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Contents
1 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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1.1 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
1. From the picture, what type of biome zone B. 4
is it? C. 7
D. 15
4. Visible light reaches Earth’s surface

while infrared light is trapped as heat.
Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere
causes this to happen?
A. the hole in the ozone
A. pine forest B. the greenhouse effect
B. deciduous forest C. atmospheric pressure
C. mixed forest D. the inversion layer
D. rainforest 5. Two plates that move towards each other
are doing what type of movement?
2. What is a river?
A. natural feature of the earth’s surface
B. a flat area of land at a high elevation
C. Triangular, flat, lot-lying land built up
from the soil carried downstream by a
river
D. large natural stream of water that A. divergent
runs through the land
B. convergent
3. How many continents are on Earth? C. subduction
A. 10 D. transform
1. D 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. B
1.1 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 3
6. What is 5? A. The equator rotates slower than the

poles.

B. The equator remains the same dis-
tance from the sun.
C. The equator always receives direct
sunlight.
D. The equator has 18 hour days.
A. Africa
11. The study of people, places, and the envi-
B. Antarctica ronment
C. South America A. Economics
D. Australia B. History
7. bay C. Culture
A. bay D. Geography
B. berk
12. Equal periods of day and night
C. cape
A. March 22
D. shore
B. November 22
8. What is weather?
C. June 21
A. the temperature and precipitation in
an area during one exact moment D. December 21
B. the average weather in an area over a 13. Earth’s oceans are not connected and do
long period of time not form one global ocean.
9. The area around the Equator is known as A. True
the B. False
A. Pole Zone
14. of surface (tectonic) plates changes the
B. Tropic Zone
features of Earth’s surface.
C. Temperate Zone
A. Movement
D. none of above
B. Growing
10. Why does the area around the equator C. Shrinking
stay the same temperature all year?
D. Stability
15. Lines of longitude run north and south and

are called
A. Parallels
B. North Poles
C. Meridians
D. South Poles
6. C 7. A 8. A 9. B 10. C 11. D 12. A 13. B 14. A 15. C 16. A

16. A compass rose shows B. Monsoon

A. directions. C. Tornado
B. labels D. Deposition
C. areas.
21. Any useful material found in the environ-
D. angles. ment
17. Climate zones at high latitudes (close to A. Natural Resources
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the poles) are generally B. Non-renewable Resources
A. Wet C. Renewable Resources
B. Cold D. Organic Resources
C. Windy
22. What if the earth were to stop spinning
D. Temperate right now?
18. What is the name of the line of LATITUDE- A. We would die
which is measured at 0*? B. We would be stuck in day or night
A. Equator C. Nothing would change
B. Prime Meridian D. We would freeze
C. Line of Zero
23. What is a globe?
D. Middle point
A. round model of the earth
19. Cooled Magma is known to create (a/an) B. flat drawing of the surface of the earth
C. tells what the symbols on a map stand
A. Island for
B. Tsunami D. used to figure out read distance be-
C. Earthquake tween two locations on a map
D. Volcano
24. What are the oldest type of fold moun-
20. What is this satellite image showing? tain?
A. Amorican
B. Caledonian
C. Alpine
D. none of above
25. Would you consider to be a HIC or LIC?

A. HIC
B. LIC
26. Earth has 5 basic climate zones.

A. True
A. Hurricane B. False
17. B 18. A 19. A 20. A 21. A 22. B 23. A 24. B 25. B 26. B
27. The type of farming depicted in this photo- 31. The MELCO acronym stands for
graph is called

A. Climate factors
B. Types of landforms
C. Causes of climate change
A. deforestation D. Plate boundary movements
B. desertification
32. How many continents are on Earth?
C. terrace
A. 10
D. polder
B. 4
28. What is a tropical climate? C. 15
A. land with steep sides that rises sharply D. 7
from surrounding land
33. What is a compass rose?
B. average weather over a long period of
time A. a map tool that helps us identify direc-
tions on a map
C. short term
B. describe one place in relation to an-
D. climates that are wet and warm
other place
29. As magma rises towards the surface it col- C. exact location of a place based on lati-
lects in a ‘room’ called a tude and longitude lines
D. latitude line at 0*
34. Subduction plate boundaries around the
Ring of Fire occur where
A. magma chamber
B. side vent
C. main vent
D. lava chamber
30. What would best describe a Tundra? A. Continental plates run into each other
A. Wide variety of plants and animals B. The sea floor is spreading
B. Warm Year round C. Denser ocean crust goes under conti-
C. Harsh environment with a layer of per- nental crust
mafrost (cold) D. Fault lines are building potential en-
D. Near the equator ergy
27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. A 32. D 33. A 34. C

35. What was the depth of the earthquake? A. Erosion

A. 2 miles B. Landslide
B. 7 miles C. Weathering
C. 4 miles D. none of above
D. 5 miles 40. Weathered bits of rock are moved to a dif-
36. Climatologists attribute this year’s wild- ferent place by wind, water, or ice is called
fires in California and other western
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states to A. Weathering
B. Fault
C. Energy Transfer
D. Erosion
41. What is the difference between weather
and climate?
A. A political plot to make everyone drive A. Weather is what is measured over a
a Prius long period of time. Climate is measured
on a daily basis
B. Failure to sweep the forest floor
B. Climate is measured over a long period
C. Bad luck
of time. Weather is measured on a daily
D. Climate Change basis.
37. What is this? 42. What is is called when day and night in
A. River both hemispheres are of equal length?
B. Slope A. summer solstice
C. Mouth B. axis
D. Gulf C. equinox
D. winter solstice
38. The total amount of water on our planet;
can be liquid, vapor, or ice 43. Tectonic plates are made up of continental
A. Atmosphere crust and crust.
B. Hydrosphere A. continental
C. Lithosphere B. oceanic
D. Biosphere C. plates
D. mantle
39. What is the process that picks up and
moves weathered rocks? 44. Chemically polluted water that falls to the
ground and kills plant and animal life.
A. desalination
B. weathering
C. erosion
D. acid rain
35. D 36. D 37. B 38. B 39. A 40. D 41. B 42. C 43. B 44. D
45. What is the name of the line at zero de- 50. Which of the following moves over Earth’s
grees longitude? mantle, creating changes of Earth’s surface
features?

A. faults
B. continents
C. tectonic plates
D. tsunamis
A. Equator 51. Which type of map can show boundaries

B. Prime Meridian (borders) between Country or State gov-
ernments?
C. North Pole
D. South Pole
46. A polar climate in the US?

A. Virginia
B. New York
C. Maine
D. Alaska
A. Political
47. Map knows for showing things like moun-
B. Demographic
tains, rivers, plains rifts
C. Physical
A. Political Map
B. Physical Map D. Thematic
C. Thematic Map 52. A rainforest can be found in the lati-

D. none of above tudes.
A. high
48. Areas defined by their geographical loca-
tion and ecological similarity are called? B. middle
A. ecozones C. low
B. biotopes D. ALL
C. biomes
53. Erosion is
D. biodomes
A. When water deposits sediment in new
49. What is an underwater plain that borders locations
a continent?
B. the process by which rock is broken
A. Isthmus down into smaller pieces
B. Tundra C. is the movement of sediment from one
C. Axis location to another
D. Continental Shelf D. the movement of the tectonic plates
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54. What is the angle of the tilt of the earth 59. What continent is in blue?
A. 25.3
B. 32.5
C. 23.5
D. 53.2
55. A dendritic drainage pattern
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A. looks like a tree branching out.
B. is not develop where sedimentary A. Asia
rocks have been folded. B. North America
C. is the type of drainage pattern found C. Africa
with the Amazon River.
D. Antarctica
D. all of the above
56. Like a slow-motion collision, convergent 60. In convection, COOL air

plates result in A. Rises
B. Sinks
61. Forests are classified by the type of what

is has:
A. Soil
B. Grass
C. Trees
A. The destruction of landforms
D. none of above
B. An intense crashing sound
C. The creation of mountain ranges such 62. a slow-moving waterway filled with sedi-
as the Rockies ment from upriver
D. Higher insurance deductibles
57. All deserts are hot and sandy

A. True
B. False
58. Resources that cannot be replaced

A. Rare Resources A. Sea
B. Non-Renewable Resources B. Creek
C. Renewable Resources C. River Delta

D. Physical Resources D. Stream

63. Which layer contains the gases we 67. What is the action of clearing a wide area
breathe? of trees?
A. Agriculture

B. Desertification
C. Deforestation
D. Soil Erosion
68. The movement of an object around another

object. It happens every 365 days and
causes the four seasons.
A. Rotation
A. atmosphere B. Revolution
B. lithosphere C. Solstice
C. hydrosphere D. Equinox
D. mesosphere
69. This layer of the planet describes the rigid
64. An area at the mouth of a river where the outer layers of the earth including the crust
tide comes in and creates a wet-land area and mantle.
of some salty, some freash water is called A. Hydrosphere
a
B. Lithosphere
A. estuary
C. Atmosphere
B. gulf
D. Biosphere
C. glacier
D. delta 70. Which landform is this?
A. Coastal Plain
65. Some locations in Canada and Alaska have
permafrost, which is a characteristic of B. Great Plains
which climate zone? C. Levees
A. Arid D. Canadian Shield
B. Humid Continental 71. Tornadoes are most commonly found in
C. Tundra A. Bangladesh
D. none of above B. Philippines
66. Mexico, our neighbor to the south, shares C. United States
a long border with the United States. D. Japan
Forming Part of this border is one of Mex-
ico’s major rivers, the 72. What is an example of absolute location?
A. Sierra Madre A. 53*N, 20*W
B. Gulf of Mexico B. Below the bookshelf
C. big River C. Next to Mr. Lawson’s room
D. Baja California D. By the ketchup

73. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic 77. What are formal regions based off of
and Arctic oceans. A. zones
A. True B. regional geography
B. False C. factual evidence
74. how many layers does Earth have? D. ideas
78. The of a mountain range is the side
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that receives a lot of precipitation.
A. dry side
B. leeward/dry side
C. windward/wet side
D. cloudy side
A. 1 79. Which erodes quicker?

B. 5 A. Hard rock
C. 7 B. Soft rock
D. 4
80. The Ocean is east of the United States.
75. Name the boundary A. Pacific
B. Atlantic
C. Indian
D. Gulf
81. The reason we have 4 seasons is largely

due to the-
A. earth’s tilt on it’s axis and revolution
around the sun
A. convergent B. gravitaitonal pull of the moon
B. transform C. the distance between the earth and

the sun
C. divergent
D. tectonic plate movement in the litho-
D. sergeant sphere
76. is a narrow strip of land with water 82. I happen when the waves don’t have
on three sides. enough energy to carry sediment
A. Peninsula A. Deposition
B. Gulf B. Erosion
C. Strait C. Swash
D. none of above D. Backwash

83. This is the process by which rock is broken 87. What type of map would include rivers,
down into smaller pieces. oceans, mountain ranges, deserts, etc.?

A. weathering A. Physical
B. erosion B. Sketch
C. demographics C. Thematic
D. water cycle
D. Political
84. A map that shows boundaries of nations,
other political areas, capitals and cities is 88. Because Earth does this every 24 hours we
called have day and night
A. A physical map A. rotation
B. A political map B. revolution
C. A topographical map
89. Freshwater is(select all that apply)
D. none of above
A. streams
85. is a narrow waterway connected to
B. oceans
two large bodies of water.
A. Peninsula C. water that contains no salt
B. Gulf D. lakes
C. Strait 90. What is the order of the main layers of
D. none of above Earth?
86. Is there a pattern to the locations of earth- A. core, mantle, crust
quakes and volcanoes around the globe? B. crust, mantle, core
C. mantle, core, crust
D. none of above
91. What physical feature of Europe is shown

in green?
A. No, earthquakes and volcanoes are

random.
B. Yes, earthquakes and volcanoes usu-
ally occur near the boundaries of tectonic
plates. A. European Plain
C. yes, earthquakes and volcanoes usu-
B. English Channel
ally occur in the middle of tectonic plates.
C. Iberian Peninsula
D. No, earthquakes and volcanoes usu-
ally occur under water. D. The Alps

92. Which geographic landmark runs through 96. What type of landform, created by glacia-
Greenwich, England and separates the tion, is pictured?
globe into the Eastern and Western Hemi-
spheres?
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A. Delta
B. Fjord
A. Savanna C. Peninsula
D. Prairie
B. Equator
C. Fjord 97. Water in lakes, rivers, streams, and
glaciers and under the ground is
D. Prime Meridian
A. freshwater
93. What is this? B. saltwater
A. Mouth C. poolwater
B. Watershed D. chlorinewater
C. Hill 98. Biomes have similar
D. Bay A. climates
B. landscapes
94. The Process where the breakdown of
rocks and organic materials creates arable C. animals
farmland is known as what? D. rivers
A. Glaciation
99. The 5 themes of geography are:Location,
B. Erosion , Region, Movement and Hu-
man/Environ. Interaction.
C. Weathering
A. Population
D. Soil Building
B. Sub-Region
95. Plate tectonics is C. Place
A. theory that explains how the earth was D. Scale
created
100. Transformative Boundaries can produce
B. the theory that explains the water cy-
cle A. Mountains
C. the theory that explains how the B. Volcanoes
Earth’s crust moves C. Tsunami
D. none of above D. Mid-Ocean Ridges

101. In which part of the world would you find 106. An Oxbow lake occurs in the Old stage of
the coldest weather? a river

A. True
B. False
107. a long, narrow cut on the ground or ocean
floor
A. continental shelf
A. the South Pole B. ridge
B. the Equator C. Continental Divide
C. the Tropic of Cancer D. trench
D. the Tropic of Capricorn 108. Summer in Australia occurs at the same
time as winter in North America because
102. process by which liquid water is turned
into water vapor
A. condensation
B. erosion
C. evaporation
D. weathering
A. It’s always hot Down Under
103. Which of the following Latin American
countries borders the United States? B. Kangaroos like to play outside at
Christmas
A. Guatemala
C. The Eastern Hemisphere is closer to
B. Mexico the sun
C. Colombia D. The earth tilts the southern hemi-
D. Jamaica sphere towards the sun then
109. What is the name of this body of water?
104. Approximately how long is the Lena
River?
A. 6700Km
B. 4294 km
C. 5642 km
D. I hate you
105. The thinnest layer of the Earth is the

A. mantle A. Indian Ocean
B. crust B. Atlantic Ocean
C. core C. Gulf of Mexico
D. none of above D. Gulf of Oman

110. How many oceans are on the Earth? 115. The seasons are caused by ?
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A. The direction the Earth’s axis is tilted
A. 7 toward the sun
B. 4
B. Tropical Storms
C. 5
C. Changes in the moon
D. 2
D. The Earth’s rotation on its axis
111. Which landform is this?
A. Coastal Plain 116. The moment at which summer and winter
start is called a
B. Great Plains
C. Plateaus A. solstice
D. Mountains B. equinox
112. Fossil fuels oil, natural gas, coal C. holiday

A. Nonrenewable energy D. rare event
B. Renewable energy
117. Cities that have a higher elevation above
113. What happens when weathering and ero- sea level have temperatures
sion work together? A. warmer
A. New Mountains are created
B. cooler
B. The climate changes overnight
C. extreme
C. Metal objects become rusty
D. They change the Earth’s surface D. All of the above
114. What type of map is this? 118. Lines of latitude MEAUSURE in which di-
rection?
A. North to South
B. East to West
119. Shapes on the Earth’s surface are called?

A. Landforms
A. thematic
B. physical B. Orbits
C. political C. Environment
D. climate D. none of above

120. What is the largest ocean by area? 124. Bahrain is a small country located in
A. Atlantic Ocean A. Arabian Gulf

B. Pacific Ocean B. Pacific Sea
C. Southern Ocean C. North America
D. Indian Ocean D. none of above
121. Which season averages temperatures be- 125. Which of the following is contributing to
tween 40-55 degrees? an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmo-
sphere?
A. deforestation
B. photosynthesis
C. oceans
D. all of the above
126. El Nino can cause
A. Fall A. climate change and natural disasters
B. Spring B. epidemics
C. Summer C. greenhouse disasters
D. Winter D. none of these are true
E. Both Fall and Spring
127. A smaller stream that leads into a river
122. What climate region is location “E” lo- is called a
cated in? A. source
B. mouth
C. lake
D. tributary
128. According to this map, the cafe is of
the book shop.
A. desert
B. humid continental
C. tropical wet
D. highland
123. and other large bodies of water af-

fect Earth’s climates because water cools
or heats more slowly than air.
A. Latitude A. Southwest
B. Altitude B. Southeast
C. Great Plains C. Northwest
D. Oceans D. Northeast

129. One complete trip around Earth’s sun. 134. If it is summer in the Southern Hemi-
A. orbit sphere, what season is it in the Northern
Hemisphere?
B. revolution
C. axis
D. solstice
130. What is a temperate climate
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A. dry with little rain
B. seasonal like climates with milder
temps A. Winter
C. climates that are dry and cold B. Summer
D. climates that change because of eleva- 135. Found in the Southeast region of the
tion United States, this climate zone has hot,
humid summers, and mild to cool winters:
131. What is this?
A. Tropical Rainforest
A. Hill
B. Slope B. Humid Subtropical
C. Mountain C. Marine West Coast
D. Plain D. none of above
132. What is the name of the largest conti- 136. Which of the choices is not a continent?
nent? (select all that apply)
A. Asia
B. Australia
C. Europe
D. Russia
E. Greenland
137. What covers most of Antarctica?

A. North America
A. frozen magma
B. Europe
B. icebergs
C. Asia
C. glaciers
D. Africa
D. ice sheets
133. Which vegetation region is subarctic tem-
peratures and evergreen forests? 138. What is the source of all energy on Earth?
A. Savanna A. The Wind
B. Steppe B. Earth’s Coal
C. Taiga C. The Sun
D. Tundra D. Earth’s Oxygen

139. The Northernmost point on Earth (90 de- B. the movement of water on, above, or
grees N Latitude) below the surface of the Earth

A. North Pole C. when water melts
B. South Pole D. when clouds form
C. Equator
144. Antarctica and are completely south
D. Tropic of Cancer of the equator.
140. Which ocean in the world is also known A. South America
as the “Ring of Fire”
B. Australia
C. Africa
D. Europe
145. The Tropic of Cancer is located

A. 23 degrees west longitude
A. Atlantic B. 23 degrees north latitude
B. Indian C. 23 degrees south latitude
C. Arctic D. none of above
D. Pacific
146. glacier
141. Archaeologists digging into earth’s sur-
face for gold is a A. ice
A. human process B. glade

B. natural process C. ski
D. glacier
142. Which of the following isNOTformed
from water dissolving limestone under-
147. What is this?
ground
A. Cavern
B. Cave
C. Sinkhole A. An arch
D. Mountain B. A stack
143. What is the water cycle? C. A headland
A. the 3 forms of water D. A stump

148. What is the average life expectancy of C. distant islands

people in Haiti? D. none of above
A. 45
152. What does GPS stand for?
B. 69
A. Geological Processing System
C. 67
B. Global Positioning System
D. 62
C. Global Project Satellite
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149. What is the largest river in the world (in
D. Geography Processing Satelites
South America?)
153. A large mass of ice, formed by snow on
mountains, that moves very slowly down
a valley.
A. Nile River
B. big River
C. James River
A. puddle
D. Amazon River
B. glacier
150. Which phrase best describes a Hemi- C. estuary
sphere?
D. none of above
A. The Equator and Prime Meridian.
B. The northern half, southern half, east- 154. How do geologists learn about Earth’s in-
ern half or western half the Earth. terior?
C. A map of the Earth. A. direct evidence from rock samples and
indirect evidence from seismic waves
D. none of above
B. direct evidence from seismic waves
151. Islands that are made up of the shells of and indirect waves from rock samples
tiny sea animals are called
C. direct evidence from rock waves, and
indirect evidence from seismic samples
D. direct evidence from wave samples
and indirect evidence from seismic rocks
155. The condition of the atmosphere at a par-

ticular time is
A. Climate
B. Weather
A. near islands C. Weekly Forcast
B. coral islands D. Meteorology

156. Fertilizer and mechanization have al- 160. How do the westerly prevailing winds af-
lowed mankind to modify and adapt what fect our climate?
type of environment?

A. It determines the direction our
A. nuclear weather comes from.
B. transportation B. As the wind speed increases by 5 mph,
the temperature drops 3.5 degrees.
C. solar
C. The closer to the equator you are, the
D. agriculture
warmer it gets.
157. The consists of landforms such D. none of above
as:mountains, hills, plateaus, and ocean
basins. 161. A long, narrow hilltop or mountain top,
often rocky, is called a
A. Hydrosphere
A. geyser
B. Lithosphere
B. shore
C. Atmosphere
C. ridge
D. Biosphere
D. volcano
158. a land mass higher than a hill, taller than 162. Where on Earth can you experience entire
900 feet in altitude, usually formed by days of darkness?
plate movement, projects well about its
surrounding A. The equator
A. mesa B. The poles
B. mountain C. The Tropic of Cancer
C. hill D. The Tropic of Capricorn
D. valley 163. mountain ridge

A. foot
159. Yellowstone National Park was formed
as a result of what type of fluctuation B. hill
within the Earth? C. hillock
D. ridge
164. True or false although Mexico is in the

southern hemisphere it has different types
of weather. In Mexico there are deserts,
snowy mountains, volcanoes, beaches,
and deserts.
A. True
A. compression of the earth’s crust
B. False
B. The uplift of the earth’s crust
165. Which topographic feature results from a
C. subsidence of tectonic plates
different leveling process from the given
D. volcanic phenomenon image?

C. top level
D. ellevation
170. In the highlands of the West, rivers cre-

ate steep
A. canyons
A. Kumbhalak B. plains
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B. rapids C. grasslands
C. waterfall D. forests
D. Stalagmites and stalactites 171. Day and night are the same length
166. What are two imaginary lines that divide A. Solstice
the hemispheres? B. leap year
A. Latitude and International Date Line C. equinox
B. Equator and Prime Meridian D. equator
C. Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capri-
172. Which of the climate zones remains warm
corn
all year long because of the sun’s heat?
D. none of above
A. Polar Climates
167. Physical Geography is the study of: B. Temperate Climate Zone
A. Oceans C. Tropical Climates
B. Mountains D. none of above
C. The inside of the planet
173. Which mountain range is under water?
D. All of these and more!
A. Mount Everest
168. This type of movement is when one plate B. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
is pushed under another plate. C. Blue Ridge Mountain
D. Mariana Trench
174. From the picture, what type of climate is

it?
A. subduction
B. transform
C. convergent
D. divergent
169. height above a given level, especially sea A. tundra

level B. ice sheet
A. middle level C. Taiga
B. bottom level D. high place

175. Choose the correct option 179. What is the name for a long, narrow,
steep-sided cut in the ground or on the
ocean floor?

A. a continental shelf
B. a ridge
C. the Continental Divide
D. a trench
A. valley 180. Which is the best description of a map

B. hill scale?
A. Identifies north, south, east & west
C. plateau
B. Shows distance
D. dune
C. Explains symbols
176. Which of the Earth’s layers is in RED in
D. none of above
the picture?
181. Choose the correct option
A. crust A. Lake
B. mantle B. River
C. inner core C. Cave
D. outer core D. Canyon
177. Violently rotating columns of air, con- 182. The oceanic crust is most like in com-
nected to a storm cloud and touching the position
ground
A. granite
A. Tornado
B. basalt
B. Hurricane
C. sand
C. Volcano
D. iron
D. Earthquake
183. A map key (legend) explains what all the
178. What is the thickest layer of the Earth? symbols and mean.
A. the crust A. borders
B. the mantle B. distances
C. the outer core C. colors
D. the inner core D. names

184. Massive storms that begin in warm ocean 189. This divides the Earth into Northern and
water and travel towards cooler regions Southern hemispheres
A. Tornado A. Equator
B. Hurricane B. Prime Meridian
C. Volcano C. Climograph
D. Earthquake D. Geography
185. Name this feature
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190. Changes to Earth’s surface that is caused
by humans are than changes by natural
weathering.
A. Slower
B. Faster
C. Better
A. Corrie D. Less Harmful
B. Crag and tail 191. Lines of longitude MEASURE in which di-
C. Cirque rection?
D. Coombe A. North to South
186. Climate zone in the continent of Antarc- B. East to West
tica with permanent ice and snow all year.
192. Subduction boundaries are most respon-
A. Highlands
sible for
B. Mediterranean
A. earthquakes
C. Polar / Ice Cap
B. ridges
D. Tropical
C. volcanoes
187. Does it get colder or warmer the higher
D. tsunamis
you go up in elevation?
A. Colder 193. What is the name of the imaginary line
B. warmer that divides the world into western and
eastern hemispheres?
188. Which continent is highlighted in orange?
A. Asia A. Equator
B. Europe B. Tropic of Cancer
C. South America C. Tropic of Capricorn
D. Africa D. Prime Meridian

194. Stack is :
A. a mouth of a river

B. a peak of rock
C. coastal bench
D. land covered with grass
A. Rocky Mountains
195. Two plates slide past one another creat- B. Andes Mountains
ing a fault line
C. Himalayas
A. Transform
D. Atlas Mountains
B. Convergent
201. What is the largest hot desert in the
C. Divergent
world?
D. North Pole
196. occurs around June 21 (summer) or De-

cember 21 (winter)
A. equinox
B. solstice
197. Changes from minute-to-minute, hour-to-

A. Gobi Desert
hour, day-to-day
B. Hot Sandy Desert
A. Climate
C. Sahara Desert
B. Weather
D. Kalahari Desert
198. Plants grown for people or animals to eat
are called 202. Weather is
A. streams A. the state of the atmosphere at a place
and time
B. geysers
B. conditions prevailing in an area over a
C. plains
long period of time
D. crops
C. temperature of the ground
199. What does the earth’s tilt cause? D. temperature of the air
A. The seasons
203. Refers to different gas layers that sur-
B. Day and Night round Earth
C. Tsunamis A. Atmosphere
D. Earthquakes B. Hydrosphere
C. Lithsosphere
200. What mountain chain in Asia has the
world’s highest peaks? D. Biosphere

204. It is always cold all year long in Green- 209. What fraction of the world’s population
land.I am describing the climate. lives within 300 miles of a river or coast?
A. 2/3
B. 1/2
C. 4/5
D. 7/10
210. Is the Earth heated evenly?
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A. False
B. True
205. A farmer who’s crops get destroyed is

what type of impact?
A. political
A. Yes
B. economic
B. No
C. natural
D. physical 211. What two hemispheres does the Prime
Meridian create?
206. A deer drinking water from a stream A. Northwest & Southwest
A. hydrosphere, lithosphere interaction B. Northeast & Southeast
B. biosphere, hydrosphere interaction C. Northern & Southern
C. biosphere, lithosphere interaction D. Eastern & Western
D. biosphere, atmosphere interaction 212. Eagle Rock Rd, Elkton, VA 22827 This is
the location of our high school.
207. What force has caused the fastest change
in Earth’s environments in the last 50 A. relative
years? B. topographic
A. Weathering C. definite
B. Human Action D. absolute
C. Volcanic Eruptions 213. Identify this map
D. Erosion
208. By which process is liquid water turned

into water vapor?
A. condensation
B. erosion
C. evaporation A. Road map
D. weathering B. Climate Map

