SAINT JOHN PAUL II COLLEGE OF DAVAO
ECOLAND DRIVE, DAVAO CITY 8000
Competency Appraisal for Teacher Education
Geography and Culture
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2. Any misconduct, discussion, or otherwise inappropriate communication between
examinees, as well as the appearance of any unnecessary materials will be dealt
with accordingly.
3. NO EREASURES
1. Which of the following considered
as the longest river in the world?
a. Amazon
b. Nile
c. Yantze
d. Mississippi
2. What could be the sociological
position in the “nature vs. nurture”
debate?
a. Biological factors are more
indispensable than social factors.
b. Social factors are more
indispensable than biological factors
c. Biological factors are fixed
and can only be changed and enhance
by social factors in the same fixed
way.
d. Biological factors reflect
human capabilities and can be
changed and enhanced by social
factors through various means.
3. Which is the least used research
method in social science?
a. Participant observation
c. Controlled experiment
b. Social survey
d. Interview
4. What is the advantage of the
fieldwork/field research?
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a. It provides rich information
b. It gives an “insiders ‘view”.
c. It is likely to yield unexpected
result and findings
d. All of the above
5. A research technique in which the
researcher joins the group being
studied is referred to as
a. Participation observation
c. Controlled experiment
b. Social Survey
d. Interview
6. In most instances of participant
observation, the researchers:
a. Hide their true identity.
b. Do not hide their identity.
c. Pay their informants for
information.
d. Act as therapist to the
subject.
7. The symbolic interactionist theory
a. is often criticized as seeing
all interaction as conflicts
b. is important for analysis of
macro-level issues.
c. is criticized for neglecting the
importance of symbols.
d. is concerned on how
individuals understand and
interpret their actions.
8. Which represents the person’s basic
drives in Freud’s model of personality?
 a. Id
c. Superego 15. Research that investigates a
b. Ego population at several intervals over a
d. Self relatively long period of time is called
9. A theorist who argues that a a. Cross-sectional study
society’s institution are shaped by its c. Secondary analysis
economic system. b. Residual study
a. Comte d. longitudinal research
c. Marx 16. Survey is used when:
b. Durkheim a. Other measures do not
d. Weber produce statistical significance.
b. The study must be
10. Which research technique allows repeatable.
the investigator to ask a list of c. It is necessary to discover
questions, nut is free to change them the distribution and interrelation of
during the course of the interview? certain variable among large
a. Participant observation numbers of people.
b. A semi structured (open- d. It is important to use
ended) interview procedures having cross-cultural
c. A structure interview applications.
d. A data discussion
17. The intended audience of the
11. Material culture would not include family planning include
a. Houses a. Men of reproductive age only.
c. Values b. Women of reproductive age
b. Folkways only.
d. Mobile Phones c. Men and women of
12. All societies have means to ensure reproductive age.
that their members conform with social d. Men and women of
norms. The general term for these reproductive age, including
means is adolescents.
a. Social control
c. Values 18. Which of the following is not a
b. Fines and imprisonment group?
d. Taboos A. Board of directors
13. It refers to the movement of people c. University of sorority
into and out of a specified territory. b. Family
a. Fertility d. All football fans
b. Demography 19. What is central to the conflict
c. Mortality perspective of deviance?
d. Migration a. Labeling of deviance
c. Dominance and power
14. The statement “The educational b. Anomic Behavior
system perpetuates values which d. Deviant subculture
protect the rich and powerful”
illustrates the 20. The process which entails a son’s
a. Functionalist Theory erotic attachment to his mother and his
c. Conflict theory hostility to his father is called by Freud
b. Interactionist Theory as
d. Evolutionist theory

