Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________
World Geography Final Exam
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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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
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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
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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
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4. Which of the following is not a major crop in Germany?
a. grains
c. potatoes
b. olives
d. sugar beets
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5. In which location would you expect to find shellfish populations?
a. tributaries
c. groundwater
b. headwaters
d. wetlands
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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
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7. The language with the most speakers is _____.
a. English
c.
b. Spanish
d.
Mandarin Chinese
Hindi
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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
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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
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____ 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
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____ 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
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____ 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
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____ 50. When did the Aborigines arrive in Australia?
a. 25,000 years ago
b. 35,000 years ago
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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
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____ 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.
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