C. Physical Map 218. What is a plain?

D. none of above A. narrow stretch of land connecting two

larger land areas
214. Based on continental location, which of B. piece of land surrounded by three
the two locations would have better reg- sides of water
ulated temperature and LESS extreme
weather? C. area of level land and often covered
with grasses
D. area of land between hills or moun-
tains
219. What is the name of the river that cre-

ates a border between United States and
Mexico?
A. Location 1
B. Location 2
215. A well known isthmus is found in the Cen-

tral American country of
A. Australia
B. Hawaii
C. Panama
D. India A. big River
B. Mississippi River
216. Only 3 percent of our water supply is ac-
C. Amazon River
cessible freshwater.
D. James River
A. True
B. False 220. Largest land-form in Europe which has
lots of arable land (land good for farming)
217. A huge body of salt water. Five of these
cover about 75% of the earth.
A. lakes A. Central uplands

B. seas B. North European Plan
C. oceans C. Alpine mountain system
D. ponds D. British Islands

221. Waves are created by wind 227. Latitude measure distance from the
A. True A. North and south from the Equator
B. False B. East and west from the International
Date Line
222. Which is the tallest mountain in Russia
C. North and south from the Prime Merid-
A. Elbrus
ian
B. Ben Nevis
D. none of above
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C. Hoverla
228. What is another word for rural?
D. Everest
A. countryside
223. the process by which weathered bits of
B. city
rock are moved elsewhere by water, wind,
or ice C. suburban
A. climate change D. crop
B. weathering 229. Which of these is an example of precipi-
C. erosion tation?
D. none of above A. snow
B. air
224. One half of the Earth is always tilted to-
ward the sun. C. clouds
D. vapor
230. What influences the size and shape of
waves?
A. True
B. False
225. What type of map shows the population
of a country?
A. Thematic A. The fetch
B. Political B. Coastal erosion
C. Physical C. The Moon
D. Sketch D. The size of the beach
226. Which of these is an example of a TRANS- 231. Seismic sea waves which approach the
FORM (sliding) plate boundary? coast at greater force are known as
A. the Mid-Atlantic ridge A. Tides
B. the Himalayan mountains B. Tsunami
C. Hawaii C. Current
D. California Pacific Coast D. Cyclone

232. The wet part of the earth, aka the

A. crust
B. mantle
C. outer core
D. inner core
236. Which continent is an island continent?

A. Atmosphere
B. Lithosphere
C. Biosphere
D. Hydrosphere
233. What is a narrow strip of land connecting

two larger land areas? A. Europe
A. Tundra B. North America
B. Continental Shelf C. Antarctica
C. Plateau D. Australia
D. Isthmus 237. A narrow strip of land connecting two

larger land areas, like a land bridge, is
known as what landform?
234. a deep gorge or narrow valley with steep
sides, typically one with a river flowing A. Strait
through it surrounded by cliffs
B. Isthmus
A. mesa C. Peninsula
B. canyon D. Archipelago
C. plateau 238. What directions does the Prime Meridian

run?
D. mountain
A. North and South
235. Which layer is shown in orange? B. East and West

239. Which is a primary energy source used by D. a deep valley with steep sides, often
power plants to generate electricity? with a stream flowing through it
A. coal
244. Relative locations is using coordinates to
B. wood give somethings EXACT position on Earth.
C. gasoline A. True
D. batteries B. False
240. Climate is the weather of a place over
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245. Landforms can impact climate because of
the Effect, which is when moisture in
A. a few days the air is dropped on the windward side of
B. a short period of time a mountain that faces the ocean, and the
leeward side remains dry.
C. a period of exactly 5 years
A. Coriolis
D. a long period of time
B. Doppler
241. Which of the following correctly lists
C. Rainshadow
Earth’s oceans from smallest to largest?
D. Trade Wind
A. Southern, Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, and
Pacific 246. Earthquakes on the ocean floor can cause
B. Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, and a
Arctic
C. Arctic, Southern, Indian, Atlantic, and
Pacific
D. Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern, and
Indian
242. An area with a shared climate type is
called a
A. Tsunami
A. bison
B. Hurricane
B. climograph
C. Typhoon
C. climate region
D. Ring of Fire
D. continent
247. Resources Earth replaces naturally
243. What is a fall line?
A. renewable resource
A. a geologic boundary where harder
crystalline rocks meet with sedimentary B. nonrenewable resource
rocks laid down by the ocean C. natural resources
B. a usually extensive land area having D. none of above
a relatively level surface raised sharply
above adjacent land on at least one side 248. This is water released from clouds in the-
C. a nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit be- form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or
tween diverging branches of the mouth of hail.
a river A. evapotranspiration

B. infiltration
C. evaporation

D. precipitation
249. climate zones are

A. places with similar sounds A. Earthquake
B. places with similar weather B. Volcano Eruption
C. places with similar people C. Tornado
D. places with similar parking D. Mountain Building
250. Which continent is #4? 253. Which continent is to the east of the In-
dian Ocean and to the west of the Atlantic
Ocean?
A. North America
B. Australia
C. Asia
A. Africa
D. Europe
B. Europe
251. What is it called when WATER is FORMED C. North America
from an LIQUID to a WATER VAPOR Oor
D. Asia
an [GAS]?
254. A land form that has water around three
sides and connected to a larger piece of
land is called
A. island
B. peninsula
C. delta
D. isthmus
A. EVAPORATION
255. What is at the center of the Solar Sys-
B. PRECIPITATION tem?
C. TRANSPIRATION A. Earth
D. none of above B. Moon
252. What type of EVENT will occur at this C. Sun

boundary? D. Jupiter

256. What is the longest river in the UK? 262. A piece of land surrounded by water on
A. Severn three sides.
B. Thames
C. Danube
D. Lena
257. What is the center of Earth called?
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A. mantle
A. Island
B. core B. Plateau
C. crust C. Plain
D. lithosphere D. Peninsula
258. What is it called when the oceanic plates 263. This community is a place where you
spread apart, magma pushes up, which cre- would find crops.
ates mountains and an expanding ocean
A. urban
floor.
B. suburban
A. Subduction
C. rural
B. Divergence
D. city
C. Convergence
D. Transformative 264. The outermost layer of the Earth is called
what?
259. What is a higland climate A. inner core
A. dry with little rain B. outer core
B. seasonal like climates with milder C. mantle
temps
D. crust
C. climates that are dry and cold
265. Water mixes with in Limestone and
D. climates that change because of eleva-
forms a weak
tion
A. Oxegen
260. Why are cities warmer than the country- B. Carbon Dioxide
side?
C. Carbonic acid
A. There are more parks
D. Iron Oxide
B. Cities use more water
266. Hydroelectric power, wind power,
C. They have more concrete surfaces
geothermal energy, and solar energy are
D. Cities have lights on often all examples of which type of resource?
261. As earth orbits the sun, it stays in a tilted A. Fossil Fuels
position B. Renewable
A. True C. Nonrenewable
B. False D. Greenhouse Gases

267. The type of erosion that occurs when peb- 271. Which climate zone is located on or near
bles bang together the equator?

A. Abrasion A. Tropical
B. Attrition B. Temperate
C. Hydraulic action C. Polar
D. Solution D. Dry
268. Where would we expect to find the most 272. The theory of plate tectonics offers expla-
acid rain produced? nation for a range of physical processes,
from continental drift to
A. farming communities
A. The tilt of the earth
B. forests
B. Earthquakes
C. large cities
D. rainforests C. The reason for the seasons
D. Climate factors
269. A river or stream that flows into a larger
river or stream. 273. The suns’s heat causes Earth to con-
stantly orbit around it.
A. True
B. False
274. continental shelf

A. a shelf with continents on it
A. Lake B. the earth surface from the edge of a
B. Gulf continent to the deep part of the ocean
C. Cape C. the deep part of the ocean to the sur-

face
D. Tributary
D. continents that look like a shelf
270. The very bottom at the base of a moun-
tain is called the 275. Which layer of the Earth is not solid?
A. source A. inner core
B. foot B. outer core
C. coast C. mantle
D. gorge D. crust

276. What is this? 281. The spinning of Earth on its axis. It

A. Beach causes day and night.
A. Rotation
B. Gulf
B. Revolution
C. Cape
C. Solstice
D. Valley
D. Equinox
277. The layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer
NARAYAN CHANGDER
skin. 282. What is the biosphere?
A. crust
B. mantle
C. core
D. none of above
278. Lines of latitude are also called

A. hemispheres A. mostly made of invisible gas
B. Parallels B. made up of living things
C. Meridians C. the mostly solid rocky part of the Earth
D. Tropics D. the part of the Earth that is liquid wa-
ter
279. Indian Ocean
283. The amount of people in a certain area is
called its
A. A
B. B A. economy
C. C B. social status
D. D C. life expectancy
D. population
280. What is the definition of a coast?
A. Where a river meets the sea 284. A polar bear is likely to live in the
zone.
B. A narrow band of land where the sea
meets the land A. Temperate
C. A place to go fishing B. Polar
D. A popular place where people visit in C. Tropical

the summer time D. Desert

285. Which of the following is NOT a physical 291. What causes earthquakes and volca-
characteristic of the Earth? noes?

A. Soil A. tectonic plate movement
B. Bodies of water
B. the moon’s pull on the Earth
C. Landforms
C. solar flares
D. Cities
D. the Earth’s tilt
286. A low are in the desert that flows with
water it rains is called an
292. What physical feature is pictured?
A. acorn
B. amoeba
C. arroyo
D. anemometer
287. Internal moving pieces of Earth’s crust
A. Tectonic plates
B. Lithosphere
C. Biosphere
A. North Sea
D. Hydrosphere
B. Volga River
288. The process that separates most of the
dissolved chemical elements to produce C. Rhine River
water that is safe to drink is called D. Strait of Gibraltar
A. water cycle
B. desalinization 293. What is the Ring of Fire?
C. earthquake A. The section of the volcano which the
D. axis most activity takes place in
289. Type of boundary is known for causing B. A section along the Pacific Ocean
earthquakes where volcanoes are located caused by
tectonic movement
A. transform
C. The most deadly volcano in the world
B. subduction
C. convergent D. none of above
D. divergent
294. What are landforms?
290. Which type of plate movement creates
A. Man made features
mountains?
A. Convergent Plate Movement B. Egyptian Pyramids
B. DIvergent Plate Movement C. Natural formations of the Earth due to
C. Subduction Plate Movement geological processes
D. Transform Plate Movement D. none of above

295. The study of the earth, its features and 299. Largest body of water on the planet?
its people is called A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Coral Sea
C. Pacific Ocean
D. Indian Ocean
300. This region is too dry to support a forest,
NARAYAN CHANGDER
but not dry enough to be a desert. What
region is in this photograph?
A. Environment
B. Cartography
C. Geography
D. Schoolology
296. When day and night are of equal length

in both hemispheres, it is the
A. equinox A. Tundra
B. solstice B. Rainforest
C. Steppe
297. What mountain chain is located in Eu-
D. Savanna
rope?
301. Which of the following would MOST
LIKELY have the warmest climate?
A. 60oN
B. 50oS
C. 5oN
D. 35oS
A. Rocky Mountain
302. What is relative location?
B. Appalachian Mountain
A. a map tool that helps us identify direc-
C. Alps tions on a map
D. Andes Mountains B. describe one place in relation to an-
other place
298. Which climate zone is based on elevation
and can be found at any latitude? C. exact location of a place based on lati-
tude and longitude lines
A. Dry
B. Highland
303. A place at the edge of an ocean for ships
C. Polar Tropical
to load and unload their cargo is called a
D. Polar


A. lighthouse A. Amazon River
B. beach B. Mississippi River
C. port C. Huang He River
D. none of above D. James River
304. The country south of the United States is 309. A year has days.
A. 365
A. New Mexico.
B. 365 1/4
B. Mexico
C. 365 1/2
C. Canada
D. 365 3/4
D. Tennessee
310. In the eastern United States, the low-
305. Which three major climate zones occur at lands and get rain all year
certain latitudes? A. wind
A. Tropical, Polar, Highland B. sand
B. Tropical, Temperate, Polar C. rain
C. Temperate, Dry, Polar D. mesa
D. Highland, Polar. Temperate 311. Areas centered around 10 degrees north
or south of the equator that receive heavy
306. A body of land completely surrounded by rainfall throughout the year can be catego-
water rized as which climate zone?
A. valley A. Tropical Rainforest
B. plain B. Humid Subtropical
C. peninsula C. Marine West Coast
D. island D. none of above
307. Choose the odd word: 312. These types of homes are most likely
found
A. Storms
B. Hurricanes
C. Rocks
D. Drought
308. What is the longest river in China called?

A. in the rainforest 316. Choose the correct option

B. in the savanna
C. in the desert
D. in the taiga
313. What continent is labeled 4?
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A. The map shows lines of longitude.
A. South America B. The map shows lines of latitude.
B. Africa 317. What is this landform?
C. North America
D. Asia
314. process by which water, wind or ice
moves bits of rock elsewhere
A. erosion
B. continent A. valley
C. glacier B. river
D. tsunami C. gulf
315. The diagrams shows a natural pro- D. delta
cess that weathers rock.Which statement
318. The geographic theme of location deals
best explains why this process results in
with
weathering?
A. How people and environments interre-
late with each other
B. The absolute or relative spot of some-
thing on Earth
C. How people and things change loca-
tion
D. The physical and human features of a
location
A. frozen water acts as a solute
319. The path Earth travels around the sun.
B. water expands when it freezes
A. axis
C. the mass of water increases when it
freezes B. orbit
D. frozen water dissolves most types of C. revolution

rock D. rotation

320. Latitude and Longitude lines are mea- A. a popular waterslide without any wa-
sured in ter

A. inches B. a mass movement that sends rock and
B. miles soil down a hill
C. degrees C. when someone slips outside
D. ounces D. swiss cheese
321. The wind blowing the waves around 326. What are destructive waves?
A. biosphere, hydrosphere A. Waves with a strong swash and gentle
backwash.
B. atmosphere, hydrosphere
B. Waves with a strong backwash and
C. atmosphere, lithosphere
gentle swash.
D. hydrosphere, lithosphere
C. Giant waves that come far into land.
322. Which of the following is NOT a rea- D. Large tidal waves that move up rivers.
son that climate is different all over the
world? 327. A large natural stream of water flowing
A. Latitude in a channel to the sea or a lake.
B. Amount of vegetation grown in an area
C. Wind patterns
D. Geography
323. A narrow strip of land connecting two
larger land areas.
A. plateau A. River
B. plains B. Waterfall
C. isthmus C. Ocean
D. trench D. Lake
324. A zone that experiences warm weather 328. What landform is pictured?
year round
A. Tropical Wet
B. Tropical
C. Desert
D. Temperate
325. What is a landslide?
A. Valley
B. Delta
C. Peninsula
D. Fjord

329. The continental floor is made up of? 334. This landform is the highest point on the
surface of the Earth at 29, 029 feet. What
A. Flowers and grass
landform is it?
B. Basalt
C. Granite
D. Crust
330. The day of the most hours of sunlight in
NARAYAN CHANGDER
the Northern Hemisphere.
A. Spring Equinox
B. Autumn Equinox A. hill
C. Winter Solstice B. mountain
D. Summer Solstice C. plateau
D. continent
331. Height above sea level is called
A. orbit 335. Earth’s landforms wear away over time
as a result of wind, rain, and flowing wa-
B. environment
ter in a process known as
C. elevation
A. weathering
D. landforms
B. erosion
332. The main human activity that releases C. tectonics
greenhouse gases is
D. earthquakes
A. using bottled water
336. In soils, when rain pushes all the nutri-
B. burning fossil fuels
ents down into the B horizon it is known
C. texting on cellphones as what?
D. eating meat A. screeching
333. What is this landform called? B. wenching

C. leeching
D. squelching
337. These are features on the Earth’s surface

that is part of the terrain.
A. isthmus
B. peninsulas
A. lagoon
C. landforms
B. island
D. islands
C. archipelago
D. isthmus 338. Which continent is shown in blue?

342. What is the name of this map tool?

A. Australia A. key (legend)
B. Africa B. compass rose
C. Europe C. scale
D. measure
D. South America
343. What climate zone is between the Tropic
339. An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that
of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
connects two larger landmasses and sep-
arates two bodies of water.Which picture A. Tropics
best matches the definition of an isthmus? B. Temperate
C. Polar
A.
D. none of above
344. the interaction of plants and animals oc-

curs in which sphere?
B.
A. Hydrosphere
B. Biosphere
C. Lithosphere
C.
D. Atmosphere
345. are bodies of waters surrounded by

D. none of above land
340. Which of the following is an example of A. mesa
a formal region? B. cliffs
A. the predominant language in China is C. mountains
Mandarin
D. lakes
B. Mississippi is in the southern part of
the United States 346. Identify Asia
C. majority of the people in South Car-
olina speak English
D. all of the following are correct
341. Glaciers are

A. freshwater
B. saltwater A. A

B. B B. agriculture
C. C C. transportation
D. D D. energy usage
347. 50◦ North, 50 ◦ East
353. Which continent is yellow?
A. absolute location
B. relative location
NARAYAN CHANGDER
348. A large accumulation of ice and snow buit
over hundreds or thousands of years is a
A. glacier
B. geyser
C. gorge A. Australia
D. gulf B. South America
349. Approximately how long is the Euphrates C. Africa
river?
D. Europe
A. 2800km
B. 1478Km 354. Los Angeles is to city as California is to
C. I adore you
D. 4294 km A. State
B. Country
350. What is the process that picks up and
moves weathered rocks? C. Continent
A. deposition D. County
B. landslide
355. Where is the Ring of Fire located?
C. weathering
D. erosion
351. What percentage of the country has peo-

ple access to clean water?
A. 55
B. 32
C. 46
D. 78
A. the Atlantic Ocean
352. Technological influences on road building B. the Pacific Ocean
and railways have allowed man to adapt
and modify- C. the Caribbean Sea
A. airplanes D. Bay of Bengal

356. What is a valley? B. It is located at sea level

A. narrow stretch of land connecting two C. Its temperature is moderated by warm
larger land areas ocean currents

B. piece of land surrounded by three D. The equinox determines the weather
sides of water
362. Which vegetation type is this?
C. area of level land and often covered
with grasses
D. area of land between hills or moun-
tains
357. the ground soaking up rainwater

A. lithosphere, biosphere interaction
B. lithosphere, atmosphere interaction A. Tundra
C. biosphere, hydrosphere interaction B. Middle Latitude Forest
D. lithosphere, hydrosphere interaction C. Taiga
358. Which layer of the Earth is the most D. Steppe
dense?
363. What is melted rock?
A. Crust
A. Magma
B. Inner core
B. Lava
C. Mantle
C. River
D. Outer core
D. Minerals
359. What has been MOST affected by the
earthquakes that often occur in California? 364. The high ground around a river where
rain seldom falls is called the
A. the kind of crops farmers grow
A. Mountains
B. the fuel efficiency of automobiles
B. Watershed
C. the amount of goods factories produce
C. Drainage Basin
D. the way that buildings are designed
D. Valley
360. The deepest point on Earth is located in
(a/an) 365. Which city has the second highest popu-
lation?
A. Underwater Plain
B. Underwater Plateau
C. Trench
D. Underwater Ridge
A. St. Louis, MO
361. Even though Western Europe has a high
line of latitude, it experiences a mild cli- B. Flint, MI
mate because: C. Lawrence, KS
A. It is located in the Tropics D. Kansas City, KS

366. Ice sheets cover most of Greenland and A. Arctic

Australia.
B. Atlantic
A. True
C. Pacific
B. False
D. Southern
367. All of the following are causes of Global
Warming except 372. Continents are part of Earth’s
A. crust
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B. mantle
C. core
D. atmosphere
373. What is a long narrow band of volcanoes

A. Rotation of the Earth around the Pacific?
B. Deforestation A. Continent
C. Increases in Greenhouse Gases B. Tsunami
D. Burning Fossil Fuels C. Earthquakes
368. A ridge, mound, or irregular mass of D. Ring of Fire
unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders,
gravel, sand and clay 374. What ocean is north of Europe?
A. Glacier
B. Ice sheet
C. Tundra
D. Moraine
369. The breaking down of materials into

smaller pieces
A. weathering A. Indian
B. erosion B. Arctic
370. This causes seasons C. Southern
A. Rotation D. Pacific
B. Revolution
375. Boundaries where plates slide past each
371. Which ocean is number 11? other along faults
A. convergent boundaries
B. transform boundaries
C. divergent boundaries
D. insurgent boundaries

376. What is a weather?

A. land with steep sides that rises sharply

time
C. short term
D. climates that are wet and warm A. Convergent plates
B. Frequent earthquakes
377. Define island. C. Divergent plates
D. Ah tsunami
380. The higher you go on a mountain
A. a sizable inland body of water

B. a large body of water completely or
A. You move closer to the equator.
partly surrounded by land
B. it gets hot
C. land area, smaller than a continent sur-
rounded by water C. the air thins and it gets colder
D. you are really up there
D. a body of land jutting into a lake or
ocean surrounded by water on three sides 381. Ocean #3 is
378. Experiences some hot weather as well

as some cold. While certain parts of the
world may experience extreme amounts
of rain and snow, this climate zone may
experience average/moderate amounts of
rain and snow. There are no extremes.
A. Temperate zone
A. Indian
B. Tropical zone
B. Pacific
C. Polar Zone C. Arctic
D. Desert Zone D. Atlantic
379. Like the spreading sea floor of the At- 382. Which of these continents do NOT fit the
lantic Ocean, Africa’s Great Rift Valley is definition of a continent exactly?
caused by A. Asia

B. Europe A. Scandinavian
C. North America B. Iberian
D. South America C. Floridian
E. Africa D. Yucatan
383. Life on earth, its biosphere, depends on 387. This climate is located between 23 1/2
special conditions provided by N and 23 1/2 S and it’s near the equator.
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A. Tropical
B. Polar
C. Dry
D. Highland
388. Which landform is a hill that rises

abruptly from the land with steep sides
A. The hydrosphere
and a flat top?
B. The lithosphere
A. Butte
C. The atmosphere
B. Valley
D. All of the above
C. Island
384. How long does it take plates to move D. Volcano
enough to create landforms?
389. What is a dry climate
A. 100 Years
A. dry with little rain
B. Hundreds of Years
B. seasonal like climates with milder
C. Thousands of Years temps
D. Millions of Years C. climates that are dry and cold
385. An area of flat or rolling land at a high D. climates that change because of eleva-
elevation, about 300-3, 000 feet high. tion
A. basin 390. A vent in the Earth’s crust that molten
B. canyon rock flows through is called a:
C. plateau A. Butte
D. none of above B. Valley
C. Island
386. What peninsula is shown in orange?
D. Volcano
391. What is 1?

A. Ural Mountains 395. A place that gets little to no rain, is usu-

B. Iberian Peninsula ally flat and has no vegetation.

C. Bosporus, Dardanelles
D. Hawiian Islands
392. What continent or ocean is located at

30◦ S and 130◦ E?
A. Forest
B. Valley
C. Canyon
D. Desert
A. Asia 396. A high area of rock with a very steep
B. Australia side, often at the edge of the sea or ocean.
C. South America
D. Atlantic Ocean
393. The Prime Meridian is located at

A. Zero degrees longitude.
B. Zero degrees latitude.
C. 100 degrees north latitude.
A. estuary
D. none of above
B. cliff
394. When a dead plant decomposes into the C. peninsula
soil, the interaction is between the and
the D. none of above
397. Earth does this 365 days which is why
we have seasons
A. Rotation
B. Revolution
398. Which of the Earth’s layers is in blue and
green in the picture?
A. atmosphere and hydrosphere

B. biosphere and geosphere
C. hydrosphere and biosphere
D. atmosphere and geosphere

A. crust 404. Rain generally falls on the side of the

B. mantle mountain facing the ocean.
A. True
C. inner core
B. False
D. outer core
405. a narrow strip of land connecting two
399. A mountain or hill from which lava, hot larger areas
gasses and rocks can explode is called a
A. solstice
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B. isthmus
A. volcano
C. trench
B. gorge
D. none of above
C. geyser
406. What is the average temperature in Boul-
D. foot
der’s warmest month?
400. What are functional regions based off of
A. a central location
B. maps
C. factual evidence
D. ideas of a place
401. Landmass is A. 80 degrees

A. A big field B. 30 degrees
B. A continuous extent of land C. 60 degrees

D. 70 degrees
C. grassy area with flowers
D. a picture perfect spot to read a book 407. This type of weathering occurs when rock
is physically broken down into smaller
402. What is a piece of land that is almost pieces of rock.
entirely surrounded by water but is con- A. mechanical weathering
nected to the mainland on one side
B. chemical weathering
A. peninsula
C. erosion weathering
B. isthmus D. deposition
C. basin
408. What is an Isthmus?
D. archipelago
A. narrow stretch of land connecting two
403. “When rocks scrape along the river bank larger land areas
and bed” is what type of erosion? B. piece of land surrounded by three
sides of water
A. Attrition
B. Abrasion
with grasses
C. Solution D. area of land between hills or moun-
D. Hydraulic Action tains

409. An isobar is a line used to show places of 414. Which layer of the earth is made of iron
equal and nickel, spins, and is under such pres-
sure that it is a solid ball?

A. atmospheric pressure
B. Humidity
C. Temperature
D. Wind
410. What land form is this?
A. Outer core
B. Inner core
C. Crust
D. Mantle
A. valley
B. plain 415. inland
C. volcano A. total area
D. mountain B. inside area

C. interior
411. tipp
D. exterior
A. summit
B. tip 416. The path that the Earth takes around the
C. tap sun is called? (it’s like a stretched out cir-
cle.)
D. foot
A. axis
412. What is this? B. orbit
A. Mountain C. rotation
B. Cliff
D. revolution
C. Beach
D. Hill 417. When we talk about what a location is
LIKE (what we find there, how it feels),
413. They physical system of the earth that we are talking about:
includes the living things:people, animals, A. Region
and plants.
B. Movement
A. Lithosphere
C. Human-Environment Interaction
B. Atmosphere
D. Place
C. Biosphere
D. Hydrosphere 418. An island is

421. Based on the excerpt, what is a penin-

sula?
A. A peninsula is a landmass that extends
into a man-made canal
B. A peninsula is a landmass that extends
A. a piece of land with water all around it into natural waters.
B. an area of water surrounded by land C. A peninsula is a landmass that is com-
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pletely surrounded by water.
C. a hollow place in the earth
D. A peninsula is a narrow strip of land
D. none of above that connects two other landmasses.
419. An area of extreme temperatures and lit- 422. Area of level land, usually at low eleva-
tle percipitation is called? tion and often covered with grasses
A. butte
B. plain
C. mesa
D. none of above
423. topography definition

A. Desert A. the combination of the surface shape
and composition of the landforms and
B. Volcano their distribution in a region
C. Canyon B. the combination of the region and land-
D. Island forms
420. The windward side of a mountain re- 424. A process that produces safe drinking wa-
ceives more rain than the leeward side be- ter.
cause A. hydrosphere
B. desalination
C. magma
D. delta
425. Choose the correct definition of gulf.

