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1 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
 1. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY

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1.1 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY
1. Which human activity has contributed 4. Choose the correct option
heavily to climate change
A. Fracking
B. Burning fossil fuels
C. Strip mining
D. Building dams

2. Fruits, fish, and livestock are examples of

which ecosystem service?
A. Regulating A. The map show the lines of longitude.
B. Provisioning B. The map shows the lines of latitude.
C. Cultural
5. Examples of non-renewable sources of en-
D. Supporting ergy are
3. What is the continent that is blue? A. oil
B. Tidal
C. Coal
D. Hydropower
6. What continent is this?

A. Africa
B. Australia
C. Antarctica
D. Asia

1. B 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. A 5. C
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A. Africa B. Indian Ocean

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C. Europe D. Southern Oce
D. North America 12. Name the ocean labeled 4?
E. Antarctica

7. Which best describes the climate of much

of Southwest Asia?
A. Hot & dry
B. Windy & cold
C. Tropical & rainy
D. Moderate (moderate means in the mid- A. Indian Ocean
dle; not too hot & not too cold) B. Southern Ocean
8. is an example of non-renewable en- C. Pacific Ocean
ergy. D. Atlantic Ocean
A. Wind
13. Who gave the concept of stop and go de-
B. Rainfall terminism?
C. Sun A. Griffith Taylor
D. Coal B. E.C. Semple
9. Our use of fresh water and energy needs C. Ratzel
to be D. Vidal de la Blache
A. protected
14. Which Geographers describe the state as
B. managed “Living organism”?
C. conserved A. German
D. none of above B. French
10. Biodiversity is important to human health. C. Greek
A. True D. Roman
B. False 15. How would you write 4.3756 x 104 in
11. Name the ocean labeled 1? standard form?
A. 437, 560, 000
B. 0.00043756
C. 43, 756
D. 4, 3756

16. Definition:The farm crops and plant life of

certain region
A. Pacific Ocean A. Agriculture

6. C 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. A 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. C 16. D 17. A

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B. Wildlife B. Mt. Kenya

C. Planting C. Mt. Everest
D. Vegetation D. Mt. Olympus
17. Which biome is the coldest? 21. Identify the country labeled 1
A. Tundra
B. Grassland

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C. Temperate Forest
D. Desert

18. Name the ocean labeled 3?

A. Egypt

A. Southern Ocean B. Brazil

B. Arctic Ocean C. Argentina

C. Atlantic Ocean D. Peru

D. Pacific Ocean 22. In what areas of the Earth do we tend to
see water insecurity the most?
19. Human, Physical or Environmental Geogra-
phy? A. Near the poles
B. In high populated areas (density)
C. In areas of high temperature
D. In low populated areas (density)

23. A layer of air that surrounds Earth to keep

us warm is called
A. atmosphere

A. Environmental B. Sun’s rays

B. Human C. ozone layer
C. Physical D. air pressure
D. none of above 24. Does everyone have access to a clean wa-
ter supply?
20. What is Africa’s highest mountain sitting
at 19, 341 ft.? A. Yes
A. Don’t. Kilimanjaro B. No

18. B 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. B 23. A 24. B

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25. What continent is this?

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A. Transport

A. Africa B. Climate

B. Asia C. Relief

C. Europe D. none of above

D. North America 29. The world population in 2015 is about

E. South America A. 7, 349, 472, 099

26. Human, Physical or Environmental Geogra- B. 8, 349, 472, 099

phy? C. 6, 349, 472, 099
D. 9, 349, 472, 099

30. Low levels of technological development

leads to which type of human nature re-
lationship?
A. Environmental Determinism
B. Possibilism
A. Environmental C. Neo Determinism
B. Human D. Stop and Go Determinism
C. Physical
31. What percent of water on earth is FRESH
D. none of above WATER?
27. How has plantation farming impacted the A. 97.5%
environment? B. 2.5%
A. Planting one crop repeatedly in the
same location taxes the soil 32. Which process reverses the greenhouse
gas effect in the atmosphere?
B. It increases the likelihood of diseases
and pests that attack the crops A. Photosynthesis

C. Often increases deforestation to clear B. Transpiration

land for farms C. Burning fossil fuels
D. All of these D. None of the above

28. Which geographical term? 33. Which geographical term?

25. D 26. C 27. D 28. A 29. A 30. A 31. B 32. A 33. A

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38. What country is this?

