This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Geography > World > World Geography – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Geography Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one listed below is not a Biome? A) Forest Regions. B) Grasslands. C) Desserts. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desserts. 2. The most densely populated country of Africa is A) Mauritius. B) Rwanda. C) Burundi. D) Sierra Leone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mauritius. 3. The panama canal links A) Canada with Greenland. B) North America with South America. C) Siberia with Greenland. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North America with South America. 4. Local thunderstorms 'Norwesters' are prominent in A) Punjab. B) West Bengal. C) Andhra Pradesh. D) Tamil Nadu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West Bengal. 5. Which of the following best describes the movement of planets, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids? A) They move in different directions. B) They move faster than the speed of light. C) They move counterclockwise. D) They revolve around the Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They revolve around the Sun. 6. The climate region found near the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn is ..... A) Tropical Wet. B) Polar Ice Cap. C) Humid Subtropical. D) Sub Polar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humid Subtropical. 7. The Tundra and Ice Cap climates are examples of ..... climates. A) Dry. B) Temperate Continental. C) Polar. D) Highlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polar. 8. A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states. A) Universal suffrage. B) Sovereignty. C) Geopolitics. D) Devolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sovereignty. 9. What can be learned from a population pyramid? A) The natural increase of the population of a country. B) The doubling time of the population for a country. C) A country's stage in the demographic transition model. D) The population density of a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A country's stage in the demographic transition model. 10. An area of human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of a built environment with the characteristic of a city or town. A) Environment. B) Company. C) Urban area. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urban area. 11. Trees that lose (shed) their leaves periodically are called ..... A) Deciduous. B) Coniferous. C) Chia pets. D) Bonsai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deciduous. 12. Maps that show man-made divisions, borders, states, and cities are A) Physical maps. B) Political maps. C) Thematic maps. D) Monochromatic maps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Political maps. 13. 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. 14. 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) Importing. C) Multinationalism. D) Isolationism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isolationism. 15. 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. 16. A reading of 36 degrees North latitude and 140 degrees East longitude provides A) A global reckoning. B) A planar projection. C) A relative position. D) An absolute location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An absolute location. 17. 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. 18. Which is an example of a monarch? A) The Prime Minister of Great Britain. B) The President of the United States. C) The King of Saudi Arabia. D) The Chancellor of Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The King of Saudi Arabia. 19. The head of a government; the majority party's leader in parliament A) Head of State. B) Prime Minister. C) President. D) Monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prime Minister. 20. 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. 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