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 a. Electra Complex a. Because she must have
c. Inferiority complex cultural knowledge in
b. Oedipus complex creating learning tasks.
d. Xenophobia b. Because she must
consider the cultural
21. Questionnaires in surveys may background of her
include____ students.
a. Standardized questions c. Because she must
c. Checklist identify the different
b. Open-ended questions areas that would benefit
d. All of the above her students.
d. Because she needs to
22. The Nazi Holocaust or the identify the strengths
extermination of the Jews during World and usefulness of
War II is an example of these areas to help her
a. Xenocentrism students learn
c. Ethnocentrism effectively.
b. Culture Shock 27. It concerns about earth features
d. Culture Tolerance such as land, water, climate,
23. Contemporary Filipino Culture is and their relationships to one
influence by another and to human activities.
a. Asian culture
c. Religion a. Geomorphology
b. Western culture b. Climatology
d. Asian and western culture c. Hydrology
d. Climatology
24. Which of the following statements 28. Which of the following
about a caste system is NOT true? statements is TRUE to social
a. It is common in developed studies?
countries. a. It is an integrated
b. There is no social Mobility. subject of all-
c. It shapes a person’s life. natural science
d. It is based on ascription. b. It is an integrated
study of social
25. Which of the following statements science and
about culture is NOT true? humanities to
a. Each group needs a culture promote effective
in order to function. citizenry.
b. An individual participates in a c. It is a design that
number of cultures. provides study and
c. Social conflict is due to evaluates how
meeting the expectation of different humans behave in
cultures. the society
d. Students do not have their d. It is an
own culture but instead practice the instructional
culture of the larger society. design that
26. Why does a Social Science focuses on
teacher need to be integrative? students’
understanding of
human social life.

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29. This type of lesson plan d. Culture Diffusion
discusses all of the topics within 35. It defined as curriculum vehicle
a week such as entire learning through which capacities of
objectives and methodologies. disciplinary knowledge, thinking
a. Unit Plan skills, commitment to
b. Week Plan democratic values and citizen.
c. Detailed Lesson Plan a. Natural science
d. Semi-Detailed Plan b. Social science
30. How should a social studies c. Social studies
teacher teach her students d. Education
about social studies in the 36. This branch of social science
school _____? attempts to provide an
a. Competitive explanation for historical,
b. Politically cultural, and biological
knowledgeable influences.
c. Productive and a. Geography
responsible citizen b. Anthropology
d. Logically Equipped c. Economics
31. This type of location focuses on d. Sociology
the exact and specific location 37. Which part of human vs
using grid coordinates. environment reaction when
a. Relative Location group of people change their
b. Absolute environment to meet their
Location needs such as building dams,
c. Temporary and irrigation?
location a. Human
d. All answers depends of
32. A branch of science that deals their
with the study of human's social environment
life and how human socialize b. Human
other people. Modifies their
a. Natural science environment
b. Social Science c. Human adapts
c. Phenomenal to the
Science environment
d. Space Science d. Human create
33. Mr. Esmael is currently an environment
explaining the political situation 38. The following are types of
of North Korea. What branch of movement in humans EXCEPT;
social science did Mr. Esmael is a. Migration
involved? b. Cultural
a. Politics c. Survival
b. Economics d. All of the
c. Anthropology above
d. Sociology 39. This land form is fairly flat areas
34. It refers to people’s life, values, higher the land surrounding on
traditions, and beliefs. it.
a. Folks a. Glaciers
b. Culture b. Plateau
c. Religion c. Plains

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 d. valleys a) to trade their products and
40. It deals with cultural and establish a barter system
physical factors that shape
economics, social, political, and b) to search their relatives
environmental patterns of c) to search for food and a safe
diverse regions and people. place
a. Sociology
b. Anthropology d) to spread their culture
c. Geography 46. What is the main purpose of
d. Political science social studies as a curriculum?
41. It is a semicircle from North a) Teach the importance of Social
Pole to the South Pole which Science.
created an angular distance b) To teach the citizens and the
from the center of the earth. youth to be competent and
a. The Equator civic-oriented
b. Meridians of c) To understand that social
Longitude studies is a design curriculum
c. Meridian of d) To illustrate the significance of
latitude social studies education
d. Parallel lines 47. When a question of “What is it
42. A type of location that identifies like there?” It signifies what
the near or nearest location is theme in Geography?
called? a. Location
a. Absolute b. Place
b. Relative c. Human-Environmental
c. Direction interaction
d. Coordinate d. Movement
43. A ratio between actual 48. Why do people need to
distances to the length of the understand the importance of
given distance is what we geography?
called? a) Geography helps them to
a. Lines sustain their needs such as
b. Miles food and shelter.
c. Scale b) Geography creates signals for
d. Direction human development.
44. A kind of physical geography c) geography helps human to
that studies land and water understand the nature of
forms as well as the environment.
development of irregularities d) geography connects people
and changes on the surface of and help them to create their
the earth.   system of rules.
a. Biogeography 49. This theory of geography states
b. Pedogenesis that human behavior is strongly
c. Geomorpholo affected by and even controlled
gy the environment.
d. Mathematical a) Environmental Determinism
Geography b) Possibilism
45. Which of the following is the c) Environmental Modification
reason why people moved from d) Existentialism
one place to another long ago?

