This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. New England is an example of what theme A) Location. B) Region. C) Movement. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Region. 2. Latitude lines run ..... A) Southeast/Southwest. B) North/ South. C) Northeast/ Northwest. D) East/West. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) East/West. 3. What is one thing both "hot" and "cold" deserts have in common? A) All the land is made of sand. B) Underground water filters impurities from the sand. C) There is a dramatic change between night and day temperatures. D) Both get regular predictable rainfall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is a dramatic change between night and day temperatures. 4. Which climate best characterizes the high latitudes? A) Humid continental. B) Subarctic. C) Tropical. D) Marine West Coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subarctic. 5. Weathering is the process of A) Moving sediment from one place to another. B) Dropping or leaving sediment in a location. C) Breaking down rocks into sediment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Breaking down rocks into sediment. 6. Biochemical warfare that pollutes the water in a country is an example of which? A) Region. B) Place. C) Human-Environment Interaction. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human-Environment Interaction. 7. An enclosed section of a canal in which a ship may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section A) Chamber. B) Lock. C) Chunnel. D) Connection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lock. 8. Which is the main purpose for global positioning (GPS) technology? (WG.20A) A) To determine elevations of geographic features on Earth. B) To determine the physical characteristics of regions. C) To determine relative locations on Earth. D) To determine absolute locations on Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To determine absolute locations on Earth. 9. What is the parallell that is 23 and 1/2 degrees North of the Equator? A) Tropic of Cancer. B) Tropic Circle. C) Tropic of Capricorn. D) Tropic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tropic of Cancer. 10. A natural hot spring that shoots a column of water and steam into the air A) Atoll. B) Geyser. C) Lagoon. D) Guyot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geyser. 11. Which of the following is an example of gender inequality facing men? A) The pay gap. B) The promotion gap. C) Stigma in traditionally female careers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stigma in traditionally female careers. 12. How would you describe the climate in which we live? A) Marine West Coast. B) Humid Continental. C) Subarctic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humid Continental. 13. Rising Sun country is called A) Japan. B) Viyatnam. C) Phillipines. D) Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Japan. 14. Which of the following collects visual information about Earth? A) Transmitters. B) GPS. C) Satellites. D) GIS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satellites. 15. A construction company would seek the assistance of geographers in order to A) Identify qualified construction workers. B) Find adequate construction materials. C) Develop advanced construction methods. D) Locate suitable construction sites. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Locate suitable construction sites. 16. What is the best comparison to the geographic term "situation" ? A) A socially-important location. B) A specific site in a certain time period. C) A latitude and longitude location where something happens. D) A position relative to other places or features. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A position relative to other places or features. 17. This climate varies with latitude, elevation, other topography, and continental location A) Highlands. B) Mediterranean. C) Marine West Coast. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Highlands. 18. This theme of Geography describes what the location is like. A) Absolute Location. B) Region. C) Relative Location. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Place. 19. The tide produced as a consequence of the moon and the sun pulling the earth in the same direction is called A) Neap tide. B) Spring tide. C) High tide. D) Ebb tide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spring tide. 20. The highest mountains in Africa, which is not part of any mountains chain, is A) Mt. Kosciuszko. B) Mr. Kilimanjaro. C) Mont Blanc. D) Mt. Aconcagua. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. Kilimanjaro. 21. The movement of particles by rolling, sliding and shuffling along the eroded surface is called A) Traction. B) Saltation. C) Suspension. D) Solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traction. 22. A body of salt water not as large as an ocean and often surrounded by land is A) Tsunami. B) Sea. C) Weather. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sea. 23. What is the growth of population in cities and the resulting changes called? A) Urbanization. B) Migration. C) Revolution. D) Industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urbanization. 24. A meridian of longitude is an imaginary line that runs ..... A) From North America to Austrillia. B) From South America to North America. C) From the North Pole to the South Pole. D) From the South Pole to the North Pole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From the North Pole to the South Pole. 25. Why does Japan have such a high population density? A) Food. B) Lack of arable land and Mountain Ranges. C) Resturants. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lack of arable land and Mountain Ranges. 26. Factors that include the functions and procedures of law and government are A) Social factors. B) Economic factors. C) Environmental factors. D) Political factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Political factors. 27. Which latitude are you more likely to get sun burnt? A) Polar Latitude. B) Mid Latitude. C) Low Latitude. D) High Latitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Low Latitude. 28. Newspaper delivery areas are an example of which type of region? (WG.9B) A) Vernacular. B) Statistical Vernacular. C) Formal. D) Functional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Functional. 29. LDCs have a higher proportion of their workforce employed in ..... industries compared to MDCs A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Tertiary. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary. 30. *landforms*ocean currents*latitudeWhich of these concepts can be best categorized in a description of an area's physical geography? A) Customs. B) Goods and services. C) Systems of government. D) Climate patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climate patterns. 