Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ World Geography Final Exam Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following is not an example of the Moorish influence on the Iberian peninsula? a. horseshoe-shaped arches c. Arabic place names b. aqueducts d. geometric designs ____ 2. What is jute? a. an official language of India b. a spring festival c. a plant fiber used to make burlap and rope d. the second-lowest level of the caste system ____ 3. How is the Mediterranean Sea connected to the Black Sea? a. through the Canal du Midi c. through the Rhine River b. through the Bosporus d. through the Baltic Sea ____ 4. Which of the following is not a major crop in Germany? a. grains c. potatoes b. olives d. sugar beets ____ 5. In which location would you expect to find shellfish populations? a. tributaries c. groundwater b. headwaters d. wetlands ____ 6. Which of the following is not an endemic species of island Southeast Asia? a. Komodo dragon c. Javan rhinoceros b. orangutan d. Javan lemur ____ 7. The language with the most speakers is _____. a. English c. b. Spanish d. Mandarin Chinese Hindi ____ 8. Which of the following cities were established from the sugar and slavery trade? a. Cuzco and Quito c. Natal and Salvador b. Lima and La Paz d. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro ____ 9. Which of the following is not a common cause of culture change? a. migration c. trade b. homogeneity d. war ____ 10. Which of the following countries does not have significant oil reserves? a. Gabon c. Cameroon b. Nigeria d. Mali ____ 11. In what climate would you expect to find temperate forests? a. semiarid c. humid subtropical b. tropical humid d. subarctic 1 ID: A Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 12. Which tectonic plate has not contributed to the formation of the Arabian Peninsula? a. Cocos c. Eurasian b. African d. Arabian ____ 13. About 50 percent of the world's people speak a(n) _____ language. a. Indo-European c. Sino-Tibetan b. Romance d. Germanic ____ 14. Which of the following mountain ranges is not part of the Alpine mountain system? a. Ural Mountains c. Apennines b. Carpathian Mountains d. Pyrenees ____ 15. Which of the following countries has the highest percentage of people of European ancestry? a. Bolivia c. Colombia b. Argentina d. Brazil ____ 16. What is the most abundant mineral found in Mexico? a. silver c. magnesium b. gold d. aluminum ____ 17. In 1497 _____ explored the coasts of Newfoundland for the English. a. Jacques Cartier c. Lewis and Clark b. John Cabot d. Henry Hudson ____ 18. Where are the doldrums located? a. at 30º latitude b. between 40º and 60º latitude c. d. at the middle latitudes along the equator ____ 19. This empire flourished in Pakistan and Bangladesh from about 1500–1700. a. Dravidian c. Aryan b. Mughal d. British ____ 20. Where in South America would you find a Mediterranean climate? a. Argentina's central plains c. Patagonia b. Paraná d. Chile's central valley ____ 21. Landmasses near the poles are distorted on this type of map. a. conic c. great-circle b. flat-plane d. Mercator ____ 22. Which of the following crops is not typically grown in the Great Plains region? a. corn c. soybeans b. rice d. wheat ____ 23. Which biome is visited by millions of migratory birds during the summer? a. tundra c. temperate forest b. taiga d. boreal forest ____ 24. Which of the following is not a staple crop for the region? a. sorghum c. cassava b. millet d. rice 2 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 25. What factor contributed to the economic slowdown in the Czech Republic during the 1990s? a. three years of drought b. major crop failures that reduced the number of agricultural jobs c. too much government influence over the economy d. the withdrawal of American investment ____ 26. India is not the world's leading producer of which crop? a. peanuts c. rice b. sesame d. tea ____ 27. Which of the following is not a functional region? a. the Rocky Mountains c. a city b. a shopping mall d. a subway system ____ 28. What is the largest city in Morocco? a. Tangier b. Fès c. d. Marrakech Casablanca ____ 29. Which of the following environmental issues is of particular concern for the Netherlands? a. water pollution c. rising global sea levels b. deforestation d. air pollution ____ 30. What caused some farmland in Central Asia to become useless? a. boundary disputes c. overuse of chemicals b. heavy snowfall d. flooding ____ 31. Which type of animal is commonly found in the tundra biome? a. bear c. reindeer b. lynx d. wild horses ____ 32. _____ is the process by which water vapor changes from a gas into liquid droplets. a. Condensation c. Humidity b. Precipitation d. Evaporation ____ 33. Which of the following activities was not an early industry in Great Britain? a. shipbuilding c. iron and steel b. textiles d. printing ____ 34. Which countries are mountainous enough to generate hydroelectric power? a. Pakistan and Bangladesh c. Nepal and Pakistan b. Pakistan and Sri Lanka d. Nepal and Bhutan ____ 35. Which of the following was not part of early religious rituals in the Pacific Islands? a. carved statues c. dance b. masks d. battles ____ 36. Which of the following factors was not a result of the collapse of the German economy in the 1920s? a. drought c. high unemployment b. food shortages d. high inflation 3 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 