World Geography Quiz 51 (20 MCQs)

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1. What allows Western Europe to be warmer than it should be?

Correct Answer: C) North Atlantic Drift.

2. What climates are found mainly in the Northern Hemisphere?

Correct Answer: B) Subarctic and Tundra.

3. In Hinduism, being reborn repeatedly in different forms, until one has overcome earthly desires

Correct Answer: D) Reincarnation.

4. The study of the location and distribution of physical features and living things on Earth's surface, and how they relate to each other.

Correct Answer: C) Geography.

5. The tropical easterlies wind lie at

Correct Answer: A) 0-30? latitude.

6. Which type of trees lose their leaves after changing colors in the fall?

Correct Answer: D) Deciduous.

7. Which geographic factor was most responsible for increasing migration to the United States and Canada during the seventeenth century?

Correct Answer: A) Available land for farming.

8. This shows political units such as countries, states, capitals and major cities

Correct Answer: A) Political Map.

9. Which factor might attract a transnational corporation to a country?

Correct Answer: B) Cheap raw materials.

10. The Winter Solstice is the ..... day of the year.

Correct Answer: B) Shortest.

11. What Physical Feature serparates North Africa and the rest of Africa?

Correct Answer: C) Sahara Desert.

12. "STANOVOI" Mountain is in

Correct Answer: A) Asia.

13. Which of the following nations is located in Sub-Sahara Africa?

Correct Answer: A) South Africa.

14. Which of the following rivers in in South America?

Correct Answer: B) Amazon.

15. The R-horizon of soil horizon consists of

Correct Answer: A) Unweathered bedrock.

16. The uppermost epoch of the Neogene period is

Correct Answer: A) The Pliocene epoch.

17. Which of the following is NOT used to determine a country's standard of living?

Correct Answer: D) Land Size.

18. How would you know what the subject of the map is?

Correct Answer: A) The title.

19. Two major reasons that Saudi Arabia is important to many people around the world are

Correct Answer: C) Its religious sites and oil resources.

20. All maps are

Correct Answer: A) Flat representations of the earth's surface.