31. What do greenhouse gases do? A) Reflect Earth's incoming infrared radiation. B) Block the Sun's infrared radiation. C) Absorb Earth's outgoing infrared radiation. D) Magnify ultraviolet radiation in the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absorb Earth's outgoing infrared radiation. 32. The ionosphere contains ionized air that protects the earth from A) The ultraviolet rays of the sun. B) The infrared rays of the sun. C) The falling meteorites. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The falling meteorites. 33. How many oceans are there in the world? A) 6. B) 5. C) 7. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 34. The principal aim of the NAFTA and the European Union is to A) Keep communism out the Western Hemisphere. B) Reduce environmental pollution. C) Eliminate global terrorism. D) Increase economic cooperation between the member nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increase economic cooperation between the member nations. 35. Which of the following is NOT a continent? A) United States of America. B) Antarctica. C) South America. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United States of America. 36. The country known as 'Syria' is located in A) Latin America. B) Asia. C) Africa. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asia. 37. The term used to describe the combined effect of all shortwave losses in A) Earth scattering. B) Earth radiation. C) Earth albedo. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth albedo. 38. Which continent do you live on? A) North America. B) Tennessee. C) United States. D) Westmoreland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North America. 39. The monsoon climatic regions are A) South-east Asia including Australia, Africa, America. B) Europe and South America. C) Asia, Africa and Antarctica. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South-east Asia including Australia, Africa, America. 40. What is location? A) Tells us where people and places are. B) Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area. C) Tells how people, goods, resources, and ideas move from one place to another. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tells us where people and places are. 41. Which factor has the greatest effect on soil building? A) Time. B) Climate. C) Topography. D) Geology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate. 42. What was a result of the creation of NAFTA for Mexico? A) Mexico's GDP decreased. B) Markets in the north have opened wider and manufacturing has increased. C) Daily life in Mexico has slowed down. D) More Americans have moved south to Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Markets in the north have opened wider and manufacturing has increased. 43. From what region did the largest group of foreign-born residents living in the United States today immigrate? A) Latin America. B) Africa. C) Asia. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin America. 44. The process of erosion can best be described as the movement of weathered materials by A) River systems. B) Tectonic forces. C) Human environmental interaction. D) Wind, water, or ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wind, water, or ice. 45. The spread of material and non-material characteristics from one culture to another A) Culture. B) Free Enterprise. C) Cultural Diffusion. D) Cultural Boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural Diffusion. 46. A type of autocracy government that a king, (Emperor) or queen (Empress) hold all the power. A) Theocracy. B) Democracy. C) Oligarchy. D) Monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monarchy. 47. Maps that indicate special information such as land user, roads, and population are A) Political maps. B) Physical maps. C) Thematic maps. D) Monochromatic maps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thematic maps. 48. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is what type of alliance? A) Economic. B) Religious. C) Military. D) Humanitarian/aid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Military. 49. Which of the following is a physical feature? A) Oceans. B) Deserts. C) Rivers. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 50. A political border that is established by a physical geographic feature such as a mountain range or a river is a ..... A) Cultural boundary. B) Ethnic boundary. C) Geometric boundary. D) Natural boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural boundary. 51. The majority of people in Central Asia speak a ..... language. A) Slavic. B) Turkic. C) Indo-European. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turkic. 52. Coal, oil, and natural gas are all examples of A) Alternative energy sources. B) Renewable resources. C) Capital resources. D) Fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil fuels. 53. Capital of Spain A) Barolona. B) On the story. C) Madrid. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madrid. 54. Which best explains why we experience four seasons on Earth? A) The gravitational pull of the moon. B) The distance between the Earth and the sun. C) The tilt of the earth on its axis as it revolves around the sun. D) The effect of tectonic plate movement on Earth's oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tilt of the earth on its axis as it revolves around the sun. 55. The major crude oil markets are the A) Middle East regions. B) Far east regions. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (a) and (b). 56. Which one of the these is NOT one of the four major oceans of the world? A) Atlantic Ocean. B) Pacific Ocean. C) Indian Ocean. D) Antarctic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antarctic Ocean. 57. Which factor helped to form the Atacama Desert? A) Cold ocean currents. B) Warm air currents. C) Elevation. D) Landforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold ocean currents. 58. A system of government in which a small group holds power. A) Monarchy. B) Theocracy. C) Oligarchy. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligarchy. 59. What is one location where tropical wet climates are found? A) Australia. B) Central America. C) Canada. D) Western Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central America. 60. The imaginary axis at which the earth rotates remains inclined at an angle of ..... to the plane of earth's orbit. A) 44 1/2 $^ \circ$. B) 0 $^ \circ$. C) 55 1/2 $^ \circ$. D) 66 1/2 $^ \circ$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 44 1/2 $^ \circ$. ← 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