A. Deforestation
B. Vegetation

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C. Natural Hazard
D. none of above A. Denmark
34. Which country has the highest CO2 emis- B. Japan
sions?
C. Turkey
A. India
D. Hungary
B. China
C. USA 39. geography is the combination between
physical and human geography
D. Russia
A. Map
35. The Environmental Protection Agency pro-
B. Landforms
tects
C. social
A. Consumers
D. Environmental
B. Environment
C. Workers 40. Goods taken directly from ecosystems or
D. none of above made from their natural resources
A. provisioning services
36. The government is creating laws and na-
tional parks to help keep the animals and B. regulating services
the environment safe C. cultural services
A. True D. supporting services
B. False
41. Who coined the term Possibilism?
37. What word would describe this picture? A. Lucien Febvre
B. Jean Brunhes
C. Paul Vidal de la Blache
D. Alfred Hettner

42. What is the primary cause of global warm-

ing?
A. Natural Hazard A. Greenhouse gases
B. Landform B. Plate tectonics
C. Climate C. Changes in earth’s orbit
D. Pollution D. Movement of continents

34. B 35. B 36. A 37. A 38. C 39. D 40. A 41. A 42. A

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43. Andes Mountains were home to one of the

most important early civilizations in the
Southern Hemisphere. Who were they?

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A. Aztec
B. Inca
C. Mayan
D. Olmec A. Climate Change
B. Deforestation
44. If you lived in Los Angeles, California,
C. Communication
what region would you be a part of?
D. none of above
A. The West Coast of the United States
48. What country would need the most inter-
B. South America
national support to respond to a natural
C. The Eastern Hemisphere disaster?
D. The greater San Francisco area A. A country with lots of natural re-
sources
45. what is the mostly populated city in the B. A country with a high GDP
world?
C. A country with a low GDP
A. Jakarta D. A country with low population
B. Tokyo
49. The idea that one’s environment is respon-
C. Delhi sible for who people are and how they live
D. Shanghai A. Positivism
B. Radicalism
46. Human, Physical or Environmental Geogra-
C. Possibilism
phy?
D. Environmental Determinism

50. What is the main benefit of nuclear

power?
A. Generates large amounts of energy
B. No air pollution
C. Low cost
D. Renewable resource
A. Drainage 51. Which of these are not one of the world’s
B. Ecosystem five oceans?
A. Atlantic
C. Landform
B. Mediterranean
D. none of above
C. Indian
47. What term describes this picture? D. Pacific

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52. The river pictured on the map is the 56. Which mountain range can be found in
South America?
A. Andes
B. Rockies
C. Himalayas
D. Alps

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57. What is a threat to environment?
A. Growing plants
B. Growing population
A. Wisconsin River
C. Growing crops
B. Roanoke River
D. None of the above
C. Mississippi River
D. Arkansas River 58. is the study of the surroundings in
which people, plants and animals live.
53. is an example of renewable resources A. Human Geography
A. Iron
B. Physical Geography
B. Gas
C. Environmental Geography
C. Petrol
D. GIS
D. Wind
59. Examples of non-renewable sources of en-
54. Which biome has the most rainfall per ergy are
year?
A. natural minerals
A. Tundra
B. Tidal
B. Taiga
C. Coal
C. Tropical Rainforest
D. Hydropower
D. Deciduous Forest
55. Choose the correct option 60. A includes all living and non-living
things in an environment.
A. population
B. niche
C. abiotic
D. ecosystem

61. What is the main concern with fossil fuels?

A. Mountain Range A. They cause air pollution
B. Delta B. They are unevenly distributed
C. Volcano C. They are a finite resource
D. Canyon D. They release greenhouse gases

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62. What is the concept called when humans A. Africa

have grown beyond Earth’s carrying capac- B. Asia
ity?

