This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which innovation had the effect of producing electricity and improving farming? A) Dams. B) Nuclear plants. C) Polders. D) Terracing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dams. 2. A set of religious beliefs based on a strict interpretation of a sacred text A) Fundamentalism. B) Fatwa. C) Fellaheen. D) Domestication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fundamentalism. 3. When do equinoxes occur? A) Mid summer and winter. B) Mid spring and fall. C) The beginning of summer and winter. D) The beginning of spring and fall. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The beginning of spring and fall. 4. What physical barrier has protected South Asia from outside influence until the 1900s? A) Himalaya Mountains. B) Andes Mountains. C) Rocky Mountains. D) Hindu Kush. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Himalaya Mountains. 5. What does the relative location of a place tell you? A) The longitude and latitude of a place. B) Which symbol shows a place on a map. C) Where a place is compared to another place. D) The map projection being used to show a place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where a place is compared to another place. 6. The middle latitude extends between A) 23(1/2)? North to 32(1/2)? South. B) 23(1/2)? and 66? in both the hemispheres. C) 66? North to 66? South. D) North pole and South pole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 23(1/2)? and 66? in both the hemispheres. 7. The process that explains the recent changes in the height of sea level in coastal areas of eastern and northern Canada and Scandinavi is A) Isostasy. B) Continental drift. C) Plate tectonics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Isostasy. 8. Forests, grasslands, and deserts are A) Divisions of biomes. B) Examples of orographic precipitation zones. C) Examples of equinoxes. D) Examples of regions that contain permafrost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divisions of biomes. 9. Which of the following terms below fit the definition? Def:One classical breakdown of economic activity that distinguish 5 different categories. A) The Economic Sectors. B) The Human Development Index (HDI). C) Less Developed Countries (LDCs). D) Gender Inequality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Economic Sectors. 10. What is the largest Island A) Madagascar. B) Iceland. C) Greenland. D) Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greenland. 11. Why do human beings alter their environment? A) To meet their needs. B) To establish their biome. C) To change vegetation regions. D) To influence weather patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To meet their needs. 12. Dallas, Texas is located about 230 miles from Houston. This describes its A) Functional region. B) Absolute location. C) Relative location. D) Psychological distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relative location. 13. What are physical features? A) Geography. B) Pizza. C) The white house. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geography. 14. What are most European economies characterized by? A) Primary economic activities. B) Newly developed industries. C) High levels of development. D) Less development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High levels of development. 15. Only receives about 16 inches of precipitation per year; summers are hot while winters are mild to cold A) Semiarid. B) Subarctic. C) Ice Cap. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semiarid. 16. Which continent do we live on? A) Africa. B) North America. C) Asia. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North America. 17. The southern Deccan area is in a rain shadow and receives only A) 50 to 1000 mm of rainfall a year. B) 100 to 200 mm of rainfall a year. C) 200 to 400 mm of rainfall a year. D) 50 to 400 mm of rainfall a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50 to 1000 mm of rainfall a year. 18. Everything people make, think, and do A) Subsistence. B) Industry. C) Customs. D) Culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Culture. 19. What marks the shortest distance an object can travel between points? A) Great Circle Route. B) Planar Projection. C) Conic Projection. D) Cylindrical Projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Circle Route. 20. An example of physical geography is A) The importance of human activities in relation to their environment. B) The importance of stabilizing the climate in the Arctic. C) The importance of water to farmers. D) The importance of stopping illegal logging. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The importance of water to farmers. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeography QuizzesWorld Geography Quiz 1World Geography Quiz 2World Geography Quiz 3World Geography Quiz 4World Geography Quiz 5World Geography Quiz 6World Geography Quiz 7World Geography Quiz 8World Geography Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books