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50. Why do teachers need to make
their lesson plan before the
teaching and learning process
in the classroom?
a. To establish proper
assessment in the class
b. To have a systematic or
guide during the teaching
process
c. To design his/her methods
in the process
d. All of the above
51. This method of teaching in
geography helps one learner by
the guidance of an experience
or expert colleague.
a. Guided practice
b. Student practice
c. Independent practice
d. Closure
52. To identify the student’s
knowledge, a teacher must first
ask about their prior knowledge.
What is the essence in asking
student’s prior knowledge?
a. To monitor student’s
understanding about the
topic
b. To determine student’s
prior knowledge and
information which connect
the new topic
c. To design new activity
d. None from the choices
53. This is a lowland area or
surface depression of the earth
between the higher land such
as mountain or hills.
a. Plain
b. Valleys
c. Desserts
d. Glaciers
54. Considered as a hot or dry land.
a. Plain
b. Tauga
c. Desert
d. Plateaus
55. Natural features and shape
existent of the face of the earth.
a. Land
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b. Soil
c. Water
d. Plains
56. This method of teaching helps
students to contextualize the
real-life problem especially in
underlying the significance of
geography on their lives.
a. Guided practice
b. Inquiry based
c. Direct instruction
d. Independent practice
57. When a person enters another
country and brings his culture
but after the years he was
infected by the culture of the
majority.
a. Cultural diffusion
b. Relocation diffusion
c. Cultural barriers
d. Expansion diffusion
58. Mr. Dela Slade, spent most of
his years in Canada. After 30
years of living in the said
country, he decided to live in his
country the Philippines. He
applies the Culture of Canada in
his hometown. What Cultural
characteristic is applied in the
context?
a. Cultural diffusion
b. Expansion Diffusion
c. Relocation diffusion
d. Cultural barriers
59. It Is the basis of understanding
geographic information.
a. Themes of Geography
b. Cultural understanding
c. Geographical Knowledge
d. Cultural Variation
60. This tool in geography provides
knowledge to readers or
travelers especially in locating
the area distance, boundaries,
and capitals of each province or
Nation.
a. Maps
b. Scales
c. Globe
d. Grid
61. This line located in the middle of
the Globe which divides the
earth in the to south pole and or
north pole.
a. Prime Meridians
b. The Equator
c. Longitude
d. Latitude
62. It the assembly of Culture or
geographic regions that
describe or identify the cultural
identity.
a. Cultural realm
b. Cultural Region
c. Culture Disparity
d. Cultural Adaptation
63. The focus in teaching social
studies is?
a. To teach civic
awareness and
competence
b. To teach the principle of
science
c. To encourage students
to understand a different
perspective
d. To Preserve historical
records
64. This method encourages
individuals to discover their
skills and critical thinking.
a. Guided Practice
b. Individual Practice
c. Inquire-based method
d. Scientific Method
65. What is the best way in
teaching kinder or preschoolers
in teaching geography?
a. Lecture
b. Dramatization
c. Visual
Presentation/Activity
d. Film Making
66. It refers to everything which is
socially learned and shared by
members of the society.
a. Nature
c. Culture
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b. Material Culture
d. Folkways
67. Which of the following
statement about culture is NOT true/
a. it is learned by groups of
people.
b. it is different from place to
place.
c. it is static
d. it is transmitted across
generations
68. Some people argue that
individuals with fewer opportunities to
achieve success goals will have
greater motivation o violate norms and
higher rates of deviance. This
argument is best expressed by
a. Conflict theory
c. Differential association
theory
b. Sub-culture theory
d. Anomie Theory
69. it is a social system in which
most relationships are personal or
traditional. It is found in the rural areas
in the Philippines.
a. Gesellschaft
c. Gemeinschaft
b. Primary Group
d. Caste system
70. Which of the following
statements is NOT true about the
Filipino families today?
a. Male authority has decline.
b. Division of labor has
changed.
c. Separation has become more
common.
d. It has ceased to be a
socialization unit of society.
71. A sociologist would be most
interested in studying
a. Artifacts
c. Psychological
problems
b. Group behavior
d. Economic Situations
 distinguishable from it is referred to
72. Stability is a feature of this ass
theory. a. Subculture
a. Structural functionalism c. Norm
c. Symbolic b. Culture Shock
Interactionism d. Mores
b. Conflict theory
d. Disruptive 78. The process of casting side
functionalism social practices unsuited to new
circumstances and replacing them with
73. It analyzes society from the more appropriate social practices is
standpoint of the interacting individuals called
and the role of symbols in influencing a. Socialization
human action. c. Enculturation
a. Structural functionalism b. Resocialization
c. Symbolic d. Ethnocentrism
Interactionism
b. Conflict theory 79. According to Edward Tylor, it is
d. Disruptive the complex whole which includes
functionalism knowledge, beliefs, arts morals, laws,
customs and other capabilities and
74. These refer o the family, habits acquired by man as a member
schools, peer group, and the media of the society. To what does Tylor
which influence an individual to refer?
develop their human potential and a. Norm
learn culture. b. Culture
a. Total Institution c. Folkways
c. Counterculture d. Mores
b. Socializing agents
d. subculture 80. An individual considers his/her
75. Karl Marx sees stratification culture as the best and all other culture
as are inferior or barbaric, this is referred
a. a system that guarantees the to as
accomplishment of important work in a. Ethnocentrism
society c. Language
b. Necessary for the operation b. Cultural Relativism
of society d. Acculturation
c. A multi-dimensional hierarchy
d. A system that safeguards 81. The main transmitter of culture
the interest of the rich in society. from generation to generation is
a. Diffusion
76. The desire to succeed in life c. Language
illustrates a Filipino b. Invention
a. Value d. Education
c. Law
b. Folkways 82. Social scientist have developed
d. Mores ways to analyze culture and society
called
77. A behavior pattern related to a. Theoretical perspective
the general culture of a society and yet c. Research Methods