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C. Australia
A. Overshooting
D. South America
B. Renewable energy
E. Europe
C. Anthropogenic climate change
67. Ellen C. Semple is associated with
D. Fossil fuels
A. Determinism
63. Which is an example of humans interacting B. Possibilism
with their environment? Choose the best
C. Probabilism
answer.
D. Neo determinism
A. Someone eating a fish sandwich for
lunch at a fastfood restaurant 68. Which state is the leading Producer of
B. Inuit tribes of the Arctic who depend Mica in India?
on fishing for survival A. Rajasthan
C. A taxidermist who is paid to stuff and B. Jharkhand
mount fish caught by sportsmen C. Andhra Pradesh
D. A town council raising the cost of a fish- D. Tamil Nadu
ing license from $5 to $10
69. What is the name of the line at zero de-
64. Which is NOT an example of a natural en- grees longitude?
vironmental change?
A. a beaver dam
B. a hurricane
C. a volcanic eruption
D. a housing development

65. The service provided by natural systems A. Equator

that helps stabilize environmental condi- B. Prime Meridian
tions such as climate and air quality
C. North Pole
A. cultural services
D. South Pole
B. supporting services
70. How did the FIRST Agricultural Revolution
C. regulating services
change society?
D. provisioning services
A. By switching from human labor to ma-
66. What continent is this? chines
B. Introducing agricultural practices like
planting and irrigation
C. Fewer people needed to be farmers as
farmers could grow more
D. Farmers revolted against unfair taxes
from the government

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71. Pollution of the environment is caused by C. New Zealand

the combustion of?
D. American Samoa
A. Mineral oils
B. Natural gases 75. Which of the following is NOT a cause of
C. Coal desertification?
D. All of the above A. Drought
B. Poor agricultural practices

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72. Choose the correct option
C. Overgrazing by domestic animals
D. Air pollution

76. What is the main consumer of water in

Southwest Asia?
A. People
B. Industries
C. Livestock
A. The map shows lines of longitude.
D. Agriculture
B. The map shows lines of latitude.

73. What water problems is Southwest Asia 77. What are landforms?
facing? (Check all that apply.) A. Man made features
A. Pollution
B. Egyptian Pyramids
B. Flooding
C. Natural formations of the Earth due to
C. Unequal Distribution geological processes
D. Monsoons
D. none of above
E. Water shortages

74. AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA MAP:What country 78. How could drought create political prob-
is shown? lems?
A. Countries can have land disputes (con-
flict) over water resources
B. Government leaders can die, creating
chaos in countries
C. Lack of food increases the need for
trade
D. Drought does not impact politics

A. Fiji 79. Which best describes what a Geographer

B. Tonga does?

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A. Sahara
A. Someone who studies the universe. B. Sahel
B. Analyzes the relationships between C. Kalahari
people and their environments.
D. Nile
C. Discover new species.
84. Grasslands are located on every continent
D. A research analyst for marine biolo- Except
gists.
A. Africa
80. Pollution B. Asia
A. does nor affect humans C. Australia
B. can make humans sick D. Antarctica
C. makes humans sick only after many 85. What term does this describe?People must
years find a way to meet their own needs, while
D. non of the above not prevent future peoples from meeting
their needs.
81. Desert biome covers about how much per- A. Agricultural development
cent of total geographical area of the
B. Repeatable development
earth?
C. Futuristic development
A. 23%
D. Sustainable development
B. 33%
86. Which factor is most responsible for the in-
C. 13%
ternational importance of the Middle East?
D. 43%
A. innovative political and social reforms
82. How would you write 0.0005 in scientific B. superior weapons technology
notation? C. vital natural resources in a strategic lo-
A. 50 x 10-5 cation
B. 5 x 10-4 D. advanced scientific and industrial de-
velopment
C. 5 x 103
87. The process of removing salt from salt wa-
D. .5 x 103
ter in order to make it suitable for farming
83. AFRICA MAP:What desert is located at and drinking is known as
number 1? A. Desalination

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B. Naturalization 92. What is a renewable resource?

C. Absorption A. An object you can reuse
D. Extraction B. An object you cannot reuse
C. Fossil fuels
88. Definition:The natural setting and sur-
roundings made up of different factors like D. Oil
climate, soil, and other natural resources
93. Which ocean is #5?