A. Wind brings rain
B. The mountain acts like a shower cur-
tain, keeping one side wet while the other
is drier
C. It is warmer near the ocean
D. Tornadoes form on the leeward side,
blowing rain back across the mountain

A. part of a large body of water that ex- A. Australia

tends into a shoreline, larger and deeper B. Africa
than a bay

C. Asia
B. a narrow stretch of land connecting
D. Antarctica
two larger areas
C. a large body of water completely or 431. Which word means ‘the state of the at-
partly surrounded by land mosphere in a place’?
D. a narrow stretch of water joining two A. weather
larger bodies of water B. whether
426. The stratosphere can be found in the C. wither

D. whatever
A. Hydrosphere
B. Atmosphere 432. Which ocean has the most earthquakes?
C. Lithosphere A. Indian Ocean
D. Biosphere B. Pacific Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean
427. Water found in Earth’s crust is called
groundwater. D. Arctic Ocean
A. true 433. A meander is best described as

B. false
428. What is not a continent?

A. Africa
B. Europe
C. Austraila
D. Austria A. A straight section of the river.
B. A winding section of a lake.
429. What are the two main types of glacial
erosion? C. A section of the river that joins another
river.
A. Abrasion and plucking
D. A winding section of a river.
B. Plucking and freeze-thaw
434. What ocean is labeled 10?
C. Chemical and biological
D. Abrasion and hydraulic action
430. What is the name of the most southern

continent?
A. Indian
B. Pacific
C. Southern
D. Atlantic

435. How many inches of rain does Boulder re- 439. Choose which of the following are oceans
ceive in the rainiest month? of the world. (Choose all that apply)
A. Indian
B. Southern
C. Arctic
D. Atlantic
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E. Pacific
A. 3
B. 2
440. What is a delta?
C. 70
D. 2.5
436. The Arctic Circle is located
A. 66 degrees north latitude C. Triangular, flat, lot-lying land built up
from the soil carried downstream by a
B. 66 degrees south latitude
river
C. 66 degrees east longitude
D. large natural stream of water that
D. none of above
437. is a narrow strip of land with water
on both sides that connect two large land 441. What does the theory of continental drift
areas. state?
A. Delta A. The continents were once joined in
B. Isthmus a super-continent and have moved over
C. Archipelago time
D. none of above B. Continents are stationary and do not
move
438. Which layer is made of “flowing” solid
rock (think clay or pudding)? C. The Earth is broken into lithospheric
plates that move due to convection cur-
rents
D. none of the above
442. What is an area located at the mouth of

a river
A. Desalination
A. crust
B. Ocean
B. mantle
C. outer core C. Delta
D. inner core D. Sand Build-Up

443. This sphere includes the continents, the 448. Which ocean is number 10?
ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface,
and all of the sand in the deserts.

A. Arctic
B. Atlantic
C. Pacific
A. Hydrosphere D. Southern
B. Biosphere 449. What is the process by which water,
C. Atmosphere wind, or ice moves bits of rock elsewhere?
D. Geosphere/Lithosphere A. Glacier
444. What is molten rock or magma that B. Weathering

reaches the Earth’s surface called? C. Water Cycle
A. oil D. Erosion
B. geyser 450. are found where there is little rainfall
C. lava A. deserts
D. earthquake B. rivers
C. oceans
445. The earth rotates every
D. streams
A. 24 hours
B. 15 hours 451. can be flat or have a gentle roll and
can be on a coastline or found far inland.
C. 365 days
A. Plateaus
D. hour
B. Isthmus’
446. A deep gorge in the surface of Earth C. Deltas
formed by the erosion of moving water
D. Plains
and sediment.
A. Valley 452. The process that breaks down rocks and
other materials on Earth’s surface is called
B. Delta
C. Canyon
D. Landform
447. How are maps and globes similar?

A. Both are easy to understand.
B. Both are flat.
C. Both show what the world looks like. A. Weathering
D. Both are spherical. B. Erosion

453. A hot spring in which the water some- 458. The process in which parts of rock are
times boils, sending a tall column of water moved elsewhere as the result of wind,
and steam into the air is called a rain, or ice is called
A. geyser A. weathering
B. volcano B. erosion
C. ridge C. tectonics
D. gorge
D. earthquakes
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454. Under which of the following circum-
stances would you be most likely to find 459. An area of low land between hills or
snow at the equator? mountains is known as which landform
A. In areas of high elevation A. Butte

B. In areas below sea level B. Valley
C. In winter C. Island
D. Near a body of water D. Volcano
455. What would happen if the earth had no 460. A part of a large body of water that ex-
tilt? tends into a shoreline, generally smaller
A. everyone would die than a gulf.
B. we would have no seasons A. sea
C. it would always be hot B. bay
D. it would always be cold. C. ocean
456. Which ocean is number 12? D. none of above
461. Pilots and geographers are able to find a

location on a map by using and
A. The Northern and Southern Hemi-
sphere
B. Latitude and Longitude Lines
A. Arctic
C. Equator and Prime Meridian
B. Atlantic
C. Pacific D. none of above
D. Southern 462. Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps

457. Where would you find a waterfall? A. will result in cooler temperatures in
A. Upper course the Arctic
B. Middle Course B. will result in sea-levels rising

C. Lower Course C. Will have no effect on ecosystems
D. none of above D. None of the above

463. This layer is the thickest layer. It pro- 468. A branch of geography that analyzes
duces convection heat that causes the Earth’s natural features.
movement of Earth’s plates.

A. Human Geography
B. Physical Geography
C. Geography
D. Oceanography
469. which one is a river
A. Inner Core
A.
B. Outer Core
C. Mantle
D. Crust B.
464. The imaginary line running through

Earth’s center
C.
A. isthmus
B. tundra
C. axis D.
D. summer solstice
465. How much of Australia is desert? 470. How many climate zones have we dis-
cussed in class?
A. 30%
A. 1
B. 15%
B. 7
C. 45%
C. 5
D. 20%
D. 4
466. is important to humans for drinking
471. What percent of all water on earth is
water.
FRESH water
A. Salt Water
A. 71%
B. Sea Water B. 25%
C. Bottled Water C. 100%
D. Groundwater D. 3%
467. Which of the following does NOT influ- 472. Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all exam-
ence regional climate patterns? ples of
A. latitude A. evaporation
B. proximity to water B. condensation
C. wind patterns C. accumulation
D. vegetation D. precipitation

473. The two types of physical features are 478. Slow process that breaks down the
landforms and earth’s surface and changes it shape
A. colonies A. Washing
B. bodies of water B. Weathering
C. international boundaries C. Erosion
D. borders D. Chemical Peel
NARAYAN CHANGDER
479. What is this?
474. What is 4?
A. Isthmus
B. Plateau
C. Hill
D. Summit
480. Like the spreading sea floor of the At-

A. Java lantic Ocean, Africa’s Great Rift Valley is
caused by
B. Madagascar
C. Hawaiian Islands
D. Ural Mountains
475. 2 degrees N
A. Tropic of Cancer
B. Tropic of Capricorn
C. Equator
A. Convergent plates
D. Prime Meridian B. Frequent earthquakes
476. the difference in elevation of a landform C. Divergent plates
from its lowest point to its highest point D. Ah tsunami
A. mountain
481. is a group of islands.
B. relief A. Delta
C. hills B. Isthmus
D. plains C. Archipelago
477. Which of the choices below is NOT one of D. none of above

the three types of rocks? 482. One of the 16 pieces of Earth’s crust
A. Metamorphic A. tectonic plates
B. Indigenous B. fault
C. Sedimentary C. Ring of Fire
D. Igneous D. none of above

483. This layer of Earth is the thickest part C. drier

A. crust D. wetter

B. outer core
489. melted rock
C. mantle
D. inner core A. hydrosphere
B. magma
484. What term describes the increase in
the average temperature of Earth’s atmo- C. desert
sphere?
D. delta
A. Climate Zone
B. Global Warming 490. Which of these is an example of erosion?
C. Climate Warning A. Light shinning onto a mountain
D. Global Change B. Rain breaking down rock
485. Freshwater sources are C. Wind blowing away sediment
A. groundwater and ocean D. All of the above
B. surface and swimming pools
491. the equator
C. groundwater, glaciers, rivers
D. none of above A. equator
486. What is the prime meridian? B. equator
A. longitude line at 0* C. Equator

B. describe one place in relation to an- D. equator
other place
C. exact location of a place based on lati- 492. This is the movement of water from
tude and longitude lines Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and
back.
A. solar energy
487. What does elevation describe?
B. rotation
A. How far above sea level a landform or
location is C. water cycle
B. how deep an ocean is D. revolution
C. how many square miles of land a coun-
try has 493. Climate is
D. how much erosion has occurred A. the further you get from the equator
488. What is the climate of the top of a moun- B. the higher you go, the colder it gets
tain like as compared to the bottom of the C. the conditions of the atmosphere at a
mountain? certain place and time.
A. warmer D. the average weather conditions of an
B. cooler area over a long period of time.

494. What causes the seasons to change on B. glacier

Earth? C. Ring of Fire
A. the North and South Poles D. tsunami
B. Earth’s distance from the sun
499. What are tall, flat-topped, steep-sided
C. the wind currents towers of rock that were created through
D. the Earth’s tilt as it revolves around the process of erosion?
the sun A. basin
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B. mountain
495. What is a landform?
C. butte
D. peninsula
C. Triangular, flat, lot-lying land built up 500. What is significant about the area be-
from the soil carried downstream by a tween the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic
river of Capricorn?
D. large natural stream of water that

496. Which climate zone would be described

as arid or lacking precipitation?
A. Humid Temperate
B. Cold Temperate
C. Desert
D. Tropical A. It is more prone to earthquakes.
497. Antarctica is cold all the time. What is B. Cold water current keep it temperate
it’s climate? in the Spring.
C. The Earth rotates faster in this zone.
D. It gets direct sunlight year-round.
501. The average weather in a region over a
long period of time.
A. weather
B. tsunami
A. Tropical C. erosion
B. Polar D. climate
C. Arid/Dry 502. When is a tsunami most dangerous?
D. Temperate A. When it hits land
498. A long, narrow band of volcanoes around B. When it returns to sea
the Pacific. C. When it forms at sea
A. continent D. none of above

503. How many islands does New Zealand A. land navigation

consist of?
B. absolute location

C. nautical reckoning
D. relative location
507. Which Hemisphere experiences the oppo-

site season of the Northern Hemisphere
A. 5
A. Southern
B. 4
B. Eastern
C. 7
D. 2 C. Western
504. Which climate is NOT found in the area of D. Northern

diverse vegetation contained in the white
508. Which continent is green?
rectangle?
A. Tundra
B. Semi-Arid A. Africa
C. Tropical Wet B. South America
D. Arid C. North America
505. Heavy amounts of rainfall have given D. Europe
rise to many
A. canyons 509. Choose the correct option
B. cliffs
C. mountains
D. forests
506. Using latitude and longitude lines to find
somewhere on a map is known as
A. hill
B. mountain
C. plain
D. valley

510. The position of something in relation to 515. What is the correct order (starting from
other landmarks the surface) of Earth’s layers?
A. Absolute location
B. Relative location
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
B. mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
A. North America
B. Antarctica C. crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
C. South America D. outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
D. Africa
516. What does the ‘AAG’ specialize in?
512. What factors make the Amazon Basin the
area with the highest biodiversity? A. American Anatomy Group; effects of
the earth on humans
B. Association of American Geographers;
rivers and streams
C. American Anatomy Group; skeletal
system
A. ocean currents D. Association of American Geographers;

rocks and soil
B. location according to latitude
C. Alignment of the mountains 517. This term translates to equal night. It is
D. Proximity-farness to the sea one of two days when the sun is directly
above the equator.
513. What is this?
A. Gulf
B. Cape
C. Islet
D. Peninsula
514. What is the correct term for Earth’s com-
pletion of one full trip around the sun? A. weather
A. Orbit
B. solstice
B. Revolution
C. Axis C. equinox
D. Circle D. climate

518. Earth’s plates are 523. Which latitude zone has the warmest av-
A. Constantly moving and changing the erage temperatures?

face of the Earth
A. Low latitudes
B. Never moved
C. Move seldom and very fast B. Mid latitudes
D. move when they feel like it C. High latitudes

519. What is the name given to the regular D. none of above
movement of water?
A. Rainfall
524. Which city has the lowest persons in
B. Water Supply poverty by percentage?
C. Condensation
D. Water Cycle
520. Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur
A. along the coast

B. along tectonic plate boundaries A. St. Louis, MO
C. in the Arctic B. Flint, MI
D. in the ocean
C. Lawrence, KS
521. What are the 3 natural forces that cause
weather and erosion? D. Kansas City, KS
A. Wind
B. Water 525. What landform can you see in the pic-
ture?
C. Ice
D. Humans
522. What is the largest rain forest in the
world called
A. Floodplain
B. Delta
A. Virginian Rainforest C. Waterfall
B. Mekong Rainforest D. Oxbow lake

C. Amazon Rainforest
D. Great Dismal Rainforest 526. River south east of Columbus

A. 75%
B. 70%
C. 7%
D. 50%
530. The direction go in which order (clock-

wise)?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Ohio
B. Wabash
C. Kankakee
A. North, East, South, West
D. White
B. North, West, South, East
527. a continuous body of saltwater that is C. North, South, East, West
contained in an enormous basin on Earth’s
surface D. South, North, West, East
A. mesa 531. All of the following are renewable re-

B. pond sources except
A. Diamonds
C. river
B. Water
D. ocean
C. Plants
528. What causes the seasons to change on
D. Animals
Earth?
A. The North and South Poles 532. Oxygen, fresh water, solar energy,
biomass
A. Renewable Resource
C. The wind currents
B. Nonrenewable Resource
D. The Earth’s tilt on its axis as it revolves
around the sun 533. ( )-Water (oceans, lakes, rivers,
groundwater, glaciers)
529. What percentage of the earth is water?
A. Geosphere

B. Hydrosphere B. river
C. Atmosphere C. volcano

D. Biosphere D. none of above
534. People in society that have authority to 538. Lines of latitude RUN in which direction?
make and carry out laws
A. North to South
A. Culture
B. East to West
B. Government
C. Teachers 539. The water held in the pores of rock is
called?
D. Economics
A. water table
535. When 2 plates move away from each
other they are plates. B. rock fluid
C. water ground
D. ground water
540. What is the smallest continent?
A. divergent
B. convergent
C. transform
D. subduction
536. Movement of minerals by wind, water, A. Europe

ice, and gravity
B. South America
A. Divergent
C. Australia
B. Transform
D. North America
C. Erosion
D. Weathering 541. Which biome is the driest?
537. The has cut off a piece of land to make

an island.
A. Desert
B. Tundra
C. Taiga
A. sea D. Rainforest

542. A political map shows you 547. What is Boulder’s warmest month?
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A. politicians in the area A. January
B. political parties B. May
C. country boundaries C. July
D. the states that Trump said voted ille- D. September
gally
548. are the largest of the ice masses.
543. Area created by feelings and opinions of
humans A. Glaciers
A. Perceptual Region B. Ice Sheets
B. Formal Region C. Ice Caps
C. Functional Region D. Icebergs
D. none of above
549. The processes by which rock, sand, and
544. How long does it take the Earth to make other materials are broken down into
one complete revolution? smaller pieces
A. 24 hours A. Glaciation
B. 366 days B. Soil Building
C. 365 C. Weathering
D. It depends on which season it is. D. Erosion
545. What would be a good description of the
550. Which continent is located west of Asia?
landforms in western Kansas?
A. Mountains
B. Plains
C. Plateaus
D. Volcanoes
546. A(n) is a large area of ocean sur-
rounded by land.
A. Ocean A. Europe
B. Gulf B. Antarctica
C. Lake C. Australia
D. island D. South America

551. What material is used to form igneous 556. The Equator is located at
rocks? A. Zero degrees longitude.

A. magma B. Zero degrees latitude.
B. sand C. 100 degrees north latitude.
C. gravel D. none of above
D. fossils 557. The land along the edge of the sea or
ocean, a lake or another large area of wa-
552. Which does NOT affect climate? ter.
A. Water
B. Sun
C. Location
D. Moisture
553. At which depth below Earth’s surface is

the interface between Earth’s outer core
and stiffer mantle located? A. bank
A. 700 km B. shore
B. 2900 km C. beach
C. 2000 km D. none of above
D. 5100 km 558. How many continents are on Earth?

A. 7
554. This is the layering of information that
geographers and others can use to make B. 6
better decisions C. 5
A. Global Positioning System Information D. 8
B. Geographic Information System 559. Acid rain is dangerous to humans and an-
imals when it gets into the
555. How many continents are on the Earth?
A. Air Vents
B. Oceans
C. Drinking Water
D. Fossil Fuels
560. An event when the Northern hemisphere
and the Southern hemisphere experience
roughly equal amounts of daytime and
nighttime.
A. 7 A. rotation
B. 4 B. revolution
C. 5 C. solstice
D. 2 D. equinox

561. This occurs around June 21.

A. Summer solstice
B. Summer equinox
562. How long does a revolution of earth

take?
A. 1 year A. west of South America
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B. 1 day B. east of north America
C. 1 season C. south of Europe

D. north of Africa
D. 1 month
568. What is latitude?
563. Earth’s crust is made up of enormous
pieces called tectonic plates. A. lines that run east to west
A. 7 B. lines that run north to south
B. 16 C. lines that run east to north
C. 5 D. lines that run west to south
D. 24 569. The movement of water from the Earth’s

surface to the atmosphere and back is
564. Which portion of the crust is thicker? called?
A. Continental A. reverse osmosis
B. Oceanic B. run off
C. water cycle
565. The narrow strip of land connecting two
larger land areas. D. none of above
A. isthmus 570. During which month does Manaus, Brazil
B. mantle receive the most rainfall (precipitation)?
C. glacier
D. axis
566. The Himalayas in Asia are an example of

what type of plate boundary?
A. divergent
B. continent-to-continent convergent
C. ocean-to-continent convergent A. February
D. transform B. March
567. What is the correct relative location of C. April

the Pacific Ocean? D. May

571. Which letter represents the shape of val- 575. Africa’s Great Rift Valley was created by
leys created by glaciers?

A. V
B. U
C. W
D. L
572. Transportations that are usually used if

we want to travel from one island to an-
A. Divergent Tectonics Forces
other island are and
B. Convergent Tectonic Forces
C. Soil Building
D. Weathering
576. An area of land that is almost surrounded

by water but is joined to a larger piece of
land.
A. cars and trains
B. boats and planes
C. planes and cars
D. none of above
573. What are landforms?

A. Masses of land, such as continents, is-
lands, and peninsulas
A. beach
B. A body of fresh water
B. cliff
C. Land that is mostly flat
C. peninsula
D. Water that is surrounded by land
D. none of above
574. Which point is located at 30oS, 30oE?
577. Describes the condition of the air out-
doors
A. Weather
B. Climate
578. One continent which is completely north

of the equator is
A. K
B. D
C. E
D. G

A. Africa 584. An area of trees, smaller than a forest.

B. Australia
C. North America
D. South America
579. What is this?

A. Mountain
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B. Beach
A. copse
C. Bay
D. Watershed B. woods
C. forest
580. What is the process that produces safe
drinking water? D. none of above
A. Desalination
585. The lowest part of a mountain.
B. Hydrosphere
C. Water Cycle
D. Evaporation
581. Average weather over a long period of

time, four seasons, predictable and ex-
pected are characteristics of what?
A. Climate
A. summit
B. Weather
C. Season B. ridge
D. Sun C. foot
D. none of above
Earth?
586. Is Australia only a country?
A. the North and South Poles
B. Earth’s distance from the Sun
C. the wind currents
D. the Earth’s tilt as it revolves around
the sun
583. What evidence helped Wegener support

his theory?
A. Climate change
B. Fossils
C. Land Features A. True
D. All of the Above B. False

587. Longitude measures C. mantle

D. lithosphere

591. The United States of America is a country
located on which continent?
A. East or West of the Prime Meridian

B. North or South of the Equator
C. East or West of the Equator
D. North or South of the Prime Meridian A. South America
588. The six parts of a map include B. Europe
A. Title, Orientation, Drawings, Articles, C. Africa
Lakes, & Scale D. North America
B. Time, Orientation, Date, Author, Leg-
end/Key, & Strand 592. What is El Nino
C. Title, Orientation, Date, Author, Leg- A. Little earthquakes

end/Key, & Scale B. Rising levels of air pollution
D. Theme, Orientation, Date Author, Leg- C. Warming of the Pacific Ocean
end/Key, & Scale D. Melting ice caps
589. The movement of sediment from one lo- 593. This is the act of human’s interacting with
cation to another is called? their environment to grow food
A. weathering A. Transportation
B. erosion B. Recycling
C. condensation C. Conservation
D. run off D. Farming
590. Which layer of Earth is located above the 594. a giant ocean wave
outer core?
A. tsunami
B. glacier
C. continent
D. erosion
595. Worldwide, temperatures have been in-

creasing for more than 100 years. Is this
evidence of global warming?
A. crust A. yes
B. inner core B. no

596. I transport material along a beach. What 601. A giant ocean wave caused by volcanic
am I? eruptions or movement of the earth under
A. Longshore Drift the ocean floor is:
B. Longshore Drift A. Earthquake
C. Longnose Drift B. Plate
D. Longway drift C. Fault

D. Tsunami
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597. The study of how people manage their re-
sources, goods, and services 602. This picture shows
A. Economics
B. Geology
C. Geography
D. History
598. 2 degrees S
A. Tropic of Cancer
A. Convectional rain
B. Tropic of Capricorn
B. Orographic rain
C. Equator
C. Frontal rain
D. Prime Meridian
D. none of above
599. The dry desert like area on the side of
a mountain facing away from the wind is 603. What is a round model of the Earth
known as a what? called?
A. moon shadow A. Globe
B. rain shadow B. Map
C. sun shadow C. Continent
D. eclipse D. GPS
600. What does the red line represent? 604. Wind creating sand dunes in the desert is
a
A. natural process
B. human process
605. What type of defence measure is used to

tackle Longshore drift
A. Northern Hemisphere A. groynes
B. Southern Hemisphere B. gabbions
C. Equator C. rock armour
D. Prime Meridian D. sea wall

606. Which of the following is NOT a Natural B. erosion

Resource? C. weathering

A. Coal D. deposition
B. Paper
611. What is letter C in the picture?
C. Solar
D. Wind
607. flat
A. low
B. bay
C. flat
D. cape A. Vent
608. Where plants, animals and people live B. Crater
A. Lithosphere C. Caldera
B. Atmosphere D. Tephra
C. Hydrosphere 612. The constant recycling of liquid on the
D. Biosphere Earth is called
A. The unicycle
609. What country is highlighted on the map?
It is one of the most powerful countries in B. the bicycle
Europe and founded the city of Mobile in C. the life cycle
the 1700s. D. the water cycle
613. which of the following photos is a vol-

cano?
A.
B.
A. France
B. The United Kingdom C.
C. Spain
D. Germany D. all of the above
610. The process of breaking up rocks on 614. Farming is an example of which theme of
Earth’s surface is known as what? geography?
A. sediment A. Location

B. Human-Environment Interaction 619. Where is earth’s largest glacier?

C. Transportation
D. Place
615. a long, narrow band of volcanoes along

the Pacific Ocean
A. continent
A. Alaska
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B. Ring of Fire
C. glacier B. Iceland
D. tsunami C. Greenland
D. Antarctica
616. What results when tectonic plates grind
against each other. 620. An example of chemical weathering
A. earthquakes would be
B. volcanoes
C. tectonic plates
D. faults
617. This is the curved path of a celestial ob-

ject or spacecraft around a star, planet, or
moon, especially a periodic elliptical revo-
A. Acid rain dissolving rock
lution.
B. Ice freezing and breaking rock
A. Rotation
C. Topsoil blowing away
B. Revolution
D. Water wearing down sandstone
C. Orbit
D. Eclipse 621. What is the definition of weather?
A. a period of abnormally dry weather
618. This image shows an example of Plate that lasts at least 2 years
Tectonics. What is the most likely outcome
of this kind of Plate Tectonic movement? B. the specific condition of the atmo-
sphere at a particular place and time
C. a complex community of organisms
and the community’s environment
D. a release of toxic gas
622. A physical (relief) map is mainly used to
show
A. A new peninsula is created.
B. A mountain is formed.
C. It will make a trench in the Earth’s
crust.
D. There will be an earthquake.

A. elevation B. December
B. distances C. January

C. boundaries and borders D. February
D. landforms 627. What ocean is north of Antarcitca?
623. Is Russia located in South America?
A. Yes
B. No
624. Which state is located directly to the

EAST of Louisiana?
A. Indian
B. Arctic
C. Southern
D. Pacific
628. How much of our planet’s water is salt-
water?
A. Mississippi
A. 75%
B. Texas
B. 1%
C. Arkansas C. 99%
D. Tennessee D. 97%
625. imaginary line running through Earth’s 629. What land form is this?
center
A. isthmus
B. tundra
C. axis
D. solstice
626. During which month does Portland, Ore-

A. valley
gon have the highest amount of precipita-
tion (rainfall)? B. plain
C. volcano
D. canyon
630. Which type of map shows culture re-
gions?
A. Physical Map
B. Political Map
C. Thematic Map
A. November D. none of above

631. What is the name of the sea that is be- 635. “Rocks rolled along the river bed” is
tween Europe and Africa and Asia? what type of transportation?
A. Saltation
B. Suspension
C. Traction
D. Solution
636. What is Boulder’s rainiest month?
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A. Mediterranean Sea
B. Red Sea
C. Caspian Sea
D. Black Sea
632. Can plates move in different ways?

