Map/Internet Exercise for World Regional Geography
1.
What is the name of the large tectonic plate just off the coast of California?
a. Juan De Fuca Plate
b. Pacific Plate
c. Caribbean Plate
d. China Plate
2.
What continent had the largest extent of ice cover during the last Ice Age?
a. North America
b. Europe
c. Asia
d. Australia
3.
Along what latitude would you find the highest yearly precipitation?
a. 65
b. 0
c. 35
d. 100
4.
Where would you find megalopolis/Bosnywash?
a. South Asia
b. West Africa
c. Eastern North America
d. China and East Asia
5.
What country in the world has the highest total population?
a. People’s Republic of China
b. R.O.C. (Taiwan)
c. India
d. United States of America
Europe
6.
Where in Europe would you find a Humid Continental climate?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
7.
In what Physical Region are the Apennine Mountains?
a. Central Uplands
b. Alpine System
c. Western Uplands
d. North European Plain
8.
In what part of Europe do Slavic languages predominate?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
9.
In what nation is the devolutionary area of Catalonia?
a. France
b. Italy
c. Spain
d. Greece
10. In what country is the Ancona Line?
a. France
b. Italy
c. Spain
d. Greece
11. The source of the Danube River is in what European country?
a. Netherlands
b. Germany
c. Greece
d. Spain
12. The mouth of the Rhine River is primarily located in what country?
a. Netherlands
b. Germany
c. Greece
d. Spain
Russia
13. What is the largest city in the Russian Far East?
a. Baku
b. Omsk
c. Novocherkassk
d. Vladivostok
14. What ocean is closest to the city of Vladivostok?
a. Atlantic
b. Baltic
c. Indian
d. Pacific
15. What is the capital city of the Russian Federation?
a. Vladivostok
b. Moscow
c. St. Petersburg
d. Minsk
16. What Russian Industrial Region is located the furthest to the East?
a. Central Industrial Region
b. Volga Industrial Region
c. Ural Industrial Region
d. Far East Industrial Region
17. What was the city of St. Petersburg called from 1925 up until 1991?
a. Stalingrad
b. Leningrad
c. Volgograd
d. Petrograd
18. In what general direction does the Lena River flow?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
19. The city of Murmansk is at approximately what latitude?
a. 69 N
b. 75 S
c. 24 N
d. 91 E
North America
20. In what physical region of the United States is the city of Las Vegas?
a. Interior Lowlands
b. Great Plains
c. Intermontane Basins and Plateaus
d. Canadian Shield
21. Where in the United States are the largest concentrations of population?
a. North East
b. South East
c. South West
d. North West
22. What area of megalopolitan growth is closest to the city of Hays?
a. Denver
b. Waco
c. Portland
d. New York
23. What American state is entirely contained within the Northern Great Plains Agricultural Region?
a. Kansas
b. Iowa
c. North Dakota
d. Texas
24. What Canadian Province has the largest concentration of French Speakers?
a. Alberta
b. British Columbia
c. Yukon Territory
d. Quebec
25. At what approximate longitude is St. Louis, Missouri?
a. 102 E
b. 90 W
c. 270 N
d. 41 E
26. What range of mountains is closest to the city of Los Angeles?
a. Rockies
b. Appalachians
c. Alps
d. Sierra Nevada
Middle America
27. In what Region of Middle America is the island of Puerto Rico?
a. Lesser Antilles
b. Mainland
c. Greater Antilles
d. Mexico
28. What city in the nation of Mexico is the most heavily populated?
a. Ciudad Juarez
b. Mexico City
c. San Luis Potosi
d. Mexicali
29. What is the capital city of Nicaragua?
a. Havana
b. Costa Blanca
c. Managua
d. Petrolia
30. This crop is grown in the Tierra Caliente:
a. potatoes
b. bananas
c. wheat
d. rye
31. What city is at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal?
a. Colon
b. Panama City
c. David
d. Yaviza
32. The country that borders Nicaragua to the South is:
a. Costa Rica
b. Honduras
c. Guatemala
d. Panama
33. The largest island country in the Greater Antilles is:
a. Dominican Republic
b. Haiti
c. Cuba
d. Jamaica
South America
34. In what nation is the city of Asuncion?
a. Argentina
b. Brazil
c. Paraguay
d. Venezuela
35. In what nation of Caribbean South America is the Cusiana Oilfield?
a. Columbia
b. Brazil
c. China
d. Jamaica
36. Lake Titicaca is in what physical region of Andean South America?
a. Rain Forest
b. Altiplano
c. Tierra Del Fuego
d. Pampas
37. What is the capital city of Bolivia?
a. Brasilia
b. Sao Paulo
c. Montevideo
d. La Paz
38. One of the two land locked countries in South America is Bolivia; the other is:
a. Peru
b. Paraguay
c. Ecuador
d. Siam
39. Most of the Amazon River Basin has what type of agricultural system?
a. Shifting Cultivation
b. Commercial Grain
c. Mixed Farming
d. Desert
North Africa/Southwest Asia
40. What is the predominant religion in this part of the world?
a. Christianity
b. Judaism
c. Zoroastrianism
d. Islam
41. Name a culture hearth in Egypt.
a. Tigris-Euphrates Valley
b. Nile Valley
c. Mexica Valley
d. Harappa
42. Name the country in the Middle East that produced the largest amount of oil last year.
a. Egypt
b. Saudi Arabia