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A. Environment
B. Habitat
C. Agriculture
D. Landforms

89. ocean that is partially enclosed by land,

larger than a bay
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Southern/Antarctica Ocean
C. Arctic Ocean
D. Indian Ocean

94. Which of the following is NOT a cause of

A. lake water insecurity (lack of water for some)?
B. ocean A. Drought
C. bay B. Desertification
D. gulf C. Deforestation

90. cm = m D. Overfarming/irrigation

A. 2400 95. Relative humidity of atmosphere is mea-

sured by:
B. 24
A. Hydrometer
C. 2.4
B. hygrometer
D. 0.24
C. Potentiometer
91. River travels 4, 000 miles and empties D. Lactometer
into the Atlantic Ocean. Fed by over 1,
000 different tributaries 96. This is the world’s largest river.
A. Orinoco River A. Mississippi
B. Nile River B. Rhine
C. Amazon River C. Amazon
D. Parana River D. Ganges

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97. Which of the following innovations is NOT 102. A long term weather pattern is
a result of the Green Revolution? A. climate

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A. Seed hybridization B. physical feature
B. GMOs (genetically modified organ- C. natural resource
isms)
D. none of above
C. Disease resistant crops
103. Where is the Great Green Wall located?
D. Mechanized agriculture
A. In the Sahel in Africa
98. Hazardous waste includes waste that can B. In Beijing, China
A. catch fire C. Between Tibet and Nepal
B. make people sick D. In La Paz, Bolivia
C. explode
104. In terms of geography, which of the fol-
D. all of the above lowing is an example of movement?
99. Increased mechanization (use of machines) A. A businesswoman commuting to work
in farming, resulting in an increase of pro- every morning
duction, was part of B. Immigrants traveling from Asia to the
A. The First Agricultural Revolution United States
B. The Second Agricultural Revolution C. A father driving his car to the grocery
store to buy diapers
C. The Green Revolution
D. A family taking a vacation to Florida
D. The Red Revolution
105. “Nature provided opportunities and hu-
100. Which countries have built dams along man being make use of these and slowly
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? (Check all nature gets humanized and starts bearing
that apply.) the imprints of human endeavor.” reflects
A. Syria the concept of
B. Turkey A. Possibilism
C. Jordan B. Neo-determinism

D. Jordan C. Environmental determinism

D. None of these.
101. How has the building of dams created
problems for countries sharing rivers? 106. Which geographical term?
A. Dams are too expensive to build.
B. Dams limit the water available to coun-
tries downstream.
C. Countries in Southwest Asia (Middle
East) are NOT allowed to build dams along
shared rivers.
D. The building of dams causes flooding
downstream. A. Transport

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B. Drainage A. India
C. Economic Activity B. Japan
D. none of above
C. China
107. What is this country? D. Korea

111. A natural resource that can be replaced

at the same rate at which it is consumed

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is a
A. nonpoint-source pollutant
B. renewable resource
C. nonrenewable resource
A. China
D. biodegradable resource
B. Mongolia
C. Taiwan 112. Which geographic feature is best de-
D. Japan scribed by a narrow piece of land that con-
nects two larger land masses?
108. Stop and go determinism is also known
as A. Island
A. Possibilism B. Isthmus
B. Determinism C. Archipelago
C. Neo-determinism
D. Peninsula
D. None of the above.
113. Which organization coordinates and uni-
109. What are some ways the Native Ameri-
fies petroleum policies?
cans modified the land to survive?
A. Cutting down trees to build roads and A. WHO
businesses B. OPEC
B. Building dams to filter water
C. NATO
C. Cutting down trees to build boats and
clearing rocks to plant crops D. UNESCO
D. Building airplanes to fly over water
114. Definition:To keep something safe and
110. Identify country labeled 1 avoid wasting; to maintain and preserve
something
A. Agriculture
B. Pesticide
C. Conserve
D. Modify

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A. Canadian Shield
A. Lake Superior
B. Appalachian Mountains
B. Lake Washington
C. Rocky Mountains
C. Lake Mead
D. Great Plains
D. Great Salt Lake
116. Which statement is correct with respect
to the food chain? 119. What is the primary pollutant that causes
acid rain?
A. Every component of food chain forms
trophic level A. Nitrogen oxide

B. Inter-relation between different food B. Sulfur dioxide

chains is known as food web C. Carbon dioxide
C. All the chains formed by nutritional re- D. Mercury
lations is used to understand energy flow
120. Both Japan and Haiti experienced earth-
D. none of above quakes in the early 2000s. Why was re-
covery in Japan faster than Haiti?
117. Choose the correct option A. Haiti is poor and relied heavily on inter-
national help
B. Japan is poor and relied heavily on in-
ternational help
C. International humanitarian groups re-
fused to help Haiti
D. Rich countries, like the United States,
gave more money to Japan than Haiti
A. Volcano
121. Our use of fossil fuels and our pollution
B. Plains levels need to be
C. Canyon A. protected
D. Delta B. managed
C. used
118. The name of the lake pictured on the map
is D. none of above

