OSMEÑA COLLEGES
Osmeña St. Masbate City
Geography
Midterm Examination Test
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A. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Encircle the letter of the best answer.
1. Which of the following is used of pilots to find out the shortest way or the air route
between two places?
A. gnomonic projection
C. thematic map
B. political map
D. map
2. What Map is used to show the boundaries, capitals, and important landmark in
the particular region?
A. thematic map
C. political map
B. gnomonic projection
D. general reference map
3. What is the best way to study the surface of the Earth?
A. map
C. map projection
B. pictures
D. globe
4. What Map is used of travelers to enable them to arrive their destination without
getting lost and wasting time?
A. weather map
C. demographic map
B. road map
D. thematic map
5. What Map is used to show the countries that are densely or sparsely populated?
A. road map
C. weather map
B. demographic map
D. thematic map
6.Which of the following is the small scale model of the earth?
A. map
C.map projection
B. globe
D. pictures
7.Which of the following serves as the reference point as well as the boundary
between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
A. equator
C. longitude
B. latitude
D. prime meridian
8.What is the world’s largest continental region?
A. Africa
C. Asia
B. Europe
D. Antarctica
9.What is the second largest continent covers one third of the Earth’s land surface?
A. Europe
C. South America
B. Asia
D. Africa
10.What is the smallest continent in the world?
A. Asia
C. South America
B. North America
D. Australia
B.TRUE OR FALSE:
Direction: Write T if the statement is True and write F if the statement is False.
1. The ancient Egyptian writing was called hieroglyphics.
2. All Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
3. The Nile River, the longest river in the world.
4. The Babylonians is the first builder of civilization.
5. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia invented the earliest writing called cuneiform.
6. Hitites is the first people use of Iron.
7. The first alphabet is invented by the Babylonians.
8. King Sargon is the Lawgiver of Babylonia.
9. The Greatest achievement architectural of Babylonia is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
10. The Hanging Garden was built by Nebuchadnezzar for his favorite wife.
C. FILL IN THE BLANK:
Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct word found in the box. Write your
answer in your paper.
Lucy
oceania
map
map projection
legend
Mongoloids
western hemisphere
cartographer
pick and shovel
globe
Charles Darwin
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The people who makes map are called_______________.
_______is a graphical representation of all part of the earth on a flat surface.
The _________ explains the different symbols or signs used on the map.
The best way to study the surface of earth is by using________________.
Australia is sometimes considered as part of __________________________.
The _____ Hemisphere is mostly composed of the continents of North and South
America and Island of Greenland.
7. Archaeologists are sometimes called_________ and__________ historians.
8. The evolution theory of man’s origin, which was proposed by__________.
9. _______________ a whole skeleton of a teenage girl was discovered by
American Archaeologist.
10. The ____________ are the largest race, constituting roughly half of the world’s
population.
D. MATCHING TYPE: Cultural Anthropology
Direction: Match the word in column A with its correct description in
column B.
A
B
1. It is the small unit of community
.
A. neolocal
2. This is the traditional thoughts of the parents and the siblings.
B. marriage
3. It refers to grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
C.bilateral descent
4. Traditionally are thought to be product of a divorce
but a widower or a mother who had been marriage.
D.monogamy
5. Parents who have children later in life face several
Advantages and disadvantages.
6. Parents who have children in their teens face variety problems.
E. single parents
F. extended family
7. Important institutional element of the family.
G. older parents
8. Permit a man to take only one spouse at a time.
H. younger parents
9. The newly married couple residence resides independently.
I. family
10. Which affiliates a person with a group of relatives
related through his mother or father.
J. nuclear family
K. polyandry
E. ESSAY
Direction: Explain and discuss breafly ( 5 points) each.
1. What are the important tools of geography?
Explain:____________________________
2. what are the advantages of a Map and a Globe?
Explain:_________________________________
Prepared By:
Wemelyn M.Sta.Rosa
THANK YOU
KEY TO CORRECTION
A.
1.A
2.C
3.D
4.B
5.B
6.A
7.A
8.c
9.d
10.d
B.
1.T
2.T
3.T`
4,F
5.T
6.T
7.F
8.f
9.f
10.t
C.
1.cartographer
2.map
3.Legend
4.globe
5.oceania
6.westhern
7.pick and shovel
8.charles Darwin
9.lucy
10.mongoloids
D.
1.I
2.j
3.f
4.E
5.g
6.H
7.b
8.d
9.a
10c.
V.
1. To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life (e.g. earth-sun
relationships, water cycles, wind and ocean currents).
2. To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those
places in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.