A. January
A. B. May
C. July
D. September
B.
637. the outside part or uppermost layer of
something
633. What landform is this? A. light
B. table
C. book
D. surface
638. G.P.S. is defined as;
A. Geographic Phone Software
A. mountain B. Global Property System
B. plateau C. Global Precision System
C. ocean D. Global Positioning System
D. valley 639. What ocean would you be in if you were

at 30 degrees south and 150 degrees
634. A body of water moving in a specific di- west?
rection is called a
A. foot
B. geyser
C. ridge
D. current

A. The Atlantic Ocean 644. is when liquid water turns into vapor
B. The Arctic Ocean because of heat from the sun.

C. The Pacific Ocean A. Condensation
D. The Indian Ocean B. Respiration

C. Precipitation
640. What climate zone can be considered as
D. Evaporation
the most diverse?
A. Polar 645. Which type of map shows a lakes, moun-
tains, and rivers?
B. High Mountain
A. Physical Map
C. Desert
B. Political Map
D. Tropical
C. Thematic Map
641. Which physical process created the grand D. none of above
canyon?
A. Water Erosion 646. Which of the following would happen in
the highlighted region?
B. Glaciation
C. Hurricanes
D. Soil Building
642. What is this?

A. Cape
B. Cliff
C. River
D. Gulf
A. Tornadoes
643. Which map would you use if you are not
interested in humans, only the shape of B. Monsoons
the earth through rivers and mountains? C. Hurricanes
D. Typhoons
647. Which layer of the Earth is the least

dense?
A. Crust
B. Inner core
C. Mantle
D. Outer core
A. political
648. The is where the river empties into
B. physical a larger body of water like an ocean or a
C. road lake.
D. historical A. mouth

B. source
C. tributary
D. none of above
A. St. Louis, MO
649. Which of the following is an example of
absolute location? B. Flint, MI
A. The White House is located at 1600 C. Lawrence, KS
Pennsylvania Avenue
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D. Kansas City, KS
B. The White House is near Congress
654. The Sun gives us all of the following
C. The White House is in Washington DC
except-
D. The White House northeast of Houston
A. light
650. The system that contains all living things B. heat
on Earth.
C. energy
A. Biosphere
D. water
B. Atmosphere
C. Hydrosphere 655. A polar climate is?
D. Geosphere A. warm and cool
651. What river is located in Virginia? B. consistently moderate
C. consistently cool
D. consistently warm
656. Where is Antarctica located?
A. Mississippi River
B. big River
C. Amazon River
D. James River
A. South Pole
652. Which one below is not a landform?
B. North Pole
A. Mountain
B. Ocean 657. footpath
C. Landmass A. street
D. Sunflowers B. road
C. square
653. Which city has the highest person’s in
poverty by percentage? D. footpath

658. Identify the layer of the earth labeled # 662. The longest and shortest days of the
6 year.

A. equinox
B. axis
C. solstice
D. revolution
A. crust 663. Relief precipitation occurs when the wind-

ward side of a mountain receives more rain
B. mantle than the leeward side because
C. outer core
D. inner core
659. What is an island?

A. narrow strip of land between water,
connecting two larger pieces of land
B. land surrounded by water on three
sides A. Wind brings rain
C. land surrounded by water on all sides B. The mountain acts like a shower cur-
D. lower land between hills or mountains tain, keeping one side wet while the other
is drier
660. There are how many different types of
crust? C. It is warmer near the ocean
A. 1 D. Tornadoes form on the leeward side,
B. 2 blowing rain back across the mountain
C. 5
664. Continents are a type of landform sur-
D. 3 rounded by water.
661. What is 2? A. True
B. False
665. The layer of the Earth composed of

melted liquid rock called magma which
causes the continents to move.
A. The Core
A. North America
B. The Lithosphere
B. Europe
C. Asia C. The Mantle
D. Australia D. The Crust

666. Cities that are closer to large bodies of A. divergent

water tend to have temperatures
B. convergent
C. transform
D. subduction
670. After lots of time, pressure, and heat,

you get this kind of rock. What type of
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rock is this?
A. more extreme temperature changes

B. less extreme temperature changes
C. 4 distinct seasons
D. more sunshine A. Sedimentary
667. Which of the following is an environmen- B. Igneous

tal impact of natural disasters? C. Metamorphic
A. a drought cause erosion to the top soil D. none of above
of a farm
B. a hurricane causing a chemical spill 671. This is an event where the Earth’s poles
flow into the river are most extremely inclined towards the
Sun.
C. carbon dioxide being released into the
atmosphere from a wildfire A. rotation
D. all of the following are correct B. revolution
C. solstice
668. What is the name given to the one “Su-
per continent”? D. equinox
672. What is the habitat in which organisms

live called?
A. Hydrosphere
B. Lithosphere
C. Biosphere
A. Wonder D. Atmosphere
B. of spelling
673. Where do you find the polar climate?
C. one World
A. temperate zones
D. Derozan
B. between the tropics
669. The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the
C. at the poles
Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by
this type of plate boundary. D. in the warm areas

674. The of the axis of the Earth is what

causes the sun to rise and fall in the sky.

A. rotation
B. tilt
C. revolution
D. flipping A. Indian
B. Arctic
675. A zone at the North & South Poles, cold
temps year round. C. Southern
A. Polar D. Pacific
B. Tundra 680. What ocean is westof Africa?

C. Taiga
D. Highlands
676. Where is most water found on Earth?

A. glaciers
B. lakes
A. Indian
C. rivers
B. atlatic
D. oceans
C. Southern
677. Which of the following is an example of D. Pacific
human process?
681. What is abrasion?
A. water levels rising and overflowing at
a dam A. When a river uses its load to cut into
the bank of a river to erode it
B. tectonic plates colliding
B. When a river wears down the load it
C. an oil spill on an oil rig in Louisiana carries over time
D. a flower planted by a gardener decay- 682. Which runs horizontally around the
ing from lack of sunlight earth?
678. The place where a river first starts is A. Equator and lines of latitude
called the B. Prime Meridian and lines of latitude
A. geyser C. Equator and lines of longitude
B. source D. Prime Meridian and lines of longitude
C. current 683. How many people were killed and made

D. stream homeless?
A. 216, 000 people were killed and 1 mil-
679. What ocean is east of Africa? lion people were made homeless.

B. 316, 000 people were killed and 1 mil- A. rainshadow effect

lion people were made homeless. B. shadow box
C. 316, 000 people were killed and 3 mil- C. wind shield
lion people were made homeless.
D. sheild effect
D. 319, 000 people were killed and 2 mil-
lion people were made homeless. 688. The world’s largest island is
684. String of volcanoes and sites of seismic A. Sumatra island
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activity, or earthquakes, around the edges B. Australia
of the Pacific Ocean
C. Greenland
A. Ring of Fire
D. none of above
B. Volcanic Circle
C. Volcanic Central 689. What type of vegetation is this?
D. none of above
685. The State of Florida is located on a(n)
A. Savanna
B. Steppe
A. island C. Desert
B. strait D. Tundra
C. isthmus 690. is a deep body of water with land on
D. peninsula three sides.
686. Why is the inner core solid? A. Peninsula
A. its unknown B. Gulf
B. what it’s made of C. Strait

C. the pressure D. none of above
D. it is colder than the outer core 691. A natural elevation of the earth that is
higher than a hill
687. When one side of the mountain is dry
and does not receive the rain and wind the
ocean side gets, it is called the
A. hill

B. mountain
C. Plain

D. Peninsula
692. What is this?

A. Slope
B. Valley
C. Plateau A. time
D. Hill B. temperature
693. this is what? C. population

D. language
696. The Himalayan Mountains were created
by
A. two tectonic plates colliding
B. two tectonic plates dividing
C. erosion
D. volcanic eruptions
A. continent
B. prarie 697. There are 4 Great Lakes.
C. valley A. True
B. False
D. core
698. Spit is a
694. Lines of latitude divide the world into
A. a small point of land
what two hemispheres?
B. a bend of the river
C. natural hazard
D. narrow valley
699. The idea of geographical ‘Movement’ in-
cludes the movement of people, and also
A. Spiderman
B. bugs
A. East and West
C. spaghetti
B. North and South
D. ideas
C. South and West
700. When two plates move apart is that a
D. North and East constructive or destructive boundary?
695. Knowing the latitude of a location would A. Constructive
be most helpful in determining B. Destructive

701. The water cycle has no start or end

A. true
B. false
702. Deep and narrow valley with steep walls

A. plateau
B. desert A. causeways
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C. canyon B. bridge
C. road
D. none of above
D. none of above
703. What is a portion of the ocean that is
707. Tropical climate zones are determined by
partly surrounded by land?
A. ocean
B. sea
C. lake
D. pond
A. Distance from the Equator
704. When day and night are equal in both
hemispheres. B. Elevation
A. equinox C. Prevailing winds
D. Ocean currents
B. solstice
C. revolution 708. Saline water comprises % of all wa-
ter sources available on the earth
D. axis
705. What type of vegetation is this?
A. 3 %
B. 97 %
C. 100 %
D. 50 %
A. Tundra
709. Which energy source’s waste is ex-
B. Desert
tremely dangerous?
C. Steppe
A. nuclear
D. Savanna B. solar
706. What is the name of the thing shown on C. wind
the picture above? D. natural gas

710. What is the purpose of a scale on a map? 714. What is the average weather for a par-
A. To represent and measure distance ticular time and region called?

B. To show the directions A. drought
C. To identify what symbols mean B. weather
D. To explain the subject C. emissions
711. Evaporation happens when the sun D. climate
water and turns it into vapor.
715. The average temperature and precipita-
tion pattern of an area over a long period
of time is an area’s
A. Coriolis Effect
B. Climate
C. Prevailing Winds
D. Weather
A. cools 716. This is a narrow strip of land that con-

B. heats up nects two larger land areas
C. freezes A. Island
D. lights up B. Continent
712. The Pampas mountain region can be C. Peninsula
found in which South American country?
D. Isthmus
A. Argentina
B. Chile 717. If you started in Asia and traveled east
you would reach which continent?
C. Brazil
D. Peru
713. Name the ocean labeled 1?
A. A
B. B
C. C
A. Pacific Ocean
B. Indian Ocean D. D
C. Arctic Ocean 718. Crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
D. Southern Oce make up

B. Mexico City
C. China
D. Brazil
723. What type of boundary is formed when

plates collide?
A. convergent
A. The spheres of the earth
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B. horizontal
B. Types of plate tectonics
C. divergent
C. Climate factors
D. transform
D. The earth’s layers
724. What percent of Earth’s surface is wa-
719. This is a shortage in availability due to
ter?
physical shortage of water or limited ac-
cess to water because of lack of pipes to A. 90%
transport water. B. 85%
A. water cycle C. 71%
B. water scarcity D. 75%
C. demographics
725. What happens to Central America and
D. corrode South America during El Nino?
720. Which layer of the Earth is the thickest? A. increased rainfall
A. Core B. droughts
B. Crust C. freezing temperatures
C. Mantle D. wildfires
D. none of above 726. Equator
721. This picture shows a/an
A. A
A. strait B. B
B. channel C. C
C. isthmus D. D
D. peninsula 727. How many days do we have on a leap
722. Which country is best known for using year?
terracing? A. 364
A. Chernobyl B. 366

C. 365 733. What massive plateau covers the north-

D. 365 1/4 ern area of Quebec & Ontario?

A. Canadian Rockies
728. Which Continent is #1
B. Canadian Shield
C. St. Lawrence Lowlands
D. Great Lakes
734. Why do we have a leap year every 4

years.
A. Asia
A. Because its February and it is cold
B. Europe
B. Because we subtract and extra 1/4
C. North America day every year
D. South America C. We do not have any leap years, you are
729. Which 2 of these is a body of water trying to trick me.
mostly surrounded by land? D. Because we have an extra 1/4 day ev-
A. bay ery year
B. cape 735. Name this landform.
C. gulf
D. peninsula
730. What is the purpose of a compass on a
map?
A. To represent and measure distance
B. To show the directions A. peninsula
C. To identify what symbols mean
B. plain
D. To explain the subject
C. river
731. What occurs on or about June 21 in the D. lake
Norther Hemisphere?
A. Summer Solstice 736. Does not change the composition of rock.
It breaks it down into smaller pieces
B. Spring Equinox
A. Chemical Weathering
C. Fall Equinox
B. Mechanical Weathering
D. Winter Solstice
C. Transform
732. This type of map depicts features such as
mountains, plains, and bodies of water. D. Divergent
A. Topographic 737. Lines of measure how far from the
B. Resource equator a place is located?
C. Climate A. Longitude
D. Physical B. Latitude

738. What is this? 742. What is the name for the warm water
A. Archipelago current that makes western Europe’s cli-
mate more mild despite its northern lati-
B. Islet tude?
C. River
D. Mountain
739. A river starts very small before getting
NARAYAN CHANGDER
larger. What is the name given to a small
river that joins a larger river?
A. The boy
B. The girl
C. Gulf Stream
D. Jet Stream
743. Streams and rivers flowing over cliffs

A. Confluence make
B. Tribunal A. oceans
C. Tributary B. waterfalls
D. Joiner C. lakes
740. We live on the D. mountains
A. crust 744. The Dead Sea is a freshwater sea.
B. mantle
A. True
C. core
B. False
D. none of above
745. Phae Mueang Phi is an external change
741. Which state is located directly to the caused by which agent?
WEST of Louisiana?
A. Mississippi A. river
B. Texas B. rain water
C. Arkansas C. glacier
D. Tennessee D. wave

746. A large area of sea that is partly sur- A. Ural Mountains

rounded by land. B. Bosporus, Dardanelles

C. Java
D. Iberian Peninsula
750. What is this?

A. Hill
B. Peninsula
A. gulf C. Cape
B. cove D. Isthmus
C. bay
751. Choose the correct option
D. none of above
747. In which of the 4 spheres would the pro-

cess in the picture take place?
A. strait
B. valley
A. Hydrosphere C. plateau
B. Biosphere D. glacier
C. Lithosphere
752. A region of reduced rainfall on one side
D. Atmosphere of a high mountain.
748. A climate in the SW USA with warm tem- A. climate
peratures and little rainfall. B. weathering
A. Rainforest C. rain shadow
B. Tundra D. precipitation
C. Desert
753. Areas that are centered around 30 de-
D. Alpine grees latitude and receive less than 10
inches of rain per year fall in which climate
749. What is 3?
zone?
A. Arid
B. Humid Continental
C. Tundra
D. none of above

754. Which layer contains the Earth’s surface 758. Which city is located at 38 degrees north
water such as oceans, lakes, streams, and and 120 degrees west?
rivers?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. San Francisco
A. atmosphere
B. New York
B. lithosphere
C. New Orleans
C. mesosphere
D. hydrosphere D. London
755. Name Continent A! 759. The materials in nature that people use
and value
A. Consumption
B. Natural Resources
C. Natural Gas
D. Valuable Resources
760. A body of water naturally heated from

A. North America the earth is called a
B. Africa A. gorge
C. Asia B. plain
D. South America
C. thermal spring
756. What is this? D. strait
A. River
B. Watershed
C. Mountain
D. Archipelago
757. What causes Earthquakes?

A. When tectonic plates slide past one an-
other or attransform boundaries
A. Arctic
B. When a tsunami happens
B. Pacific
C. When plates separate or at divergent
boundaries C. Southern
D. People cause earthquakes. D. Atlantic

762. Trip around the sun is

A. Rotation

B. Revolution
763. A peninsula is a piece of land that

is almost entirely surrounded by water A. density
but is connected to the mainland on one
B. population
side.Which picture best matches the defi-
nition of a peninsula? C. habitat
D. none of above
A. 768. Which continent is brown?
B.
C. A. Africa
B. Europe
D. none of above C. North America
D. South America
764. What is the job of an Archaeologist?
769. Water can be found in what subsystem
A. To study bones of the Earth
B. To study history A. lithosphere
C. To study artifacts B. hydrosphere
D. To study the economy C. atmosphere
D. biosphere
765. The Midwest has less rain making
770. Which are characteristics of climate?
A. mountains
A. temperature and precipitation
B. cliffs B. temperature and pollution
C. forests C. vegetation and animals
D. grasslands D. vegetation and pollution
766. What scale measures earthquakes 771. Most of the world’s people live here and
it’s located in the middle latitudes.
A. The richter scale
A. Tropical
B. The beaufort scale B. Temperate
767. The amount of people living in this partic- C. Polar
ular area measured per square km. D. Highland

772. What was Alfred Wegener’s theory C. Asia

called? D. Europe
776. Which of the following wears away

quickly?
A. magma
B. granite
A. one earth
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. sandstone
B. jigsaw puzzle moves
D. volcanic rock
C. continental drift
777. Big corporations are always in search of
D. none of the above
new land. Minerals, raw materials and
773. Which is the longest river of the world? large farms are being created at an alarm-
ing rate through deforestation. Where is
A. Amazon
this occurring?
B. Ganges
A. Brazil
C. Nile
B. Norway
D. Niger
C. United States
E. Congo
D. Canada
774. this is a?
778. Which ocean lies to the west of the Aus-
tralian coast?
A. strait A. Indian Ocean

B. island B. Atlantic Ocean
C. steppe C. Pacific Ocean
D. none of above D. Southern Ocean
775. Which continent is #6? E. Arctic Ocean
779. Which climate is most prevalent in the

rectangular area on the map?
A. Australia
B. America

A. Ice cap 784. What percent of Earth’s surface is wa-

ter?
B. Tundra

A. 71 percent
C. Marine West Coast
B. 75 percent
D. Subarctic
C. 97 percent
780. Landforms affect all but D. 56 percent
A. transportation 785. Where is located Australia?
B. communication A. Northern Hemisphere
C. settlement patterns B. Southern Hemisphere
D. electricity C. Eastern Hemisphere
D. Western Hemisphere
781. Lines of longitude RUN in which direc-
tion? 786. A strong earthquake that occurs on the
ocean floor could result in the formation
A. North to South
of
B. East to West
A. an ocean current
782. What is climate? B. The boy
C. a delta
D. Ah tsunami
787. What Zone is located at the North and
South Poles, long cold winters, freezing
temperatures almost all the time?
A. Temperate
A. What’s happening in space at a time B. Tropical
and place. C. Polar
B. What’s happening in our atmosphere D. Desert
at a time and place
788. If you were returning to the Palace The-
C. The average weather over many years ater from Town Hall, what direction would
D. The average temperature over many you travel?
years.
783. Changes in temperature are expected to

be greatest
A. near the equator
B. near the poles
A. East
C. between the equator and the North
Pole B. Northeast
D. between the equator and the South C. Southeast
Pole D. Southwest

789. How many oceans are on Earth? B. Tropic Zone

A. 4 C. Temperate Zone
B. 5
D. none of above
C. 6
D. 7 795. Change rock into new substances as a re-
sult of air or water and minerals within
790. This sphere is composed of all the living
the rock
NARAYAN CHANGDER
things
A. Chemical Weathering
B. Mechanical Weathering
C. Transform
D. Divergent
A. Hydrosphere 796. What is the longest continental mountain

chain called (found in South America)
B. Biosphere
C. Atmosphere
D. Geosphere
791. A mountain is a piece of land

A. over 300 metres high
B. over 400 metres high
C. over 600 metres high
D. in a pineapple under the sea.
792. latitude A. Andes Mountains
A. a degree of latitude B. Atlas Mountains

B. a degree of amplitude C. Alps
C. degrees of longitude
D. Appalachian Mountains
D. degrees of latitude
793. When Earth tilts away from the sun, 797. Which is NOT a cardinal direction?
what are the temperatures like?
A. East
A. warmer
B. South
B. colder
C. Northwest
794. The area between the Antarctic and the
Topic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer D. North
and the Arctic Circle is known as the
A. Pole Zone 798. The earth’s coldest biome is the

C. William Morris Davis

D. Elvis M Davis

803. An area of land that is higher than the
land around it, but not as high as a moun-
tain.
A. Antarctic
B. Grasslands
A. hillock
C. Tundra
B. hill
D. Freshwater
C. reef
799. As altitude temperature
D. none of above
A. decreases, decreases
B. increases, increases 804. Identify the letter in the diagram. Iden-
tify letter A
C. increases, decreases
D. decreases, increases
800. People around the world exchange prod-

ucts and ideas. This definition would go
with which Five Themes of Geography?
A. Location
B. Place
C. Movement
A. Lithosphere
D. Human-Environment Interaction
B. Asthenosphere
801. large natural streams of water are called C. Mantle
A. oceans
D. Outer Core
B. rivers
C. ponds 805. is to Continent as the Milky Way is
to Galaxy.
D. waterslides
A. Asia
802. Who is the father of American Geogra-
phy? B. The United States
A. Erresthemes C. Houston
B. Eratosthemes D. Texas

806. What landform causes the rain shadow 810. An adaptation is

effect?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Mountains
B. Lakes
C. Plains A. the environment that an organism lives
in
D. Valleys
B. the affect of climate on an organism
807. A warm ocean current that keeps Ire- C. not important for the survival of an or-
land’s ports ice-free ganism
A. The Canary current D. any structure or behavior that helps
and organism survive
B. The North Atlantic Drift
C. The Labrador current 811. What does it mean if you are located in
longitude 0◦ ?
D. The West Atlantic Drift
A. I am in the Equator line
808. Name the two main processes of glacial B. I am located in Greenwich line or
erosion prime meridian
A. Abrasion C. I am located nowhere
B. Freeze Thaw D. I am located in the artic circle
C. Attrition 812. Why do places on Earth have daily peri-

ods of daylight and darkness?
D. Plucking
A. because of Earth’s North and South
809. This sphere contains all water on Earth. poles
B. because Earth rotates once every 24
hours
C. because of Earth’s tilt
D. . because of Earth’s distance from the
sun
813. How much of the Earth is covered in wa-
ter?
A. Hydrosphere A. one-fourth
B. Biosphere B. two-fourths
C. Atmosphere C. one-half
D. Lithosphere D. three-fourths

814. A fan-shaped landform created by sedi- 818. A narrow strip of land with water on
ment being deposited at the mouth of a both sides connecting two larger pieces of
river. land is called an

A. Delta A. Island
B. Canyon B. Isthmus
C. U-Shaped Valley C. Peninsula
D. Sand Dunes D. Delta
819. What body of water is shown in blue?
815. What does the red line represent?
A. Eastern Hemisphere
B. Western Hemisphere A. English Channel
C. Equator B. Mediterranean Sea

C. Rhine River
D. Prime Meridian
D. Danube River
816. What body of water is shown in blue?
820. Longitude lines run from north to south.
A. True
B. False
821. Cyclones, tornados and hurricanes are ex-
amples of
A. High pressure systems
B. Bad days
A. English Channel C. Extreme weather
B. Mediterranean Sea D. Climate Change
C. Black Sea 822. What is Earth’s annual motion around the
D. Red Sea sun called?
A. Rotation
817. What lines are also called “parallels” and
run west to east but are measured in de- B. Revolution
grees north and south of the equator? 823. The Earth’s core is made of parts.
A. Lines of Geography A. Two
B. Lines of Longitude B. Three
C. Lines of Hemispheres C. Mismatched
D. Lines of Latitude D. Moving

824. What are perceptual regions based off of A. Greece

A. facts B. Italy
B. statistics C. Spain
C. perceptions or ideas of a place D. France
D. a center point
828. The section where a smaller river joins a
825. Divergent boundaries can cause what to larger river is called a
NARAYAN CHANGDER
form?
A. bodies of water
B. earthquakes
C. floods
D. mountains
826. From the picture, mountains are classified

according to what type of geological struc-
ture? A. Tributary
B. Congruence
C. Confluence
D. Convergence
829. a climate zone

A. desert
A. limestone B. delta
B. sandstone C. hydrosphere
C. granite D. magma
D. pumice stone
830. California’s San Andreas Fault is a trans-
827. What is the country in Europe that is a form plate boundary that causes
peninsula and resembles a boot kicking a
rock?
A. Volcanic eruptions
B. Drought
C. Wildfires
D. Earthquakes

831. This picture shows a/an 836. What type of rock is usually found at a
headland?

A. Hard, more resistant rock
B. Soft, less resistant rock
C. Fossilised rock
D. none of above
837. What is this?

A. strait
B. isthmus
C. delta
D. volcano
832. This occurs on or about June 21 in the

North Hemisphere.
A. Tundra A. Mountain
B. Summer Solstice B. Canyon
C. Spring Solstice C. Desert
D. Winter Solstice D. Prairie
833. Body of water that forms Mexico’s east 838. Which layer contains the ground we walk
coast on?
A. Gulf of California
B. Gulf of Aden
C. Gulf of Mexico
D. none of above
834. How long is a rotation of Earth

A. 365 days A. atmosphere
B. 1 day B. lithosphere
C. 1 season C. hydrosphere
D. 1 month D. mesosphere
835. Caused by a release of energy from the 839. Which ocean is the most southern ocean?
earth’s crust, creating seismic waves
A. Tornado
B. Hurricane
C. Volcano
D. Earthquake

A. Atlantic 843. Summer like temperatures year round.

Has rain forests biomes due to extreme
B. Pacific
rainfall year round.
C. Southern
A. Tropical
D. Arctic
B. T
840. What is a climate? 844. When something is moved through wind,
water, ice or other natural occurrences is
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A. land with steep sides that rises sharply
from surrounding land called
B. average weather over a long period of A. Weathering
time B. Erosion
C. short term C. Condensation
D. climates that are wet and warm D. Precipitation
841. Mechanical weathering could result in 845. The Earth’s crust is made up of how many
which natural disaster? tectonic plates
A. 1
B. 7
C. 16
D. 13
846. Some nations try to reclaim land from the

A. Blizzard sea or keep the sea from claiming it. One
such concept is polders. Which country uti-
B. Tornado
lizes this method?
C. Earthquake
A. France
D. Landslide
B. Germany
842. Name Continent B! C. Netherlands
D. England
847. it is raining and 70 degrees Fahrenheit.I

am describing the weather
A. Asia
B. Europe
C. South America A. True
D. Australia B. False

848. How many continents are there according C. Andes Mountains

to the text book?
D. Atlas Mountains

A. 5
B. 6 852. A large body of water surrounded by
land.
C. 7
D. 8
849. This cross section shows the prevailing

winds that cause different climate on the
windward and leeward side of this moun-
tain range.Compared to the climate condi-
tions on the leeward side of this moun-
tain range, the conditions on the wind-
ward side are usually A. Ocean
B. Lake
C. River
D. Plain
853. Location D is located at which coordi-

A. cooler and wetter nates?
B. cooler and drier
C. warmer and wetter
D. warmer and drier
850. Which mountain range is under water?

