This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Geography > World > World Geography > World Geography – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF KAZAKHSTAN? ? A) ASTANA. B) NUR-SULTAN. C) BAKU. D) DELHI. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NUR-SULTAN. 2. Windmills are a prominent piece of the cultural landscape in the Netherlands. What purpose do they primarily serve? A) Drain water from low lying coastal areas to create polders. B) Provide wind relief because of the Netherlands' hot arid climate. C) Supply power for the prosperous flower industry. D) Cut wood from the deforestation in the Tropical Rainforest in the Netherlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drain water from low lying coastal areas to create polders. 3. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was significant because it (19A) A) Opened inland ports, which reduced the influence and power of New York City as an Atlantic port. B) Forced shippers in Minnesota along the Mississippi River to raise rates in order to remain competitive. C) Made wagons and stagecoaches in the northeast United States obsolete virtually overnight. D) Increased trade, commerce, settlement, and the spread of social and religious movements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased trade, commerce, settlement, and the spread of social and religious movements. 4. This continent is the home of the Amazon River ..... A) Mexico. B) Asia. C) South America. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South America. 5. This sector of the economy includes major universities and research institutions. A) Quinary. B) Quaternary. C) Secondary. D) Primary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quaternary. 6. What are some positive effects of Globalization? A) Increased freedom to travel and immigrate, better access to medicine, information, and technology. B) Lower prices for developed countries and low paying jobs in underdeveloped countries. C) Less pollution in the world. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increased freedom to travel and immigrate, better access to medicine, information, and technology. 7. How many countries are there in Asia A) 56. B) 40. C) 39. D) 48. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 48. 8. How did industrialization lead to changing uses of Earth s physical features? (2B) A) Humans began to dig and drill to obtain fossil fuels to burn for energy. B) Humans learned to plant seeds to grow food to eat. C) Humans built the first canals to connect different regions by water. D) People introduced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to handle natural disasters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humans began to dig and drill to obtain fossil fuels to burn for energy. 9. Life does not exist on other planets in our solar system due to their A) Extreme temperatures. B) Shape. C) Lack of carbon dioxide. D) Size. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extreme temperatures. 10. Individual Canadian provinces have been addressing climate change since the national government pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol after A) Recognizing that its role in climate change is too low to bother with. B) Deciding that compliance with the agreement was too expensive. C) The government failed to meet its goals. D) The citizens voted down a national environmental referendum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The government failed to meet its goals. 11. The ..... Mountains cover the northern portion of Iran with a series of peaks that exceed 9, 000 feet A) Taurus. B) Elburz. C) Caucasus. D) Carpathian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elburz. 12. What are three processes that create landforms? A) Tectonic processes, erosion, and weathering. B) Tectonic processes, evaporation, and clouds. C) Erosion, evaporation, and climate. D) Clouds, tectonic processes, and weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tectonic processes, erosion, and weathering. 13. Which latitude zone includes the Earth's polar areas, which stretch from 60 degrees north and 90 degrees north and from 60 to 90 degrees south? A) Low. B) High. C) Mid-Latitude. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High. 14. Which group of factors influences the distribution of climate regions across the continents? A) The equator, longitude, tectonic forces, pollution. B) Landforms, Earth's rotation, volcanic activity, elevation. C) Elevation, latitude, wind patterns, landforms. D) Soil building processes, wind patterns, longitude, temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elevation, latitude, wind patterns, landforms. 15. Who are Creoles? A) Spaniards Born in Spain. B) Born of Spanish parents and Native American Indian parent. C) Born in New Spain of Spanish parents. D) Native American Indians. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Born in New Spain of Spanish parents. 16. The North Anatolian Fault extends much of the distance across what country? A) Iran. B) Iraq. C) Turkey. D) Syria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turkey. 17. If you were to describe MacArthur's absolute location, you would say that MacArthur is located A) At 2923 MacArthur View. B) Near the intersection of MacArthur View and Nacadoches. C) Beside the Regency Place subdivision. D) Between loop 410 and Wurzbach Parkway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At 2923 MacArthur View. 18. A center in which cultures develop and from which they are spread A) Culture Hearth. B) Cuneiform. C) Ziggurat. D) Pastoralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Culture Hearth. 19. The Middle East and North Africa are characterized by populations that A) Share a common religion and language. B) Work primarily in small cottage industries. C) Are politically stable and polytheistic. D) Organize their society around a King and Queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Share a common religion and language. 20. In which region might you come across doldrums? A) In either the North or the South Pole. B) South of the Tropic of Capricorn. C) Near the Equator. D) North of the Tropic of Cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Near the Equator. 21. We are indeed a nation on wheels and we cannot permit these wheels to slow down. Our mass industries must have moving supply lines to feed raw materials into our factories and moving distribution lines to carry the finished product to store or home. A national highway system (2B) A) Reduces the use of non-renewable resources. B) Increases the use of public transportation. C) Encourages development in city centers. D) Allows the movement of goods to markets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allows the movement of goods to markets. 