c. Iraq
d. Iran
43. This country once had a large empire:
a. Iran (Persia)
b. Morocco
c. Saudi Arabia
d. Israel
44. What is the lake behind the Aswan High Dam called?
a. Lake Schafer
b. Lake Nasser
c. Lake Baikal
d. Lake Al-Arabi
45. The largest country (in square miles) that borders on the Persian Gulf is :
a. Turkey
b. Iraq
c. Saudi Arabia
d. Iran
46. In what general direction does the Tigris/Euphrates River flow?
a. Northwest
b. Southeast
c. North
d. West
47. Name a city located on the Gulf of Aqaba.
a. Eliat
b. Baghdad
c. Tel Aviv
d. Darfur
48. You would find the Kurds in Iran, Turkey, and _______________________________,
a. Iraq
b. Saudi Arabia
c. Israel
d. Algeria
Subsaharan Africa
49. The capital city of Sierra Leone is __________.
a. Cairo
b. Ogadan
c. Freetown
d. Debra Dowa
50. What country received the largest number of African slaves between 1701 and 1810?
a. Great Britain
b. United States
c. Canada
d. Brazil
51. What is the largest language family in Africa?
a. Niger-Kordofanian (Bantu)
b. Nilo-Saharan
c. Khoisan
d. Indo-European
52. What is the capital city of Ethiopia?
a. Addis Ababa
b. Lagos
c. Teheran
d. Johannesburg
53. In what country in East Africa would you find the Kikuyu people?
a. Nigeria
b. South Africa
c. Bantustan
d. Kenya
54. The Blue Nile has its source in what country?
a. Sudan
b. Ethiopia
c. Uganda
d. Bahrain
55. Zanzibar (an ancient trading post for Arab sailors and slavers) lies off the coast of what African
nation?
a. Tanzania
b. Eritrea
c. Ivory Coast
d. Senegal
South Asia
56. In what part of India would you find the Indo-European languages?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
57. In what part of India would you find the largest concentrations of Dravidian speakers?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
58. What is the largest city in Bangladesh?
a. Dhaka
b. Chittagong
c. Bangkok
d. Saigon
59. In what Mountain State of South Asia is Mt. Everest?
a. Bhutan
b. Sikkim
c. Swat
d. Nepal
60. What is the most populous city in the country of Pakistan?
a. Islamabad
b. Karachi
c. Baluchistan
d. Imphal
61. What is the approximate total population of the country of Sri Lanka?
a. 2 million
b. 20 million
c. 200 million
d. 40 million
East Asia/SE Asia
62. One of the countries in the Jakota Triangle is:
a. Taiwan (Republic of China)
b. Nepal
c. Mongolia
d. Budonia
63. Another name for Xizang is:
a. Tibet
b. Taiwan
c. Nepal
d. Canton
64. Name the longest river in the country of China.
a. Yangtze (Chang Jiang)
b. Yellow (Hwang Ho)
c. Pearl
d. Yalu
65. The most Northerly island of the country of Japan is :
a. Hokkaido
b. Kyushu
c. Shikoku
d. Honshu
66. The capital city of the Philippines is:
a. Tokyo
b. New Delhi
c. Manila
d. Jakarta
67. The Korean Peninsula is divided into two countries. What is the capital of the Northern one?
a. Pyongyang
b. Silla
c. Seoul
d. Pusan
68. Another name for the city of Saigon in Vietnam is:
a. Stalin City
b. Ho Chi Mihn City
c. Lenin City
d. Mao Il-Ang
69. On what plain is the city of Tokyo located?
a. Kanto
b. Yang-Tse
c. Illongopo
d. Murasaki
70. What is the highest mountain in the country in the country of Taiwan (R.O.C.)
a. Yushan (Jade Mountain)
b. Mt. Everest
c. Chiang Kai-Shek Mountain
d. Mt. Damo
Internet Research Section
For this portion of the assignment, you will be using a web site to obtain information about certain
nations around the world, information which would be quite hard to obtain elsewhere. You will then use
this information to answer questions provided in the assignment.
The web site that you will be using is the CIA World Factbook. Published by the Office of the
Director of Central Intelligence, the Factbook contains a wealth of information on every country on Earth,
and is often used within the Agency for background briefings, research, analysis, and preparation for incountry operations. The Factbook is not Classified, and so makes a very useful tool for geographers,
sociologists, political scientists, and those involved in international business. The on-line version is very
easy to access and use. The factbook can be found at http://www.cia.gov .
71. What is the highest point in the country of Iran?_____________________
72. What is the population growth rate of the country of Israel?_____________________
73. What is the name of the President of the country of Thailand?______________________
74. What percentage of the Paraguayan population speaks Amerindian
languages?_____________________
75. What is the name of India’s legislative branch of government?_____________________
76. Name two environmental problems in the country of
Kazakhstan:_____________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
77. Where is the island of Tuvalu located (in Lat-Long. Coordinates) ?_____________________
78. What are the two largest islands of Japan (in land area)?_____________________ and
_____________________.
79. With what European nation are the Falkland Islands affiliated?_____________________
80. Name two countries which border on the African country of Ethiopia: