Pre-AP World History and Geography Last Exam Preparation

Directions: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Make sure if you’re not
sure of the answers (or how to answer these type of questions), that you get assistance prior to
taking the Last Exam for Pre-AP World History and Geography (S1).

● The geography portion of your last exam is skill based. That means that the
answers to the questions on the test are in the test, you just need to figure them
out using the resources provided. However, you will have to know the following
to be successful on this exam:
○ Looking at a map of the USA, know which direction is N/E/S/W.
○ Be able to find various locations on a map and determine which direction one
would need to travel in to get from one location to another.
○ Use the title of a map to help identify what the map is depicting
○ Use maps to determine relative locations/distances between places.
○ Read a political graph
○ Use a dot density map to locate the most (densely) populated regions of a
country.
○ Use a symbol map to find the capital of various countries
○ Use a climate map to identify the climate of various regions.
○ Use a choropleth map to locate various phenomena.
○ Use a cartograph to compare a feature
○ Read various charts and graphs to answer questions.
○ View multiple resources and decide which resource best helps you answer a
particular question.
○ Read short passages and use them to answer questions.
○ Summarize the main idea of a reading passage

● The world history portion of your exam is also heavily skill based. There are a
variety of reading passages related to topics discussed. However, it would be
good to make sure you can answer the following:
1. What were the “3 G’s” that summarized the motivation of European Explorers during the
Age of Exploration?
God, gold, and glory

2. When European explorers came into contact with Natives from the “new world,” what
was the most common impact?
Introduction to disease

3. The Triangular trade involved which 3 continents?

Africa, Europe, Asia

4. What items commonly traveled on each “leg” of the triangular trade?

Rum, gunpowder, iron, tools, and cloth

Some Geography type questions are here to help see if you’re ready:

1. Name at least 3 of the 5 African countries that border the south side of the
Mediterranean sea:
Morocco, Algeria, and Libya

2. What direction would you need to travel to go from London, UK to Paris, France?

South

3. Cairo is the capital of Egypt. Which city on the map is closest to Cairo?
Jerusalem

4. Which continents can you see at least part of on this map (there are 3)?
Africa, Europe, Asia
 5. What is this map
depicting?

2022 U.S.
President
election.

6. This is a cartogram
- based on the
image, which state
cast the most
electoral votes in
the 2020 election?

California

This is a dot-density map.

7. Which state appears to have

the MOST deaths from
lightning from 2007-2017?

Floridia

8. Which region appears to be

the safest from lightning?
(NE, SE, NW, SW)

North West
This is a political map of Brazil (at least part
of Brazil).
9. What is the capital of Brazil?

Brasilia

10. What direction would you need to

travel from the capital to get to Rio de
Janeiro (a big city in Brazil along the
Atlantic cost)?

South Easrskc

11. What country is South of Brazil (the

southernmost part of Brazil)?

Uruguay

This is a choropleth map of the United

Kingdom. Use it to answer the next 3
questions.
12. What is this map measuring?

rainfall amounts

13. Where is the item (named above)

happening the most? (use your
directions)

east

14. Where in the country is the

phenomenon least like to occur?
Ireland
15. Using the charts above, identify the country with the most cars per 1,000 people in the
country:
Monaco

16. Using the charts above, where does Italy rank when it comes to the number of cars per
1,000 people compared to the other countries named:

cars per 1,000 people

17. How many cars/1,000 people do the people of Australia possess?
552

18. Does a high number of cars/1,000 people indicate that a country is more likely to be rich
or poor? Explain your answer.

no because you can spend 100,000 dollars on a car and it can still malfunction