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EARTH SCIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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1. EARTH SCIENCE

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1. The study of people and places on C. scientific law
earth is called?
D. conclusion
A. Erosion
4. Brazilian favelas such as the one
B. tectonic plates
shown above began to expand rapidly
C. geography in the 1970s. What was one reason for
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this expansion?
D. geometry

2. #30 is?
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A. Migrants from rural areas could


A. Equator not afford to settle in city centers.
B. Prime Meridian
B. The government was not able to
C. International Date Line provide utilities and sanitation ser-
vices to remote settlements.
D. Line of Latitude
C. The government forcibly relocated
3. A rule that correctly describes a natu- indigenous populations from rural ar-
ral phenomenon. eas.
A. hypothesis
D. Regional conflicts resulted in the
B. theory establishment of large refugee camps.

1. C 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C
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5. What are the imaginary lines that run 10. Which one of these is NOT a tool a
east and west called? geographer uses?
A. Longitude A. Chart
B. Meridians B. Fruit
C. Latitude C. Graph

6. Which would be most useful outside D. Map


based on the following weather condi-
11. Divergent boundaries form which of
tions: Temp 72 degrees, Dew Point 72
the following?
degrees.
A. faults
A. Sun glasses
B. mid-ocean ridge
B. Warm coat
C. mountains
C. An umbrella
D. rift valley
D. Ski gloves
12. Azores are a group of islands in
7. All life (plants, animals, insects, fun-
the Atlantic.
gus, bacteria, humans) makes up
which sphere? A. -
B. the
C. an

13. Holes drilled several kilometers into


Earth’s crust provide direct evidence
about Earth’s interior in the form of

A. rock samples
A. Geosphere
B. seismic waves
B. Hydrosphere
C. liquid iron
C. Atmosphere
D. volcanic eruption
D. Biosphere
14. The Equator and the Prime Meridian
8. Lines of measure north and south. both divide the Earth in
A. Longitude A. quarters
B. a grid B. one
C. the Prime Meridian C. half
D. Latitude D. fourths
9. This is the study of the oceans that 15. I am a/an
make up Earth.
A. Astronomy
B. Meteorology
C. Geology
D. Oceanography

6. C 7. D 8. D 9. D 10. B 11. B 11. D 12. B 13. A 14. C 15. B


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A. Valley
B. Mountain
C. Peninsula
D. Island

16. What line of latitude is 23.5 degrees


North of the Equator?

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A. Tropic of Capricorn
A. Photographic interpretation
B. Arctic Circle
B. Field observation

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C. Tropic of Cancer C. GPS
D. Antarctic Circle D. Remote sensing

17. A map that shows the contours of E. GIS


Lake Superior would be a

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21. Mountains, rivers, and lakes are ex-
A. political map amples of
A. Human Characteristics
B. reference map
B. Physical Characteristics
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C. thematic map
22. A group of sciences called science
D. topographic map
deals with Earth and its neighbors in
space.
18. What physical feature in Georgia built
forts to protect Georgia from pirates A. Astronomy
and the Spanish, but now protects the B. Geology
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interior of Georgia from bad weather


and is popular for tourism? C. Meteorology

A. Barrier Islands D. Oceanography

B. Savannah River 23. What is the study of solid earth?


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A. paleontology
C. Chattahoochee
B. geology
D. Appalachian Mountains
C. biology
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19. Which of the following does NOT in- D. astronomy


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fluence regional climate patterns?


24. The process that occurs under the
A. latitude earth’s surface and turns any kind of
B. proximity to water rock into metamorphic rock.
A. Heat & Pressure
C. wind patterns
B. Melting
D. vegetation
C. Molten
20. What is the layering of geographic D. Magma
data by computers into data sets
known as? 25. The prefix ’geo’ in geology means

16. C 17. D 18. A 19. D 20. E 21. B 22. A 23. B 24. A 25. C 26. C
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A. inside

B. rock

C. earth

D. study of

26. Which of the following is the cheapest


means of transport?

A. Airways

B. Railways A. photosphere
B. chromosphere
C. Waterways
C. core
D. Roadways
D. radiation zone
27. Fashion trends that diffuse from a
32. The principle that a fault or body of
celebrity in Paris, France to a certain
rock is younger than any other body
group of fans is an example of:
of rock that it cuts through.
A. Relocation diffusion

B. Stimulus diffusion

C. Contagious diffusion

D. Hierarchical diffusion

28. All of the following are examples of


Physical characteristics EXCEPT
A. Law of Superposition
A. The Empire State Building
B. Law of Crosscutting Relationships
B. Mountains
C. Absolute Age
C. Rivers D. Relative Age
D. Lakes 33. which of these is A FOLD MOUN-
TAINS
29. This is the place on the map where
the symbols are defined. A. SATPUDAS

A. Title B. HIMALAYAS
C. WESTERN GHATS.
B. Legend
34. A map is the internal image peo-
C. Scale
ple construct from their knowledge of
where places are located.
30. How do extrusive Igneous rocks cool?
A. mental
A. quickly
B. political
B. slowly
C. physical
31. Identify part 5. D. flow-line

27. D 28. A 29. B 30. A 31. B 32. B 33. B 34. A 35. C


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35. At the beach in the summertime, the 39. What is another name for the center
transfer of heat from the sand to the line of latitude - 0◦ latitude?
bottoms of your feet is called
A. Prime meridian
A. radiation
B. Meridians
B. fission
C. Latitude
C. conduction
D. Equator
D. convection
40. A compass will always point

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36. Atlantic Ocean
A. North
B. South

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C. East
D. West

41. What line of LONGITUDE is Point F


located?

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A. G
B. B
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C. A
D. C
37. The visible surface of the sun is
known as the A. 105o W
A. core B. 10o N
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B. photosphere C. 22o N
C. chromosphere D. 80o W
D. corona
42. What type of boundary it is when two
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38. How many continents are on the plates come together?


Earth? A. Transform boundary
B. Convergent boundary
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C. Divergent boundary
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D. Tectonic movement

43. Hot, molten rock inside the earth is


called

A. 7
B. 4
C. 5
D. 2

36. D 37. B 38. A 39. D 40. A 41. D 42. B 43. C


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A. igneous rock A. Hydraulic action


B. sedimentary B. Abrasion
C. magma C. Attrition
44. Occurs when a species( organism) dies D. Solution
out and no longer lives on the planet.
48. Thin layer of rotting vegetables
A. Extinction
B. Fossil A. fertiliser

C. Epoch B. humus
D. Relative Age C. bedrock

45. An exact address is an example of: 49. How do seismologists evaluate earth-
A. Relative Location quake risks?
B. Absolute Location A. geology around a fault, past earth-
quake activity, and population density
C. Optimal Location
D. Formal Location
B. forests, wildlife and past earth-
46. This map is most useful to determine quake activity
C. animal behavior, sun spot activity,
and population density
D. number of nearby active volca-
noes, geologic location, and wild fires

50. a map feature that explains the mean-


ing of colors and symbols used on the
map

A. total population in Asia


B. natural resources in Japan A. Map Key
C. population density in China
B. Map Contents
D. distribution of cities in Africa
C. Map Glossary
47. Which type of erosion is this? Water
D. Map Index
forces itself into cracks in the river
banks, causing them to break up. 51. Absolute location is described using

A. Latitude and Longitude Lines


B. Nearby landmarks

52. Which is NOT one of the four divi-


sions of Earth Systems

44. A 45. B 46. C 47. A 48. B 49. A 50. A 51. A 52. C


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A. Geology 56. Letter E represents which continent?
B. Meterology
C. Biology
D. Astronomy

53. Block Island lies of the coast of which


state?

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A. West Virginia
A. North America
B. Rhode Island
B. Africa

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54. Label number 1
C. Antarctica
D. ASia

57. What is the importance of the Panama

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Canal?
A. Separates North and South Amer-
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B. Allows ships to travel from the At-
lantic to Pacific Oceans
C. There is no importance
A. #1 Core D. It is a military base in Central
B. #1 Radiation zone America
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C. #1 Convection zone 58. is the collection of data that does


not involve physical contact
D. #1 Photosphere
A. GPS
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B. Fieldwork
by latitude & longitude or an address)
C. Remote-sensing
D. Not opening your textbook
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59. Which map is the small-scale map?


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A. hemisphere A. The one on the left


B. relative location B. The one on the right
C. absolute location C. Both
D. equator D. Neither

53. B 54. A 55. C 56. B 57. B 58. C 59. B 60. B


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60. If a sediment is very fine, well-sorted, 65. What is titanium used for?
and rounded, what does this tell you
about where the sediment is in rela-
tion to its source?
A. It is very close to its original
source
B. It is very far from its original
source
C. It is somewhat close to its original
source A. Medical protheses.

D. It has not traveled at all B. Boat propellers


C. Both of them.
61. The Rio Grande is what number?
66. If I am telling you a story about the
ancient Romans-
A. economics
B. government
C. history
67. A climate zone is
A. 7
A. Something on the air conditioner
B. 3 in my house
C. 4 B. An area/region that shares the
D. 5 same climate features
C. A special defense in basketball
62. is the soil and rock that gets left
behind after a glacier melts. D. Something I should have learned
in Global Issues with Mr. Matt, but I
A. weather
was too busy updating my status on
B. climate Instagram!
C. till 68. the study of the world, its people, and
D. region the landscapes they create

63. Which language is NOT a CONTEM- A. geography


PORARY Romance language? B. social science
A. Spanish C. meteorology
B. Italian D. biology
C. Portuguese 69. Of the terms listed below, which
D. French best fills in the blank in the follow-
ing statement: is the precise point
E. Latin where a place is located on Earth.
64. Largest continent in the world A. Relative Location
A. Africa B. Cardinal Location
B. United States C. Absolute Location
C. Asia D. Intermediate Location

61. D 62. C 63. E 64. C 65. A 66. C 67. B 68. A 69. C


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70. The study of the earth that deals with 74. A. Gulf of Mexico
naturally occurring features is known B. Atlantic Ocean
as
C. Caribbean Sea
A. political geography
D. Hudson Bay
B. human geography
75. When heavy rain cannot soak into the
C. physical geography ground, it runs over earth’s surface
71. What is Cartography? A. flood

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A. The study of carts. B. drought
B. The study of grocery stores. C. fault
C. The study of the surface features D. sinkhole

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of Earth. 76. A student is planning an experiment
D. The study of limiting factors. to find out how the height from which
he drops a ball affects how high the
72. Page 2: In what layer of the rainforest ball bounces. The dependent variable

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is the ground located? is the
A. Understory A. Diameter of the ball
B. Emergent B. Force acting on the ball
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C. Canopy C. Height that the ball bounces
D. Forest floor D. Height from which the ball is
dropped
73. What mountain range is found at G
77. What type of galaxy is this?
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A. Spiral
A. Rocky Mountains
B. Elliptical
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B. Appalachian mountains C. Irregular


C. Alps
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D. Irrational
D. Himalayas
78. Which type of seismic waves are the
quickest?
A. S-waves
B. P-waves
C. Surface waves
D. Love waves
79. The location of one place compared
to another place

70. C 71. C 72. D 73. C 74. C 75. A 76. C 77. C 78. B 79. B
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A. absolute location 83. What type of mountain is pictured?


Look at the sedimentary layers to
B. relative location
help.
C. environment
D. geography

80. Identify the layer made up of mostly


solid iron.

A. folded
B. fault-block
C. volcanic
D. upwarped/dome

84. Answers the question: "In what ways


do people adapt to their environment,
A. A or change their environment in order
B. E to meet their needs?"

C. D A. Human Environment Interaction

D. B B. Place
C. Location
81. Why do we use grip maps?
D. Region

85. what is the latitude of South America


A. 12 degree N to 35 degree N
B. 81 degree N to 56 degree S
C. 12 degree N to 56 degree S

86. What is the density of a liquid that


A. To learn about nature. has a mass of 27g and a volume of
30ml?
B. To locate places on a map.
A. 0.9 g/ml
C. To see the size of a map.
B. 3 g/ml
82. What religions follow Cosmogony?
C. 57 g/ml
A. Christianity and Islam
D. 810 g/ml
B. Christianity and Judaism
87. Which theme of Geography refers to
C. Hinduism and Judaism
where things are on earth and answers
D. Hinduism and Buddhism "where is it?"

80. B 81. B 82. A 83. A 84. A 85. C 86. A 87. D


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A. Place A. innovation
B. Region B. acculturation
C. Movement C. invention
D. Location D. diffusion

88. The rise and fall of the level of the sea 92. What is the main reason people
in response to the pull of the Moon’s choose to settle in one area and not
gravity. in another?

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A. Fresh Water A. They want to get away from major
B. Salt Water transportation centers.

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C. Salinity B. The area has sufficient resources
to meet their basic needs
D. Tides
C. They want to live close to friends
89. if you cross a time zone line going and family

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east you must
D. The area has deep religious signif-
icance to them

93. Tiny bits of weathered rock or once


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living plants or animals is called
A. Sediment
B. basalt
C. mineral
D. coal
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94. The place where the land meets the


sea is called the:
A. Dune
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B. Coast
A. subtract an hour from your watch
C. Valley
B. add an hour to your watch
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D. Mountain
90. An imaginary line that divides the
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northern and southern hemispheres is 95. Which ocean borders the WEST coast
the of the United States and Canada?

A. Prime Meridian A. Indian Ocean

B. longitude B. Southern Ocean

C. equator C. Atlantic Ocean


D. latitude D. Pacific Ocean

91. spread of ideas, inventions, or pat- 96. When you explain or interpret the
terns things you observe.

