location. C) Help understand the past. D) Determine the geographic formations of an area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Help understand the past. 59. The fact that Africa is south of Europe is an example of which? A) Movement. B) Place. C) Absolute Location. D) Relative Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relative Location. 60. The tunnel that connects France and Italy is A) Mersey (Queens way) Tunnel. B) Orange Fish rivers Tunnel. C) St. Gothard road Tunnel. D) Mont Blanc Tunnel. 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