37. Which region of Mexico is the most traditional? a. central Mexico c. b. northern Mexico d. Gulf lowlands southern Mexico ____ 38. Which of the following factors is not a measure of development? a. gross national product c. literacy rate b. population d. industrialization ____ 39. Which of the following plants is typical of China's humid regions? a. mangrove swamps c. scrub b. steppe grasslands d. drought-resistant plants ____ 40. The last American Indian civilization in Mexico was _____. a. Olmec c. Aztec b. Maya d. Zapotec ____ 41. Which Indonesian island has about 13 active volcanoes? a. Brunei c. Borneo b. Java d. Malay Peninsula ____ 42. In which country did the Hutu peoples practice genocide against the Tutsi? a. Somalia c. Rwanda b. Eritrea d. Burundi ____ 43. What region of India is particularly famous for its beauty? a. Gangetic Plain c. Thar Desert b. Kashmir Valley d. Deccan Plateau ____ 44. The largest employer of cartographers is the ____. a. Department of Education c. U.S. Geological Survey b. Department of the Interior d. U.S. Park Services ____ 45. What is a major cause of poverty and unrest in South America? a. lack of natural resources c. lack of education b. ethnic tensions d. inequality in land ownership ____ 46. Which city in Switzerland is host to many international conferences? a. Zürich c. Basel b. Bern d. Geneva ____ 47. Which of the following is not an island in the Greater Antilles? a. Cuba c. Jamaica b. Puerto Rico d. Martinique ____ 48. Why do so many children develop illnesses in southern Africa? a. poor nutrition due to poverty c. very bad air pollution b. climate helps many diseases thrive d. declining life expectancy ____ 49. Which of the following is not a middle-latitude climate? a. marine west coast c. humid continental b. tropical humid d. Mediterranean 4 Name: ________________________ ____ 50. When did the Aborigines arrive in Australia? a. 25,000 years ago b. 35,000 years ago ID: A c. d. 40,000 years ago 2,000 years ago ____ 51. What country is Canada's most important trade partner? a. Great Britain c. United States b. Australia d. Mexico ____ 52. Why is life expectancy declining in southern Africa? a. poverty c. declining birthrate b. pollution d. high rate of HIV/AIDS infection ____ 53. Who was Deng Xiaoping? a. Mao Zedong's successor b. head of Chinese Nationalist Party c. head of Taiwanese government for 38 years d. Chiang Kai-shek's successor ____ 54. The Thar Desert lies in both India and a. Nepal. b. Bangladesh. c. d. Pakistan. Bhutan. ____ 55. What region of the United States is particularly at risk from hurricanes? a. Florida c. Alaska b. the Midwest d. California ____ 56. Which of the following regions has a humid subtropical climate? a. south and southeast of the Alps c. southern Ireland b. the Iberian Peninsula d. west of the Alps ____ 57. Where are barrier islands located? a. on the fall line b. on the Pacific coast c. d. along the Aleutian Islands on the Atlantic coast ____ 58. What southern state has become headquarters for several large banks? a. Georgia c. Virginia b. South Carolina d. North Carolina ____ 59. Where did the French establish their first permanent settlement? a. Quebec City c. Nova Scotia b. Montreal d. Toronto ____ 60. Which of the following rivers flows into the Dead Sea? a. Euphrates c. Nile b. Tigris d. Jordan ____ 61. Earth is divided into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres by the prime meridian and the ____. a. 180° meridian c. 360° meridian b. 90° meridian d. 240° meridian 5 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 62. Why did the indigenous population of Central America decline with the arrival of Europeans? a. They died fighting the Spanish. b. European diseases killed a large portion of the population. c. They emigrated to Mexico. d. They emigrated to South America. ____ 63. The hydrologic cycle is driven by _____. a. headwaters, tributaries, and watersheds b. estuaries, wetlands, and groundwater c. solar energy, winds, and gravity d. condensation, precipitation, and evaporation ____ 64. What is the capital of Pakistan? a. Karachi b. Thimphu c. d. Islamabad Lahore ____ 65. Which of the following does not describe the first European settlers of New Zealand? a. They were prisoners. c. They were missionaries. b. They were whalers. d. They were traders. ____ 66. More than a third of what country's population is East Indian? a. Jamaica c. Aruba b. Trinidad and Tobago d. Grenadines ____ 67. What city was an important center of trade in the Mali Empire? a. Tombouctou c. Kinshasa b. Douala d. Abidjan ____ 68. Where does the Blue Nile begin? a. in the highlands of northern Ethiopia b. in Lake Victoria c. d. in Lake Albert in wetlands called the Sudd ____ 69. Which of the following is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan? a. Pashtun c. Baloch b. Kurds d. Hazara ____ 70. What is the name of the region that includes land from the Persian Gulf through the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? a. Sumeria c. Fertile Crescent b. Arabian Peninsula d. Fergana Valley Essay 71. If you had the chance to visit any continent in the world, which one would you choose and why? Be sure to include facts supporting your opinion including specific landforms, physical features, culture, religion, ethnic groups, food, activities, statistics, customs, etc. from that particular region. 6