A. Mount Everest
B. Mariana Trench
C. Blue Ridge Mountain A. 30w, 90w
D. Mid-Atlantic Ridge B. 90w, 30w
851. What is mountain chain located in the C. 10 oN, 40
western part of North America called? D. 30oN, 90oE
854. To locate the exact places on Earth, one

must look at:
A. latitude lines only
B. the intersecting lines of latitude and
longitude
C. longitude lines only
A. Rocky Mountains D. a neighboring area to describe the lo-
B. Appalachian Mountains cation

855. The axis is an imaginary line that runs 859. A community of plants and animals that
through the core from the North Pole to have common characteristics for the envi-
the South Pole. ronment and region.
A. Mountain’s A. Biomes
B. Latitude B. Kingdoms
C. Longitude C. Jellyfish
D. Earth’s D. Empires
NARAYAN CHANGDER
856. Which letter would you find at 15oS, 860. This weather phenomena typically occurs
60oW? in the middle latitudes during the spring
and summer.
A. Tornados
B. Hurricanes
C. Monsoons
D. Earthquakes
861. Weathering is
A. A A. When water deposits sediment in new
B. C locations
C. L B. the movement of sediment from one lo-
cation to another.
D. H
C. the process by which rock is broken
857. What do we call a year with an extra down into smaller pieces.
day?
D. where the river meets the sea
A. Leap frog
862. Which continent is #5?
B. Parachute
C. Leap year
D. Long
858. What building is in the southwest corner
of the city?
A. Antarctica
B. Africa
C. Asia
D. America
863. The Tectonic Theory says which layer of

A. Town Hall Earth is divided into large continent-sized
B. Police Station plates that are constantly moving
C. Park Hotel A. Asthenosphere
D. Palace Theater B. Lithosphere

C. Mesophere C. The Aral Sea

D. Core D. The Caspian Sea

864. What is the hydrosphere?
867. Where would I find Tropical climate?
A. along the poles
B. at 90N and 90S
C. close to Japan
D. along the equator
A. mostly made of invisible gas 868. Name Ocean #2!
B. made up of living things

C. the mostly solid rocky part of the Earth
D. the part of the Earth that is liquid wa-
ter
865. Southern Ocean
A. Arctic
B. Atlantic
C. Indian
D. Pacific
A. A
B. B 869. The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capri-
C. C corn are what type of lines?
D. D A. Latitude lines
866. Which body of water is this that has been B. International Date lines
over irrigated?
C. Longitude lines
D. Meridian lines
870. Which climate zone are you in if the lati-

tude is between 23.5 and 66.5 degrees?
A. Tropical
B. Temperate
A. The Mediterranean Sea C. Polar

B. The Colorado River D. All of the above

871. Which ocean is the farthest north? 875. A is the low land between mountains
or hills
A. valley
B. mountain
C. plain
D. peninsula
NARAYAN CHANGDER
876. The process by which water, ice, wind
A. Indian Ocean or gravity moves weathered rock and soil
from one place to another.
B. Southern Ocean
A. weathering
C. Arctic Ocean
B. erosion
D. Atlantic Ocean
C. deposition
872. Which sentence best describes the rela- D. dump truck
tionship between elevation and air temper-
atures? 877. Name this landform
A. LOWER elevation = COLDER tempera-
tures
B. HIGHER elevation = COLDER temper-
atures
C. HIGHER elevations = WARMER tem-
peratures
D. There is no relationship
A. Corrie
873. A smaller stream or river which flows B. Backwall
into a larger river is called a C. Arete
A. current D. Scree
B. coast
878. Which continent is purple?
C. tributary
D. shore
874. Why do places on earth have daily peri-

ods of daylight and darkness?
A. because of Earth’s North and South
poles
B. because Earth rotates once every 24
hours A. Asia
C. because of Earth’s tilt B. Europe
D. because of Earth’s distance from the C. North America

sun D. Australia

879. What is geography? 883. What is this?

A. Island

B. Islet
C. Peninsula
D. Archipelago
884. Examples of sudden changes in our phys-

A. the study of Earth ical/natural world are
B. the study of fossils A. storms and floods
C. the study of people B. earthquakes and volcanoes
D. the study of history C. weathering and erosion
D. formation of non-renewable resources
880. Someone who studies the weather.
885. Land forms made from dissolving lime-
A. rain gauge
stone
B. taxonomists
C. meteorologist
D. satellites
881. What is weather?
A. Soil
B. Bedrock
C. Karst
D. Calcium
886. Lakes can be saltwater or freshwater

sources.
A. What’s happening in space at a time
A. True
and place.
B. False
B. What’s happening in our atmosphere
at a time and place. 887. A large body of water surrounded by
C. The average weather over many years land.
D. The average temperature over many
years.
882. What type of water found on Earth is not

usable because it’s frozen?
A. Salt water
B. Fresh water

A. Ocean A. Sediment grinds against the cliff like

B. Lake sandpaper
C. River B. Chemicals in the sea water dissolve
rock on the cliff face
D. Plain
C. Waves smash into the cliff forcing air
888. What is the word that means to slowly into cracks
weaken, damage, or destroy by chemical
action. D. Rocks smash into each other becoming
NARAYAN CHANGDER
smaller and more rounded
A. water scarcity
B. demographics 893. When a particular year has an extra day,
it is called (a/an)
C. corrode
D. rotation A. Equinox
B. Solstice
889. This type of boundary heads directly into
each other and can form mountains. C. Leap Year
A. Divergent D. Revolution
B. Convergent 894. A large flat land area with very few
C. Subduction trees.
D. Transform
890. The Prime Meridian
A. Plains
A. A B. Peninsula
B. B C. Mesa
C. C D. Plateau
D. D 895. Which Continent is #2?
891. occurs around March 21 (spring) or
September 21 (fall)
A. equinox
B. solstice
892. What is attrition?
A. Antarctica
B. Australia
C. South America
D. Asia

896. Which type of map shows a city’s size by 901. What is the effect of the Gulf Stream on
the size of dots? the climate of Europe?

A. Physical Map
B. Political Map
C. Thematic Map
D. none of above
897. You want to find the best location for a
beach house, where the weather doesn’t
get too hot. Which map would you use?
A. It makes it colder.
B. It has no effect.
C. It makes it warmer.
D. The Gulf Stream is not near Europe.
A. climate
B. physical 902. Acid rain has caused environmental
changes in which area?
C. political
D. rich person’s realty map A. Mountains of Nepal
898. What is a giant ocean wave? B. Grasslands of Argentina
A. Ring of Fire C. Coasts of Malaysia

B. Erosion D. Forests in Germany
C. Glacier
D. Tsunami 903. What is another word for urban?
899. a raised landmass, a mound less than A. rural

900 feet tall B. city
A. hill
C. farm
B. mountain
C. mesa D. suburb
D. butte
904. An area at the mouth of a river where
900. A process that separates dissolved chem- material carried by the river has created
ical elements to produce safe drinking wa- many channels and islands is called a
ter.
A. gorge
A. desalination
B. delta
B. acid rain
C. weathering C. estuary
D. water cycle D. peninsula

905. A layer of a substance that has formed 909. When the Earth tilts toward the sun,
naturally underground and can be devel- what are the temperatures like?
oped as a part of mining industry. A. colder
B. warmer
910. Which of the 4 spheres encompasses the
atmosphere, hydrosphere, the surface of
the Earth, and plant and animal life on
NARAYAN CHANGDER
Earth?
A. Hydrosphere
B. Biosphere
A. deposit C. Lithosphere
B. network D. Atmosphere
C. irrigation 911. I amthe land that gets flooded when the
D. none of above river overflows. What am I?
906. Acid rain will not damage Earth’s environ-

ment.
A. True
B. False
907. When glacier ice melted it left?

A. tectonic plates A. Levee
B. the grand canyon B. Delta
C. icebergs C. Floodplain
D. Meander
D. rock piles and dirt
912. This landform is formed by
908. The most prevalent climate found in the
rectangle is-
A. arid A. water erosion

B. tundra B. wind erosion
C. Mediterranean C. deposition
D. tropical wet D. glaciers

913. A continental shelf is an underwater A. relief

A. Plain B. hydrologic cycle

B. Plateau C. water table
C. Mountain
D. landform
D. Ridge
914. Which layer of the earth is mostly water? 919. Arctic Ocean
A. mantle
B. core
C. crust
D. lithosphere
915. What is the name of peak of Garo hill?

A. Nokrek A. A
B. Mahendragiri
B. B
C. Mount Saramati
C. C
D. None of the above
D. D
916. Which of these does NOT contribute to
climate? 920. How many layers make up the inside of
A. latitude Earth?
B. weather A. 2
C. ocean currents B. 3
D. prevailing winds C. 4
917. What land form is this? D. 5
A. island
B. valley
C. plain
A. North America
D. mountain
B. Asia
918. The continous circulation of water be-
C. South America
tween the atmosphere, the oceans, and
the earth. D. Africa

922. Identify North America 926. Unusual warming of the surface of the
Pacific Ocean that increases precipitation
in North and South America is known as
what?
A. The boy
B. Tsunamis
C. Blizzards
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. A D. Hurricanes
B. B 927. This landform is a narrow passage of wa-
C. C ter connecting two seas or two large bod-
ies of water.
D. D
A. Strait
923. pressure and temperature as you B. Isthmus
move deeper below Earth’s surface
C. Peninsula
A. increase
D. Archipelago
B. decrease
C. stay the same 928. What direction does the equator run?
D. none of above A. Northwest & Southwest

B. Northeast & Southeast
924. What is 1?
C. North & South
D. East & West
929. What is this?

A. Hill
B. Gulf
C. River
A. Africa
D. Isthmus
B. Antarctica
930. Hour to hour, short term changes in air,
C. South America
“it’s cold outside”, and unexpected are
D. Australia characteristics of what?
925. What causes tectonic plates to move A. Weather

along the Earth’s surface? B. Climate
A. wind C. Seasons
B. ocean currents D. Sun
C. convection in the mantle
931. an area of flat land that is higher than the
D. expansion of the Earth surrounding land and is usually very large

936. What is the geosphere?

A. mesa
B. plains
C. plateau
D. butte
932. What is the name of the line of LONGI-

TUDE which is measured at 0*?
A. Equator
A. mostly made of invisible gas
B. Prime Meridian
B. all the frozen water on the Earth
C. Line of Zero
D. Middle point
933. What can escape from an erupting vo- ter
cano?
937. Seismic (pronounced size-mik) waves are
A. gas
produced by what?
B. lava
A. ocean currents
C. rock fragments
B. wind
D. water
C. air pressure
934. Which of these two is land mostly sur- D. earthquakes
rounded by water? Choose 2.
A. bay 938. What is the water cycle?
B. peninsula
C. gulf
D. cape

Earth?
A. The North & South Poles A. the 3 forms of water
B. Earth’s distance from the Sun B. the movement of water on, above, or
below the surface of the Earth
C. The Winds Currents
C. when water melts
D. The Earth’s tilt as it revolves around
the sun D. when clouds form

939. What process works with weathering to 944. What type of vegetation is this?
change Earth’s surface?
A. Change of seasons
B. Erosion
C. Solar Flares
D. Gravity
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940. Based on the excerpt, why do you think
the country of Panama was chosen as the
site for what is known as the Panama A. Taiga
Canal? B. Rainforest
A. It extends into both rivers and lakes. C. Middle Latitude Forest
B. It connects North America and South D. Savanna
America.
945. Part of a large body of water that ex-
C. It is the narrowest place in the Ameri- tends into a shoreline, generally larger and
cas. more deeply indented than a bay
D. Mid-Atlantic Ridge A. lake
941. The interaction between water and land B. river

shapes the C. gulf
A. space D. none of above
B. moon 946. Energy we get from earth’s interior heat
C. sun A. Geothermal
D. environment B. Solar Energy
942. Which major biome is home to cacti, C. Wind Energy

mesquite, white thorn, pack rats, small D. Hydroelectricity
reptiles, and coyotes?
947. A strait connects
A. desert
A. two larger landmasses
B. taiga
B. two larger bodies of water
C. tundra
C. a peninsula to the mainland
D. grassland D. two continents
943. A part of the earth’s surface that is made 948. What is the correct order (starting from
up of rock the surface) of Earth’s layers?
A. Lithosphere A. crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
B. Atmosphere B. mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
C. Hydrosphere C. crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
D. Biosphere D. outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

949. Which biome has freezing cold tempera- 954. What type of climate does Indiana have?
tures and little precipitation in the form of A. Tropical
snow?

B. Sub-tropical
A. Desert
C. Humid Continental
B. Tropical Rainforest
D. Polar
C. Taiga
D. Tundra 955. The directions North, East, South, and
West are known as the directions.
950. Total darkness in the Antarctic Circle
A. Vernal Equinox
B. Autumnal Equinox
C. Winter Solstice
D. Summer Solstice
951. Human activities like have changed

Earth’s surface.
A. Hunting
B. Flying A. Primary
C. Sailing B. Intermediate
D. Mining C. Cardinal
952. A raised area of land; not as large or high D. Secondary
as mountain.
956. naturally formed features of the earth
are
A. the ground
B. the sky
C. landforms
D. water
A. Mountain 957. This picture shows a/an
B. Hill
C. Peninsula
D. Plateau
953. The fact that similar fossils are found on

both sides of the ocean is evidence of
A. global positioning. A. basin
B. magnetic reversal. B. delta
C. continental drift. C. bay
D. none of above D. glacier

958. What is the increase in average tempera- A. how humans change landscapes
ture of the Earth’s atmosphere? B. how humans cause environmental
A. climate zones change
B. global change C. how humans divert water
C. climate warming D. impacts of the environment on housing
D. global warming
963. an area drained by a major river and its
959. Glaciers are found: tributaries
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. drainage basin
B. relief
C. basin drainage
D. ground water
964. What does a physical map cover?
A. in locations where snowfall exceeds A. Geography of a location

snowmelt B. Population
B. everywhere on earth C. Food in the area
C. only near the north and south poles D. How many coffee fields there are
D. in locations where snowmelt is greater
than snowfall 965. If I wanted to live where it is warm which
climate would I chose?
960. What causes day and night?
A. temperate
A. The Earth’s revolution.
B. tropical
B. The Earth’s tilt on its axis.
C. polar
C. The Earth’s rotation.
D. Different amounts of light shining on D. none of above
Earth at different times of the year. 966. What is the atmosphere?
961. Which is the largest type of ice mass?
A. Glacier
B. Ice Sheet
C. Ice Cap
D. Avalanche
962. This is showing
A. mostly made of invisible gas

B. made up of living things
ter

967. When the plates of our planet’s crust 973. Layer of gasses (air) that immediately
move against each other, they can cause: surrounds the earth

A. lightning A. Lithosphere
B. sandstorms B. Atmosphere
C. volcanoes and earthquakes C. Hydrosphere
D. Christmas to be cancelled. D. Biosphere
968. Which of the following is is not a charac- 974. Highs of 40 degrees, little rainfall and
teristic feature of desert vegetation? short cool summers
A. bulbous roots A. Tundra
B. long deep roots B. Taiga
C. large leaves C. Temperate
D. succulent leaves D. Dessert
969. What is the name given to the regular 975. Floating sea ice melts
movement of water?
A. and causes sea levels to rise because
A. water cycle it adds water to the ocean.
B. condensation B. but does not cause sea levels to
C. rainfall rise because the ice displaces the same
D. water supply amount of ocean water as the melted ice
would displace.
970. Zero degrees latitude is also called the
976. Precipitation includes
A. Tropic of Capricorn A. Rain
B. Equator B. Rain and sleet

C. Prime Meridian C. Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
D. Tropic of Cancer D. Snow
971. Which biome has less than 10 inches of 977. manner

rain each year? A. land
A. Savanna B. area
B. Temperate Deciduous Forest C. continent
C. Desert D. manner
D. Tropical Rainforest
978. How many layers make up the inside of
972. How often do we have a leap year? the Earth?
A. Every year A. Four
B. Every 3 years B. Three
C. Every other year C. Two
D. Every 4 years D. Five

979. is the theory that pieces of Earth’s

lithosphere are in constant motion, driven
by convection currents in the mantle.
A. Seismic waves
B. Convection current
C. Divergent boundary
D. Plate tectonics A. soil
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. subsoil
980. a naturally raised area of land, not as
high or rough as a mountain C. topsoil
D. terrace farming
A. plateau
B. plain 984. The Earth’s is an imaginary line that
goes from the North Pole to the South
C. valley Pole.
D. hill A. vernal equinox
981. a group or chain of mountains B. axis
A. island C. solar eclipse

D. solar flare
B. mountain
C. peninsula 985. What is the correct term for Earth’s full
trip around the sun?
D. mountain range
A. Orbit
982. All living things are found in what sub- B. Revolution
system?
C. Rotation
D. Elliptical
986. River west of Terre Haute
A. lithoshere
B. biosphere
C. hydrosphere
D. atmosphere
983. What is the layer of soil just below the

topsoil? A. Ohio

B. White 992. Which number shows the location of the

mountain’s leeward side?
C. Wabash

D. Your
987. This covers most of the earth’s surface:

A. Freshwater
B. Saltwater
A. 1
988. What is the energy source for the water B. 2
cycle? C. 3
A. the sun D. 4
B. the earth 993. Which statement is incorrect regarding
C. water ocean currents?
D. the moon
989. What is 5?
A. Adjust the temperature in the coastal

area
B. It is an important fishing source.
C. Cold currents cause drought. Warm
A. Ural Mountains
currents create moisture.
B. Madagascar
D. There is moisture or dryness in every
C. Java area.
D. Hawaiian islands 994. What type of climate has varying sea-
sons and temperatures?
990. Referring to the imaginary line about
which the Earth rotates A. polar
B. tropical
A. axis
C. temperate
B. latitude
D. humid continental
C. longitude
995. How do landforms affect life on earth?
D. none of above
A. They influence climate and weather
991. Seasons occur because of patterns
A. Earth’s revolution around the sun B. They create diverse habitats for plants
and animals
B. Earth’s rotation on its axis
C. They can determine where humans
C. the tilt of the earth choose to build their settlements
D. Earth’s involvement in eclipses D. All of the above

996. The average condition of the atmosphere 1002. Can occur in any latitude zone. Differ-
over a long period of time is called ent biomes can occur in the climate zone
A. Weather depending on the elevation.
B. Climate A. Highlands
B. Taiga
C. Seasonal change
C. Tundra
D. Current patterns
D. Temperate
NARAYAN CHANGDER
997. This is a complete spin of the Earth on it’s
axis. 1003. Which of the following happens during
an El Nino year?
A. Rotation
A. water temperature lowers
B. Revolution
B. water temperature rises
998. temperatures occur in higher eleva- C. low air pressure
tions.
D. air becomes colder
A. tropical
B. higher 1004. Which landform is this?
A. Coastal Plain
C. lower
B. Canadian Shield
D. moderate
C. Levees
999. Region where vegetation is limited to a
D. Archipelago
few shrubs, grasses, and mosses
A. Tundra 1005. What describes the outer core?
B. Ice sheet A. solid
C. Glacier B. liquid
D. Moraine C. viscous
D. gas
1000. Crust, outer mantle, inner mantle, outer
core, and inner core make up 1006. All the Earth’s water is made up of
A. The spheres of the earth salt water.
A. 3%
B. Type sof plate tectonics
B. 23.5%
C. Climate factors
C. 66.5%
D. 97%
1001. elevated land with sloping sides and
rounded summit; generally smaller than a 1007. Continent F is
mountain
A. valley
B. mesa
C. hill
D. none of above

A. Antarctica A. ocean
B. Europe B. sea

C. North America C. channel
D. Australia D. river
1008. The process by which rock is broken 1012. Natural surroundings can be called
down into smaller pieces called sediment what?
is known as? A. weathering
A. Weathering B. environment
B. Erosion C. renewable resource
C. Condensation D. none of above
D. Run off
1013. Disasters only occur in North America
1009. densely populated A. True
A. densely populated B. False
B. scarcely populated
1014. What step of the water cycle does the
C. low population heat from the sun turn liquid water into
D. great population water vapor?
A. run off
1010. What is the cause of this land feature?
B. evaporation
C. condensation
D. precipitation
1015. Name Ocean #1!
A. Glaciers
B. Rivers
C. Wind
D. Gravity
A. Indian
1011. What landform is a wide strait or wa-
B. Pacific
terway between two landmasses that lie
close to each other, such as this one be- C. Arctic
tween England and France? D. Atlantic
1016. What is the source of all energy on

Earth?
A. the wind
B. the sun

C. Eath’s coal D. The White House is bigger than the

D. Earth’s oxygen Governor’s Mansion
1017. how many oceans are there? 1021. The Southernmost point on Earth (90 de-
grees S Latitude)
A. North Pole
B. South Pole
C. Equator
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Tropic of Cancer
1022. In which position is it summer in the

Northern Hemisphere?
A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. none of above
A. 1
1018. Which ocean is number 8?
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
1023. patrick
A. copse
A. Arctic B. wood
B. Atlantic C. forest
C. Indian D. tree
D. Southern
1024. What shape is the planet Earth?
1019. Acid rain can damage Earth’s environ- A. Circle
ment.
B. hemisphere
A. True
C. geoid
B. False
D. sphere
1020. Which of the following is an example of
relative location? 1025. The ridges formed in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean are created by
A. The White House is located at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue A. convergent tectonic plates
B. The White House is North of the Wash- B. transform tectonic plates

ington Monument C. divergent (dividing) tectonic plates
C. The White House at 38 North, 77 West D. The boy

1026. A Biome covered with grasses is called 1030. What is climate?

A. Average weather over a period of time

B. Conditions at a given time
C. Average humidity of an area
D. Average rainfall of an area
1031. An avalanche is an example of which

A. Grasslands process?
B. Africa
C. Meadow
D. Forest
1027. Which of the following does NOT have

an affect on a region’s climate?
A. Weathering
B. Erosion
C. Deposition
D. Volcanic Eruption
1032. Latitude lines go from east to west.

A. Large bodies of water A. True
B. Latitude
B. False
C. Mountains
1033. This type of plate movement formed the
D. Longitude
Himalayan Mountains.
1028. What is weather?
A. Average weather over a period of time
B. Conditions at a given time
C. Average humidity of an area
A. oceanic crust meets continental crust
D. Average rainfall of an area convergence
1029. Natural resources that are not changed B. oceanic crust meets oceanic crust con-
by humans vergence
A. Non-renewable Resources C. continental crust meets continental
crust convergence
D. transform plate movement
C. Renewable Material
D. Raw Materials 1034. Identify this map

1040. Of what precious mineral is Mexico the

leading producer of?
A. silver
B. mercury
C. gold
A. Road Map D. none of above
B. Physical Map
1041. What continent is directly south of
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Political Map North America?
D. Climate Map
1035. Natural resource that the environment

continues to supply as it is used
A. Physical Resources
C. Non-renewable Resources
A. Australia
D. Renewable Resources
B. Europe
1036. What is this? C. Africa
A. Island D. South America
B. Islet 1042. a water table is?
C. Peninsula A. the level at which the rock is saturated
D. Mountain B. the level at which the soil is saturated
1037. Which landform is this? C. the level at which a rock is blue
A. Locks D. the level at which the water is on a ta-
ble
B. Tributary
C. Levees 1043. State east of Indiana
D. Archipelago
1038. A river sweeping tiny rocks away and

eventually forming a canyon is an exam-
ple of
A. weathering
B. erosion
1039. What is weathering?

A. The movement of sediment
B. The breaking of sediment
C. The dropping of sediment
D. none of above A. Ohio

B. road cancer 1049. Which lines run on a globe from east to

C. Kentucky west?

D. Illinois A. longitude lines
B. latitude lines
1044. Land near the coast is at
C. north pole
A. sea level
D. south pole
B. high level
C. low level 1050. Which is NOT a method of transporta-
D. top level tion?
A. Abrasion
1045. What causes a tsunami to form?
B. Saltation
A. erosion
C. Traction
B. the buildup of cooled magma
D. Suspension
C. energy from an underground earth-
quake 1051. Climates are classified according to
D. plate movement along a fault line which two major factors?
A. elevation and precipitation
1046. Which continent is east from Europe?
B. latitude & temperature
C. elevation & latitude
D. precipitation & temperature
1052. What climate region is location “C” lo-

cated in?
A. Africa
B. North America
C. Asia
D. South America
1047. Groundwater is
A. water on the surface of the earth A. humid subtropical
B. water that is below the surface of the B. humid continental
earth C. tropical wet
C. water that comes out of the faucet D. highland
D. puddles
1053. The consistent factor of the atmosphere
1048. What causes the sun to rise and fall in that is determined by temperature and pre-
the sky cipitation
A. Apollo A. climate
B. Tilt B. weathering
C. Revolution C. erosion
D. Rotation D. biome

1054. Deposition is when A. South America
B. Asia
C. North America
D. Europe
1059. This rock was found near the mouth of
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Objects are moved along the river.
a volcano. What type of rock is this?
B. Objects are dropped along the river.
C. Objects are suspended in the water.
D. Objects are move into the ocean.
1055. What are the 3 major climate zones in

order from equator to the poles?
A. polar, temperate, tropical
B. tropical, temperate, polar
C. temperate, polar, tropical
D. temperate, tropical, polar A. Sedimentary
1056. A vegetation region only found in B. Igneous

Antarctica and Greenland C. Metamorphic
A. Tundra
D. none of above
B. Ice Sheet
1057. How many continents are there in the 1060. What climate region is location “A” lo-
world? cated in?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
1058. Which continent is this?
A. humid subtropical
C. tropical wet
D. highland
1061. What continent is shown in the picture?

A. Australia
B. Asia

C. Europe
D. Antarctica
1066. The outermost layer of Earth that in-

cludes the crust and the upper part of the
mantle
A. Asthenosphere
B. Mesosphere
A. Europe
C. Lithosphere
B. Asia
D. Chromosphere
C. Africa
D. Australia 1067. An area of land in which little vegeta-
tion grows due to a lack of water.
1062. A year has days.
A. Peninsula
A. 365
B. 365 1/4 B. Desert
C. 365 1/2 C. Plain
D. 365 3/4 D. Mountain
1063. Refers to all the waters on Earth’s sur- 1068. Which of the following are types of
face and atmosphere freshwater that can be used by people?
A. Hydropshere Select all that are true.
B. Lithosphere A. groundwater
C. Atmosphere B. ice caps and glaciers
D. Biosphere C. oceans
1064. It is estimated that this source of wa- D. rivers
ter supplies about 90% of the evaporated E. lakes
water that goes into the water cycle.
A. oceans 1069. biome
B. glaciers A. the height of land above sea level
C. ice B. a horizontal movement of ocean wa-
D. lakes ter caused by wind that occurs near the
ocean’s surface
1065. Which continent is #7?
C. a large region characterized by a spe-
cific type of climate and certain types of
plants and animals
D. always have higher temperatures than
the surrounding countryside

1070. Which landform is a collection of sedi- 1075. We live on which continent?

ments at the mouth of a river that looks
like a tree?
A. Glacier
B. Delta
C. Gulf
D. Cape
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1071. When we talk about a specific place on
the surface of the Earth, we are talking
about:
A. Location
B. Place A. North America
C. Region B. South America
D. Human-Environment Interaction C. Europe
1072. How many continents are there? D. Australia
A. 9 1076. What process works with weathering
B. 6 to change Earth’s surface?
C. 5 A. change in seasons
D. 7 B. gravity
1073. What landform is this? C. solar flares

D. erosion
1077. New landforms can be formed through

A. volcanic eruption
B. movement of sea waves
C. wind
D. a moving river
A. valley
1078. Fossil fuels are a
B. ocean
C. plateau A. nonrenewable resource
D. plain B. renewable resource
1074. What continent do you live on? 1079. Which landform is this?
A. South America A. Locks
B. United States B. Tributary
C. North America C. Levees
D. Canada D. Archipelago

1080. A small area of land surrounded by wa- 1084. How many oceans are there between
ter is called continents?

A. mesa A. 4
B. island B. 5
C. cliff C. 6
D. hill D. 7
1085. A long, narrow band of volcanoes sur-

1081. When the Earth is tilted toward the sun, rounding the Pacific Ocean
the amount of daylight is longer.
A. Ring of Fire
A. True
B. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
B. False
C. Isthmus
1082. Which biome has the most variety of D. none of above
plants and animals?
1086. The practice of supplying water to an
area of land through pipes or channels so
that crops will grow.
A. Temperate Forest
B. Rainforest
A. estuary
C. Tundra
B. irrigation
D. Grasslands
C. vegetation
1083. What is the imaginary line that divides D. none of above
the world into northern and southern hemi-
1087. Continents are a type of landform sur-
spheres?
rounded by water.
A. True
B. False
1088. How does a delta form?
A. Equator
B. Prime Meridian
C. Tropic of Cancer
D. Tropic of Capricorn

A. It forms when sediments are de- 1093. Which layer is shown in red?
posited at the mouth of a river.
B. It forms when sediments are carried
away from an ocean or lake.
C. It forms when sediments are de-
posited at the base of a mountain.
D. It forms when sediments are de-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
posited along the banks of a river.
1089. Which of the following are all formed

because of coastal deposition?
A. crust
A. sea stack, beach, cliffs
B. mantle
B. sea stump, sea arch, sea spit
C. outer core
C. sea spit, tombolo, beach
D. inner core
D. cliff, bay, lagoon
1094. Earth’s crust is broken up into several
1090. Scientists think that movements in the large rocky pieces called
liquid core create Earth’s magnetic
field.
A. inner
B. outer
C. mantle
D. crust
1091. Long term atmospheric conditions are

A. plates
called
B. faults
A. Weather
C. fossils
B. Climate
D. puzzle pieces
1092. A vast body of salt water that covers al-
most three fourths of the earth’s surface. 1095. Continent E is
(five of them)
A. Ocean A. North America

B. River B. Africa
C. Stream C. Australia
D. Lake D. Antarctica

1096. What causes the seasons to change on A. Antarctica

Earth?
B. Europe

A. the North and South Poles
C. North America
D. Africa
C. the wind currents
D. the Earth’s tilt as it revolves around 1101. What is the name for a long, narrow,
the sun steep-sided cut in the ground or on the
ocean floor?
1097. a puddle
A. Continental Divide
A. puddle
B. A Trench
B. poddle
C. bottle C. A Continental Shelf
D. boddle D. A Ridge
1098. Which two continents are completely 1102. the center of the Earth
surrounded by water?
A. mantle
A. Australia and Antactica
B. core
B. Asia and Africa
C. crust
C. Europe and Africa
D. lithosphere
D. Australia and Africa
1099. Where are landslides common? 1103. What is caused by the movements of
tectonic plates
A. tornadoes
B. earthquakes
C. sunshine
D. rain
A. at six flags 1104. Earth’s crust is made up of 7 tectonic

plates.
B. on top of the Eiffel Tower
A. true
C. near highways on mountains or hills
D. sleeping in bed(like we all want to on B. false
Monday morning
1105. What is a map key?
1100. Name Continent C! A. round model of the earth
B. flat drawing of the surface of the earth
for
D. used to figure out read distance be-
tween two locations on a map

1106. Summer in Australia occurs at the same 1111. What Landform?

time as winter in North America because
A. It’s always hot Down Under
B. Kangaroos like to play outside at
Christmas
C. The Eastern Hemisphere is closer to
the sun
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. The earth tilts the southern hemi- A. Valley
sphere towards the sun then B. River
1107. What percent of Earth’s surface is wa- C. Lake

ter? D. Hills
A. About 60% 1112. Glacier is
B. About 30 % A. a bend of the river.
C. About 3 % B. a mass of ice and snow
D. About 70 % C. a narrow flat area often found at the
base of a sea cliff o
1108. A process by which Earth’s surface is
D. an area of soft, wet land
worn away by forces.
A. weathering 1113. Which is an example of absolute loca-
tion?
B. erosion
A. 20*N, 60*E
C. trench
B. Near the river
D. fault C. South of Lake Michigan
1109. Which type of plate boundary would D. North of Kentucky, West of Ohio
cause folded mountains to form?
1114. The current condition outside on any
A. transform given day is known as
B. convergent
C. divergent
D. subduction
1110. What is the measure of the angle of the

earth’s tilt on it’s axis?
A. 20 degrees A. Weather
B. 33 and half degrees B. Climate
C. 23.5 degrees C. Precipitation
D. 15.5 degrees D. Widely Varied

1115. What is this glacial feature called? 1118. What is the definition of geography?
A. The study of maps.

B. The study of the Earth.
C. The study of the world and its people.
D. The study of events of the past.
A. Hanging Valley 1119. Excess water that collects in streams,

rivers, and oceans is known as
B. Corrie
A. run off
C. Glacial Trough
B. evaporation
D. Waterfall
C. condensation
D. precipitation
1120. What is climate?

A. A region’s average weather conditions
over a long period of time.
B. A region’s average weather conditions
A. Europe over a short period of time.
B. Antarctica C. The short-term changes in the air for a
given place and time.
C. Australia
D. Africa D. The long-term changes in the air for a
given place and time.
1117. The first two things you do when you
receive a map are to make sure that north 1121. Most of the nation’s borders are formed
points away from you and by
A. oceans
B. rivers
C. mountains
D. streams
1122. What is a map?

B. flat drawing of the surface of the earth
A. the map is no more than 5 years old
B. the scale bar has the correct distances for
C. you have a political map to read D. used to figure out read distance be-
D. you can read the title tween two locations on a map

1123. What mountain range is shown in or- 1127. Why is geography considered a science?
ange?
A. It involves gathering and studying
data.
B. It involves helping people.
C. It involves studying history.
D. It involves map making.
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1128. Which step in the water cycle do tiny
droplets of water come together to form
A. The Pyrenees
clouds?
B. The Alps
A. Run off
C. Ural Mountains
B. Evaporation
D. Andes Mountains
C. Condensation
1124. What landform is shown in this image?
D. Precipitation
1129. What is the purpose of the International

Date Line?
A. Is an imaginary line that runs from the
North Pole to the South Pole that gives the
beginning and ending of a day.
A. desert B. Is an imaginary line that runs from the
B. plain North Pole to the South Pole that gives the
beginning and ending of a month.
C. valley
C. Is an imaginary line that runs from the
D. island
North Pole to the South Pole that gives the
1125. Who is the father of Geography? beginning and ending of a year.
A. William Morris Davis D. none of above
B. Erresthemes
1130. a large body of water that is surrounded
C. Erres M. Davis by land
D. Eratosthemes
A. ocean
1126. are the result of changes in air pres- B. river
sure caused by uneven heating of Earth’s
surface. C. lake
A. Ocean Currents D. stream
B. Winds
1131. This is an example of which type of
C. Climate Changes plate movement that causes mid ocean
D. Climates ridges?

C. East or West of the Equator

D. North or South of the Prime Meridian

1136. Where is Haiti located?
A. Pacific Ocean
B. Caribbean sea
C. Atlantic Ocean
A. reform movement D. North Sea
B. transform movement
1137. The label for countries in which people
C. convergent movement live on far less money and with fewer re-
D. divergent movement sources than in industrialized nations.
A. developed nation
1132. (A/an) is the smallest of the ice
masses. B. first world
A. Glacier C. developing nation
B. Ice Sheet D. none of above
C. Ice Cap 1138. a tree that is blowing is in the wind
D. Ice Berg A. atmosphere, biosphere interaction
1133. Is the Tropic of Capricorn ABOVE the B. biosphere, hydrosphere interaction
Equator or BELOW the Equator? C. atmosphere, hydrosphere interaction
A. Above D. biosphere, lithosphere interaction
B. Below
1139. What is molten rock that has formed
1134. The building of a seawall would be a deep within the Earth?
way to adapt to what natural disaster? A. Hot Spot
A. Tsunami B. Magma
B. Drought C. Lava
C. Earthquake D. Volcano
D. Blizzard
1140. What is erosion?
1135. Latitude measures A. The movement of sediment
B. The breaking of sediment
C. The dropping of sediment
D. none of above
1141. What is backwash?

A. Water that runs back into the ocean.
A. East and West of the Prime Meridian B. Water that falls forward and moves up
B. North or South of the Equator the shore.

C. Tug of war between the drag of the C. Asia

wind and pull of gravity. D. Australia
D. Swirling of water in an area.
1146. What is molten rock that has reached
1142. What is 7? the Earth’s surface?
A. Aa
B. Lava
C. Magma
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D. Boating
1147. A layer of gases surrounding our planet
A. hydrosphere
A. North America
B. lithosphere
B. Europe
C. atmosphere
C. Asia
D. biosphere
D. Australia
1148. The heat from the sun’s rays and wind
1143. The beginning of spring and autumn is play a role in
called A. erosion
A. Easter B. weathering
B. Solstice C. evaporation
C. Seasonal Change D. condensation
D. Equinox
1149. This varies of the animals and vegeta-
1144. The line of longitude located at 0 de- tion that exist in an area.
grees that divides the Earth in eastern and A. Climate region
western hemispheres is called the B. Biome
A. Tropic of Capricorn C. Climate
B. Meridian D. none of above
C. Equator
1150. Many forests are mixed
D. Prime Meridian
A. True
1145. What is 6? B. False
1151. Which season receives the least amount
of precipitation in Boulder?
A. North America
B. Europe

A. Fall 1157. What is this vegetation type?

B. Spring

C. Summer
D. Winter
1152. What is the equator?

A. longitude line at 0*
A. Rainforest
B. describe one place in relation to an-
other place B. Middle Latitude Forest
C. exact location of a place based on lati- C. Savanna

tude and longitude lines D. Taiga
D. latitude line at 0* 1158. What is a peninsula?
1153. A glacier is the smallest of the ice A. narrow stretch of land connecting two
masses. larger land areas
A. True B. piece of land surrounded by three
sides of water
B. False
1154. What is absolute location? with grasses
A. a map tool that helps us identify direc- D. area of land between hills or moun-
tions on a map tains
B. describe one place in relation to an- 1159. What type of landform is pictured here?
other place
C. exact location of a place based on lati-
tude and longitude lines
A. valley
1155. The Earth’s axis is tilted degrees.
B. gulf
A. 23.5
C. peninsula
B. 25.3
D. mountain range
C. 30.2
D. 24
1156. Who is known as the “Father of Conti-

nental Drift”?
A. Harry Hess
B. Abraham Ortelius
C. Alfred Wegener
D. John Tuzo Wilson A. Southern Ocean

B. Arctic Ocean 1165. According to the continental drift theory,

C. Atlantic Ocean a single, huge continent once existed called
A. Wonder.
D. Pacific Ocean
B. Wegener.
C. Panthalassa.
D. Eurasia.
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1166. North America is in the Hemisphere.
A. Parallel
B. Southern
A. Indian C. Northern
D. Eastern
B. Arctic
C. Atlantic 1167. Earth rests on how many tectonic
plates?
D. Pacific
A. 8
1162. What is directly above the focus?
B. 10
A. Epicenter
C. 12
B. Fault D. 18
C. Seismograph Station
1168. From the picture, what type of biome
D. none of above zone is it?
1163. What physical feature is pictured?
A. tundra
B. mixed forest
C. Taiga
A. North Sea
D. deciduous forest
B. Volga River
1169. Weathering means breaking up material
C. Rhine River
in nature, while means moving the ma-
D. Strait of Gibraltar terial away.
1164. The Earth’s oceans are actually con- A. population

nected and form one global ocean. B. deposition
A. True C. decomposition
B. False D. erosion

1170. What body of water is shown in blue? A. 15*N, 30*E

B. 15*E, 30*N

C. 15*S, 30*E
D. 15*N, 30*W
1175. What country is highlighted? Part of

this country sits above the Arctic Circle,
and it hands out the Nobel Peace Prize
each year.
A. English Channel
B. Mediterranean Sea
C. Black Sea
D. Red Sea
1171. Where are you more likely to see an ice
sheet?
A. in the Rockies
B. at the North Pole
A. Sweden
C. in Bryce Canyon
B. Spain
D. along the Equator
C. Norway
1172. The 4 parts of a map are scale, title, leg- D. Finland
end and
1176. What type of map is this?
A. globes
B. compass rose
C. natural
D. population
1173. Extreme heat, little to no rainfall &
short cool summers.
A. Dessert A. political
B. Tundra B. climate
C. Taiga C. physical
D. Highlands D. thematic
1174. How would you correctly write the co- 1177. What is the name of the plate that
ordinates for the yellow square? North America sits on?
A. African Plate
B. Pacific Plate
C. South American Plate
D. North American Plate

1178. Physical is the study of the natural D. That Mount Kilimanjaro is the only
features on Earth’s surface. place that snows in Africa
A. chemistry
1184. What does elevation describe?
B. geology
A. How far above sea level something is
C. geography
B. How deep the ocean is
D. science
C. How many square miles of land a coun-
1179. Openings in the planet’s surface that al- try has
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low magma to escape to the surface D. How much erosion has occured
A. Tornado
1185. Type of boundary can cause volcanic
B. Hurricane
eruptions
C. Volcano
A. Subduction
D. Earthquake
B. Convergent
1180. A place where two tectonic plates grind C. Divergent
against each other is called:
D. Transform
A. mountain
B. fault 1186. Our textbook indicates that a Mediter-
ranean Climate is typically popular for va-
C. friction
cation time.
D. none of above
A. True
1181. What is this? B. False
A. Plain
1187. What is letter D in the picture?
B. Plateau
C. Hill
D. River
1182. How is vegetation (amount of plant life)
represented on a physical map?
A. Large and small dots.
B. Pictures of various plants.
C. The color green and other colors. A. Crater
D. none of above B. Vent
1183. When discussing climate factors, the ex- C. Conduit
ample of Mount Kilimanjaro shows
D. Tephra
A. That latitude determines climate
1188. Savannas are areas of tall grasses and
B. That latitude does not matter
scattered trees and shrubs.
C. That even low latitudes get cold at
higher elevations because of thinner air A. True
holding less heat B. False

1189. These maps focus around a specific sub-

ject or topic

A. Political map
B. Physical Map
C. Thematic map
D. none of above
1190. The underwater plain that borders a con-

tinent.
A. 1
A. axis B. 2
B. summer solstice C. 3
C. core D. none of above
D. continental shelf 1194. a body of land completely surrounded by

water
1191. What are latitude lines? A. mountain
A. I don’t know B. hill
C. island
B. Lines Drawn up and down
D. mesa
C. Lines
1195. Area centered around a central location
D. Lines Drawn East-West and shows connection through things like
transportation.
A. Perceptual Region
45◦ N and 100◦ E?
B. Formal Region
C. Functional Region
D. none of above
1196. Climate zones at high latitudes (close to
the poles) are generally
A. Asia
B. North America
C. South America
A. Wet
D. Atlantic Ocean
B. Cold
1193. What layer would you find the oldest C. Windy
fossils? D. Temperate

1197. What makes temperature patterns 1201. Why do glaciers move?

change from season to season?
A. Altitude
B. Latitude
C. The Earth’s tilt
D. Ocean currents
A. due to their immense weight
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1198. An area drained by a river is B. gravity
A. waterfall C. their weight AND gravity
B. river basin D. They DON’T move!
C. drainage 1202. Use of satellites to find your exact loca-

tion of Earth
D. surface water
A. Global Positioning System
1199. An area of flat land that is higher than B. Geographic Information Systems
the land around it.
1203. The San Andrea’s Fault in California is
which type of boundary?
A. Convergent
A. latitude
B. Divergent
B. lowland
C. Subductive Zone
C. plateau
D. Transform
D. none of above
1204. The Grand Canyon was formed mainly
1200. What are big sheets of ice? by
A. Glaciers
A. Water erosion
B. Animals that sleep B. Wind erosion
C. A story of people C. Chemical weathering
D. none of above D. Mechanical weathering

1205. What part of the water cycle does this 1209. Which ocean is located off the west
picture show? coast of North America. It is the LARGEST
ocean.

A. condensation
B. precipitation A. Atlantic Ocean
C. evaporation B. Pacific Ocean
D. none of above C. Arctic Ocean
D. Southern Ocean
1206. Are plates always moving?
1210. Where would one find most Steppe Cli-
mates?
A.
A. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea
B. Throughout most of South America
B. C. Bordering deserts
D. none of above
1207. Define Longitude 1211. Surface currents are driven by
A. horizontal lines
B. vertical lines
C. expresses lines from north to south
D. expresses lines from east to west
1208. This type of plate movement causes

earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault
in California. A. sea critters
B. differences in temperature
C. wind
D. the Equator
1212. Why was Panama chosen as the site for
the Panama Canal?
A. reform movement A. Narrowest place in Americas
B. transform movement B. It goes into both rivers & lakes
C. convergent movement C. Connects North & South America
D. divergent movement D. It’s long & narrow

1213. Which is the correct order for the forma- 1218. Which layer of Earth is made up of tec-
tion of a stump? tonic plates?
A. Stack, arch, cave, stump A. outer core
B. Arch, cave, stack, stump B. inner core
C. Cave, arch, stack, stump C. asthenosphere
D. none of above D. lithosphere
1214. This is the angle of the rays as the globe 1219. What is the name for a long, narrow,
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moves to represent the different seasons? steep-sided cut in the ground or on the
ocean floor?
A. Angle of incidence
A. a continental shelf
B. Seasonal angle
B. a ridge
C. Angle of incense
C. the Continental Divide
D. Acute angle
D. a trench
1215. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans. 1220. Which continent is located completely
north of the Equator and west of the Prime
A. True Meridian?
B. False
1216. I am perfect for people that love the
4 seasons! My summers are short, but
warm and my winters get long and are
cold. I have lots of trees, too! Which cli-
mate region am I?
A. Asia
B. Europe
C. North America
D. South America
1221. How long does it take plates to move
A. Mediterranean enough to create landforms?
B. Humid subtropical A. thousands of years
C. Humid continental B. millions of years
D. Temperate-Mid latitude C. hundreds of years
D. around 100 years
1217. The process by which water, wind or ice
moves bits of rock elsewhere. 1222. Which runs vertically around the earth?
A. continent A. Equator and lines of latitude
B. Ring of Fire B. Prime Meridian and lines of latitude
C. tsunami C. Equator and lines of longitude
D. erosion D. Prime Meridian and lines of longitude

1223. Canals are waterway channels, or arti- 1227. What is the name of Haiti’s capital city?
ficial waterways, for water conveyance, A. Saint Mark
or for servicing water transport vehi-

cles.Which picture best matches the defi- B. Jacmel
nition of an isthmus? C. Port-au-Princess
D. Port au Prince
A.
1228. What is a land mass that is surrounded
by water on three sides?
A. peninsula
B. B. bay
C. island
D. lake
C.
1229. A year is defined as 368 days.
A. True
D. none of above
B. False
1224. What type of map would include country
1230. A record of the past
or state borders, capital cities, and other
cities? A. Climate
A. Physical B. Era
B. Sketch C. History
C. Thematic D. Vinyl
D. Political 1231. What is a subsystem that consists of
1225. One measure of comparing climates is Earth’s water
the average daily temperature. A. Lithosphere
A. True B. Biosphere
B. False C. Hydrosphere
1226. Which continent is gold? D. Atmosphere
1232. Short term atmospheric conditions is
called
A. Climate
B. Weather
1233. What are greenhouse gases?
A. gases that cause climate change
A. North America B. gases that emit green smoke
B. South America C. gases that are used to make green col-
C. Asia ored glass
D. Antarctica D. none of above

1234. Climatologists attribute this year’s wild- 1238. Which continent is north from Africa?
fires in California and other western
states to
A. Europe
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. North America
C. Antarctica
A. Fake news
D. Australia
B. Failure to sweep the forest floor
C. Bad luck 1239. The Geosphere is another name for the
D. Climate Change A. Lithosphere
B. Atmosphere
1235. Which of the following is the name of
C. Hydrosphere
the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Mil-
lion Years ago. D. Biosphere
A. Pangea 1240. What type of plate boundary is this?
B. Gondwanda
C. Laurasia
D. Neverland
1236. Does Antarctica have the hottest cli-

mate?
A. True A. Transform
B. False B. Convergent
C. Divergent
1237. A large area of a sea or ocean partially
enclosed by land. D. Plate
1241. What do June 21 and December 21 have

in common?
A. equinox dates
B. the moon is full
C. solstice dates
D. the cold fronts blow in
A. Mountain or hill
1242. T/F:Geographers specialize on the inter-
B. Cape or peninsula action between humans and the Earth
C. Plateau or mesa A. True
D. Gulf or bay B. False

1243. Which country first established geogra- 1246. Which statement best describes the lo-
phy departments? cation of Pole Zones?

A. Germany A. Only at the North Pole.
B. Australia B. The frigid zone above the Arctic Circle
and below the Antarctic Circle.
C. Britain
C. The frigid zone below the Arctic Circle
D. Russia and above the Antarctic Circle.
D. none of above
1244. From forest to tundra, I’ve got it all!
Sometimes I get a lot of precipitation, 1247. Which is the youngest state of India?
other times, not so much. You can find me
A. Uttarakhand
anywhere! Which climate region am I?
B. Get away from it
C. Chattisgarh
D. Goa
1248. This landform was formed by glaciers

and can be found in Norway. What land-
form is it?
A. Desert
B. Tropical savanna
C. Highland
D. Ice Cap
1245. An intense, warm ocean current in the

western North Atlantic Ocean is the
A. peninsula
B. basin
C. fjord
D. plateau
1249. A large area of water that is surrounded

A. doldrums by land.
B. jet stream
C. gulf stream
D. Greenhouse effect

A. puddle B. the study of Miss. Hearon’s desk

B. pond C. The study of earth and space
C. lake
D. The study of rocks
D. none of above
1250. Soil is made of 1254. What is the name of the largest desert
in Asia called?
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A. weathered rocks and minerals
A. Sahara Desert
B. dead plants and animals
C. air and water B. Hot Sandy Desert
D. all of the above C. Gobi Desert
1251. What physical process created the D. Kalahari Desert

Grand Canyon?
1255. What is the longest river in the world?
A. Soil Building
B. Tectonic Forces
A. Amazon River
C. Erosion
B. Mississippi River
D. Weathering
C. big River
1252. What is longitude?
D. Nile River
A. lines that run east to west
B. lines that run north to south 1256. What is the correct term for Earth’s com-
C. lines that run east to north pletion of one full trip around the sun?
D. lines that run west to south A. orbit
1253. What is geography? B. axis
A. the study of Earth’s land and water, its
C. revolution
physical features and processes and its
people D. circle

1257. Which of the following is NOT a natural A. living

cause of climate change? B. sewing

C. farming
D. hunting
1262. ( )-Air (oxygen, nitrogen, water va-

por, zone, wind)
A. pollution
B. meteorite collisions
C. solar spots
D. Volcanic eruptions
1258. This physical system contains wa- A. Geosphere

ter:oceans, seas, lakes, ponds, rivers,
groundwater, and ice. B. Hydrosphere
A. Atmosphere C. Atmosphere
B. Lithosphere D. Biosphere
C. Hydrosphere 1263. When we talk about how humans inter-
D. Biosphere act with their environment, that’s called:
A. Human-Environment Interaction
1259. The layers of the Earth include
B. Region
A. Crust, mantle, core
C. Movement
B. Atmosphere, crust, mantle
D. Lizards
C. Crust, mantle, gravity
D. none of above 1264. What is Earth’s daily motion on its axis
called?
1260. Land surrounded by water on three
sides is a A. Rotation
A. mountain B. Revolution
B. island 1265. This takes 365 1/4 days

C. lake A. Rotation
D. peninsula B. Revolution
1261. What is another name for agriculture? 1266. Elements of the earth are made up of
water
A. Lithosphere
B. Atmosphere
C. Hydrosphere
D. Biosphere

1267. Earth’s crust is made up of seven enor- C. precipitation

mous tectonic plates.
D. run off
A. True
B. False 1273. How often does El Nino occur?
1268. What does LANDOT stand for A. every other year

A. L-LatitudeA-AltitudeN-Nearness to B. once a year
WaterD-Directions of the WindO-Ocean
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C. 2 to 7 years
CurrentsT-Topography
B. L-LongitudeA-Altered earthN-North D. 17 years
poleD-Direction of sun lightO-Ocean
temperatureT-the wrong answer 1274. When discussing climate factors, the ex-
ample of Mount Kilimanjaro shows
1269. The instrument that records and mea-
sures earthquake’s seismic waves is called
a
A. seismograph
B. seismogram
1270. The study of water is called

A. biosphere
B. studying water A. That latitude determines climate
C. hydrology
B. That latitude does not matter
D. glaciers
C. That Mount Kilimanjaro is the only
1271. river basin place it snows in Africa
A. estuary D. That even low latitudes get cold at
B. rivers higher elevations because of thinner air
holding less heat
C. pond
D. river basin 1275. Does isolated mean you are near oth-
ers?
1272. Which stage does the #3 show in the
diagram? A. No
B. yes
1276. branches of geo

A. geomor
B. politi
A. condensation C. pop
B. evaporation D. geo

1277. What landform is displayed in this pic-

ture?

A. Wind
B. Water
C. Glaciers
D. Gravity
1282. Which of the following letter is at ap-
A. island proximately 60 degrees S, 40 degrees W?
B. glacier
C. plateau
D. peninsula
1278. coastal line

A. coastline A. A
B. shore B. D
C. beach C. E
D. H
D. coast
1283. A piece of land totally surrounded by
1279. Why are cities often warmer than area water.
in the countryside?
A. Island
A. Cities have more parks.
B. Peninsula
B. Cities consume more water. C. Plain
C. Cities have more lights. D. Cape
D. Cities have more metal, asphalt and 1284. The bar graph shows the average
concrete surfaces. of an area, while the line graph shows the
average of an area.
1280. The area of land next to the sea can be
called
A. peak
B. crops
C. current
D. coast
1281. Which of the following is the most effec- A. Precipitation, Temperature

tive agent of erosion? B. Temperature, Precipitation

1285. Which climate has the least amount of A. Peninsula

vegetation? B. Valley
A. Ice Cap C. hill
B. Steppe D. Mountain
C. Desert
1290. This is the movement of sediment from
D. none of above one location to another by wind, water, or
1286. If you were standing in the police sta- ice.
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tion, what direction would you travel to A. weathering
get to the library? B. erosion
C. glacier
D. water cycle
1291. Water contained inside Earth’s crust is
called groundwater.
A. True
A. East B. False
B. South
1292. The oceans cover about 70% of the
C. Southeast earth’s surface.
D. Southwest A. True
1287. When two plates collide and the heavier B. False
plate goes under the light plate
1293. Earth traveling around the sun is an ex-
A. Spreading ample of
B. Converging
C. Diverging
D. Subduction
1288. Metal, asphalt, and concrete surfaces
absorb huge amounts of heat from the sun
and affect the around some cities.
A. Weather
B. Wind A. Rotation
C. Landform B. Revolution
D. Season
1294. What is a mountain?
1289. What landform is not pictured here? A. land with steep sides that rises sharply
time
C. short term
D. climates that are wet and warm

1295. A temperate climate is? B. Divergent

A. consistently cool C. Transform

B. consistently warm D. Subduction
C. consistently moderate 1301. Which of the following is not a non-
D. warm and cool renewable resource?
A. Natural Gas
1296. This layer of the planet describes all wa-
ters of the Earth B. Petroleum
A. Hydrosphere C. Coal
B. Lithosphere D. Soil
C. Atmosphere 1302. What ocean is labeled 12?
D. Biosphere
1297. What is an imaginary line that divides

the earth into the Western and Eastern
hemisphere?
A. Equator
B. Prime Meridian A. Indian
C. Tropic of Cancer B. Arctic
D. Tropic of Capricorn C. Atlantic
1298. What is the process by which na- D. Southern
tions, cultures, and economies become in-
1303. The? is the plastic (slowly flowing)
tegrated?
layer made of solid rock in the mantle
A. globalization
A. Asthenosphere
B. regional change
B. Lithosphere
C. dialect
C. Cryosphere
D. democracy
D. Mesosphere
1299. Stretching into the Pacific Ocean from
1304. The central part of a country or conti-
northern Mexico is a narrow , or piece
nent that is a long way from the coast.
of land that is surrounded by water on
three sides.
A. Baja California
B. big River
C. Rio Bravo
D. Peninsula A. area
1300. Type of boundary pulls apart and can B. inland
form rifts and valleys C. island
A. Convergent D. none of above

1305. The average or typical weather condi- C. continent

tion of a region year after year D. butte
A. Weather
1311. This causes day and night.
B. Climate
A. Rotation
1306. What type of climate has wet season, B. Revolution
dry season, and warm temperatures,
1312. Which continent is pictured in green?
A. polar
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B. temperate
C. tropical
1307. Things you can do to help decrease

global warming include:
A. Eat more ice cream.
B. Keep your freezer door open.
C. Keep your air conditioner on high. A. Asia
D. Turn off your lights when you’re not us- B. South America
ing them. C. Africa
1308. Resources on Earth that can’t be re- D. Europe
placed are called? 1313. Name the ocean labeled 4?
A. Renewable resource
B. Nonrenewable resource
1309. A material in nature that people use and

value are
A. diamonds
B. fossil fuels
C. renewable resources A. Indian Ocean
B. Southern Ocean
D. natural resources
C. Pacific Ocean
1310. What is this landform?
D. Atlantic Ocean
1314. The spike in rainfall for a few months in
an area that normally receives very little
rain indicates what on a climograph?
A. Monsoon
B. Blizzard
A. hill C. Typhoon
B. mountain D. Tsunami

1315. the hill 1319. What is the name of the massive lakes
called?
A. mountain

B. hillock
C. hill
D. ridge
1316. A large open area of land covered with

grass.
A. Big Lakes
B. Larger Lakes
C. Great Lakes
D. Largest Lakes
1320. What is the name of the dark yellow

continent?
A. Canyon
B. Forest
C. Grassland
D. Cliff
1317. The sun remains directly overhead in ar- A. South America

eas outside the tropics.
B. North America
A. True C. Asia
B. False D. Africa
1318. Name this boundary 1321. A natural elevation of the earth that is
higher than a hill and usually built near a
plate
A. Convergent A. plateau
B. Divergent B. mountain
C. Transform C. Plain
D. Sergeant D. Peninsula

1322. River diversion is 1327. ( )-Life (plants, animals, insects, hu-

mans)
A. when we change the course of a river
to meet our needs.
B. canal
C. dam
D. all of the above
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1323. Which stage does the arrow below #2
show in the diagram? A. Geosphere
B. Hydrosphere
C. Atmosphere
D. Biosphere
1328. How long did it take for state officials

to confirm that Flint Water was contami-
nated?
A. condensation A. 6 months
B. evaporation B. 1 year
C. precipitation C. year and a half
D. run off D. 5 years
1329. A is a piece of land surrounded by

1324. Which of the following gases DOES NOT water on 3 sides.
trap heat?
A. Isthmus
A. carbon dioxide
B. Peninsula
B. nitrogen C. Continent
C. water vapor D. Bay
D. methane 1330. Which climate zone do we live in?
1325. This takes 24 hours A. Temperate
A. Rotation B. Tropical
C. Polar
B. Revolution
D. Savannas
1326. is the removal of large chunks of
1331. The largest continent by area and popu-
rock debris.
lation
A. Plucking
A. Africa
B. Abrasion B. Asia
C. Weathering C. North America
D. Erosion D. Antarctica

1332. Happens when the water vapor collects 1337. Which of the following is an example of
in the sky to form clouds a Renewable Resource?

A. Precipitation A. Coal
B. Condensation B. Oil
C. Collection C. Natural Gas
D. Evaporation D. Wind
1333. A Humid Temperate climate zone has all 1338. Choose two words for the low area be-
types of weather and changing tween 2 mountains.
A. Seasons A. plains
B. gorge
B. Latitude
C. valley
C. Longitude
D. crops
D. Landforms
1339. Which is the best description of a map
1334. What type of landform is this? legend?
A. Identifies north, south, east & west
B. Shows distance
C. Explains symbols
D. none of above
1340. Which climate zone are you in if the lat-
itude is between 66.5 and 90 degrees?
A. River Delta A. Tropical
B. Peninsula B. Temperate
C. Island C. Polar
D. Mountain D. All of the above
1335. A passage of water between 2 land- 1341. An area located at the mouth of a river.
masses is called a A. desert
A. cape B. delta
B. island C. magma
C. peninsula D. hydrosphere
D. strait 1342. Atlantic Ocean
1336. Which of the following describes the cli-
mates of low latitudes?
A. warm summers and warm winters
B. cold summers and cold winters
C. cool summers and warm winters
D. cold summers and cold winters A. A

B. B 1347. Hyrdo Power is a energy resource.

C. C
D. D
1343. What is erosion?

A. When waves lose energy and drop sed-
iment along the coast.
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B. The wearing away of land by water or
wind.
C. The movement of sediment along the A. Renewable
beach. B. Nonrenewable
D. The distance that the wind has trav-
eled over water. 1348. a large area of flat land with few trees
1344. A large natural elevation of the earth’s A. plain

surface rising abruptly from the surround- B. bay
ing level.
C. mesa
D. marsh
1349. When the sun’s rays pass through our

atmosphere and then heat is trapped by
the atmosphere it is called
A. Forest
B. Cliff
C. Canyon
D. Mountain
1345. This layer of the planet describes all of

the gases surrounding earth.
A. Lithosphere A. Global Warming
B. Hydrosphere B. Greenland Effect
C. Atmosphere C. Greenhouse Effect
D. Biosphere D. Ice Age
1346. A large, unbroken mass of land
1350. The goal of ecotourism is for tourists to
A. Peninsula learn about and explore the natural envi-
B. Continent ronment without interfering with it.
C. Isthmus A. True
D. Glacier B. False

1351. Clouds producing rainfall

A. atmosphere, lithosphere

B. hydrosphere, biosphere
C. biosphere, atmosphere
D. atmosphere, hydrosphere
1352. If lots of lava flows out in one spot on

A. Mississippi River
the surface of the Earth it forms a moun-
tain and is called B. big River
A. magma. C. James River
B. an ocean. D. Amazon River
C. a volcano.
1356. The Earth’s is made up of the Crust, the
D. a ring. Mantle, and the
1353. Boundaries where 2 tectonic plates

move away from each other causing a gap
into which water flows?
A. insurgent boundaries
B. transform boundaries
C. convergent boundaries
D. divergent boundaries
1354. (Of the climate)-that is neither very

A. core
good, hot, nor very bad, cold.
B. outside
C. inner
D. angle
1357. A sudden, violent shaking of the earth’s

surface.
A. continental
B. severe
C. moderate A. volcano
D. none of above B. typhoon
C. earthquake
1355. What is the longest river in North Amer-
ica called? D. none of above

1358. A flat landform that rises above the sur- 1363. What land form is this?
rounding land.
A. isthmus
B. plains
C. fault
D. plateau
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1359. What is this? A. valley
A. Mountain B. canyon
B. Plain C. plain
C. Slope D. mountain
D. Gulf 1364. The crust of the Earth is a thin, rocky
layer divided up into many separate plate.
1360. The process by which weathered bits of These plates move around, causing the con-
rock are moved by water. tinents to change position. What is this
A. weathering phenomenon called?
A. Crust Movement
B. erosion
B. Continental Morphology
C. desalination
C. Plate Tectonics
D. climate
D. Tectonic Science
1361. What is this landform? 1365. Located around the rim of the Pacific
Ocean, the Ring of Fire is known for
A. Peninsula
B. Delta A. Its great sushi
C. Island B. Frequent droughts
D. Mountain C. Johnny Cash songs

D. Volcanoes and earthquakes
1362. Choose two words for the top of a
mountain. 1366. are triangular shaped rivers that
merger into a large river.
A. valley
A. Delta
B. gorge B. Isthmus
C. summit C. Archipelago
D. peak D. none of above

1367. What continent is the United States Lo- A. carbon monoxide

cated in? B. oxygen

A. North America C. nitrogen
B. South America D. carbon dioxide
C. Europe
1373. The amount of space covered by a piece
D. Canada of land, described as a measurement.
1368. In an earthquake, the point underground
where the rock first begins to move is
called the
A. focus or hypocenter
B. epicenter
1369. This is statistical data about people who
live in a certain area or form particular eth-
nic, social, or economic groups.
A. demographics
B. developing world A. area
C. social science B. inland
D. none of above C. island
D. none of above
1370. How many days are in 1 year?
A. 563 1374. A very large area of flat land, without
mountains is called a
B. 250
A. gorge
C. 365 1/4
B. volcano
D. 30
C. peninsula
1371. Located at 0 degrees latitude this imagi-
D. plain
nary line divides the Earth in northern and
southern hemispheres 1375. Most of the land on Earth is part of one
A. Prime Meridian of the seven
B. Meridian A. oceans
C. Equator B. countries
D. Parallel C. continents
D. rivers
1372. Which of the following is a greenhouse
gas? 1376. A large natural stream of water that
runs through the land.
A. river
B. bay
C. sea
D. none of above

1377. A long, narrow band of volcanoes 1380. Why do places on Earth have daily peri-
around the Pacific Ocean. ods of daylight and darkness?
A. Because of the North & South Pole
B. Because Earth rotates every 24 hours
C. Because of Earth’s tilt
D. Because of Earth’s distance from the
sun.
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1381. Name Continent D!
A. Continent
B. Ring of Fire
C. Tsunami
D. Glacier
A. Asia
1378. A year is measured by
B. North America
A. Earth’s revolution around the sun
C. Europe
B. Earth’s rotation on its axis
D. Africa
C. the tilt of the earth
D. Earth’s involvement in eclipses 1382. Within a particular , most places
have many similarities. Like towns on the
1379. There are four main types of erosion for Great Plains, for example. Most are sur-
rivers. Which answer is correct. rounded by farms.
A. Lizard
B. time zone
C. region
D. country
1383. What causes volcanoes?

A. Hydraulic Action, Attrition, Rubbing, A. The separation of tectonic plates;Divergent
Silting
B. Hydraulic Action, Abrasion, Deposition, B. When tectonic plates slide past one an-
Solution other;Transform
C. Hydraulic Action, Abrasion, Silting, So- C. When one plate slides under another
lution plate:Subduction
D. Hydraulic Action, Solution, Abrasion, D. When tectonic plates collide. conver-
Attrition gence

1384. This zone includes the dry and steppe 1389. This rock was formed by lots of fossils
and can be found at any latitude. that settled on top of each other over time.
A. Tropical What type of rock is this?

B. Dry
C. Temperate
D. Polar
1385. The opening by which lava comes out in
a volcanic eruption is called
A. Sedimentary
B. Igneous
C. Metamorphic
D. none of above
1390. A resource that cannot be replaced

A. magma chamber.
A. Renewable Resources
B. cone.
B. Non-renewable Resources
C. epicentre.
D. crater. C. Natural Resources
D. Physical Resources
1386. In which layer of Earth’s interior is the
inferred temperature 6, 000◦ C? 1391. What is an imaginary line running
A. crust through Earth’s center?
B. outer core A. Orbit
C. inner core B. Axis
D. mantle C. North & South Pole
1387. What is NOT an example of why GPS is D. None of the Above
a useful tool
1392. What do you see in the picture?
A. It gives us the weather
B. It gives us driving directions
C. GPS helps rescue crews
D. GPS helps track phones and comput-
ers
1388. Temperature is measured in
A. degrees A. Ocean
B. inches B. River
C. centimeters C. Lake
D. feet D. Island

1393. Earth’s oceans are connected and form C. Wind energy

one giant ocean.
D. Hydroelectric Power
A. true
B. false 1398. The runs through most of North
America.
1394. Which city is the capital?
A. Rocky Mountains
B. Applachain Mountains
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C. Continental Divide
D. Great Lakes
1399. Which ocean is located off the east coast

of North America?
A. Springfield
B. Chicago
C. Peoria
A. Pacific Ocean
D. Dekalb
B. Atlantic Ocean
1395. Evaporate involves a change of state
from to C. Indian Ocean
A. Solid to Liquid D. Southern Ocean
B. Gaseous to Liquid
1400. My house is right down the street from
C. Liquid to Gaseous the Massanutten Water Park. This is an
D. Liquid to Solid example of location.
1396. The warming of the atmosphere by the

trapping of heat being radiated to space is
called
A. evaporation
B. condensation
C. the greenhouse effect
D. radiation
A. geographic
1397. Which of the following choices is an ex-
ample of a Non-renewable Resources? B. absolute
A. Solar energy C. topographic
B. Natural Gas D. relative

1401. Which of the following is NOT a tectonic A. The map show the lines of longitude.
boundary? B. The map shows the lines of latitude.

A. Convergent
1405. The Ocean is west of the United
B. Divergent States.
C. Sedergent A. Pacific
D. Transform B. Atlantic
1402. Seattle is located on the west coast of C. Indian
the United States and has moderate tem- D. Gulf
peratures with large amounts of rainfall.
Which climate zone would Seattle fall un- 1406. What does “latitude” refer to?
der?
B. Humid Subtropical
C. Marine West Coast
D. none of above
1403. What factors cause Mount Fuji to be cov- A. the distance away from the Equator
ered in snow only in winter? B. how much rain a place gets
C. how high up a mountain a place is
D. the number of seasons a place gets
1407. Lines of Latitude can be measured up to
what degree?
A. 150 degrees
B. 180 degrees
C. 90 degrees
D. 100 degrees
A. location according to latitude
1408. ? give a lot of information about Earth’s
B. Area height interior by the waves they create.
C. Alignment of the mountains A. Volcanoes
D. wind direction B. Tsunamis
1404. Choose the correct option C. Earthquakes
D. Cannonballs
1409. Which climate zone are you in if the lat-
itude is between 0 and 23.5 degrees?
A. Tropical
B. Temperate
C. Polar
D. All of the above

1410. What is a plateau? 1415. What percentage of the Earth’s water is

fresh water?
A. 70%
B. 97%
C. 3%
D. 30%
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1416. The area of land next to a lake or a river
A. an area of level land, usually at low el- can be called
evation and often covered with grasses
A. shore
B. an area of land drained by a given river
and its branches B. coast
C. land usually level, at low elevation C. current
D. an area of flat or rolling land at high D. plains

elevation 1417. In convection, what happens to the
1411. Lines of longitude are also called warmer air or liquid?
A. Rises (moving faster)
A. Hemispheres
B. Drops down (heavier)
B. Meridians
C. parallels 1418. What are the 7 continents?
D. International Date Lines A. Asia, Africa, North America, South
America, Antarctia, Europe, Australia
1412. Which lines are usually referred to as
B. Europe, Asia, Africa, United States,
‘meridians’?
China, Germany, Seven
A. Longitudes C. Columbia, Africa, Asia, Germany, Ice-
B. Slopes land, Six, Hopi
C. Intersections D. Both A and C.
D. Latitudes 1419. El nino occurs in
1413. Some greenhouse gases are naturally A. Atlantic ocean
present in the Earth’s atmosphere B. Indian ocean
A. True C. Pacific ocean
B. False D. Mediterranean sea
1414. What is a hemisphere? 1420. Which landform, is surrounded by water
A. longitude line at 0* on all sides?
B. half of the world A. Butte
C. exact location of a place based on lati- B. Valley

tude and longitude lines C. Island
D. latitude line at 0* D. Volcano

1421. In which position is it Spring in the A. valley

Northern Hemisphere? B. canyon

C. mountain
D. plain
1425. A large body of water surrounded by

land.
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
1422. Water found in lakes is A. Lake

A. fresh B. Ocean
B. marine C. River
C. salty D. Stream
D. wasted
1426. What city has the highest median (num-
1423. Antarctica is cold all the time. What is ber halfway into the set) household in-
it’s climate? come?
A. St. Louis, MO
B. Flint, MI
A. Tropical C. Lawrence, KS
B. Polar D. Kansas City, KS
C. Arid/Dry 1427. When did the earthquake strike?

D. Temperate A. 12 January 2010.
1424. What land form is this? B. 16 June 2011
C. 12 January 2012
D. 16 June 2010
1428. Winter happens when the earth is fur-

thest away from the sun in its orbit.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

1429. a large body of ice that moves slowly A. frost action

across land B. repeated wetting and drying
A. ice cap
C. exfoliation
B. glacier
D. oxidation
C. ice sheet
D. none of above 1434. The earth is tilted on its
A. line
1430. The long-term accumulated and average
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weather pattern for a location is known as B. equator
A. Climate C. axis
B. Weather D. core
C. Meteorology
1435. This type of weathering occurs when
D. Mediterranean rocks weaken then break down due to
1431. Which Caribbean country is very vulner- chemical changes in the composition of the
able to earthquakes? rock.
A. Puerto Rico A. mechanical weathering
B. Haiti B. chemical weathering
C. Dominican Republic C. erosion weathering
D. Cuba D. deposition
1432. The most prevalent type of vegetation 1436. This landform is a deep gorge that usu-
found in the rectangle is- ally has a river flowing through it:
A. Canyon
B. Valley
C. Island
D. Volcano
1437. A flat, grassy area with low elevation

A. arid
A. Desert
B. tundra
B. Plain
C. Mediterranean
C. Hill
D. tropical wet
D. Island
1433. What type of weathering is most promi-
nent in this region? 1438. A family flying to Walt Disney World is
an example of which theme of geography?
A. Flying
B. Region
C. Location
D. Movement

1439. The mixture of gases that surround the 1443. This is the layer of gasses that surround
earth Earth
A. Atmosphere

A. Landforms
B. Sun B. Hydrosphere
C. Atmosphere C. Lithosphere
D. Biosphere
D. Weathering
1444. The temperature of a tropical climate is?
1440. What mountain chain is found in the
A. consistently warm
eastern part of the United States?
B. consistently cool
C. consistently moderate
D. warm and cool
1445. of water found o n earth is
A. saltwater
B. freshwater
A. Rocky Mountains C. clorinewater
B. Alps D. poolwater
C. Atlas Mountains 1446. Which continent is #3?
D. Appalachian Mountains
1441. Why are cities often warmer than areas

in the countryside?
A. Cities have more parks.
B. Cities consume more water A. Australia
C. Cities have more lights. B. Antarctica
D. Cities have more metal, asphalt, and C. Africa
concrete surfaces. D. Europe
1442. When the northern hemisphere is receiv- 1447. 97% of the Earth’s surface is covered
ing direct contact what season is it? with
A. Salt water
B. Fresh water
1448. The start of a river is called the what?
A. Summer
B. Spring
C. Fall
D. Winter

A. River summit 1453. What two hemispheres does the equa-

tor create?
B. River source
A. Northwest & Southwest
C. River start
B. Northern & Southern
D. River mouth
C. East & West
1449. During which stage do clouds form? D. None of these
1454. Ocean #4 is
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A. condensation
A. Pacific
B. evaporation
B. Atlantic
C. precipitation C. Indian
D. none of above D. Arctic
1450. On what type of map would you find el- 1455. Where is United States in relation to the
evation and the shape of the land? Prime Meridian?
A. Resource A. West
B. Climate B. East
C. Topographic C. North
D. none of above
D. Physical
1456. The biggest factor in determining cli-
1451. The Mediterranean has the perfect climate is?
mate for the production of which crop?
A. elevation
A. Grapes B. an ocean
B. Coffee Beans C. latitude
C. Cotton D. mountain
D. Bananas 1457. Why did Michigan state officials initially
change Flint’s water source from Lake
1452. Elevated houses in Galveston in an ex-
Huron to the Flint river?
ample of?
A. because Lake Huron was contami-
A. Depending on the environment nated
B. Modifying the environment B. to save the city money
C. Cultural Diffusion C. to save wasted water
D. Adapting to the environment D. none of above

1458. Beliefs, customs, art, and ways of living

that groups of people share

A. Geography
B. Culture
C. Economics
D. Government
1459. Where is located the pacific realm?

A. Pacific Ocean A. Prime Meridian
B. Antarctic Ocean B. compass rose
C. Indian Ocean C. world directory
D. Atlantic Ocean D. 4 way pointer
1460. How many climate zones are there? 1464. What causes volcanoes and earth-
quakes?
A. 4
A. weathering
B. 5
B. Earth’s tilt
C. 6
C. tectonic plate movement
D. 7
D. ocean currents
1465. I only get 10” or less of precipitation
a year! I am dry year round, and can be
either hot or cold!
A. Indian Ocean
B. Arctic Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean
D. Southern Ocean
A. Steppe
1462. Acid rain does not damage Earth’s envi- B. Desert
ronments.
C. Polar
A. True
D. Tropical savanna
B. False
1466. What climate region is location “D” lo-
1463. Name this map tool cated in?

A. a scary drive-thru
B. the slow downhill movement of rock
and soil that bends things into erie shapes
C. the weird person who keeps asking me
these questions
A. humid subtropical D. the man in the van who has free candy
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1471. I live near the bus stop
C. tropical wet
D. highland A. absolute location
B. relative location
1467. One major belt of volcanoes that sur-
rounds the Pacific Ocean 1472. peninsula
A. Ring of Fire A. half island
B. Ring of Asia
B. peninsula
C. Ring o’ earthquakes
C. island
D. Ring a ding ding
D. isle
1468. An imaginary line that runs through the
Earth from North to South poles. 1473. is the energy created by wind turn-
ing wind turbines.
A. orbit
B. revolution
C. solstice
D. axis
1469. What do you call large landmasses

found on the earth’s crust? Hint:there are
7 of them
A. mountains
A. Geothermal
B. poles
C. continents B. Hydro
D. countries C. Wind
D. Nuclear
1470. What is a creep?
1474. The Mediterranean Sea is in the of
Europe borders Italy.
A. North
B. South
C. East
D. West

1475. What are the features of Earth’s crust? 1480. What is a polar climate
A. made of iron and nickel, there are two A. dry with little rain

layers, a liquid outer and solid inner B. seasonal like climates with milder
B. made of hot but solid rock temps
C. layer of solid rock including dry land C. climates that are dry and cold
and ocean floor. D. climates that change because of eleva-
D. none of above tion
1476. This is the process by which water- 1481. True or False:The sun’s heat causes
changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor. Earth to constantly orbit around it.
A. evapotranspiration A. True
B. infiltration B. False
C. evaporation 1482. This landform is formed by rivers empty-

ing their water and sediment into another
D. precipitation
body of water.
1477. What is the climate type of Indiana?
B. Arid Desert
C. Arctic Tundra
D. Humid Continental

A. island
B. river
C. fjord
D. delta
1483. The study and description of features on

A. Pacific Earth.
B. Arctic
C. Atlantic
D. Southern
1479. Define Latitude

A. vertical lines A. Language Arts
B. horizontal lines B. Geography
C. expresses lines from north to south C. Math
D. expresses lines from east to west D. Science

1484. Water soaks into the ground and replen- A. an earthquake

ishes underground rivers and wells
B. weathering
A. condensation
C. erosion
B. evaporation
D. deposition
C. run off
D. precipitation 1490. ( )-Land (Earth’s core, mantle, moun-
tains, sand, metals)
1485. One rotation of Earth is equal to
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A. a day.
B. a year.
C. a month.
D. none of above
1486. All of the living things on the Earth
A. Biosphere
B. Atmosphere A. Lithosphere
C. The continents B. Hydrosphere
D. Hydrosphere C. Atmosphere
1487. A is a deep inlet of the sea almost D. Biosphere
surrounded by land. The United States has
one of these on its southeastern border. 1491. The Appalachian Mountains is located on
A. Glacier the side of the United States.
B. Delta A. north
C. Gulf B. south
D. Cape C. east
1488. underwater plain bordering a continent D. west
A. tundra
1492. What climate does a desert have?
B. isthmus
C. continental shelf
D. axis
1489. The breaking down of natural material
such as rock is called
A. Tropical
B. Polar
C. Arid/Dry
D. Temperate

1493. A small river is called a 1499. The thin layer of gases that envelop the
A. stream Earth is called the

A. Geosphere
B. current
B. Lithosphere
C. source
C. Atmosphere
D. ridge
D. Biosphere
1494. This is the act of turning on an axis
1500. Name of the island country above is
A. Rotation
B. Revolution
C. Orbit
D. Eclipse
1495. If a certain part of the world receives

less than 10 inches of rain per year, it is
considered a:
A. Indonesia
A. Forest
B. Turkey
B. Tundra
C. Bahrain
C. Desert
D. none of above
D. Lake
1501. Where are volcanoes most likely to
1496. Acid rain causes damage to Earth’s envi- form?
ronment. A. along plate boundaries
A. True B. near the center of continents
B. False C. near water
1497. What percentage of Earth’s water is D. on the moon
freshwater?
1502. The rigid outer layer of Earth’s crust
A. 75% that uses external and internal forces to
B. 3% shape the Earth
C. 1% A. Lithosphere
D. 97% B. Atmosphere
C. Biosphere
1498. When the Northern Hemisphere is point-
D. Hydrosphere
ing towards the sun, what season is the
Southern Hemisphere? 1503. A tropical climate in the US would be?
A. Winter A. Virginia
B. Spring B. New York
C. Fall C. California
D. Summer D. Florida

1504. Tropical Climate zones are determined C. Lena

by
D. Euphrates
A. Distance from the equator
B. Elevation 1510. The innermost layer of the Earth com-
posed of solid Iron which creates the mag-
C. Prevailing Winds netic field.
D. Ocean Currents
A. The lithosphere
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1505. An address is an example of: B. The Crust
A. Relative Location C. The Mantle
B. Absolute Location
D. The Core
C. Optimal Location
D. Formal Location 1511. What is a map scale?
1506. What was the magnitude (size) of the
earthquake? B. flat drawing of the surface of the earth
A. 6.2 C. tells what the symbols on a map stand
B. 7.0 for
C. 7.4 D. used to figure out read distance be-

tween two locations on a map
D. 6.8
1512. Which agents break down earth materi-
1507. A strip of land projecting into a body of
als?
water is which landform? (Hint:it resem-
bles a hook) A. wind only
A. Glacier B. earthquakes and gravity
B. Delta C. ice and 007
C. Gulf D. wind, water, and ice
D. Cape
1513. What is 4?
1508. Which factor that affects climate is asso-
ciated with the phrase “for every 1, 000
ft increase, the temperature drops 3.5 de-
grees”?
A. Oceans
B. Wind
C. Elevation
D. Latitude A. Africa
1509. What is the longest river in Ukraine? B. Antarctica

A. Severn C. South America
B. Danube D. Australia

1514. Sand dunes form along some coastlines. 1518. A long, narrow, steep-sided cut in the
Which factor is most responsible for form- ground or on the ocean floor.
ing sand dunes?

A. trench
B. canyon
C. isthmus
D. plateau
1519. Evaporation, precipitation, and conden-

sation all combine to form the
A. rain A. Weather cycle
B. wind B. Hydrologic cycle
C. water C. Climate cycle
D. ice D. Earth cycle
1515. What does the revolution and tilt of the 1520. What causes earthquakes?
Earth cause?
A. volcano
B. erosion
C. tsunamis
D. plate movement along fault lines
1521. Europe, Asia and North America are in

what hemisphere?
A. Tectonic Movement
B. Seasons
C. Rainshadow
D. Tides
1516. The best way to sustain resources for

A. Northern
the future is to rely on resources like
crops, paper, etc. B. Southern
A. Renewable C. Western
B. Non-Renewable D. Eastern
1517. What is the process of moving sedi- 1522. Which landform is a large mass of ice
ments from location to another? that moves over land?
A. Deposition A. Glacier
B. Erosion B. Delta
C. Weathering C. Gulf
D. Compaction D. Cape

1523. What continent is labeled 1? 1528. Lines that run north to south and mea-
sure east and west of the Prime Meridian
are called lines of
A. Longitude
B. Latitude
C. Parallels
D. Degrees
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. North America
1529. Islands form as (a) builds up and
B. Antarctica reaches the surface of the ocean.
C. Europe A. volcano
D. Asia B. cooled magma
C. tectonic plate
1524. What is this?
D. fault
A. Bay
1530. A low area of land between hills or
B. Gulf
mountains.
C. River
D. Slope
1525. Where would you find an ice sheet?

A. Australia
B. The Equator
C. Antarctica A. Mountain
D. Grand Canyon B. Desert
C. Valley
1526. Which 2 of these are bigger than the
D. Stream
other similar geographical feature? Click
on 2 choices 1531. What mountain range is shown in or-
A. gulf ange?
B. bay
C. peninsula
D. cape
1527. Located around the rim of the Pacific

Ocean, the Ring of Fire is known for
A. It’s great sushi A. The Pyrenees
B. Frequent droughts B. The Alps
C. Beautiful warm beaches C. Ural Mountains
D. Volcanoes and earthquakes D. Olympic Mountains


15◦ N and 150◦ W?

A. Arctic
B. Atlantic
C. Indian
D. Southern
A. Asia
1536. The technology used in the photo is used
B. Pacific Ocean
to sustain what type of modern invention?
C. South America
D. Atlantic Ocean
1533. alluvial deposition is

A. When water deposits sediment in new
locations
B. the process by which rock is broken
down into smaller pieces
A. electricity
C. the movement of sediment from one lo-
B. communications
cation to another
C. steel manufacturing
D. none of above
D. engineering
1534. Which letter represents the inner core
1537. Epicentre is
A. The area above the earth’s core
B. The area above a sink hole
C. The area above a magma chamber
D. the area above the focus of an earth-
quake
1538. What ocean is west of North America
A. G
B. D
C. F
D. A
A. Indian
1535. Which ocean is number 9? B. Arctic

C. Southern A. Plateau
D. Pacific B. River
1539. Which of these land-use practices has C. Island

contributed to increased desertification of D. Peninsula
the semiarid grasslands in Sudan?
1544. Which climate zone is associated with
A. overgrazing livestock and logging prac- hot summers and cold winters with
tices the most changeable weather conditions?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. drip irrigation and rainwater recap- (Hint:this is the climate zone we live in)
ture systems
A. Arid
C. contoured plowing and crop rotation
B. Humid Continental
D. organic fertilizers and natural pest
C. Tundra
control
D. none of above
1540. What is one trip of the Earth around the
sun called? 1545. Which climate has the heaviest precipi-
tation (rain)?
A. orbit
A. Tropical
B. axis
B. Desert
C. revolution
C. Polar
D. circle
D. Temperate
1541. What are the two kinds of Geography
we study? 1546. The largest landmasses (there are
seven)
A. Human Geography and Physical Geog-
raphy
B. Water Geography and Land Geography
C. Space Geography and Ocean Geogra-
phy
D. City Geography and Country Geogra-
phy A. Kavimc
1542. a farmer spraying pesticides B. Consequences

A. natural process C. Continents
B. human process D. Constantinople
1543. A large, elevated area of land (some- 1547. What are the names of the two plates
times flat) that share a boundary that caused the
earthquake?
A. North American and the Caribbean
B. South American and Caribbean
C. Eurasian and South American
D. North American and South American

1548. Which is an example of relative loca- 1554. What is the direct cause of rising sea
tion? levels?
A. Melting Sea Ice

A. 20*N, 80* W
B. 10440 Indian Creek Road B. Melting Land Ice
C. North of Kentucky C. Climate Change
D. 60*S, 120*E D. none of above
1555. The oceanic floor is made of?
1549. The cracks in the earth are caused
by earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis is A. Granite
known as which theory? B. Basalt
A. Earth Drift Theory C. Cookies
B. Continental Drift Theory D. Water
C. Flat Earth Theory 1556. A narrow passage of water that con-
D. Equator nects two seas or large areas of water.
1550. tidal wave

A. waves
B. rising wave
C. tidal wave
D. high wave
A. strait
1551. True or False:The water cycle keeps B. geyser
Earth’s water supply in balance. C. stream
A. True D. none of above
B. False 1557. “I am a smaller river joining a larger
1552. Long, severe winters, pine trees & furry river” What am I?
animals A. Confluence
A. Taiga B. Tributary
B. Tundra C. Drainage Basin
C. Temperate D. Watershed
D. Polar 1558. What type of map shows climate types?
A. Strand Map
1553. Which body of water is a fraction of its
former size due to the diversion of water B. Hemisphere Map
in the former Soviet Union? C. Physical Map
A. Dead Sea D. Thematic Map
B. Study Sea 1559. Trees are a
C. Caspian Sea A. nonrenewable resource
D. Black Sea B. renewable resource

1560. By which process is liquid water turned 1565. When it is winter in the Southern Hemi-
into water vapor? sphere, it is summer in the Northern Hemi-
sphere.
A. Condensation
A. True
B. Evaporation
B. False
C. Precipitation
D. Collection 1566. What percent of earth is water
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. 71%
1561. What percent of Earth is covered by wa-
ter? B. 25%
A. 70% C. 100%
B. 20% D. 3%
C. 50% 1567. What gives you information about sym-
D. 95% bols and colors on a map?
A. map title
1562. What land form is this?
B. gives the directions on the map
C. scale
D. legend/key
1568. Topography is
A. all the shapes of the earth
B. the top part of all the landforms
A. plain C. all the water and the landforms in an
B. valley area
C. mountain D. all the landforms that are in an area
D. canyon 1569. What mountain range is shown in or-

ange?
1563. Precipitation and temperature help de-
termine:
A. Weather
B. Climate
1564. Scientists believe that over 200 million

years ago, the Earth’s continents formed
one supercontinent called
A. Patagonia A. Andes Mountains
B. Wonder B. Ural Mountains
C. Pan America C. The Pyrenees
D. Gondwanaland D. The Alps

1570. What is this?

A. road map
B. economic or resource map
C. Dora’s map, but not the backpack
A. key D. political map
B. title 1575. An is a narrow strip of land forming

a link between two larger areas of land.
C. compass rose
A. Continent
D. star
B. Peninsula
1571. What causes earthquakes and volca- C. Isthmus
noes?
D. Bay
A. The moon’s pull on Earth
1576. Earth is made up of 3 layers, what are
B. Solar Flares
they?
C. Plate Movement A. Asthenosphere, Lithosphere, Core
D. Earth’s tilt B. Inner core, outer core, mantle
1572. What is it called when magma from a C. Core, Asthenosphere, Mantle
volcano rises to the surface D. Core, Mantle, Crust
A. an explosion
1577. Polar and Highland Climates are found
B. lava halfway between the equator and the
C. a shield volcano poles.
D. to stratovolcano A. True
B. False
1573. This is the process in which water vapor
inthe air is changed into liquid water and it 1578. An is a landform that consists of a
is responsible forthe formation of clouds. chain of islands
A. precipitation A. Strait
B. evaporation B. Isthmus
C. infiltration C. Peninsula
D. Archipelago
D. condensation
1579. When the Earth tilts away from the sun,
1574. What map would you use if you wanted
there are fewer hours of day light?
to create a new city, but want to make
sure there is enough nearby lumber and A. True
coal at your location? B. False

1580. The Tropic of Capricorn is located A. 1

A. 23 degrees west longitude B. 2
B. 23 degrees north latitude C. 3
C. 23 degrees south latitude D. 4
D. none of above
1585. This zone is located in the high latitudes
1581. What is 2? and near the poles.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Dry
B. Polar
C. Highland
D. Tropical
A. Madagascar 1586. Weathering, erosion, transportation

B. Hawiian Islands and deposition work together to
C. Iberian Peninsula A. create new landforms
D. Java B. do nothing
C. destroy landforms
1582. What type of map is this?
D. create life
1587. What percentage of the Earth’s water is

salt water?
A. 45
B. 52
A. physical C. 83
B. climate D. 97
C. political
1588. Which biome has hot temperatures and
D. thematic lots of precipitation?
1583. A glacier is the largest of the ice masses A. Desert
A. True B. Tropical Rainforest
B. False C. Taiga
1584. Generally, monsoons occur in which re- D. Tundra
gion of the world?
1589. Which renewable resource gets its di-
rect energy from the sun?
A. Geothermal
B. Solar
C. Wind
D. Hydrogen

1590. This is the theory that Earth’s outer 1595. What continent is labeled 7?
shell is divided into several plates that
glide over the mantle.

A. theory of relativity
B. theory of plate tectonics
C. theory of gravity
D. theory of convection A. Australia
1591. Continent G is B. Antarctica
C. North America
D. Europe
1596. What is a group of islands closely scat-

tered in a body of water?
A. island
B. peninsula
A. Asia C. channel
B. Antarctica D. archipelago
C. Africa
1597. This is the outermost layer of Earth. It
D. Europe contains landforms and ranges from 3 to
50 miles of thickness.
1592. Based on the table, which ocean has the
most earthquakes?
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Arctic Ocean
C. Indian Ocean
D. Pacific Ocean
1593. Who are the best?

A. Boys A. Crust
B. The girls B. Mantle
C. The teachers C. Inner Core
D. All D. Outer Core
1594. These maps feature human made bound- 1598. The of plants hold the soil together
aries like nations when it rains.
A. Physical Map A. roots
B. Political map B. branches
C. Thematic map C. leaves
D. none of above D. bark

1599. Type of plant that sheds its leaves once C. Animals need water
a year D. All of these answers are correct
A. Deciduous
1604. Earth’s water recycling system is called
B. Evergreen the
C. Coniferous
A. Water Fall
D. Tropical
B. Water Change
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1600. Along which boundaries do earthquakes C. Water Band
occur?
D. Water Cycle
A. tectonic boundaries
1605. Which 2 times of the year is there no
B. divergent boundaries
tilt to the earth
C. convergent boundaries
A. the first day of fall and the first day of
D. transform boundaries spring
1601. A way or track that is built or is made B. the first day of winter and the first day
by the action of people walking. of summer
C. the first day of summer and the first
day of autumn
D. the first day of winter and the first day
of spring
1606. This physical system contains all the

landforms on the earth.
A. Hydrosphere
B. Lithosphere
C. Biosphere
D. Atmosphere
A. lane 1607. This type of plate movement formed the
B. road Andes Mountains.
C. footpath
D. none of above
1602. Condensation turns water vapor into a

denser liquid or a solid state. A. oceanic crust meets continental crust
A. True convergence
B. False B. oceanic crust meets oceanic crust con-

vergence
1603. Why is water so important C. continental crust meets continental
A. Plants need water crust convergence
B. People need water D. transform plate movement

1608. Oil is a energy resource. B. small fishing boats

C. shipping cars

D. none of above
1613. narrow street

A. street
B. road
A. Renewable C. lane
B. Nonrenewable
D. square
1609. In which part of the world would you
find the hottest weather? 1614. Which maps show the boundaries of
states and countries?
A. Political
B. Population Density
C. Physical
D. Resource
A. the Southern Hemisphere 1615. What are the features of Earth’s core?
B. the Equator A. made of iron and nickel, there are two
layers, a liquid outer and solid inner
C. the Tropic of Capricorn
D. the Prime Meridian B. made of hot but solid rock
C. layer of solid rock including dry land
1610. This is an organically-rich soil type
and ocean floor.
found in the mid-latitudes
D. none of above
A. Mollisols
B. Manure 1616. Where does the river Ganga originates?
C. Clay A. Gangotri
D. Meridians B. Yamunotri
1611. Which landform is this? C. Mansarover
A. Locks D. Kailash
B. Tributary
1617. Carbon is stored in
C. Levees
D. Archipelago A. Trees and other living things
B. Oceans
1612. Ports usually handle container ships,
cruise ships and C. underground in soil and fossil fuels
A. oil tankers D. All are correct

1618. What is the difference between an is- 1622. Which of these is NOT a factor that de-
land and a peninsula? termines the climate of a place?
A. The peninsula is surrounded by all A. latitude
sides of water and an island has three B. wind patterns
B. an Island is in a river and a peninsula C. longitude
isn’t
D. elevation
C. A peninsula has three sides of water
1623. 16 large and shifting pieces that make
NARAYAN CHANGDER
while an island is surrounded on all sides
up Earth’s crust.
D. They are both the same
A. fault
1619. What is climate? B. trench
A. weather C. tectonic plates
B. rain, sleet, snow, or hail D. earthquakes
C. average weather in a region over a 1624. land surrounded on three sides by water
long period of time
A. plain
D. the amount of ice cream available in a
B. peninsula
city
C. valley
1620. Longitudes parallel. They at the D. island
poles.
1625. A long, narrow band of volcanoes
A. are; do not converge
around the Pacific Ocean.
B. aren’t; converge
A. Continent
C. are; converge B. Ring of Fire
D. aren’t; do not converge C. Tsunami
1621. Imaginary line through the center of the D. Glacier
earth (from the north pole to south pole) 1626. What is the plain formed by wind depo-
sition?
A. Dune
B. Hamada
C. Dhrian
D. Loess
1627. Dry, can be hot or cold depending on
which latitude it is located describes a
climate zone.
A. axis A. Cold Temperate
B. orbit B. Polar
C. pole C. High Mountain
D. tilt D. Desert

1628. What is the core made of? 1632. Tectonic forces (plate movement) can
A. steel cause all of the following except what?

B. iron A. The formation of volcanos
C. aluminum B. The creation of better farming soil
D. iron and nickel C. The creation of tsunamis

D. The creation of mountains
1629. The moving of broken down weathered
materials 1633. Using one location to find another is
called
A. weathering
A. relative location
B. erosion
B. dead reckoning
1630. A small river.
C. absolute location
D. geographic reckoning
1634. A vent in the earth’s crust through

which lava, ashes, and gases are expelled
A. crevasse
B. volcano
C. cenote
A. brook
D. canyon
B. stream
1635. During which month does Portland, Ore-
C. river
gon have the highest amount of days with
D. none of above frost?
1631. Use the map to identify an African coun-
try where hot, wet rainforests can be
found.
A. November
B. December
C. January
D. February
A. Botswana 1636. Any material from nature that people
B. Somalia use and value is called?
C. Dem. Republic of the Congo A. environment
D. Central African Republic B. renewable resource

C. natural resources B. fan-shaped sedimentary mound Take

D. none of above advantage of transportation
C. Coral islands are used for tourism.
1637. What is the name of the plates sur-
rounding the Pacific Ocean? D. yoke shaped lake Used for fishing pur-
poses
A. the volcanic ring
B. the ring of fire 1641. Which ocean is located to the east of
Africa and to the west of Australia?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. a hot spot
D. the ring of power
1638. A solstice happens a year when the

days are either shortest or longest.
A. twice
B. four
C. once
D. twelve A. Atlantic Ocean
1639. This housing type would be found in an B. Indian Ocean

area with C. Pacific Ocean
D. Arctic Ocean
1642. This sphere is a thin layer of gas that

surrounds the entire Earth.
A. a lot of winter precipitation

B. monsoons
C. a lot of tornadoes
D. a desert
A. atmosphere
1640. From the picture, what type of terrain
is it? And in what ways can it be useful? B. lithosphere
C. troposphere
D. biosphere
1643. Which is the outer layer of the earth.

A. Crust
B. Mental
C. Core
A. river delta Used for agricultural pur-
poses D. None of these

1644. What is this landform? 1648. A canal is a large stream of water that
flows into a larger body of water.

A. True
B. False
1649. What is the name of the line at 23.5 de-

grees south?
A. delta
B. canyon
C. valley
D. sand dune
1645. As you go to the top of a mountain,

what happens to temperature?
A. Arctic Circle
A. Nothing B. Tropic of Cancer
B. It increases C. Tropic of Capricorn
C. It decreases D. Antarctic Circle
D. It goes up and down
1650. What is the mountain chain in Africa
1646. The climate in a tropical rain forest can that separates the coastlines of Atlantic
be described as Ocean and Mediterranean Sea
A. Andes Mountains
B. Rocky Mountains
A. cold and wet
C. Himalayas
B. warm and dry
D. Atlas Mountains
C. cold and dry
1651. From the picture, what type of climate
D. warm and wet is it?
1647. The Rocky Mountains are located on the
side of the United States.
A. north
B. south
C. east
D. west A. semi-desert grassland

B. Warm, humid A. Crust

C. tropical meadow B. Mantle
D. mediterranean C. Inner Core
D. Outer Core
1652. Magma rises to the surface, pushing the
crust apart, and spreads the plates apart. 1657. Which layer is shown in yellow?
A. Divergent
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Convergent
C. Transform
D. Equator
1653. a small ice mass that spreads outward

on a land surface
A. continent
B. glacier
C. erosion A. crust
D. Ring of Fire B. mantle
C. outer core
1654. a part of an ocean or sea extending into
the land D. inner core
A. gulf 1658. What climate does most of northern
B. bay Africa have?
C. strait A. Humid Subtropical
D. river B. Tropical Savanna
C. Desert
1655. What is a long, deep, narrow body of
water that reaches far inland that was cre- D. none of above
ated by glaciers? 1659. How many steps are there in the scien-
A. island tific method formula?
B. butte A. 8
C. plateau B. 7
D. fjord C. 6
1656. Tectonic plates float on top of the D. 5
1660. What type of climate has long winters

and permafrost on the ground?
A. polar
B. tropical
C. temperate

1661. Which layer represents the lithosphere? B. Chemical weathering changes the
chemical composition of rocks; mechan-
ical weathering does not.

C. Chemical weathering occurs only in
tropical climates; mechanical weathering
occurs only in cool climates.
D. Chemical weathering occurs only in
the mountains; mechanical weathering oc-
curs only on flat land.
1665. What is the main source of energy for
life on Earth?
A. A
A. The sun
B. B
B. Water
C. C
C. Wind
D. D D. Nuclear energy
1662. a long, narrow band of volcanoes along 1666. The Antarctic Circle is located
the Pacific Ocean
A. 66 degrees north latitude
A. continent B. 66 degrees south latitude
B. glacier C. 66 degrees east longitude
C. Ring of Fire D. none of above
D. tsunami 1667. Which of the 4 spheres includes the
rocky outer layer of the Earth
1663. What is the name of this line at 0 de-
grees latitude? A. Lithosphere
B. Hydrosphere
C. Atmosphere
D. Biosphere
1668. what is a citizen?
A. a human
A. Prime Meridian B. an animal
B. Equator C. a member of a country
C. North Pole D. a worker in the country
D. South Pole 1669. The most rigid (not flexible) of earth’s
layers; coolest of earth’s layers
1664. How is mechanical weathering different
A. Atmosphere
from chemical weathering?
B. Hydrosphere
A. Chemical weathering happens over
much shorter time frame than mechanical C. Lithosphere
weathering. D. Biosphere

1670. What body of water is shown in blue? 1674. Antarctica and are completely south
of the equator.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. South America
A. English Channel B. Australia
B. Mediterranean Sea C. Africa
C. Rhine River D. Europe
D. Danube River 1675. Longitude measure distance from the
1671. The average weather conditions in a re-
gion. A. North and south from the Poles
A. weather B. East and west from the Equator
B. rain shadow C. East and west from the Prime Meridian
C. weathering
D. none of above
D. climate
1676. What is the Sierra Madre?
1672. Which landform is this?
A. A mountain range
A. Coastal Plain
B. Ocean
B. Great Plains
C. A bridge
C. Levees
D. A border wall
D. Canadian Shield
1677. Which landform, like the state of
1673. Crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core Florida, is land that is surrounded by wa-
make up ter on three sides?
A. Strait
B. Isthmus
C. Peninsula
D. Archipelago
1678. A large natural stream of water that

empties into an ocean, sea or lake.
A. The spheres of the earth
B. Types of plate tectonics
C. Climate factors

A. River
B. Lake

C. Sea
D. Ocean
1679. shallow
A. large land
B. lowland A. Arbitrary
C. flatland B. Thematic
C. Topical
D. highland
D. Seismographic
1680. The cardinal directions/points on the
1683. Central America is an example of a/an
compass rose are
A. northwest, northeast, southwest, & A. isthmus
southeast
B. archipelago
B. north, northwest, south, & southwest C. strait
C. north, south, west, & east D. peninsula
D. north, northeast, south, & southeast 1684. The layer is home of all living things on
Earth (Example humans)
1681. During which month does Manaus,
Brazil have the highest average tempera- A. Atmosphere
ture? B. Biosphere
C. Hydrosphere
D. Lithosphere
1685. This image is showing which impact on

the environment by humans?
A. August
B. September
C. October
A. acid rain
D. November B. deforestation
1682. The three types os maps are called Po- C. pollution

litical, Physical, and D. desertification

1686. What is a glacier? 1692. El Nino occurs when the tropical ocean
A. frozen saltwater waters are warmer in which ocean?
B. frozen freshwater A. Atlantic
B. Indian
1687. Choose the odd word:
C. Pacific
A. Marsh
D. Arctic
B. an area of soft, wet land
1693. What type of boundary is formed when
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. cliff base
plates slide past each other?
D. has many grasses
A. convergent
1688. The hydrosphere is most affected by B. horizontal
C. divergent
D. transform
1694. What is this symbol?
A. Erosion
B. The water cycle
C. Altitude
D. Deforestation
1689. What layer of the Earth does lava come
from?
A. Inner Core
A. scale
B. Outer Core
B. key
C. Mantle
C. compass rose
D. Crust
D. map
1690. Which type of plate movement creates
rifts and valleys? 1695. Which country is this?
A. Convergent Plate Movement
B. DIvergent Plate Movement
C. Subduction Plate Movement
D. Transform Plate Movement
1691. All the following are common character-
istics of climate EXCEPT
A. temperature A. Ireland
B. precipitation B. Iceland
C. season C. Portugal
D. latitude D. United Kingdom

1696. Define climate. 1700. What is a plateau?

A. different air masses A. natural feature of the earth’s surface

B. condition of the atmsophere over a B. a flat area of land at a high elevation
short time C. Triangular, flat, lot-lying land built up
C. average condition over a long period from the soil carried downstream by a
of time river
D. none of above D. large natural stream of water that
1697. At which type of boundary are moun-
tains formed? 1701. Which of the following is a way hurri-
cane impact the environment
A. they cause tsunamis
B. they can lead to less erosion
C. they can cause water to become con-
taminated
D. they can cause political leaders to lead
A. Convergent a campaign on disaster relief
B. Divergent 1702. What continent is light red?
C. Subductive Zone
D. Transform
1698. What city is located at 32 degrees south
and 150 degrees east?
A. Europe
B. Africa
C. Asia
D. Australia
A. Shanghai
B. Sydney
C. Durban
D. Calcutta
1699. A type of region that is defined by a gov-
ernment
A. Formal Region A. Africa
B. Functional region B. North America
C. Perceptual Region C. Europe
D. none of above D. Asia

1704. Which landform is this? C. 15oS, 60oE

A. Coastal Plain D. 45oS, 60oE
B. Great Plains
1708. Which of the following is a factor affect-
C. Plateaus ing climate?
D. Levees A. Longitude
1705. The gradual increase in the average tem- B. The Prime Meridian
NARAYAN CHANGDER
perature of our planet Earth is called C. Latitude
D. The International Date Line
1709. What is 6?
A. Hawaiian Islands
A. Greenhouse Effect B. Ural Mountains
B. Global Warming C. Bosporus, Dardanelles
C. Greenland Effect D. Java
D. Ice Age 1710. Which of these pairs is INCORRECT?
1706. As water vapor in the clouds cools A. hurricanes-Indian Ocean
down, it becomes water B. monsoons-South Asia
A. Evaporation C. tornadoes-North America
B. Condensation D. typhoons-East Asia & the Pacific
C. Precipitation
1711. What season is the Northern Hemi-
D. Collection sphere having?
1707. Location L is located at which coordi-
nates?
A. Fall
B. Winter
A. 15oS, 60oW C. Spring
B. 45oS, 60oW D. Summer

1712. In convection, WARM air A. wind direction

A. Rises
B. Proximity-farness to the sea

B. Sinks
C. Alignment of the mountains
1713. A key feature of Tundra Climate is per-
manently frozen layers of soil called per- D. ocean currents
mafrost.
A. True
1715. The Pacific Ocean is home to the famous
B. False
1714. What factors had the greatest influence
on the formation of desert zones in the A. Mariana Trench
middle of the continent?
B. The Bay of Bengal
C. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
D. Ring of Fire

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