88. D 89. B 90. C 91. D 92. B 93. A 94. B 95. D 96. B 97. A
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A. Data 102. What does the "S" in HAGGERS


stand for?
B. Inferring
C. Observing
D. Predicting
E. Hypothesis
A. Social
97. A period of 100 years is known as a
B. Society
A. Century
C. Sociology
B. Decade
D. None of these
C. Millennium
103. Mississippi
98. How many continents are there?
A. Canada
A. 4
B. Mississippi City
B. 6
C. Jackson
C. 7
D. Jackson Hole
D. 10
104. The total of knowledge, shared atti-
99. Which has particles pressed more tudes, and behaviors of members of a
closely together by the weight above? specific group of people is their
A. erosion A. Society
B. transportation B. Culture
C. deposition C. Innovation
D. compaction D. Diffusion
E. cementation
105. What is most of the land made up of
100. When a volcano no longer erupts, on the Yucatan Peninsula?
the lava inside cools and forms
A. melted igneous rock
B. ash
C. cinders
D. solid igneous rock

101. Meteorology is the study of A. Clay

A. Weather B. Dirt

B. Oceans C. Limestone

C. Physical interactions D. Gravel

D. Exchanging ideas 106. Which vegetation type is this?

98. C 99. D 100. D 101. A 102. A 103. C 104. B 105. C 106. C


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111. When the earth is between the sun
and the moon, this results in a

A. waxing moon

B. solar eclipse

C. lunar eclipse
A. Tundra D. sun rise
B. Middle Latitude Forest

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112. The study of characteristics of the
C. Taiga world’s land and people is called
D. Steppe A. Geography

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107. Tennessee B. Geology
A. Memphis C. Geometry
B. Charlotte

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113. What Continent is Orange?
C. Nashville
D. Madison

108. Tenrikyo was once a branch of


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Shinto. created it. Followers
of the religion believe God expressed
divine will through ’s role as the
Shrine of God.
A. Nakayama Miki
B. Kim il-sung A. North America
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C. Confucious B. South America


D. Lao Tuz C. Europe
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109. If a place has great connections to D. Asia


other places, has dominant political,
transportation, and economic struc- 114. What is the breaking, crumpling, or
tures, it is said to have a high degree sliding of crust due to the earthquake?
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of
A. Stress
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A. Location
B. Strain
B. Place
C. Deformation
C. Landscape
D. Pressure
D. Centrality

110. Distorted 115. Protostars become stars when

A. Maps A. cold, dense nebulae form.

B. Globes B. fusion begins in their cores.

C. Both C. they produce thermal energy.

107. C 108. A 109. D 110. A 111. C 112. A 113. A 114. C 115. B


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116. Which geographical feature is not A. Anartica


clearly shown in the picture. B. Asia
C. Africa

120. Nebula’s are mixtures of gases and


what?
A. clouds
B. stars
C. tiny particles
D. dust
A. Bodies of water
121. The divides the Earth into the
B. Vegetation Western and Eastern Hemispheres
C. Animal Life A. Prime Meridian
D. Landforms B. Equator

117. How much continets are there in the 122. Climate Change (caused by natural
world? and human activities). Which area of
geography does this fall under?
A. 8
A. Physical Geography
B. 5
B. Human Geography
C. 6
C. Neither
D. 7 D. Both
118. What geographical theory did your 123. An ecosystem is a community of ani-
human investigation relate to? mals and plants interacting with their
A. Demographic transition model -
birth rates and death rates change A. habitat
over time as a country becomes more
B. climate
developed eg UK is in stage 4
C. environment
B. Landuse model - Housing and in-
come changes influence environmen- D. community
tal quality, eg more green spacefound 124. Which method of radioactive dating
where housing conditions better and would be most useful in determining
low litter. the age of a human fossil?
C. Population pyramid - The demo- A. Carbon-14 method
graphics of the country is displayed
based on age groups and gender B. Uranium-lead method
C. Potassium-argon method
119. What continent is this?
D. Rubidium-strontium method

125. Scientists believe that Earth’s core


and crust formed after the materials
pulled by Earth’s gravity became very
hot and

116. C 117. D 118. B 119. A 120. D 121. A 122. D 123. C 124. A 125. A 126. B
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A. Melted A. latitude
B. Broken B. longitude
C. oceans
126. Which part of a map shows you sym-
bols and their meanings? D. mountains

A. mountains 131. Rotation : Revolution : Revo-


lution + Tilt :
B. key or legend
A. season, day, year

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C. grid map
B. day, season, year
D. island
C. day, year, season

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127. medritian D. year, day, season
A. medrittian
132. Longitude is measured in degrees
B. medritansf east or west of

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C. eedtritian A. Prime Meridian

D. ritian B. Equator
C. Tropic of Cancer
128. Some cities have lots of pollution and
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garbage. Which theme does this rep- D. Tropic of Capricorn
resent?
133. The migration of ducks is an exam-
A. Region ple of:
B. Location A. Movement

C. Human-Environment Interaction B. Location


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C. Place
129. is a system that determines
the precise position of something on 134. Where is Eritrea located?
Earth through a series of satellites,
A. Canada
tracking stations, and receivers.
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B. South Carolina
A. GIS
C. Africa
B. GPS
D. North Carolina
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C. GGS
135. How are Volcanic Mountains
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D. ARC formed?
130. Which of the following is not a factor A. Upward pressure when two tec-
that affects climate? tonic plates collide.
B. Cracks in the crust pushes it up-
wards.
C. Magma pushes its way from be-
neath the crust.
D. Earthquakes taken place at fault
lines.

127. A 128. C 129. B 130. B 131. C 132. A 133. A 134. C 135. C 136. B
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136. In what county is the city of Cairo A. more timber available


located?
B. increased carbon dioxide in the air
A. Bibb
B. Grady C. increased oxygen in the air
C. Glynn D. more land for ranching
D. Ware 143. Studies outer space, the solar system,
and the objects in it
137. The physical environment causes so-
cial and cultural development. A. geologist
A. Cultural Environmentalism B. virologist
B. Environmental Possibilism C. astronomer
C. Environmental Determinism D. hydrologist
D. Cultural Possibilism 144. A country that has no access to water
138. Correlation does not imply is a country.

A. Correlation A. Compact

B. Causation B. Landlocked

C. Method C. Island Nation

D. None of the above D. Elongated

139. Subduction means. . . 145. These lines run North-South but


measure in degrees East & West.
A. Both plates rise up
A. Latitude
B. One plate is forced down
B. Longitude
140. What type of boundary creates a new
C. Equator
seafloor?
D. Prime Meridian
A. convergent continental to conti-
nental 146. On which two hemispheres do we
B. convergent ocean to continental live?

C. convergent ocean to ocean A. Northern and Eastern

D. divergent B. Eastern and Southern


C. Western and Southern
141. What color do we use to represent
water on maps? D. Northern and Western
A. red 147. How would you write 564,000,000
B. yellow in scientific notation?

C. blue A. 5.64 x 10-7

D. green B. 5.64 x 106


C. 5.64 x 108
142. What is a disadvantage of deforesta-
tion? D. 56.4 x 107

137. C 138. B 139. B 140. D 141. C 142. B 143. C 144. B 145. B 146. D 147. C
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148. An instrument used to measure the A. Arctic
amount of rainfall
B. Indian
C. Atlantic
D. Pacific

152. What is the separation of planet ma-


terials by density? This creates layers
inside the planet.

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A. barometer
B. thermometer
C. rain guage
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D. wind sock A. Accretion
B. Condensation
149. When the sun is directly over top of
the , it is the start of winter for us. C. Differentiation

A. equator D. Zonation

B. north pole 153. Why would geographers consider the


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region "stripped" on the map to be a


C. Tropic of Cancer "vernacular region"?
D. Tropic of Capricorn
ay

150. How long (average) does it take a


sapling to grow into a mature tree?
A. 5 years
r

B. 10 years
Na

C. 15 years
A. Region is inhabited by a grand
D. 20 years
majority from one religion group.
151. What is the largest Ocean? B. Region is defined by beliefs about
economic conditions in the area.
C. Region is characterized by a com-
mon climate and vegetation zones.
D. The region is bound by the bor-
ders of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Indiana.

148. C 149. D 150. C 151. D 152. C 153. B 154. A


24 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

154. We know that Earth did not origi- A. dark nebula


nally have any water because
B. neutron star
A. Earth was too hot to hold onto
C. protostar
water.
D. giant
B. Earth was too dry to soak up water
160. the hemisphere that is WEST of the
C. Earth’s magnetic field was too ac- Equator
tive to hold onto water.
D. Earth was too small to hold onto
water.

155. Hurricanes can be harmful.


A. True, rain and storm surges can
cause flooding. Strong winds can de-
stroy homes and other buildings. A. Northern Hemisphere

B. False, hurricanes are not harmful. B. Southern Hemisphere


C. Eastern Hemisphere
156. A river deposits its load when the
energy of the river D. Western Hemisphere

A. increases 161. Earth’s surface on a map is distorted


B. decreases because
A. Earth’s surface is curved and a
157. Around the classroom: Fill in the map is flat
blanks; If there are no dogs in heaven,
then when I die I B. The elevation of the land is chang-
ing.
A. I will live where the cats live.
C. The landforms such as mountains
B. want to go where they went.
can’t be shown on a map.
C. will cry for eternity because I miss
D. Earth’s surface has too many de-
my dogs.
tails.
158. Rocks are living things.
162. Why are mountains important to
people?
A. They contain minerals.
B. They provide places for recreation.

C. The are sources of rivers that pro-


vide hydroelectric power.
A. True
D. all of the above
B. False
163. The study of the atmosphere and the
159. Which of the following stages is the processes that produce weather and
earliest in the development of a star? climate is

155. A 156. B 157. B 158. B 159. C 160. D 161. A 162. D 163. B


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A. oceanography
B. meteorology
C. geology
D. astronomy

164. What are the four layers of Earth?


A. inner core, outer core, mantle, soil

er
A. compass rose
B. inner core, outer core, magma,
crust B. legend

gd
C. inner core, outer mantle, inner C. scale
mantle, crust D. title
D. inner core, outer core, mantle, 169. The reasons we have seasons is be-
crust cause the Earth is

an
A. pie
165. enforces laws
B. tilted
A. legislative branch
C. melting
Ch
B. executive branch
D. water
C. judicial branch
170. What is Thermal Power?
166. If a French clothing company wanted A. Power generated by coal.
to open a store in Orlando, Florida,
B. Power generated by Geo thermal
what kind of scaled data would it use
energy.
an

to understand the best place to build


it’s store? C. Power generated by thermal heat.
A. National Scale D. Power generated by petroleum.

171. Which theme of geography - why and


ay

B. Regional Scale
how people relocate
C. Local Scale
A. A. Place
D. National Scale
B. Regions
r

167. What does R stand for in GRAPES? C. Location


Na

A. Reason D. Movement

B. Religion 172. What is chemistry?

C. Region A. Chemistry is the study of the com-


position, structure and properties of
D. Rise matter.

168. Analyze the map and answer the B. Chemistry is the study of life and
question that follows.The map ele- ecosystem.
ment circled on the map above is the C. Chemistry is the study of planets
and universe.

164. D 165. B 166. C 167. B 168. B 169. B 170. A 171. D 172. A 173. B
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D. Chemistry is the study of the 177. Why are there different types of map
earth. projections?

173. Supporting Evidence: discovery of A. to provide a different projection


Mid-Atlantic Ridge, core rock sam- for different purpose
ples showing older rocks the farther
that you get from the mid ocean ridge B. to provide the same projection for
A. Continental Drift the same purpose

B. Seafloor Spreading
178. A mountain’s elevation is
C. Plate Tectonics
A. it’s distance above sea level.
174. Locations derive their names from
physical features, cultural links, histor-
B. a passage through or under it.
ical events these names are known
as
C. a wall used to stop the flow of wa-
A. Site ter.
B. Place
D. a level surface on the mountain-
C. Situation side.
D. Toponym
179. Which number on the map rep-
175. It displays true direction and useful resents the Sierra Madre Mountain
for sea navigation Range?
A. Planar/Azimuthal Projection
B. Robinson Projection
C. Conic Projection
D. Cylindrical/Mercator Projection

176. Which continent is pictured

A. 2

B. 5

C. 1
A. Europe
D. 8
B. Asia
C. Antarctica
180. Which geographic term BEST de-
D. South America scribes Florida?

174. D 175. D 176. C 177. A 178. A 179. C 180. A


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A. Romance

gd
B. Germanic
A. peninsula C. Slavic

B. isthmus D. Celtic

an
E. Indo-Iranian
C. archipelago
184. Red
D. cape
A. Albany, New York
Ch
181. Plates B. Concord, New Hampshire

A. pieces of the pie’s crust C. Montpelier, Vermont


D. Augusta, Maine
B. sections of the globe’s water
185. What is another name for a map
C. pieces of the earth’s crust maker?
an

D. sections of the student’s brain A. Oceanographer


B. Photographer
182. What are the two types of location
ay

geographers are interested in? C. Cartographer


D. Anemometer
A. Absolute and Relative
186. Sometimes called thunderheads,
r

B. Latitude and Relative which type of clouds bring thunder-


storm weather?
Na

C. GPS and Satellite


A. cirrus
D. General and Relative B. cumulonimbus

183. The image above is a map of the 187. The title of a map tells you
Indo-European language family re-
A. where you are
gion. The individual colored regions
show the location of the different B. how many people live there
branches of the Indo-European family.
C. how many mountains
Name the language branch covered by
the DARK GREEN region. D. what type of map is it

181. C 182. A 183. E 184. D 185. C 186. B 187. D 188. A


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188. #39 C. Harvesting sugarcane to make


ethanol gas as an alternative to oil

193. Caves are formed:

A. Australia
B. New Zealand
C. Nepal A. Biosphere-Atmosphere
D. China
B. Geosphere-Hydrosphere
189. Which region is least affected by the
tilt of the earth?
C. Hydrosphere-Atmosphere
A. Arctic
B. Temperate D. Biosphere-Hydrosphere
C. Tropical
D. Antarctic 194. What process is shown by letter B in
the diagram?
190. Which type of economy is based on
traditions and beliefs?
A. Command
B. Market
C. Traditional
D. Mixed

191. Very hot stars are what color?


A. Blue
B. Yellow
A. condensation
C. Red
D. Orange B. transpiration

192. What is ecotourism?


C. evaporation
A. Guided travel through natural
wildlife areas which is a major eco-
D. precipitation
nomic resource for a country.
B. Taking vacations at disaster
stricken areas to help rebuild houses 195. I am wearing

189. C 190. C 191. A 192. A 193. B 194. C


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A. equator
B. hemisphere
C. prime meridian
D. environment

199. Which of the following countries con-


tains one of the five cradles of civiliza-
tion?

er
A. Mexico
B. United States

gd
C. Tonga
D. Great Britain

200. Christ The Redeemer Statue on Cor-

an
covado Mountain is located in which
Ch country?

A. A blue t-shirt and brown trousers


B. A blue skirt and yellow jeans
C. A red jumper and green trousers
D. A orange coat and blue skirt.
A. China
an

B. Canada
C. Hungary
D. Brazil
ay

201. What are ALL the correct ways maps


can be distorted?
196. A. B-C-D-A-M-E-F-G-H
A. Shape, size, and distance
r

B. E-M-A-D-C-B-H-G-F
B. Direction, distance, and size
Na

C. H-G-F-E-M-A-D-C-B
C. Shape, size, direction, and dis-
D. H-G-A-D-C-B-F-E-M
tance
197. The study of Earth D. Shape, size, direction, distance,
A. Latitude and color
B. Longitude
202. Use the map on pgs. 452 & 453, and
C. Geography the organizer on pg. 21, as references
D. History for the following question:If it is June
18th in New York City, what season is
198. half of the earth it in London, England?

195. A 196. C 197. C 198. B 199. A 200. D 201. C 202. A


30 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. Spring A. The Pacific.


B. Summer B. The Great Southern Ocean.

C. Winter C. The Mediterranean.

D. Fall 207. This picture is an example of a

203. The earliest maps were probably


used to locate
A. minerals
B. water resources
C. forests

204. What is the closest point between


Russia and America? A. tenement.
B. political machine.
C. monopoly.
D. sweatshop.
208. Composed of all the water on or
near the earth

A. 2.5km
B. 4.3km
C. 3.3km
D. 3.8km
A. Hydrosphere
205. What is this moon phase?
B. Biosphere
C. Atmosphere
D. Geosphere
E. Cryosphere
209. Magma leaves a volcano through
a

A. Half moon.
B. New moon.
C. Full moon.

206. The sea between North Africa and


Southern Europe is called:

203. B 204. D 205. A 206. C 207. A 208. A 209. B


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A. Sill

B. Vent

C. Chamber

D. Crater

210. A map that shows human features,


like the borders that separate coun- A. Transportation

er
tries or states from another, cities, etc.
B. Derockifying
C. Geomovement
D. Lithosphere

gd
214. In an experiment, it is important to
change only factor. All other fac-
tors must be kept the same.

an
A. 1
A. physical map
B. 2
B. border
C. 3
C. political map
Ch
D. 4
D. pickled eggs
215. The dominant branch in the whole
211. Mississippi River of Islam is
A. Sunni
A. Northeast region
B. Shiite
an

B. West region
C. Muslim
C. South region
216. Eco-footprint: The UK average is 5.3
D. Midwest region hectares per person. What is Birming-
ay

ham’s eco-footprint?
212. What is the definition of rock layer?
A. 5.3
A. to group things based on similar
characteristics B. 3.5
r

C. 4.15
B. a layer or line of rock above or
Na

below another body of rock D. 5.14

C. a combination of substances that 217. Which is MOST widespread?


can be physically separated from one
A. Tundra
another
B. Polar
D. the ordering of sedimentary layers
of rock with the oldest on the bottom C. Tropical rainforest
and the youngest on top D. Taiga forest (boreal forest)

213. The movement of small particles of 218. This theme answers the question,
rock where is it?

210. C 211. C 211. D 212. B 213. A 214. A 215. A 216. C 217. D 218. C 219. C
32 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. Place A. solar eclipse


B. Region B. lunar eclipse
C. phases of the moon
C. Location
D. earth eclipse
D. Movement
223. What would seasons be like if Earth’s
219. Where was the Outer suburbs loca- axis were straight up and down?
tion studied?
A. Seasons would be the same.
A. Kingstanding B. Seasons would be more extreme.
B. Lozells C. There would be no seasons.
C. Sutton Four Oaks 224. A cooperative agency consisting of
representatives of local governments
D. Brindley Place
in a metropolitan area in the United
220. Re-urbanisation in Birmingham States.
A. Council of government
A. led to new apartments being built
near the canals of the city centre B. Special government zones
C. MUD
B. led to the creation of new multi-
functional centres such as the Mailbox D. Special district
225. What are the most correct coordi-
C. involved people abandoning the nates for Phoenix?
cities in favour of more rural areas
D. saw large estates of council hous-
ing being built

221. Which best describes the most ur-


banised areas of the UK?
A. A broad band from Manchester
and Leeds in the North to London in A. 43 degrees South, 79 degrees East
the South East
B. 43 degrees North, 79 degrees West
B. Mainly Northern Scotland and
Wales
C. 34 degrees South, 112 degrees East
C. Mountainous areas
D. Just the South East of England D. 34 degrees North, 112 degrees West

222. This image is showing us a 226. Which imaginary line divides the
Earth into the eastern and western
hemispheres?
A. Prime Meridian
B. Equator
C. Axis
D. North Pole

220. A 220. B 221. A 222. B 223. C 224. A 225. D 226. A 227. B


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227. True or False: The moon produces 231. The dominant branch of Islam in the
its own light. country of Iran is
A. Shiite
B. Sunni

232. invisible line at 0◦ longitude; it di-


A. True vides the Earth into the Western and
B. False Eastern hemispheres

er
228. Which layer of the Earth is #3 point- A. Prime meridian
ing to? B. Equator
C. Longitude

gd
D. Latitude

233. Recording data on how yellow or


orange leaves turn in October by de-
scribing them as "green" "slightly yel-

an
low" "very yellow" or "orange" is
data
A. quantitative
A. Outer Core
Ch
B. qualitative
B. Mantle
234. When one large nucleus is split into
C. Inner Core
two smaller nuclei, the process is nu-
D. Crust clear
229. The Earth’s axis is tilted degrees. A. Fusion
B. Fission
an

C. Tracing
D. Decay
ay

235. Why do geographers study specific


regions?
r

A. 23.5
B. 25.3
Na

C. 30.2
D. 24
230. What would change if the Earth’s tilt
were changed? A. To describe the physical beauty
and complexity of places
A. seasons
B. To understand the most general
B. rotations physical features of places
C. mass C. To identify the broad patterns of
D. latitude larger areas

228. A 229. A 230. A 231. A 232. A 233. B 234. B 235. C


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D. To analyze the location and size A. Convection


of things B. Conduction
236. Businesses, houses, and roads are C. Radiation
examples of:
242. Something on the Earth’s surface
A. Absolute location (adjective)
B. People changing their environment

C. Regions
D. Landforms

237. Variety of info, such as reigions, re-


sources, land use.
A. Map A. Lithosphere
B. Globe B. Weathering
C. Exogenic
238. what is the equator?
D. Landform
A. a line of longitude at zero degrees
243. The gradual transformation of habit-
able land into desert; is usually caused
B. a line of latitude at zero degrees
by climate change or by destructive
C. a line of latitude at 10 degrees use of the land.
D. the tropic of cancer A. outsourcing
B. decolonization
239. What is another term for Human
Geography? C. subsistence agriculture
A. relative location D. desertification

B. physical geography 244. What is the letter d showing?


C. cultural geography
D. statistical geography

240. Mason drops and breaks a test tube.


He should
A. tell the teacher
B. clean it up A. crest
C. tell your neighbor B. trough
241. The diagram is an example of which C. wavelength
of the following? D. amplitude
245. The key to effective prevention is
planning.
A. True
B. False

236. B 237. A 238. B 239. C 240. A 241. C 242. C 243. D 244. A 245. A
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246. A farmer plowing a field to plant 250. What is cartography?
crops: A. Geography
B. Biology
C. Map Making
D. Geology

251. are high and round areas.


A. plains

er
B. mountains
A. Biosphere-Atmosphere
C. valleys
B. Biosphere-Geosphere

gd
D. plateaus
C. Biosphere-Hydrosphere
252. The study of the effects of natural
D. Geosphere-Hydrosphere and unnatural processes, and of inter-
actions of the physical components of
247. Giant sequoia trees can be found in

an
the planet on the environment.
which state that borders Washington
A. Oregon
B. North Dakota
Ch
248. This is remains of plants and ani-
mals that were once alive.
A. rocks
B. water
A. Geology
C. air
an

B. Meteorology
D. humus
C. Astronomy
249. "Meridians" running north to south
D. Environmental Science
between the poles that measure East
ay

to West. 253. The spread of cultural traits from


one region to another is
A. elastic
r

B. a developed nation
Na

C. cultural diffusion
D. a trait

254. Groups (vertical columns) on the pe-


riodic table have the same number of
*
A. Latitude A. protons
B. Equator B. valence electrons
C. Longitudes C. neutrons
D. national date line D. orbitals

246. B 247. A 248. D 249. C 250. C 251. B 252. D 253. C 254. B 255. A
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255. Where was the Commuter village lo- C. The era lengths are based on who
cation that you studied? discovered it.
A. Hagley D. The era lengths are as long as the
thickness of the layer.
B. Lozells
C. Brindley Place 259. In which group of islands is active
volcano found?
D. Birmingham
A. Lakshwadeep
256. Name for the unique locations on
B. Daman & Diu
Earth that defined by both human and
physical characteristics. C. Andaman & Nicobar
D. Maldives

A. Places
B. Environments 260. A. Socks

C. Vistas B. Sandals

D. Landscapes C. Shoes
D. Pants
257. Should experiments be repeated over
and over to see if the results are the 261. The physical character of a place
same each time?
A. place
B. location
C. site
D. situation

262. If I listen to Mr. Castro’s instruc-


tions, then I will have less accidents
in the lab. What is the independent
variable?
A. yes A. Yes
B. no B. Maybe

258. Why are eras different lengths of C. Listening or not listening to in-
time? structions

A. They are as long as plants/animals D. Likelihood of having an accident


lived during that time. in lab

B. The era lengths are the same 263. The Study of Earth’s natural land-
amount of time for each era. scapes and physical systems

256. A 257. A 258. A 259. C 260. B 261. C 262. C 263. C


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A. Cartography A. archiology
B. Climatology B. human geography
C. Physical Geography
C. world geography
D. Meteorlogy
D. meteorology
264. Step one of the geographic inquiry
process is? 270. Why don’t all living things become
fossils?
A. Analyze geographic information

er
B. Organize geographic information A. because some living things are too
small
C. Ask a geographic question

gd
B. because some living things are too
D. Acquire geographic information
big
265. This rock is formed from lava and
C. because some are subject to catas-
you would most likely find it near a
trophism and others are not
volcano.

an
A. Sedimentary Rock D. because environmental conditions
have to be just right to prevent decay
B. Metamorphic Rock
C. Igneous Rock 271. What does this map show?
Ch
266. True or False: Direct and Indirect
evidence are both ways in which geol-
ogists learn about the Earth’s interior?
A. True
B. False
an

267. Mountains, hills, plains and plateaus A. States


are all
B. Countries
A. mounds
ay

B. landforms C. Continents

C. landscapes D. Oceans
D. barriers
r

272. located in the countryside


Na

268. The funnel-shaped pit at the top of


A. immigrants
a volcanic cone is a
A. volcano B. urbanization

B. crater C. rural
C. vent D. urban
D. caldera
273. Earth’s rotation causing water and
269. The study of regions, human com- wind to move right (North of the Equa-
munity, landscapes, people, and move- tor) and left (South of the Equator) is
ment called

264. C 265. C 266. A 267. B 268. B 269. B 270. D 271. C 272. C


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A. trees, mountains
B. river, lakes
C. buildings, bridges, roads
D. desert, snow

277. What is the hydrosphere?


A. all the waters on the earth’s sur-
face, such as lakes and seas, and some-
times including water over the earth’s
surface, such as clouds
A. Global Warming Winds
B. the rigid outer part of the earth,
B. Trade Route Winds consisting of the crust and upper man-
C. Surface Winds tle.
C. the regions of the surface, atmo-
D. Coriolis Effect
sphere, and hydrosphere of the earth
274. Which area on the map would be that is able to support life and is oc-
MOST likely to have many active cupied by living organisms
ports? D. layers of air surrounding Earth

278. Only about how much of available


water on Earth is fresh water?

A. 97%
A. 1
B. 1%
B. 2
C. 53%
C. 3
D. 11%
D. 4
279. perhatikan pernyataan berikut(1)
275. This theme "tells you where it’s at". bangunan sekolah tampak seperti hu-
ruf "U"(2) sungai berkelok-kelok(3)
A. Location
jalan tampak lurusdari pernyataan di
B. Place atas, unsur interpretasi yang digu-
nakan dalam menganalisis objek terse-
C. HEI
but adalah
D. Regions A. rona
276. Examples of human characteristics: B. tekstur

273. D 274. D 275. A 276. C 277. A 278. B 279. C 280. A


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C. bentuk
D. situs

280. Which one of these is a rule of na-


ture? it is based on evidence from
related observations and results that
describe a pattern.
A. Law

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B. Hypothesis
C. Theory
A. grid system
D. Pie chart
B. latitude

gd
281. This part of the Earth System in- C. location
cludes the planet’s water, including
D. longitude
the oceans, lakes, rivers, ground wa-
ter, ice, and vapor. 286. What object is launched into orbit

an
A. Geosphere and designed to send and receive in-
formation?
B. Atmosphere
C. Hydrosphere
Ch
D. Biosphere

282. When in the Northern Hemisphere


is Spring, in the Southern Hemisphere
is
A. rover
A. Winter
B. satellite
an

B. Summer C. space shuttle


C. Spring D. space probe
D. Autumn
287. The type of stress that stretches and
ay

283. Keep something from being re- pulls a body apart is


ported A. strain
A. Permafrost B. tension
r

B. Secede C. stress
Na

C. Censor D. compression
D. Czar 288. The prime meridian is an imaginary
line that divides the
284. If I say I live near the QT:
A. the eastern hemisphere and the
A. absolute location western hemisphere
B. relative location B. the northern hemisphere and the
285. Lines of run from the North southern hemisphere
Pole to the South Pole and include C. the northern hemisphere and the
the Prime Meridian. eastern hemisphere

281. C 282. D 283. C 284. B 285. D 286. B 287. B 288. A


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D. the western hemisphere and the A. because California is overpopu-


southern hemisphere lated

289. A solar eclipse can occur only dur- B. because there are more mountains
ing the located there than anywhere else in
the USA
A. Full moon
C. because the North American & Pa-
B. New moon cific plates meet along a transform
C. Quarter moon boundary

290. Easternmost state of India D. because California is warmer than


the rest of the United States
A. Assam
294. Communicating through text mes-
B. Arruranchal Pradesh
sage is which theme?
C. Gujrat
A. Place
D. Tripura
B. Region
291. Which is NOT a region in the United C. Relative Location
States?
D. Movement
A. Northeast
B. Southeast 295. Which of the following is NOT one
of the world’s oceans?
C. Midwest
A. Southern
D. East
B. Australian
E. West
C. Atlantic
292. What statement is an example of
D. Indian
cultural diffusion?
A. Venezuela has large reserves of oil 296. What is the name that represents the
four major points of directions North,
South, East, and West, on a compass
B. Texas has large amounts of oil rose?
C. students in China learn Chinese in
school
D. young people dance to rock music
in Japan

293. Why does California experience


more earthquakes than other areas of
the United States?

A. Geography
B. Cardinal
C. Physical Map
D. Intermediate

289. B 290. B 291. D 292. D 293. C 294. D 295. B 296. B


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297. What branch of science does this A. Elevation
picture represent?
B. Terrain

C. Time of day

D. Location to equator

303. is the study of the earth and all


its variety.

er
A. Geology
A. Oceanography
B. Geometry

gd
B. Meteorology
C. Geology C. Geography

D. Astronomy D. Biology

an
298. What is the capital of Germany?
304. Berikut yang merupakan bahan tam-
A. Warsaw bang golongan A adalah
B. London
A. Emas, Perak, Magnesium
C. Berlin
Ch
B. Minyak Bumi, Batu Bara, Timah
299. What is the study of the atmo-
sphere and the processes that produce C. Pasir, Batu, Batu Kapur
weather and climate?
D. Emas, Perak, Batu Permata
A. Meteorology
B. Oceanography 305. Using the World Map, identify South
an

C. Astronomy America.
D. Geology

300. What is economic geography?


ay

A. How people make and spend


money
B. How people vote
r

C. Study of how people live day-to-


Na

day
D. Study of how people travel
A. 1
301. True or False? The air in the atmo-
sphere gets thinner as the distance B. 2
from Earth’s surface increases.
C. 3
A. True
D. 8
B. False

302. Which of the following is NOT an 306. Which number indicates the
influence on climate? Caribbean Islands?

297. B 298. C 299. A 300. A 301. A 302. C 303. C 304. B 305. B


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A. True
B. False

310. An increase in the transparency of


Earth’s atmosphere is often caused by
A. a decrease in cloud cover
B. a decrease in solar radiation
C. an increase in airborne dust
D. an increase in the duration of in-
solation

311. What is the first thing you should do


A. 7 in order to conduct the experiment
safely?
B. 10
C. 9 A. obtain and open the materials de-
scribed in the experiment
D. 5
B. mix your materials
307. Roads, public transportation, and
basic facilities. C. read over the lab and be sure you
understand the directions.
A. Infrastructure
D. begin to work right away
B. Economy
C. Carrying Capactiy 312. You are best connected to the geo-
sphere:
D. Development
A. by water you drink
308. This rock was formed when heat
and pressure changed its minerals B. by minerals you use
around into new minerals. What type C. by plants you eat
of rock is it?
D. by air you breathe

313. Behaviors and beliefs of a group


A. culture
B. institutions
C. trait

314. According to the map, what russian


city is located at 60 N latitude/ 30 E
A. Metamorphic Rock
longitude?
B. Igneous Rock
C. Sedimentary Rock
D. Boring Rock

309. Volcanoes and earthquakes usually


occur in the same areas.

306. C 307. A 308. A 309. A 310. A 311. C 312. B 313. A 314. C


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A. Novgorod 320. Name the hottest place on Earth
B. Rostov A. Sahara Desert, Africa
C. St. Petersburg B. El Azizia, Libya
D. Moscow C. Death Valley, California
315. Refers to the information provided
321. What is the largest reservoir in Indi-
by all of the discovered fossils through-
ana?
out geologic history.
A. Lake Wawasee

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A. Law of Superposition
B. Geologic time scale B. Monroe Lake

C. Fossil Record C. Wabash River

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D. Radioactive Dating D. Ohio River

316. largest continent in the world 322. A place described in relationship to


another place

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A. absolute location
B. relative location

323. The greatest concentration of metals


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occurs in Earth’s
A. Antartica A. core
B. North America B. continental crust
C. Africa C. oceanic crust
D. Asia D. mantle
an

317. How people affect or shape physi-


324. What Northern Ocean is this?
cal characteristics of their natural sur-
roundings is called
A. geography
ay

B. human environment interaction


C. seismology
r

318. True or False? The stars do not move


or change position.
Na

A. true
B. false

319. The majority of freshwater used by A. Antarctic Ocean


humans globally is used for
B. Arctic Ocean
A. Agriculture
C. Atlantic Ocean
B. Industry
C. Consumption (drinking) D. Southern Ocean

D. Water parks 325. Shinto is a

315. C 316. D 317. B 318. A 319. A 320. C 321. A 322. B 323. A 324. B 325. A
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A. Japanese ethnic religion A. Rocky


B. Korean universalizing religion B. Close to the sun
C. Christian ethnic religion C. small and dense
D. Jewish universalizing religion. D. all of the above
326. What state do we live in? 332. What is the scientific method?
A. United States of America
A. A systematic procedure for how to
B. New Orleans conduct a scientific experiment
C. Louisiana B. The process of solving a problem
D. North America C. A way of making non-scientific ob-
servations
327. a period of time when glaciers cov-
ered great stretches of land D. A way to summarize findings from
multiple investigations
A. Ice Age
B. Stone Age 333. A possible explanation or answer to
a question.
C. New Stone Age
A. data
D. Late Stone Age
B. hypothesis
328. This rock is formed by erosion (con-
tinuously broken down into small frag- C. scientific law
ments) and then is compressed and D. observation
cemented together.
A. Inorganic 334. Which 2 of the following are strand
of Geography?
B. Igneous
A. Human
C. Metamorphic
B. Global
D. Sedimentary
C. Mapping
329. A Map is
D. Physical
A. 2D
B. 3D 335. Which is older: The Paleolithic Era
or the Neolithic Era?
C. 4D
A. Paleolithic Era
330. What do scientists use to determine
B. Neolithic Era
what the interior of the Earth is made
of?
336. Imaginary east-west circles parallel
A. Tornadoes to the Equator are called lines.
B. Hurricanes A. meridians
C. Tsunamis B. latitude
D. Earthquakes C. longitude
331. Terrestrial planets are D. straight

326. C 327. A 328. D 329. A 330. D 331. D 332. A 333. B 334. A 334. D
335. A 336. B
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337. Which country is "Indonesia" A. democracy
B. monarchy
C. dictatorship
341. What is the deepest point in Earth’s
oceans?
A. Tonga Trench
B. Mariana Trench

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C. Eurasian Basin
D. Java Trench
342. The following structure represents a

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folk dwelling adaptation to which of
A. 19 the following climates?
B. 18

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C. 15
D. 26

338. a site in Spain where prehistoric


paintings appear on the ceiling of a
Ch
cave
A. Chauvet
A. Hot and dry climate of Southern
B. Lascaux States
C. Tassili B. Humid Subtropical climate of the
an

Southern States
D. Altamira
C. Humid Continental climate of the
339. What is this? Midwestern States
D. Mediterranean climate of the West-
ay

ern States
343. If a ruler takes over by force, which
type of government is it?
r

A. democracy
Na

B. dictatorship
C. monarchy
344. Which continent is farthest to the
south?
A. India
B. China
C. Indonesia

340. People’s rights are guaranteed by the


constitution

337. A 338. D 339. A 340. A 341. B 342. B 343. B 344. D


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A. Africa A. Equator
B. Australia B. Prime Meridian
C. South America C. North Pole
D. Antarctica D. South Pole
345. Prevailing winds blow in a pat- 349. A includes food, abiotic condi-
tern over large areas of the earth. tions and behavior.
A. regular A. Ecology
B. irregular
B. Habitat
C. diagonal
C. Niche
346. These lines represent: D. taxa

350. a particular method that brings


changes to the physical or human ge-
ography
A. erosion
B. tectonic forces
C. geographic factors
D. processes

351. What do climate maps show?


A. longitude A. The natural resources of an area
B. latitude
B. Countries and cities
347. Most Mexicans speak Spanish be- C. The major physical features of an
cause area
A. of Spanish influence in colonial D. The usual weather conditions of
times. an area
B. they used to live in Spain
352. Someone who studies geography is
C. the Indian language and Spanish known as a what?
are very similar.
A. Smarty pants
D. about 90% of Mexican citizens
were born in Spain. B. Sound engineer

348. What is the name of the line at zero C. Cartographer


degrees longitude? D. Geographer

353. hardened tree sap


A. coprolite
B. amber
C. gastrolith
D. tree fossil

345. A 346. A 347. A 348. B 349. C 350. D 351. D 352. D 353. B


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354. A glacier is a giant sheet of ice A. reggae
that creates a relatively flat area that B. plantation
spreads out in all directions rather
than flowing downhill. More than 95% C. conquistadors
of the glaciers today fall into this cat-
360. This is an instrument that shows
egory.
magnetic north.
A. valley A. Binoculars
B. piedmont B. Telescope

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C. continental C. Compass
D. solid 361. Families in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America traditionally large because

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355. The modern heliocentric model of
planetary motion states that the plan- of cultural beliefs about marriage and
ets travel around family.
A. true
A. the Sun in slightly elliptical orbits

an
B. false
B. the Sun in circular orbits
C. Earth is slightly elliptical orbits 362. What country is represented by num-
ber one?
D. Earth in circular orbits
Ch
356. light Purple
A. Concord, New Hampshire
B. Boston, Massachusetts
C. Providence, Rhode Island
an

D. Trenton, New Jersey

357. A model is a A. Iran


A. mathematical representation B. Iraq
ay

B. visual representation C. Afghanistan

C. imaginary representation D. Israel

358. Why did Mars lose its magnetic 363. Which state has a smaller popula-
r

field? tion
Na

A. Wyoming
A. It never had a magnetic field
B. Minnesota
B. It lost its atmosphere
C. The core cooled quickly and be- 364. What percentage of the population
came solid iron in Ethiopia are urban (live in cities)
and rural (live in the country)
D. Mars has a much slower rotation,
A. urban= 73 Rural=27
so it couldn’t keep its magnetic field
stable B. Urban= 27 Rural=73

359. a traditional Jamaican style of music C. Urban= 17 Rural=83


that uses complex drum rhythms D. Urban= 83 Rural=17

354. C 355. B 356. B 357. B 358. C 359. A 360. C 361. A 362. C 363. A 364. C
365. A 365. C
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365. Features of an earthquake resistant B. Finding the magnitude of an earth-


building in a developing country quake
A. Lightweight roof C. Tracking three earthquakes at once
B. Mudbrick walls 369. Wool is
C. Hollow concrete brick
A. a liquid from bee
D. Heavy roof
B. a crimped hair from sheep that har-
366. From which continent do the bam- vested by shearing,
boos come from? C. a fiber froom silkworm

370. The world population is:


A. Around 9 billion
B. Around 4 billion
C. Around 7 billion
D. Around 17 million

371. A government by the few; a small


group that has control of the govern-
ment
A. South America
A. Democracy
B. Europe
B. Anarchy
C. Asia
C. Oligarchy
D. Australia
372. The red asterisk is labeling what
367. Which tool, made up of a group of physical feature?
databases, combines information from
many different sources?
A. digital voice recorder
B. Global Positioning System
C. map projection
D. Geographic Information System

368. What is triangulation used for?

A. Caribbean Sea
B. Gulf of Mexico
C. Atacama Desert
A. Finding the epicenter of an earth-
quake D. Pacific Ocean

366. B 367. D 368. A 369. B 370. C 371. C 372. A


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A. The Pacific Ocean
373. A. North Korea B. The Indian Ocean
B. South Korea C. The Arctic Ocean

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C. Japan D. The Atlantic Ocean

D. China 378. All of the following are DIRECTLY


indicated on a population pyramid ex-
374. What’s the term for movement of cept

an
people?
A. % of the population
A. GPS B. Females
B. migration C. Cohorts in five year increments
Ch
C. ecosystem D. Life Expectancy
D. geography 379. An example of an absolute location
would be
375. Rock particles relocated to a new
place A. 37.02 degrees N, 93.20 degrees W
an

B. United States of America


C. The South

380. The second highest mountain range


ay

in the world.
A. Mt Aconcagua

A. Deposition B. Andes Mountain


r

B. Salinity C. Himalayas
Na

D. Guiana Highlands
C. Erosion
381. How many states border Kentucky?
D. Gravity
A. 7
376. Philippines
B. 3
A. High in C. 4
B. high out D. 10

377. Which ocean covers the western 382. What is an area of land completely
coast of South America? surrounded by water?

373. C 374. B 375. A 376. B 377. A 378. D 379. A 380. B 381. A 382. C 383. A
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A. Peninsula 388. Plates slide past one another at


B. Volcano boundaries.

C. Island A. divergent

D. River B. convergent
C. transform
383. Acid rain can be caused by and
D. submergent
A. volcanoes 389. the sphere that contains all of
B. earthquakes Earth’s water

C. pollution A. hydrosphere

D. tsunamis B. geosphere
C. system
384. True or False? Air has mass.
D. energy
A. True
B. False 390. Which one of the following tree is
found i tropical rainforest?
385. What is the name of the northern-
A. Mahogany
most ocean on Earth?
B. Teak
A. Pacific Ocean
C. Sal
B. Atlantic Ocean
D. Peepal
C. Arctic Ocean
D. Indian Ocean 391. Which country below is not consid-
ered to be part of the Middle East?
386. Which invention during the Renais-
A. Saudi Arabia
sance drastically changed the map-
making process? B. Yemen
A. Anaximander’s new world map C. Israel
B. Leonardo da Vinci’s parachute D. Pakistan
C. Waldseemuller’s ink pen 392. The poorest economic region in
D. Guttenberg’s printing press Mexico is the

387. What continent is number 1? A. Northern


B. Southern
C. Central
D. all of Mexico is wealthy
393. At a conservative plate boundary,
what is happening to the two plates?

A. Asia A. They are moving towards each


other
B. South America
B. They are moving away from each
C. Europe other
D. Australia C. They are moving alongside each
E. North America other

383. C 384. A 385. C 386. D 387. E 388. C 389. A 390. A 391. D 392. B
393. C
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394. This type of soil has the smallest
particles and feels smooth and sticky.

A. sand

B. silt

C. clay

395. Why do geographers study more A. Political

er
than a places location and dimen- B. Physical
sions?
C. Economic Activity
D. Population

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399. The largest group of minerals ,
which composes over 90% of the
earth’s crust , are the ?
A. oxides

an
B. phosphates
C. silicates
A. To gain a better understanding of
D. sulfides
what the place it like
Ch
400. Scientists need data from at least
B. To explain how it differs from other
seismographs to find and earthquake’s
places
epicenter.
C. To describe kinds of meanings the A. 5
place holds for people
B. 2
an

D. ALL OPTIONS ARE CORRECT C. 4

396. The cardinal directions/points on D. 3


the compass rose are 401. Oklahoma
ay

A. northwest, northeast, southwest, & A. Oklahoma City


southeast B. Cheyenne
B. north, northwest, south, & south- C. Charleston
west
r

D. Phoenix
C. north, south, west, & east
Na

402. Which best describes the population


D. north, northeast, south, & south- distribution of Syria?
east A. Most people live in the north be-
cause it is cooler
397. An area that has common or similar
B. Most people live in the south be-
features.
cause it is warmer
A. Place C. Most people live near water
sources like rivers or along the coast
B. Regions
D. Most people live near the oil re-
398. What type of map is this? serves to work.

394. C 395. D 396. C 397. B 398. B 399. C 400. D 401. A 402. C


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403. Mars is considered as the red planet 407. Select the continent of ANTARC-
because of the presence of which sub- TICA
stance on its soil making it red?

A. 7
B. 14
A. rust C. 2
B. copper
D. 11
C. blood
408. Which River forms the border be-
D. lead
tween Texas and Mexico?
404. Longitude lines measure distances
A. Rio Grande
and from the Prime Meridian.
B. Ohio River
A. North
B. South C. Hudson River

C. East D. Colorado River


D. West 409. Which of the following is a percep-
405. Which element of Central American tual region?
and Caribbean South American cul- A. South Africa
ture is based on European traditions?
B. Middle East
A. Spanish language
C. Asia
B. Calypso
D. United States
C. Magical realism
D. Reggae 410. Is hot air LESS dense or MORE
dense than cold air?
406. People in culture regions-
A. LESS dense
B. MORE dense
C. EQUAL density

411. geologists try to establish a time-


line of the vast number of physical
and biological changes that have oc-
curred in the past.

A. share their same beliefs. A. Natural

B. change their looks. B. Physical


C. move constantly. C. Historical

403. A 404. C 404. D 405. A 406. A 407. A 408. A 409. B 410. B 411. C
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412. What is it when the environment in- A. Kansas
fluences, but does not strictly deter- B. Idaho
mine, how a culture interacts with the
environment? C. Hawaii

416. What language type is used by gov-


ernments for laws, reports, and public
objects, such as road signs, money,
and stamps?
A. vigourous language

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B. developing language
C. literary tradition

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A. Environmental determinism D. official language
B. Cultural environmentalism E. institutional language
C. Cultural determinism 417. Building a dam in a river is an exam-
ple of what theme of geography?

an
D. Possibilism
A. Human-environment interaction
E. Environmental ecology
B. Movement
413. The process called occurs when
C. Place
Ch
meltwater penetrates the cracks and
joints along the rock floor of the D. Region
glacier and freezes.
418. Tsunamis are caused by
A. a. Trucking A. underwater disturbances such as
B. b. Plucking earthquakes, landslides, and volca-
noes.
an

C. c. Striration
B. wind and the gravitational pull of
D. d. Parking the moon.
414. What is Meteorology? 419. Which is the largest island in the In-
dia?
ay

A. The study of meteors.


A. Great Nicobar
B. The study of the atmosphere.
B. Andaman
C. The study of rocks.
r

C. Lakshadweep
D. The study of organisms.
D. none
Na

415. Name this state 420. Where do volcanoes come from?


A. Places where plates move apart
B. Places where plates are moving to-
gether
C. Hot Spots
D. All of these options

421. All of the following were urban prob-


lems of the early 1900s EXCEPT

412. D 413. B 414. B 415. C 416. D 417. A 418. A 419. A 420. D 421. D
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A. crime. 425. What is the study of the world’s nat-


ural features such as its landforms,
B. living conditions.
bodies of water, climates, soils and
C. pollution. plants?
D. finding jobs. A. Human geography
422. Which projection is this? B. Cultural studies
C. Physical geography

426. Earth’s is tilted, this is part of


the reason we have seasons.

A. Lambert
B. Mercator
C. Homolosine
D. Robinson

423. What does a map’s scale compare?


A. axis
B. side
C. oval
D. pole

427. "Hydro" in hydrosphere means


A. air, vapor
B. rock, earth
A. direction on a map with direction
on Earth C. water
B. location on a map with location on D. life
a globe
428. The Pacific ocean is on the west
C. distance on a map with distance coast of the U.S.
on Earth
A. True
D. distortion on a map with distor-
tion on a globe B. False

424. If groundwater reaches earth’s sur- 429. Weather is characterized by


face, how does it reenter the water
cycle? A. long term changes in temperature
& precipitation
A. by transpiration
B. moderate changes in temperature
B. by evaporation & precipitation
C. by accumulation
C. short term changes in temperature
D. it can’t & precipitation

422. D 423. C 424. B 425. C 426. A 427. C 428. A 429. C


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430. This is a picture of a A. The study of medicine.
B. The study of clouds.
C. The study of hydraulics.
D. The study of water on Earth.

435. Which country has a literacy rate of


92.5%?
A. Great Britain

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A. slump B. Fiji
B. creep C. Sri Lanka

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C. windstorm D. Venezuela
D. mudflow 436. The is the innermost part of the
Earth; divided into two parts.
431. Only P waves travel through the in-

an
ner core. A. Core
A. True B. Inner Core
B. False C. Outer Core
Ch
432. This is the only climate zone with D. Mantle
four distinct seasons (we live in this
437. The information gathered by
zone).
helps geographers make accurate
maps.
A. tape recorders
an

B. satellites
C. themes
D. social science
ay

438. What is a utopian settlement?


A. Highland
A. a perfect settlement, perfect eco-
B. Desert nomic, physical, and environmental
r

C. Humid Continental conditions.


B. a perfect settlement, characterized
Na

D. Tropical Rain Forest


by easy-travel, good soil, and farm-
433. The advantage of a globe is land.
A. it is very accurate C. an ideal community built around
a religious way of life.
B. it is very practical
D. an ideal community built around
C. it is inexpensive
a cultural way of life.
D. it clearly shows all five themes of
geography 439. If an accident happens in the lab
area, you should immediately notify
434. What is hydrology? your

430. A 431. A 432. C 433. A 434. D 435. C 436. A 437. B 438. C 439. D 440. A
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A. mother

B. lab partner

C. nurse

D. teacher

440. Landforms are best defined as

A. natural features and formations on A. Layer 1-Because that is the layer it


the Earth’s surface is first seen

B. large bodies of saltwater that are B. Layer 1- Because that is the last
connected to the ocean layer it is seen in
C. Layer 2- Because that is the layer
C. pieces of land that are surrounded it is first seen
by water on three sides
D. Layer 2- Because that is the last
D. large quantities of water on the layer it is seen in
Earth’s surface
444. doubled the size of the U.S.

441. Which letter correctly identifies the A. manifest destiny


city of Guangzhou B. Louisiana purchase
C. Lewis and Clark expedition
D. Civil War
445. What can carry pollutants from the
soil into rivers and streams?

A. F

B. I

C. E
A. runoff water
D. N B. sunlight and heat
C. water vapor
442. Fusion is when water
446. How much of the atmosphere is com-
A. Changes from solid to liquid posed of nitrogen gas?
B. Changes from gas to liquid

C. Changes from liquid to solid

D. Changes from liquid to solid

443. In which layer did fossil C come into


existence? How do you know this?

441. A 442. A 443. C 444. B 445. A 446. C


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A. 87% A. a cycle
B. 38% B. group of interconnecting parts and
functions as a whole
C. 78%
C. energy
D. 21%
D. separate parts of an ecosystem
447. What is the question for region? 451. Which climactic conditions normally
produce the greatest chemical weath-

er
ering?
A. cool and dry
B. cool and wet

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C. warm and dry
D. warm and wet

452. If a plant is knocked over on its side,

an
A. Where it is? the stem/leaves will begin to
A. grow toward Earth’s gravity
B. What does it look like when you
get there? B. grow away from Earth’s gravity
Ch
C. What do locations have in com- C. turn bright green
mon? D. bleed
D. What do people do to the environ- 453. A watercraft that is capable of in-
ment? dependent operation underwater is
called
448. Where is the source of the River
an

Wye?
A. Cross Fell in the Pennines
B. Plynlimon in the Cambrian Moun-
ay

tains
C. Penshurt in the Grampians
D. Teign Head in Dartmoor A. A craft
r

B. A machine
449. A branch of geography that deals
Na

with boundary, communication and C. A submarine


activities between countries in rela- D. A ship
tion to political power is called
454. Which state is farther west
A. Pedology
A. New Mexico
B. Astronomy B. Mississippi
C. Economic geography
455. Which of the following theories ex-
D. Political geography plains why the edges of Africa and
South America fit together like a puz-
450. What is a system? zle?

447. C 448. B 449. D 450. B 451. D 452. B 453. C 454. A 455. B 456. B
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A. Continental Drift 462. Which river is in the NORTHWEST


United States?
B. Plate Tectonics
C. Big Bang
D. Meteor

456. Which of these layers is the largest?


A. Outer core
B. Mantle
C. Crust
D. Asthenosphere

457. Which of the following is the largest


particle in soil? A. Colorado River
A. sand
B. Columbia River
B. silt
C. humus C. Ohio River

D. clay D. Mississippi River

458. Which planet is fifth from the sun?


463. Which portion of the crust is
A. Saturn thicker?
B. Jupiter
A. Continental
C. Mars
B. Oceanic
D. Earth

459. What are examples of non- 464. Why don’t Commercial fishermen
renewable energy sources? use the pole and line technique?
A. Geothermal A. Almost impossible to make a profit
B. Coal
C. Oil B. Has a big impact on the ecosystem
D. Hydro

460. true or falseMechanical Weathering C. Its banned by the law


changes rock into a completely new
D. Viewed as inhumane
substance
A. True 465. The number of customers necessary
B. False for a business to succeed is the

461. A landform with high elevation and A. range


high relief.
B. threshold
A. Mountain
B. Plain C. carrying capacity

C. Plateau D. vernacular region

457. A 458. B 459. B 459. C 460. B 461. A 462. B 463. A 464. A 465. B
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466. MEASURES HOW FAR NORTH OR
SOUTH A LOCATION IS

470. A. Rocky Mountains

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B. Appalachian Mountains
C. Atlas Mountains

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D. Andes Mountains

A. A. LATITUDE 471. Measures distance north and south


of the equator
B. B. EQUATOR

an
A. latitude
C. C. LONGITUDE
B. longitude
D. D. SCALE
C. parallels
Ch
467. Process by which one unstable ele- D. meridians
ment breaks down into another ele-
ment that is stable

A. Radioactive Dating

B. Half-life
an

C. Radioactive decay

D. Radiometric Dating
ay

468. The examination of fossils.

A. astronomy

B. oceanography 472. A. White


r

C. meteorology B. Black
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D. geology C. Purple
D. Green
469. On a globe, the Prime Meridian is
the 473. Lines of are drawn on maps from
the North Pole to the South Pole to
A. Horizontal, center line measure distance east and west.
B. Vertical, center line A. Latitude
C. 180 degree line B. Parallels
D. 15 degree line C. Longitude

466. A 467. C 468. D 469. B 470. B 471. C 472. B 473. C


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474. The imaginary lines that run north A. convergent


and south between the poles.
B. transform
C. divergent
D. sergent

479. What would happen to the moon if


Earth’s gravity did not affect it?
A. It would move away through space
in a straight line.
B. It would crash into the surface of
the Earth

A. Latitude C. It would continue to orbit the


Earth but at a much slower speed.
B. Equator
D. It would continue to orbit the
C. Longitude
Earth but at a much faster speed.
D. Prime Meridian
480. What are giant plates moving slow-
475. Thank you! ing across Earth’s surface called?
A. I’m fine thank you.
A. plate tectonics
B. I’m Pepa
B. earthquakes
C. I’m 8 years old.
C. erosion
D. You’re welcome.
D. mantle
476. The purpose of a compass rose it to
481. large, flat, elevated area of land
A. identify directions A. valley
B. identify size B. cliff
C. identify colors C. plateau
D. to smell pretty
D. desert
477. Lines of Latitude are measured using
what directions? 482. NAME THIS ROCK

A. North and South


B. East and West
478. Name the boundary

A. GRANITE
B. MARBLE
C. BASALT
D. CONGLOMERATE

474. C 475. D 476. A 477. A 478. C 479. A 480. A 481. C 482. C


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483. Name the state A. Brindley Place is an exception be-
cause it is close to the CBD but has a
high EQS. This is because the area has
recently been regenerated as shown by
the higher house prices.
B. Sutton four oaks is an exception
because it is far from the CBD but
has a low EQS. This is because the
area has been developed for a long

er
time as shown by the higher house
A. Michigan prices.
B. Illinois
C. Housing quality doesn’t improve

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C. Pennsylvania as shown by EQS scores. This can
D. Ohio be explained by linking to the change
in house price and type with distance
484. Cumulonimbus clouds mean from the CDB.

an
D. Housing quality does improve as
shown by EQS scores. This can be
explained by linking to the change in
house price and type with distance
Ch
from the CDB.

487. What it’s like when you get there is


A. place
B. region
an

C. movement
A. fair weather (nice) D. location
B. thunderstorms
488. Match the following word/subject
ay

C. rain/storms coming with the topic it relates to the most:


D. long periods of rain Galaxies

485. According to Wegener’s hypothesis A. Geology


r

of continental drift, B. Astronomy


A. Earth’s surface is made up of seven
Na

C. Meteorology
major landmasses
D. Oceanography
B. the continents DO NOT move
C. Earth is slowly cooling and shrink- 489. True or False? The four cardinal
ing directions includeNortheast.
D. the continents were once joined A. True
together in a single landmass
B. False
486. What conclusions did you draw in
relation to the original aims of the 490. Which of the following maps would
human enquiry? have the largest scale?

483. D 484. B 485. D 486. A 486. D 487. A 488. B 489. B 490. D


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A. world A. cardinal directions


B. continent B. intermediate directions
C. country 495. What is the written system for the
D. city Korean language known as?
A. Tai - Kadai
491. What is the name of the object by
number 2? B. Hankul
C. Ural
D. Tanzania
E. Swahili
496. Sedimentary Rocks are often made
up of other rocks and minerals.

A. North America
B. South America
C. United States
D. Europe
A. True
492. A is someone who creates maps.
B. False
A. geographer
B. cartographer 497. What process is occurring at Z?

C. astronaut
D. geologist

493. The process where the ocean plate


sinks beneath the continental plate
and into a trench is called

A. Convection currents
B. Subduction
C. Two plates moving apart
D. New ocean floor forming
498. Which season is taking place in the
Southern Hemisphere in Position 1?
A. Convergence
B. Subduction
C. Mid-Ocean Ridge
D. Sublimation

494. north, east, south, and west.

491. B 492. B 493. B 494. A 495. B 496. A 497. B 498. C


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A. Winter A. Beans
B. Spring B. Wheat
C. Summer C. Corn
D. Fall D. Potatoes
499. The thin envelope of gases forming 504. steep drop from a high place to a
Earth’s outermost layer. lower place in a stream or river
A. Hemisphere A. ocean

er
B. Biosphere B. river
C. Atmosphere C. waterfall
D. Hydrosphere

gd
D. bay
500. On what day does the summer sol- 505. pulls on the crust, stretching
stice take place? rock so it becomes thinner in the mid-
A. July 4th dle.

an
B. July 1st A. Compression
C. June 21st B. Shearing
D. December 21st C. Stress
Ch
501. Which of the following is an example D. Tension
of a physical region? 506. The movement of weathered mate-
A. the Sahara rial (sediment) is called?
B. Scandinavia
C. San Francisco
an

D. North America

502. Which type of geography that fo-


cuses on anything created by humans.
ay

A. weathering
B. erosion
r

C. deposition
Na

507. Hydrology is
A. the study of and creation of maps
A. Human Geography B. the study of water as a natural re-
source
B. Physical Geography
C. Cultural Geography C. the distance of a location east or
west of the prime meridian, which
D. 5 themes of geography runs through Greenwhich, England
503. Which of the following crops did not D. an imaginary line running around
emerge in the Americas? the middle of Earth

499. C 500. C 501. A 502. A 503. B 504. C 505. D 506. B 507. B 508. C
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508. Which among the following does 513. 25 Which factor posed the greatest
NOT belong to the group? challenge to developing natural re-
A. Taal sources in Siberia?

B. Mayon A. Severe drought limited agricultural


production on arable land.
C. Pulag
D. Apo B. Limited access to water prevented
the establishment of large cities.
509. What is it called when plants give
off water vapor as a waste product? C. The employment of seasonal la-
borers reduced annual output quotas.

D. The harsh climate hindered the es-


tablishment of permanent settlements.

514. Chemical rocks are


A. Made from heat
B. Made when water evaporates and
A. condensation minerals crystallize
B. evaporation
C. Made from dead animals/plants
C. sublimation
D. Made from pieces of other rocks
D. transpiration
515. The tallest building in the world is
510. In political geography, another name
the Burj Khalifa but how tall is it?
for state is
A. country A. 828m

B. land B. 882m
C. territory C. 288m
D. provision D. 822m
511. The "steel’ city is named as such
516. Which sphere supports living things?
because it historically had been the
largest producer of steel in the USA. A. Hydrosphere
It is:
B. Biosphere
A. Pittsburgh
C. Atmosphere
B. Philadelphia
C. Buffalo 517. When the Northern Hemisphere is
tilting towards the sun, what season is
D. Steelville
the Southern Hemisphere?
512. Fill in the blank: tells where a
place is located.
A. City
B. Country
C. Location
D. Relative

509. D 510. A 511. A 512. C 513. D 514. B 515. A 516. B 517. A


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A. Winter A. Convergent
B. Spring B. Divergent
C. Fall C. Transform
D. Summer
522. the study of the universe
518. Refer to the topographic map in the A. astronomy
image. The feature at Area Reference
1717 is B. geology

er
C. meteorology
D. oceanography

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523. Earthquakes and volcanoes often
form on the coast.
A. True
B. False

an
524. The religions of Judaism and Chris-
tianity share a common belief in-
A. New Testament
Ch
B. Existence of one God
C. the role of Jesus
A. The Equestrian Centre
D. the role of Muhammad
B. The Showground
C. Happy Valley Holiday Camp 525. The three (3) dating methods men-
an

tioned in the textbook were


D. Valley View Motel
A. Paleontology Dating
519. The continent of Africa owes most
B. Radiometric Dating
of its modern borders to
ay

C. Carbon-14 Dating
A. Physical features
D. Fossil Dating
B. European colonization
C. American imperialism 526. These are features that occur natu-
r

rally. (Examples: rivers, lakes, dunes,


D. Ethnic borders
mountains)
Na

520. What is the most abundant gas A. human-environment interaction


found in the atmosphere?
B. physical
A. Carbon Dioxide
C. human
B. Nitrogen
D. region
C. Oxygen
D. Water Vapor 527. A part of the world that has one
or more common features that dis-
521. Two plates spread or move apart at tinguish it from surrounding areas is
what boundary? called

518. A 519. B 520. B 521. B 522. A 523. A 524. B 525. B 525. C 525. D 526. B
527. C 528. A
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A. hydrology. A. True
B. a landscape. B. False
C. a region.
533. The Northern plains are on the
D. a city. of Himalayas

528. What are the seven continents on A. North


Earth? B. South
A. Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia,
C. East
Europe, North America and South
America D. West
B. Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, 534. Which continents does the Prime
Iceland, South America and the Meridian pass through?
United States
A. Europe and Africa
C. Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia,
Europe, North America and Central B. Europe, Africa, and Australia
America C. North America and South Amer-
D. Antarctica, Africa, Australia, ica
China, Europe, South America and D. Asia and Australia
North America
535. Ideas spread from places of greater
529. What does the term "Geography"
size and influence to smaller places
mean?
A. Hierarchical diffusion
A. "What’s over there"
B. "mother of all sciences" B. Contagious diffusion

C. "writing about the earth" C. Rediffusion

D. "study of mankind" D. Relocation diffusion

530. After running an experiment, the 536. The process by which igneous rocks
experimenter should are formed
A. construct a hypothesis. A. heat and pressure
B. form a conclusion. B. melting and cooling
C. look at their data. C. compaction and cementation
D. do some research.
537. Longitude lines run from north to
531. What law states that any geologic south.
feature that cuts across other layers is A. True
younger than layers it cuts across?
B. False
A. Law of superpostion
B. Law of layers 538. The on a map help us tell direc-
tion
C. Law of inclusion
A. compass
D. Law of crosscutting
B. hemisphere
532. True of False: Cairo is the capital of
Egypt. 539. Lines of longitude run to

529. C 530. C 531. D 532. A 533. B 534. A 535. A 536. B 537. A 538. A 539. A
539. C
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A. North to South D. none of the above
B. East to West 545. Which physical geographic region is
C. Up and Down located at 0◦ latitude and 60◦ W lon-
gitude?
D. Side to Side

540. A break in the geologic record cre-


ated when rock layers are eroded or
when sediment is not deposited for a
long period of time is called what?

er
A. law of crosscutting relationships
B. unconformity

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C. radiometric dating A. Equator in South America
D. varve B. High latitudes in North America
541. There are meters in 25 kilome- C. Equator in Africa
ters (km)

an
D. Middle latitudes in Europe
A. 250 m
546. What is the term for an environ-
B. 2500 m ment where evaporation usually ex-
C. 25000 m ceeds precipitation?
Ch
D. .025 m A. desert

542. This location tells you EXACTLY B. rainforest


where something is 547. Cape Cod is a leading tourist desti-
A. absolute location nation that is important to the econ-
omy of which state
B. relative location
an

A. Massachusetts
543. The greatest distance a customer
will travel to purchase a good or ser- B. West Virginia
vice is the 548. What country is this?
ay

A. range
B. threshold
C. carrying capacity
r

D. vernacular region
Na

544. What does the theory of continental


drift state?
A. The continents were once joined
in a super-continent and have moved
over time
B. Continents are stationary and do A. Canada
not move
B. Greenland
C. The Earth is broken into litho-
spheric plates that move due to con- C. Mexico
vection currents D. United States

540. B 541. C 542. A 543. A 544. A 545. A 546. A 547. A 548. A 549. B
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549. Imaginary lines that run north and A. California because of the San An-
south across the Earth dreas fault
A. lines of latitude B. Iowa because of the corn fault
B. lines of longitude C. New York because of the Empire
Fault
C. ocean
D. No places are more likely to have
D. imaginary earthquakes than others
550. The layers of Earth formed because 555. Which geographical term describes
of the difference in a group or chain of islands?
A. density
B. heat
C. energy
D. solid and liquid

551. What is culture?


A. Traditions and values
B. more birds and birds and birds A. archipelago
C. People way of life meaning the way B. island
groups do things
C. isthmus
D. I have no idea
D. peninsula
552. Which continent do you live on?
556. The air pressure at Hobart could
best be described as

A. South America
B. Australia A. High
C. North America B. Mild
D. Africa C. Nice

553. An oceanographer studies: D. Low

A. Earthquakes 557. Processes by which rock, sand, and


soil are broken down and carried away
B. The ocean floor by natural forces such as wind or wa-
C. Fossils ter

554. Which of these places is likely to A. Weathering


have an earthquake? B. Erosion

550. A 551. C 552. C 553. B 554. A 555. A 556. A 557. B


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558. What is the phase change during 562. the long period of time before peo-
evaporation? ple developed systems of writing and
A. liquid to solid written language

B. gas to liquid A. prehistory

C. liquid to gas B. Stone Age

D. solid to liquid C. Ice Age

559. What is a closed system? D. New Stone Age

er
A. energy flows in and out but stays 563. What do we call the start of a river?
in the ecosystem A. mouth
B. does not accept energy B. start

gd
C. energy and matter flows in and out
C. source
D. tributary
D. uses up all the energy in a system
564. Is North America north or south of

an
560. Which state is C on the map?
Ch South America?

A. North
A. Virginia
B. South
an

B. South Carolina
565. This image demonstrates
C. Georgia
D. North Carolina
E. Florida
ay

561. Which of the type of map is this?


r
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A. Regions
B. Stimulus Diffusion
A. Physical map C. Globalization
B. Political map D. None of the above
C. Road map 566. A landform made up of nearly flat
D. Useless map or gently rolling land with low relief.

558. C 559. A 560. B 561. B 562. A 563. C 564. A 565. C 566. B


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A. Mountain A. biosphere
B. Plain B. atmosphere
C. Plateau C. geosphere

567. The largest desert is D. cryosphere

A. at Africa 572. According to the law of , in hor-


izontal sedimentary rock layers the
B. on Africa
oldest layer is at the bottom and the
C. near Africa youngest layer is at the top.

D. in Africa

568. What is life expectancy?

A. superposition
B. index fossil
A. The number of years needed for
one to reach 60 years. 573. Which year did Christopher Colum-
bus discover South America.(did not
B. The number of years that a person get answer please search on google
is expected to live on his/her own. only for this question).
C. The number of years that a person A. 1492
is expected to live.
B. 1500
D. What one expects to face in life.
C. 1498
569. Is a layer of week of soft mantle that
D. 1800
is made of rock that flows slowly. Tec-
tonic plates move on top of this layer.
574. Which religion is the following struc-
A. Inner Core ture associated with?

B. Asthensophere
C. Lithosphere
D. Outer Core

570. Ireland’s capital city is


A. Edinburg
B. Dublin
C. Cork
D. London

571. contains an inner core and outer core

567. D 568. C 569. B 570. B 571. C 572. A 573. A 574. C 575. B


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A. Hinduism A. Region
B. Judaism B. Movement
C. Islam C. Location
D. Shinto D. Place
575. Stars do not have their own heat and
582. Layer D on site #1 (left) is a match
light.
to which layer on site #2 (right)?
A. True

er
B. False

576. What is the name of the mountain


range located on the west side of the

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United States?
A. Atlas Mountains
B. Rocky Mountains A. z

an
C. Sierra Madre B. y
D. Appalachian C. w
577. Which do we consider "place"? D. there is not a match
Ch
A. The physical and human charac-
teristics of a location 583. Phobos and Deimos are it’s moons.

B. Where your favorite restaurant is A. Mercury

C. How we interact with our environ- B. Venus


ment C. Earth
D. How people and information get
an

D. Mars
around
E. Jupiter
578. tells you what kind of a map it is
A. title 584. An undisturbed rock geologic col-
ay

umn has a fossil of a reptile species in


B. scale bar the lowest rock layer, an index fossil
C. legend that was present 1 million years ago
in the middle rock layer, and a fossil
D. key
r

of a clam species in the topmost rock


579. Define: "Long term weather pattern" layer. Which conclusion is most likely
Na

correct?
A. Climate
B. Region

580. Which type of crust is more dense?


A. oceanic crust
B. continental crust

581. New York is also known as "the Big


Apple"; under which of the five themes
of geography does this fall?

576. B 577. A 578. A 579. A 580. A 581. D 582. D 583. D 584. B


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A. The clam species is older than one


million years old.

B. The reptile species is older than


one million years old.

C. The index fossil is older than the


reptile species fossil.

D. The clam species fossil is older


than the reptile species fossil.
A. V shaped valley
585. The inner planets are rocky and with B. Water fall
strong gravity.
C. Estuary
A. True D. Meander
B. False 590. Sparsely populated areas such as the
country side
586. All the planets move around the Sun
in a

A. Rectangular path

B. Circular path

C. Elliptical path

587. What is the term for the physical lo-


cation where a plant or animal lives? A. Urban areas

A. habitat B. Rural areas


C. Suburbs
B. pattern
D. Urbanization
588. Page 2: Trees in the rainforest have
591. The final step, answer geographic
leaves so densely packed that they
questions, requires the geographer to
look like a large green blanket in
mid-air. can hardly penetrate
through the blanket of leaves, making A. create a brochure to pass onto the
the ground very shady. kids that use Kid’s Corner.

A. Sunlight B. prepare a report describing their


choice of site for the resort and clear
B. Rain explanations of why they chose this
site. Then the report should be pre-
C. Birds sented at a public meeting.

D. Insects C. prepare a television commercial to


advertise to not build a resort at all.
589. Identify the river land forms shown D. take all organized materials;
on the map charts, graphs, diagrams to South

585. B 586. C 587. A 588. A 589. D 590. B 591. B 592. B 593. A


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Haven’s city official to make their own A. The contnental plate is pushed
conclusion. down

592. What step does every scientific ex- B. The oceanic plate is pushed down
periment begin with? C. The oceanic plate is pushed up
A. hypothesis D. Both plates are pushed up
B. question/problem 597. Which state produces more corn
C. procedures A. Rhode Island

er
D. conclusion B. Iowa

593. All of the following can serve as nat- 598. K2 is #2 tallest mountain. True or

gd
ural boundaries except False?
A. Latitude Lines
B. Rivers

an
C. Mountains
D. Lakes

594. the general location of where a place


Ch
lies
A. relative location A. True
B. place B. False
C. absolute location 599. The is an accepted explanation
D. environment for the formation of solar systems.
an

A. nebular theory
595. What landform is this?
B. gravity theory
C. nuclear fusion
ay

D. formation of Earth’s layers

600. Geographers might study if they


want to know how Victoria Falls was
r

formed.
Na

A. physical geography
A. The Mexican Plateau
B. human geography
B. The Great Plains
601. A mercator map is mainly used for
C. The Canadian Shied
A. hunters
D. Baja California / The Baja Penin-
sula B. marine navigation
C. automobiles
596. What happens where oceanic plate
material meets continental plate ma- 602. Six important ideas that people use
terial? to organize their study of geography

594. A 595. D 596. B 597. B 598. A 599. A 600. A 601. B 602. A 603. A
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A. essential elements A. precise age of fossils


B. themes B. age of fossils compared to others
C. physical geography C. climate fossils survived in
D. human geography D. movement of continents
603. Why do the Caribbean have African 608. Particles greater than 2 mm in di-
influence? ameter
A. Spanish explorers brought A. conglomerates
Africans as slaves
B. sandstones
B. The Crusades
C. siltstones
C. Continental Drift Theory
D. shales
D. African explorers discovered the
islands 609. Which rock layer was formed most
recently?
604. What is The study of Earth and its
people, places, and natural surround-
ings, or environment?
A. Biology
B. Geology
C. History
A. Permian
D. Geography
B. Carboniferous
605. The Equator divides our Earth into
C. Silurian
what two hemispheres?
D. Cambrian

610. Magma that reaches the earth’s sur-


face is called
A. volcanic ash
B. crater

A. Eastern & Western Hemispheres C. lava

B. Southern & Eastern Hemispheres D. magma

C. Northern & Southern Hemispheres 611. The hanging wall slides up and over
the footwall is what kind of fault?
606. Two basic types of satellite images
are true color and A. strike-slip

A. heat B. normal

B. infrared C. reverse
C. full image 612. Equal areas of which type of Earth
D. photographic surface willabsorb more insolation
and radiate more energyback toward
607. Relative dating determines the space in the same amount of time?

604. D 605. C 606. B 607. B 608. A 609. A 610. C 611. C 612. B


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A. light colored and rough A. movement, history, region, loca-
tion, place
B. dark colored and rough
C. light colored and smooth B. movement, region, HEI, location,
place
D. dark colored and smooth
C. geology, HEI, location, place, lati-
613. The science of making maps
tude
A. mapatology
D. region, place, longitude, geogra-

er
B. hydrology
phy, movement
C. cartography
D. geology 618. What do scientists call a rock that

gd
burns up in the atmosphere of Earth?
614. When do we use the RACE strategy?
A. comet
A. When the question requires a writ-
ten response and asks you to use evi- B. asteroid

an
dence or details from the text.
B. When the question is multiple C. meteor
choice and you need to look for evi-
D. meteorite
dence from the text.
Ch
C. When the question requires you 619. The Panama Canal is located of
to look back into the text to find the South America.
answer.
D. When you are answering a True A. north
or False question that requires you to
B. south
look back into the text for evidence
an

or details. C. directly east


615. Which map projection is most often
D. directly west
used for navigation?
ay

A. Mercator 620. What scale(s) are represented in this


B. Homoloseine image?

C. Robinson
r

D. Peters
Na

616. An area in which people have many


shared culture traits
A. graphic and ratio
A. Culture region
B. Ethnic group B. graphic

C. Functional region C. ratio


D. Exclave
D. graphic, ratio, verbal
617. What are the Five Themes of Geog-
raphy? 621. What is location 2?

613. C 614. A 615. A 616. A 617. B 618. C 619. A 620. D 621. A


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A. line of latitude
B. International Dateline
C. Prime Meridian
D. Equator

626. A part of the world that has one


or more common features that distin-
guish it from surrounding areas
A. region
B. themes
C. map
A. Mexican Plateau D. essential elements
B. Sierra Madre 627. Shale is a
C. Gulf of Mexico A. metamorphic rock
D. Yucatan Peninsula
B. sedimentary rock
622. invisible line at 0◦
latitude; di- C. another type of rock
vides the Earth into the Northern and
Southern hemispheres 628. A solar eclipse only occurs during
A. prime meridian which moon phase?

B. equator A. 1st Quarter

C. longitude B. New Moon

D. hemisphere C. Full Moon

623. What is true about a landscape? D. 3rd Quarter

A. It is a portion of Earth’s surface. 629. What pieces of evidence prove that


B. It is part of a painting. continental drift was real?

C. It can be viewed at one time. A. Tombs

D. It can be viewed from one location B. Oils and gases


C. Rocks and fossils
624. Which of the following are the FIVE
THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY? D. Wind and rain
A. Place and Human-Environment In-
630. What line of LATITUDE is Point B
teraction
located?
B. Location
C. Movement
D. Place
E. All of the Above

625. The vertical line at 0 degrees on a


map is called the

622. B 623. A 623. C 623. D 624. E 625. C 626. A 627. B 628. B 629. C
630. B
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A. 105o W

B. 60o N

C. 150o W

D. 80o W

631. The prime meridian is the planet’s


A. Human Feature
line of zero degrees longitude. Slicing

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the earth along the circle of theprime B. Physical Feature
meridian would divide it into the East-
634. Homework is worth what percentage
ern and Western hemispheres, what
of your grade?
line is this?

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an
Ch
A. 18

B. 11

C. 3

D. 9
an

632. "There are 5 llamas." is an example


of a(n)
A. 10%
B. 20%
ay

C. 30%
D. 40%
r

635. Which of the following best de-


scribes the relationship between a
Na

rock and a mineral?


A. Rocks are pure substances; miner-
als are not.
A. Qualitative Observation
B. Rocks are made from minerals.
B. Quantitative Observation
C. Minerals are made from rocks.
C. Inference D. Rocks and minerals are the same
thing.
D. Question
636. In 1948 Jews set up Israel in their
633. What type of feature is this? part of

631. D 632. B 633. A 634. B 635. B 636. D


78 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. Iraq 641. How many experiments have been


B. Saudi Arabia done that show evolution not to be
true?
C. Turkey
A. 1
D. Palestine
637. Identify this continent B. 2

C. 3

D. 0

642. What else is heat called?

A. infrared radiation

B. red fragmentation
A. South America
B. Africa C. infrared permeation
C. Australia D. Scolding radiation
D. Antarctica
643. The Sierra Nevada is a mountain
638. Which of the following illustrates a range in Eastern California; under
push factor-something that drives peo- which of the 5 themes of geography
ple from an area? does this fall?
A. Anu moves from India to the
United States to be with her family A. Place
living there. B. Human-Environment Interaction
B. Peter moves from his small town
to Nashville to find a job in the music C. Region
industry.
D. Location
C. . Amit moves to Turkey from his
home in India after an earthquake de- 644. What is the name of this world her-
stroys his village. itage site?
D. Bethany moves from her home in
Ohio to go to school in France
639. The river known as Dakshin Ganga
is
A. Mahanadi
B. Godavari
C. Krishna
D. Kaveri A. Petra
640. To draw distributional map we need B. Abu Simbel
data.
A. statistical C. Chichen Itza

B. analytical D. Mesa Verde

637. A 638. C 639. B 640. A 641. D 642. A 643. C 644. B


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645. A large body of water surrounded 650. Which region is pictured here
by land. above?

er
A. Ocean A. Southeast

gd
B. Lake B. Northeast
C. River C. Midwest
D. Plain D. Pacific

an
646. What is the largest country in the 651. What is the best evidence for the Big
Arabian Peninsula? Bang theory?
A. How fast light can travel
A. Saudi Arabia
Ch
B. The expansion of the Universe
B. Yemen
C. Creation of new planets
C. United Arab Emirates
652. Which of the following are natural
D. Jordan hazards?
647. Where is more likely to have an A. Geomorphic eg. volcano and
earthquake? tsunami
an

A. West Coast B. Atmospheric eg. trpoical cyclone,


heat wave,bush fire
B. East Coast
C. Technological hazards eg. train
ay

648. "Lava lamps" contain colored liquids. crash, oil spill, nuclear explosion.
These liquids form globs that rise to D. Hyrogical eg. drought, flood.
the top due to
653. Why did cities like Manila grow
A. conduction
r

along rivers?
B. convection A. provides land for houses
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C. radiation B. because they are water benders


C. provides water for drinking and
649. Which is the largest continent?
farming, and could transport good on
A. North America river
B. South America D. that’s where the Spaniards first
landed when they came to the Philip-
C. Africa
pines
D. Asia
654. An element is a substance composed
E. Australia of

645. B 646. A 647. A 648. B 649. D 650. B 651. B 652. A 652. B 652. D 653. C
654. B
80 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. many particles 657. Without geographers would not


be able to use maps to study where
B. a single kind of atom
things are in the world.
C. a crystal arrangement A. meteorology
D. many layers B. cartography
655. What is a difference between spring 658. The study of Earth’s core.
and neap tides?
A. Geology
B. Astronomy
C. Oceanogrophy
D. Meteorology

659. What kind of map is this?

A. Spring tides occur when the earth


and sun are IN LINE with the new or
full moon.
A. Road
B. Spring tides occur when moon in
3rd or 1st quarter phases B. Political

C. Spring tides are LOWER than C. Flat


neap tides D. Globe
D. Spring tides occur in Spring and 660. The time before humans invented
neap tides can occur in any season writing is
656. This is an example of a A. Archaeology
B. Prehistory
C. Anthropology
D. Geographical

A. Latitude and Longitude


B. Compass Rose 661. A. normal fault
C. Physical Map B. reverse fault
D. Global Positioning System C. strike-slip fault

655. A 656. B 657. B 658. A 659. B 660. B 661. B 662. C


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662. The prevailing climate in Lithuania A. True
is:
B. False
A. marine climate
667. Energy is created in the core when
B. continental climate two atoms join together to form a
C. transitional from marine to conn- atom.
tinental climate A. helium, hydrogen

663. A Map show political boundaries B. carbon, hydrogen

er
countries, states, etc. C. nitrogen, helium
A. Historic Map D. hydrogen, helium
B. Special-Purpose Map 668. What is geography?

gd
C. Political Map A. The study of places
D. Physical Map B. The study of the relationship be-
tween people and environments
664. The station model shows several

an
weather variables recorded at a par- C. The study of places and relation-
ticular location. What was the most ships between people and their envi-
likely dewpoint at this location? ronments
D. The study of rocks and minerals
Ch
669. True or False: A map feature that
usually shows the four cardinal direc-
tions is called a compose lily.
A. false
B. true
an

670. What theme of geography talks


about: Unifying Characteristics - how
geographers divide the world
ay

A. movement
A. 32◦ F
B. human-environment interaction
B. 40◦ F
C. location
C. 61◦ F
r

D. D. place
D. 70◦ F
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E. region
665. What type of map shows political
borders? 671. One of the major differences among
different types of galaxies, besides size
A. physical and shape, is-
B. political A. the age of their stars
C. relief B. the temperature of their stars
D. density C. the color of their stars

666. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the 672. Which of the following is an igneous
sun causes skin and eye damage rock?

663. C 664. C 665. B 666. A 667. D 668. C 669. A 670. E 671. A 672. D
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A. limestone B.
B. gypsum
C. gneiss
D. basalt

673. What town is the home of the Little


White House?
A. Warm Water 677. Earth science helps us better under-
B. Warm Springs stand the world around us by studying
how
C. Cold Water
A. Animals interact with humans
D. Cold Springs
B. natural forces shape our environ-
674. What continent is letter A? ment
C. war impacts society
D. genealogy and astrology impact
society

678. A company who pollutes the air is


an example of what theme:
A. Place
A. North America B. Movement
B. South America C. Interaction
C. Europe D. Region
D. Africa 679. Which of the following relates to
rainfall in Swanage?
675. What source of energy evaporates
the most water from Earth’s surface? A. November has the most rain, with
an average of 125mm
A. Volcanoes
B. December has the most rain, with
B. Sun an average of 94mm
C. Lightening C. January has the most rain, with an
average of 60mm
D. Wind
D. February has the most rain, with
676. CHOOSE A SOCIAL COMPO- an average of 87mm
NENT
680. Coast
A.

673. B 674. A 675. B 677. B 678. C 679. B 680. A 681. A


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A. Physical Geography A. By wind moving sand from one
B. Human Geography place to another

C. Environmental Geography B. By rain weathering and eroding


sandy areas
681. What is the formula for density?
C. By the movement of Tectonic
A. m/v Plates (Earthquakes)
B. m/d
D. Sand Dunes are not real.
C. d/v

er
686. Describes characteristics of people,
D. v/m
Culture, Religion, Buildings, Land-
682. Which sphere of Earth contains marks, Landforms, and Climate
rocks and stones, including all the

gd
A. Movement
mountains and land we can see?
A. Atmosphere B. Region

B. Biosphere C. Human interaction

an
C. Lithosphere D. Place

683. One complete circuit around the sun 687. Point A is


A. Rotation
B. Orbit
Ch
C. Revolution
D. Axis
684. What is your human geography field-
work enquiry question?
A. How and why does Carding Mill
an

Valley stream’s width change down


the long profile
A. 90◦ N
B. How and why does Birmingham’s
stream width change down the long B. 90◦ S
ay

profile
C. 66 1/2◦ N
C. How and why does housing quality
change with distance from the CBD D. 66 1/2◦ S
r

in Birmingham 688. The formula for density is:


D. How and why does housing quality
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A. Density = mass x volume


change with distance from the CBD
in Carding Mill Valley B. Density = mass / volume
685. How are sand dunes formed? C. Density = volume / mass
D. Density = volume x mass

689. In many geography classes students


identify the location of U.S. state cap-
itals. State capitals are a signifi-
cant location for geographers to study
because–

682. C 683. C 684. C 685. A 686. D 687. A 688. B 689. B


84 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. most of the population are living 694. On a globe, the Equator is the
in these locations A. Horizontal, center line
B. rules for societies are created in
B. Vertical, center line
these locations
C. 30 degree line
C. many jobs are abailable in these
locations D. 180 degree line
D. historical monuments are built in 695. This palm tree fossil was found in
these locations Alaska. What can you conclude?
690. Physical characteristics describe the
natural environment.
A. True
B. False
691. What TYPE OF MAP shows natu-
ral features like rivers, deserts, valleys,
mountains, etc.?

A. Alaska used to be under water


A. None of the Above B. Alaska once had a much warmer
climate
B. Physical Map
C. Alaska was once an island
C. Political Map
D. This fossil washed up on the
D. Special Purpose/Thematic Map
Alaskan shore
692. Some negative ways humans inter-
696. What are human societies?
act with the environment include
(click all that apply) A. Human societies are groups of peo-
A. Pollution ple with a shared culture

B. Deforrestation B. Human societies refer to the land-


forms and climate of an area
C. Natural resource extraction
697. made up of a central place and sur-
D. Recycling
rounding areas affected by it. Often,
693. A method used in hilly areas to cut this is a metropolitan area that con-
ledges into slopes to conserve water sists of a major city and lots of smaller
and soil for farming towns or cities that surround it.
A. Monsoon A. functional region
B. Tundra B. perceptual region
C. Terrace Farming C. cultural landscape
D. slash and burn D. free enterprise

690. A 691. B 692. A 692. B 692. C 693. C 694. A 695. B 696. A 697. A
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698. A map that shows climate zones is A. silicates
a type of B. carbonate
A. political map C. halide
B. physical map D. oxide
C. thematic map E. sulfide
D. regional map 705. Shadows are longest when?

699. The Sharp, steep slopes on the side A. at noon

er
of a mountain are B. in the morning and evening
A. Faults 706. A rock that is ’formed by fire’ is a(n)
*

gd
B. Scarp
A. a Sedimentary
C. Cliffs
B. b. Igneous Rock
700. What line is at 0 degrees latitude?
C. c. Metamorphic Rock

an
A. Prime Meridian
707. Human impact on Earth is known as
B. North pole
A. Physical Geography
C. South pole B. Compass Rose
Ch
D. Equator C. Cultural Geography
701. Grass, animals, bacteria, living or- D. Economic History
ganisms are found in what sphere? 708. Which key line is shown on the map
A. geosphere at 23.5o N?

B. atmosphere
an

C. biosphere
D. hydrosphere
ay

702. is the first religion to be


monotheism.
A. Judaism
A. Arctic Circle
r

B. Both C and D
B. Antarctic Circle
Na

C. Christianity
C. Tropic of Capricorn
D. Islam
D. Tropic of Cancer
703. What happens to Earth materials 709. Bonus: Which is NOT an example of
when they are exposed to sunlight? absolute location?(This question will
A. they cool off not be counted as part of the total
points entered into the grade book
B. they heat up unless you get it right) You could earn
C. nothing over 100% with the bonus questions.
Yes, if you miss this question you can
704. Oxygen and (usually) a metal still earn 100% in Synergy.

698. C 699. B 700. D 701. C 702. A 703. B 704. D 705. B 706. B 707. C 708. D
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A. Yes
B. No

712. Which side of Russia has permafrost?


A. European Russia
A. Sonic is at 15350 Weir St, Omaha, B. Asian Russia
Ne 68137
713. A resource that can replenish itself
is
B. 35◦ N, 52◦ W
A. Renewable
C. Sonic is near 156 and Q street B. Non-renewable

714. In ancient times, the annual flooding


710. What is a region? of the Nile River produced good soil
for growing crops. This is an example
of
A. adapting
B. modifying
C. depending

715. If you break glassware in the lab, you


should
A. A piece of land

B. An area with unique features

C. 5 states put together

D. A bowl of cereal

711. Do each of the outer planets have at


least one moon?

709. C 710. B 711. A 712. B 713. A 714. C 715. A 716. D


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A. Tell the teacher 721. Ocean currents circulate the sun’s
heat.
B. Clean it up quickly before the
teacher notices
C. Scream at the top of your lungs

716. Geographers are


A. scientists who study the water

er
B. scientist that study plants
A. True
C. scientists who study ancient arti-
facts B. False

gd
D. scientists who study the Earth and 722. Improving world-wide weather fore-
its physical features casting. Which branch?

717. What waves travel on the surface and A. Nature of Science/General Science
have a side to side motion?

an
A. P-Waves B. Geology

B. S-Waves C. Astronomy

C. Rayleigh Waves D. Meteorology


Ch
D. Love Waves 723. Environmental sustainability is

718. process that breaks rock into smaller A. the prevention of spreading dan-
pieces of rock gerous chemicals in the atmosphere.

A. mechanical weathering
B. the responsible interaction with
an

B. chemical weathering the environment to avoid depletion


C. erosion or degradation of natural resources
and allow for long-term environmen-
D. glacier tal quality.
ay

719. Which of the following best describes C. evolutionary sustainability of the


the cause of tides on Earth? current resources available.
A. The gravitational pull of the Moon, D. using up everything we can as fast
r

Earth and Sun. as we can before it’s all gone.


Na

B. The Earth’s Tilt


724. The area where two or more plates
C. The Earth’s revolution meet is called a

720. What you learned from the experi- A. fault


ment is the B. plate boundary
A. conclusion C. plate edge
B. hypothesis D. ring of fire
C. variable
725. Review question: What are the car-
D. materials dinal directions?

717. D 718. A 719. A 720. A 721. A 722. D 723. B 724. B 725. C


88 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. North, Southern, Eastern, West D. Quartz


B. Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, 728. What is the next stage after conden-
Southwest sation in the water cycle?
C. North, South, East, West

726. What region is in Purple?

A. CONDENSATION
B. GROUNDWATER
C. PRECIPITATION
A. North D. RUN OFF
B. West 729. Type of map that shows natural fea-
C. Southern tures such as mountains, rivers and
bodies of water
D. Central
A. political
E. East
B. physical
727. Use Moh’s hardness scale to answer
the question. A penny has a hardness C. informational
of 3.5. Which mineral has a hardness 730. Longitude is measured by what di-
most similar to a penny? rection?
A. North and South
B. East and West

731. What is the energy source for the


water cycle?
A. the sun
B. the earth
C. water
D. the moon

732. One major problem facing govern-


ments in Central and South America
is:
A. violence from rebels and criminal
A. Fluorite organizations
B. Talc B. limited access to international
C. Diamond trade routes

726. D 727. A 728. C 729. B 730. B 731. A 732. A


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C. indigenous groups holding most of A. 97%
the political power B. 75%
D. few valuable natural resources for C. 25%
industry
D. 3%
733. WHAT STATE DO WE LIVE IN
739. Before lava reaches the surface, the
A. CALIFORNIA molten material is called
B. NEVADA A. Rock

er
C. WASHINGTON B. Magma

734. Corn was first domesticated in C. Volcanic ash


D. Liquid fire

gd
A. Mesopotamia
B. The Nile River Valley 740. is the type of soil used most of-
ten with plants and on farms. It is a
C. Central Mexico mixture of clay, sand, and silt.
D. Eastern China

an
735. Cool or cold temperatures all year.
Temperature and rainfall varies by el-
evation. The higher the elevation the
Ch
lower the temperatures.
A. arid climate
B. Highland climate
A. loam
C. tropical rainforest
B. humus
D. ice cap climate
C. soil
an

736. Fjords are carved out by D. dirt


A. Glaciers
741. Subdivision of a period; shortest di-
B. Wind vision of geologic time.
ay

C. Volcanoes A. Eon
D. Earthquakes B. Era
C. Period
737. Scientists categorize layers of the at-
r

mosphere primarily based on D. Epoch


Na

A. the relationship between altitude 742. study of the world’s physical features,
and temperature. such as landforms, bodies of water, cli-
mates, soils, and plants
B. the amount of water vapor present.
A. physical geography
C. the prevalence of ozone B. human geography
D. their effectiveness in generating C. social science
weather patterns. D. entomology
738. Saltwater makes up how much of the 743. Bad conditions that cause people to
Earth’s water supply? leave their countries.

733. A 734. C 735. B 736. A 737. A 738. A 739. B 740. A 741. D 742. A 743. A
744. A
90 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. push factors 748. Form out of once-living matter.


B. pull factors
A. sediments
744. What is a landscape?
B. chemical rocks
A. All the human and physical fea-
tures that make somewhere unique
C. organic rocks
B. All the physical features that make
somewhere unique D. gem
C. All the human features that make
somewhere unique 749. What is it when the physical environ-
D. All the human, physical, and emo- ment determines social and cultural
tional features that make somewhere development?
unique

745. Which of the following historical


cities was not located in the Amer-
icas?

A. Cultural environmentalism

B. Environmental determinism
A. Uruk
B. Cahokia C. Possibilism

C. Tenochtitlan D. Cultural possibilism


D. Machu Picchu
E. Cultural ecology
746. More jobs, safety, and freedom are
examples of
750. What is the unrestricted growth of
A. pull factors housing, commercial developments
B. immigration and roads over large expenses of land,
with little concern for urban planning?
C. push factors
D. net migration A. Rural Sprawl

747. What kind of tool would a Cartogra- B. Urban Sprawl


pher from the past use?
A. Satellite Images C. Community Planning
B. Globes
D. None of the above
C. Aerial Photographs
D. GIS 751. Name this state

745. A 746. A 747. B 748. C 749. B 750. B 751. B


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A. Fossils
B. Evolution
C. Physical characteristics
D. Genetic characteristics

755. is the study of Earth’s surface


and the relationship between locations
on Earth

er
A. cartography
B. geography

gd
C. geology

A. Illinois D. topography
B. Idaho 756. Scale used to measure magnitude
of earthquakes based energy released

an
752. Because of the climate in Georgia,
(most up to date scale)
early colonists found Georgia to be a
good place for A. Enhanced Fujita Scale
A. the king to reside. B. Saffir-Simposon Scale
Ch
B. the first American colony. C. Richter Scale
C. growing crops to send to England. D. Modified Meralli Scale
E. Moment Magnitude Scale
D. hiring people to work in England.
757. An earthquake would most affect the
753. What is the difference between abso-
an

lute and relative location? A. atmosphere


A. Absolute location is the exact lo- B. cryosphere
cation of something. C. atmosphere
B. Absolute cannot be identified us-
ay

D. geosphere
ing lines of latitude or longitude.
C. Absolute describes where some- 758. Which planet in the Solar System
thing is compared to another place. only supports life? It is the home of
the know intelligent life as we agreed
r

to know.
D. Absolute location describes the
Na

characteristics of a place.

754. Morphology is the study of

752. C 753. A 754. C 755. B 756. E 757. D 758. B


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A. Mars A. North America


B. Earth B. South America
C. Jupiter C. Europe
D. Venus D. Africa

759. Geography is divided into two parts. 766. Energy in motion is energy.
what does graphy mean A. Potential
A. Writing B. Energy
B. Earth C. Kinetic
C. Man D. Friction
D. Water
767. Is erosion an environmental prob-
760. 0 degrees longitude line lem?
A. Equator A. yes
B. Tropic of Cancer B. no
C. Tropic of Capricorn 768. Which ocean covers the eastern
D. Prime Meridian coast of South America?

761. All of the objects in our solar system


orbit the
A. Moon
B. Sun
C. Earth

762. What is Earth Science?


A. study of earth, water ans air A. The Atlantic Ocean
B. study of earth, water and land B. The Pacific Ocean
C. study of earth’s land, water and air C. The Arctic Ocean
763. Geographers often have to think and D. The Southern Ocean
act like scientists.
769. What is the military alliance that
A. TRUE was set up by West Europe and the
B. FALSE US to align against Soviet influence?

764. Solar panels are used to generate en- A. NATO


ergy for buildings, houses, and cars. B. UNHCR
A. Location C. Warsaw Pact
B. Place D. NAFTA
C. Region 770. Hinduism’s caste system
D. Human-environment interaction A. assigns everyone to a distinct class.
765. World’s largest river Amazon flows
in the continent - B. .

759. A 760. D 761. B 762. C 763. A 764. D 765. B 766. C 767. A 768. A 769. A
770. A
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771. Which hemisphere is on the right? A. DOGO
B. Channel One News
C. Fox News
D. MSNBC

777. It takes Earth hours to rotate on


its axis.
A. Western A. 72

er
B. Eastern B. 36
C. Southern C. 24
D. 45

gd
D. Northern
778. What are the curved lines on a topo-
772. After an earthquake, it is best to use
graphic map called?
an elevator for the fastest way out.
A. contour lines
A. True

an
B. contour intervals
B. False
C. slope
773. The pyramids and temples the Egyp- D. elevation
tians built show
Ch
779. Choose what branch of Earth Sci-
A. that they were a primitive society.
ence does the picture refer to.
B. that the Egyptians depended a
great deal on the Nile River.
C. the great power of farmers.
an

D. the importance of religion to the


Egyptians.

774. What is Physical Geography?


ay

A. The study of human societies


spread over the Earth’s surface
B. The study of the physical proper- A. Paleontology
ties of the Earth’s surface B. Petrology
r

775. Relief rain is also known as C. Astronomy


Na

A. Torographic rain D. Seismology

B. Sorographic rain E. Pedology

C. Porographic rain 780. What is the measuring unit for


mass?
D. Orographic rain
A. centimeter
776. 6th grade Social Studies: What is B. millimeter
the name of the current events pro-
gram we watch each day to become C. grams
informed citizens? D. pounds

771. B 772. B 773. D 774. B 775. D 776. B 777. C 778. A 779. E 780. C 781. B
94 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

781. What do we call the study of earth A. not known


and its people?
B. still alive
A. Geology
C. LeBron James
B. Geography
D. a wizard
C. Geophysics
787. Describe the role of the astheno-
D. Geoboard sphere in the movement of tectonic
plates.
782. What is another name for a hurri-
cane below the Equator (in Australia)? A. The asthenosphere is made up of
tectonic plates.
A. Typhoon
B. The asthenosphere has no role in
B. Tornado plate motion.
C. Cyclone C. The asthenosphere flows above the
D. Tropical Disturbance plates pulling them along.
D. The plates float on the slowly flow-
783. What is the opening in Earth’s crust ing asthenosphere.
through which molten rock, gases, and
ash erupt? 788. a site in southern France with cave
art from about 17,000 years ago
A. Divergent Boundary
A. Tassili
B. Magma
B. Chauvet
C. Subduction Boundary
C. Lascaux
D. Volcano
D. Cave of the Hands
784. When societies make an impact on
the environment, this means that they 789. What is the mantle?
are affecting A. the layer of earth between the
A. the natural world around them crust and core

B. the behaviors of people around B. The part of the earth we live on


them C. the center of the earth that is made
C. the cultures of other groups up mostly of iron

D. the way places are grouped into 790. The prevailing southwesterlies wind
regions belt causes most low-pressure weather
systems to travel across the United
785. Penginderaan jauh yang menggu- States from the
nakan tenaga matahari disebut
A. southwest toward the northeast
A. sistem aktif
B. northwest toward the southeast
B. sistem pasif
C. northeast toward the southwest
C. sistem gelombang mikro
D. southeast toward the northwest
D. sisstem radar
791. Someone that uses a well to get water
786. The founder of Hinduism is needs to be close to the

782. C 783. D 784. A 785. A 786. A 787. D 788. C 789. A 790. A 791. C
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A. Clouds 795. Which hemisphere can you see in
B. Barn on a farm the image above?

C. Water table
D. Store
792. The attractions of shopping malls
include all but which of the following?
A. frequent concerts and exhibitions

er
B. generous parking lots
C. place to meet friends
D. sheltered environments

gd
E. walking distance from homes
A. Eastern
793. Rio Grande River B. Western
C. Southern

an
D. Northern

796. Narrow piece of land connecting two


larger land area
Ch
A. F
B. Q
C. M
an

D. O
794. What region is in orange?
A. isthmus
ay

B. bay
C. strait
D. valley
r

797. THE MEASURE A MAP


Na

USES TO INDICATE THE


REAL SIZE OF A PLACE ON
EARTH. <img class="question-img"
src="https://quizizz.com/media/resource/gs/quizizz-
media/quizzes/d354f603-7032-48e5-
A. North a443-b4facd6d8649?w=400&h=400"/>
B. West A. A. LEGEND
C. Southern B. B. COMPASS ROSE
D. Central C. C. SCALE
E. East D. D. DEGREES

792. E 793. A 794. A 795. B 796. A 797. C


96 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

798. Standard Time zones represent a 801. Sedimentary rocks are made when
change of 15 degrees in the layer of are pressed together.
A. sediments
B. fossils
C. water
D. limestone

802. Which rock layer in the diagram


A. Latitude seems to be the oldest?
B. Longitude
C. Parallels
D. Temperature

799. How did some of the Indians of the


Southwest make their dry lands more
suitable for growing crops?
A. They added water to the dry land. A. F
B. E
B. They stored the crops in cold C. B
places before placing them into the
dry lands. D. A

C. They used the crop rotation tech- 803. Which state or territory is high-
nique. lighted?
D. They used irrigation.

800. What is location 1?

A. Australia Capital Territory


B. New South Wales
C. Victoria
D. Tasmania

804. the basis of the U.S. government


A. Atacama Desert A. executive branch
B. Andes Mountains B. Constitution
C. Cape Horn C. manifest destiny
D. Sierra Madre D. Louisiana purchase

798. B 799. D 800. B 801. A 802. D 803. D 804. B 805. A


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805. What is the name of the line that 811. Using lines of latitude and longitude
divides the globe into east and west? to find an exact location is
A. Prime Meridian A. Absolute Location
B. Equator B. Relative Location
C. Latitude C. Prime Meridian
D. Longitude D. Place
806. The atmosphere is mostly made up
812. Anything that can be used for the

er
of what gases?
creation of wealth
A. carbon
A. environment
B. oxygen and nitrogen
B. human-environmental interaction

gd
C. nickel
C. rural
D. none of them
D. resources
807. The outer layer of the Earth is called
813. 90o South is

an
the
A. Crust A. the equator
B. Mantle B. prime meridian
C. Inner core C. international date line
Ch
D. Asthenosphere D. north pole
808. Theme of geography that answers E. south pole
the question "How do people, goods,
and ideas move from one location to 814. The image shows two examples of
another?"
an

A. Place
B. Location
C. Region
ay

D. Movement A. latitudinal location


809. process of radioactive isotopes B. longitudinal location
breaking down into stable isotopes C. relative location
r

A. Radioactive Decay
D. absolute location
B. Radiocarbon Dating
Na

815. A way of showing the actual size


C. Paleontology compared to the size on the map
D. Strata (Stratum)
810. This is the second smallest conti-
nent.
A. Australia
B. Antarctica
C. Europe
D. South America

806. B 807. A 808. D 809. A 810. C 811. A 812. D 813. E 814. D 815. D
98 Chapter 1. EARTH SCIENCE

A. legend/key A. Data is objective so could be


recorded the same again in the future,
B. cardinal directions
some idications as to reasons behind
C. compass rose data (causation)
D. map scale B. Data is subjective so only as good
as data collected, no idications as to
816. What will happen if an igneous rock
reasons behind data (causation)
is put under an extreme amount of
heat and pressure? 822. In Daoism, it’s important to
A. it will melt into lava A. perform public service
B. it will become a metamorphic rock B. reflecto n the mystical and magical
aspects of life.
C. it will become a sedimentary C. respect the forces of nature as di-
vine
817. The idea that geologic processes now
D. believei n one all-powerful god.
are the same as those in the past.
A. paleontology 823. What do scientists use the global
positioning system for?
B. uniformitarianism
A. to measure tectonic plate motion
C. modern geology
B. to measure the Earth’s thickness
D. catastrophism
C. to make images of tectonic plates
818. Why is the inner core solid? D. to measure the distances of seis-
A. its unknown mic waves

B. what it’s made of 824. The S in BOLTS stands for


C. the pressure A. Scale

D. it is colder than the outer core B. Scope


C. Size
819. Approximately how much of Earth’s
surface is covered by the global D. Standing
ocean? 825. How many people live in Canada?
A. 100% A. 35 million
B. 90% B. 30 million
C. 71% C. 72 million
D. 59% D. 12 million

820. Buddhism was founded by: 826. What kind of plate boundary is
shown here?
A. Mahyana
B. Muhammed
C. Siddhartha Gautama
D. Jesus Christ

821. What are the disadvantages of your


scattergraph method of data presenta-
tion?

816. B 817. B 818. C 819. C 820. C 821. B 822. B 823. A 824. A 825. A 826. A
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A. divergent 831. Religion, Language, and Food-
Which other traits are a part of cul-
B. convergent
ture?
C. transform
D. subducting

827. What is the definition of renewable


energy sources?
A. sources of energy that will never

er
go away or be used up
B. Sources of energy that can go away
and be used up

gd
A. Nature, Cities, and Labor
C. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Geothermal B. Celebrations, Rules, and Music
D. Coal, Oil, Gas C. Landforms, Population, Climate

an
828. These regions are known as the high 832. The most accurate representation of
latitudes. Earth is
A. polar regions A. Azimuthal equidistant
B. temperate regions B. Winkel Tripel projection
Ch
C. tropical regions C. relief map

829. is the study of the ground and D. globe


environment and everything on the 833. This country is the southern border
ground, oceans, wildlife plus vegeta- of Canada
tion, climate, and much more.
an

A. Mexico
A. Geology
B. United States
B. Biology
C. Canada
C. Geography
ay

D. Lake Michigan
D. Social Studies
834. Which physical feature is #6?
830. During which stage do clouds form?
r
Na

A. Himalaya Mountains
A. condensation B. Caucasus Mountains
B. evaporation C. Ural Mountains
C. precipitation D. Kamchatka Peninsula

827. A 828. A 829. C 830. A 831. B 832. D 833. B 834. C 835. B


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835. What part of the earth is a layer


of rock that comprises 67% of Earth’s
mass?
A. mesosphere
B. mantle
C. asthenosphere
D. lithosphere

836. True or False: Is this a political


A. longitude
Map?
B. latitude
C. measurement
D. meridians

840. Why is the Roman Catholic religion


the dominant religion in Latin Amer-
ica?
A. African slaves brought new reli-
A. True gious traditions to South America
B. False B. Spanish colonization of South
America spread new religious tradi-
837. What continent is this? tions
C. Incan leaders encouraged people
in South America to convert to new
religions
D. Colonial immigrants adopted the
beliefs of indigenous people living in
South America

841. A type of rock that forms from the


A. Eurasia cooling of molten rock at or below the
B. North America surface of the earth

C. South America A. Igneous Rock


B. Metamorphic Rock
D. Australia
C. Sedimentary Rock
838. A continent is
D. chemical Rock
A. the largest area of water
842. Lines of longitude run
B. the Earth
A. east and west
C. a country in Europe
B. north and south
D. the largest areas on land C. parallel to the Tropics of Cancer
and Capricorn
839. The equator and tropics are exam-
ples of lines of D. beside the equator

836. A 837. C 838. D 839. B 840. B 841. A 842. B 843. A


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