22. Knowledge of physical geography would be useful to a weather forecaster in the south who wanted to A) Help people reduce acid rain. B) Predict precipitation patterns. C) Develop hurricane prevention methods. D) Develop economic projections. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predict precipitation patterns. 23. China is part of what continent? A) Asia. B) South America. C) Europe. D) North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asia. 24. One of the factors that contributed to Japan's industrial growth during much of the 20th century was that it benefited from having- A) Sources of investment capital. B) Areas of fertile farmland. C) Supplies of fossil fuels. D) Deposits of iron ore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sources of investment capital. 25. WHICH OF THESE IS A DOUBLE LANDLOCKED COUNTRY? ? A) AFGANISTAN. B) TURKEY. C) UZBEKISTAN. D) INDIA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) UZBEKISTAN. 26. Which of the following is an advantage of an economic union such as the European Union or NAFTA? A) Efficient industries allow for cheaper goods for most people. B) Countries can protect their own industries through tariffs. C) Countries can easily coordinate on trade policies between members. D) All people from member nations benefit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Efficient industries allow for cheaper goods for most people. 27. Geographers view the world A) Narrowly. B) Suspiciously. C) Linearly. D) Spatially. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spatially. 28. Which of the following is an example of how religious and economic systems have interacted throughout history? A) All European exploration of the 1500's occurred for religious reasons. B) Judaism spread to North Africa as a result of economic interactions. C) The spread of Buddhism followed the routes of the Silk Road. D) There is no connection between ecnomic and religious systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The spread of Buddhism followed the routes of the Silk Road. 29. Who is the World Geography teacher A) Mrs. Roncoroni. B) Mr. Gonzalez. C) Mrs. Munchanitis. D) Mr. Rodriguez. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. Gonzalez. 30. Which one is impossible to do on flat land? A) Slope farming. B) Deforestation. C) Plantations. D) Terraced farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Terraced farming. 31. Because of its typical climate pattern, ranchers who graze cattle on the Northern Plateau anxiously await ..... each year. A) The Santa Ana winds. B) Rain. C) The first frost. D) El Nino. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rain. 32. What country is NOT part of NAFTA? A) Mexico. B) Canada. C) United States. D) Honduras. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Honduras. 33. When studying how humans adapt, depend and modify their environment, geographers are studying- A) Movement. B) Place. C) Human environment interaction. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human environment interaction. 34. Which of the following statements accurately describes the relationship between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn? A) The Tropic of Cancer is east of the Tropic of Capricorn. B) The Tropic of Cancer is north of the Tropic of Capricorn. C) The Tropic of Cancer is south of the Tropic of Capricorn. D) The Tropic of Cancer is west of the Tropic of Capricorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tropic of Cancer is north of the Tropic of Capricorn. 35. ..... led the Spanish forces that invaded and conquered the ..... in Mexico A) Hernan Cortes; Aztec. B) Francisco Pizarro; Aztec. C) Francisco Pizarro; Inca. D) Hernan Cortes; Inca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hernan Cortes; Aztec. 36. What definition best describes Human & Environment Interaction? A) An act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed. B) An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries. C) A particular place or position. D) Interactions between the human social system and (the "rest" of) the ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interactions between the human social system and (the "rest" of) the ecosystem. 37. A form of autocracy with a hereditary king or queen exercising supreme power? A) Monarchy. B) Democracy. C) Autocracy. D) Theocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monarchy. 38. What determines the direction of prevailing winds? A) Rising air near the Equator. B) Calm areas at the edge of the Tropics. C) Latitude and the Earth's movement. D) Diagonal movement of air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latitude and the Earth's movement. 39. Why would healthy lifestyles and advanced medical care reduce the deathrate? A) Lower life expectancy. B) Birthrate increases. C) Higher life expectancy. D) Gni falls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Higher life expectancy. 40. Who declared Brazilian Independence? A) Pedro. B) Napoleon. C) Don Pedro. D) Dom Pedro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dom Pedro. 41. Gases put into the atmosphere cause a warming known as the greenhouse effect because A) They create a barrier that traps solar energy. B) They come from the burning of coal and petroleum. C) They create a barrier that traps carbon dioxide. D) They create an environment in which vegetation thrives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They create a barrier that traps solar energy. 42. How many states make up the United States of America? A) 50. B) 1. C) 600. D) 36. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50. 43. As of 2015, there were over 1.4 million British Indians living in the United Kingdom, making them the largest minority group in the state. Which of the following accounts for the large British Indian population in the United Kingdom? A) Britain's lax immigration laws. B) Britain's colonization of India. C) Hindu pilgrimage sites in Britain. D) The British slave trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Britain's colonization of India. 