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 b. Hypothesis
d. Techniques
83. Which a process makes a
member learn the norm of the group
and acquire a personality
a. Accommodation
c. Compartmentalization
b. Aggregation
d. Socialization
84. What role or status is assigned
to an individual is based on hereditary
traits?
a. Achieved
c. Master
b. Ascribe
d. Applied
85. Concentration camps, prisons
and military schools are examples of
a. Total institution
c. Counterculture
b. Socializing agents
d. Subulture
86. If sociologist were analyzing
dormitory life, which of the following
aspects of that topic would they be
most likely to study?
a. The rules of conduct that
guide how much freedom students
have to go into another’s work area.
b. How much time an
individual student’s spends in
going out with friends versus
studying.
c. How an individual student
copes with homesickness after moving
in.
d. Which aspects of a student’s
personality are most related to
academic excellence.
87. When a division chief evaluates
the unsatisfactory performance of her
staff members who are also her friends
and relatives. She may experience
a. Role play
c. Role Strain
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b. Role conflict
d. Role ambiguity
88. Social Control is impose on
deviants or non-conformists to
maintain
a. Social Stigma
c. Social Order
b. Social Strata
d. Social Mobility
90. Which of the following is not true of
deviance?
a. It helps to maintain group
unity.
b. It helps to reinforce
appropriate behavior.
c. It is common in developed
countries.
91. It refers to a group of people who
possess similar economic standing in
the society.
a. Status
c. Power
b. Class
d. Prestige
92. Which of the following is the proper
arrangement of Continent from biggest
to smallest?
a. Asia, Europe, South America,
north America, Africa, Australia,
Antartica and oceania
b. Asia, Africa, north America,
South America, Antartica,
Europe, Australia, Ocenia
c. South America, north America,
Africa, Australia, Antartica and
oceania, Asia, Europe,
d. Africa, north America, Asia,
South America, Antartica,
Europe, Australia, Ocenia
93. What is the longest river in the
Philippines?
a. Ilog Mindanao
b. Ilog Cagayan
 c. Ilog Agusan b. South Pole
d. Ilog Lanao c. Prime Meridian
d. Equator region

98. It is considered as the biggest

country in the world.

94. What is the nearest country in the a. USA

northeast point of the Philippines? b. China
a. Japan’ c. Russia
b. Taiwan d. Canada
c. China 99. This country is also a continent.
d. Indonesia a. China
95. This is a extremely Cold and dry b. Canada
biomes and usually receives no c. Australia
precipitation. d. Oceania
100. What is the Largest province in
a. Tundra the Philippines?
b. Desert
c. Taiga a. Mindoro
d. Savanna b. Marinduque
96. The following country is in the c. Palawan
same biomes EXCEPT? d. Davao De Oro
a. Somalia
b. Nigeria
c. Egypt
d. Thailand
97. The temperate rainforest region
can be found in what part of the globe?

a. North Pole

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