World Geography Quiz 82 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is NOT one of the Five Themes of Geography

Correct Answer: C) Language.

2. Shows where the area on the map located within a larger area

Correct Answer: B) Locator Map.

3. The ..... industry provides significant wealth to most of the nations in the Middle East.

Correct Answer: A) Petroleum (oil).

4. What would be a pull factor to bring many Europeans east to west?

Correct Answer: D) Seeking economic Opportunities.

5. What are the Great Plains of the United States?

Correct Answer: D) The flat landscape east of the Rocky Mountains.

6. What are the outlying areas of cities?

Correct Answer: C) Suburbs.

7. What country made the first Declaration of Rights?

Correct Answer: B) USA.

8. Women living in rural areas of Africa are generally involved in the economic activity of

Correct Answer: D) Subsistence farming.

9. What can teach people about the need to conserve Northern Europe's vulnerable environments?

Correct Answer: A) Ecotourism.

10. What is movement?

Correct Answer: A) Tells us how people, goods, recourses, and ideas move from one place to another.

11. Which modern people/nation did the slaves start?

Correct Answer: C) Russia.

12. A day on which the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn

Correct Answer: C) Solstice.

13. Which religion is practiced by the majority of India's population?

Correct Answer: C) Hinduism.

14. The longest ship canal in the world is the

Correct Answer: A) St. Laurence Seaway (USA and Canada).

15. The slow down slope movement of soil and sediment because of frost heaving and thawing is called

Correct Answer: C) Frost creep.

16. The pyramidal peaks that form when several cirques chisel a mountain form three more sides are called

Correct Answer: A) Horns.

17. Cutting down trees to build houses is an example of which?

Correct Answer: C) Human-Environment Interaction.

18. Who was the Ancient Indian King who brought India into a golden age through conquest but tolerance also?

Correct Answer: D) Asoka.

19. Spain and Portugal are located on which peninsula?

Correct Answer: C) Iberian.

20. The largest fish exporting region in the world is

Correct Answer: A) The north-east atlantic region.