44. Which statement best explains comparative advantage? A) Importing what a country already produces. B) Exporting what a country cannot produce profitably. C) Exporting what a country does not know how to produce. D) Exporting goods and services that a country can produce at lower relative costs than other countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exporting goods and services that a country can produce at lower relative costs than other countries. 45. The major reason the Mexican Government strongly supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was that this agreement would? A) Raise tariffs on United States products entering Mexico. B) Reduce Mexico's economic dependence on Europe. C) Promote investment and economic growth in Mexico. D) Stimulate trade between Asia and Latin America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Promote investment and economic growth in Mexico. 46. Russian territory nearest the Arctic Ocean experience low amounts of precipitation and low temperatures throughout the year creating a biome characterized by- A) Tundra. B) Desert. C) Grasslands. D) Taiga forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tundra. 47. If you wanted to see where the mountains, deserts, grasslands and forests of South America are located, you would use a- A) Physical map. B) Resource map. C) Population density map. D) Political map. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical map. 48. Texas is well known for its food and culture. Define the term culture. A) Housewives who gave up their jobs to stay home and have babies. B) The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. C) A particular type or aspect of people's existence. D) Denoting advertising or products designed to appeal to a consumer by association with a desirable lifestyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. 49. The fact that the official language of Quebec, Canada is French while the rest of Canada speaks English makes Quebec a unique- A) Perceptual region. B) Functional region. C) Physical region. D) Cultural region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural region. 50. How does a Geographic Information System (GIS) function as a resource for businesses or government officials? A) A GIS generates several surveys used to gather data about geographic patterns. B) A GIS produces reports about geographic decisions that have been made before. C) A GIS presents data in visual forms making it easier to see geographic patterns. D) A GIS creates a variety of predictions about geographic patterns for consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A GIS presents data in visual forms making it easier to see geographic patterns. 51. Which statement most true? A) Santiago is the capital of Peru, Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, Quito is the capital of Argentina. B) Santiago is the capital of Chile, Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, Quito is the capital of Equador. C) In South America, every country speaks Spanish. D) Santiago is the capital of Chile, Brazil is the capital of Brasilia, Quito is the capital of Equador. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Santiago is the capital of Chile, Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, Quito is the capital of Equador. 52. The growing populations in Central American and Caribbean cities adds to the problem of deforestation because A) Most residents rely on biofuels, such as wood, to heat their homes. B) Suburbs are being carved out of the rain forest. C) More land is cleared for agriculture to feed urban residents. D) Transportation systems, such as railroads and highways, require large quantities of lumber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More land is cleared for agriculture to feed urban residents. 53. What types of vegetation are found on the Scandinavian Peninsula? A) Mosses, litchen, grains, and sugar beets. B) Mosses, litchen, grains, and potatoes. C) Sugar beets and peat. D) Peat and tulips. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mosses, litchen, grains, and potatoes. 54. Iraq and what other country are among the world's leading producer's of petroleum and natural gas? A) Iran. B) Yemen. C) Syria. D) Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iran. 55. How could the population of Latin America today be most accurately described? A) Little cultural or ethnic diversity exists among the people. B) Migration from rural areas to urban areas is increasing. C) Most of the population is concentrated in interior regions. D) The birthrate is declining rapidly due improved health education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Migration from rural areas to urban areas is increasing. 56. The frequent changes in the political organization of Africa from the early sixteenth century to the late nineteenth century reflected- A) Attempts by European countries to establish colonies and gain control of certain regions. B) An economic shift away from primarily agrarian activities toward primarily industrial ones. C) The replacement of European trading partners with Asian ones. D) Efforts by territories to unite against potential colonizers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attempts by European countries to establish colonies and gain control of certain regions. 57. The ..... Sea which forms Turkey's northern border is also plagued by severe pollution A) Dead. B) Black. C) Caspian. D) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black. 58. A map that emphasizes a single idea or a particular kind of information about an area A) Elevation. B) Thematic. C) Physical. D) Political. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thematic. 59. What is the main reason for the creation of desalination plants? A) To expand trade exports of excess salt and brine processing. B) To provide economic stability to undeveloped countries. C) To provide freshwater to support human activities. D) To promote jobs in high-tech industries and decrease agricultural careers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To promote jobs in high-tech industries and decrease agricultural careers. 60. The total value of goods and services produced in one year by a country? A) General National Product. B) Gross Annual Income. C) Gross Domestic Product. D) Gross Domestic Value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gross Domestic Product. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesWorld QuizzesGeography QuizzesWorld Geography Quiz 1World Geography Quiz 2World Geography Quiz 3World Geography Quiz 5World Geography Quiz 6World Geography Quiz 7World Geography Quiz 8World Geography Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books