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122. What is the continent that is pink? 127. 6 kg = g

A. 6
B. 6000
C. 600
D. .006

128. Examples of renewable sources of energy

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A. North America are
B. South America A. Solar
C. Asia B. Tidal
D. Oceania/Australia C. Coal
D. Hydropower
123. If a resource can be replaced/regrown/reused,
after it have been used once, it is consid- 129. What are people doing to help keep the
ered a(n) water in the bay clean? Choose all that
A. Non-renewable resource apply
B. Renewable resource A. Controlling the fishing in the bay
C. Recyclable resource B. Going swimming with the fish under-
stand how they live
D. Reusable resource
C. Adding pesticides to clean out the pol-
124. which city among the following is the lution in the water
mostly polluted one? D. Taking trash out the bay and putting it
A. Delhi in the ocean
B. Paris 130. The Great Green Wall is a series of trees
C. London and other vegetation specifically planted
D. NewYork to help prevent what?
A. Deforestation
125. The most important factor in the interac-
tion between people and environment is B. Water insecurity

A. Human intelligence C. Drought

B. Technology D. Desertification

C. People‘s perception 131. What is this physical feature is found in

Japan?
D. Human brotherhood

126. Which country among the following is

suffering the most from earthquakes?
A. Tunisia
B. Saudi Arabia
C. France
D. Japan

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A. Mount Everest 135. Which geographical term?

B. Mount McKinley

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C. Mount Fuji
D. Mount Kilimanjaro

132. The arrow is pointing to which country?

A. Population distribution
B. Economic Activity
C. Tourism
D. none of above

136. Which biome is the driest?

A. Desert
A. Puerto Rico B. Tundra
B. Bahamas C. Taiga
C. Haiti D. Rainforest
D. Cuba
137. What is the African Savanna considered?
133. Definition:A source of natural goods and A. Ocean
materials that create wealth and enhance
B. Forest
quality of life.
C. Grassland
A. Landform
D. Tundra
B. Resources
C. Modify 138. Which ocean?
D. Region

134. How has irrigation impacted the Aral

Sea?
A. It has greatly reduced the size of the
sea
B. It has led to overfishing of native
species there
A. Atlantic Ocean
C. It led to a growth of coral reef species
B. Pacific Ocean
there
C. Indian Ocean
D. It has led to a reduction in air quality
due to air pollution D. Arctic Ocean

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139. Which biome has hot days and cold 143. What was the cause of the energy crisis
nights? in the 1970s?
A. Arctic Tundra A. Fuel price increase
B. Temperate Forest
B. Fuel shortage
C. Temperate Grassland
C. Support over Israel
D. Subtropical Deserts
D. Global warming
140. What country is this?

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144. Disputes over what natural resource is
problematic for many Middle East coun-
tries?
A. Diamonds
B. Gold
C. Water
D. Silver
A. North Korea
B. Taiwan 145. Renewable energy can be used
C. Japan A. Only once
D. Mongolia B. Over and over again
141. What is this? C. Few times
D. Two times

146. What is an Aquifer

A. An underground formation that con-
tains groundwater
A. China
B. A process of adding salt to water
B. Korea
C. A process of removing salt from water
C. India
D. Japan D. I dont know I didnt study

142. The half-life of Zn-71 is 2.4 minutes. If 147. When people use, adapt, or modify the
one had 100.0 g at the beginning, how earth they are using what theme of geog-
many grams would be left after 7.2 min- raphy?
utes has elapsed?
A. movement
A. 100.0g
B. place
B. 50.0g
C. 12.5g C. region
D. 8.5g D. human/environment interaction

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148. Select the picture(s) that shows a A. Decreased desertifiication

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rigation
A.
C. Increases in air pollution
D. Political disputes over water rights (ac-
cess to fresh water)
B.
153. The process of recovering valuable or use-
ful materials from waste is called
A. recycling
C.
B. renewing
C. rebuilding
D. reducing
D.
154. In which type of forests does Sundari tree
belong?
149. Which region has abundant coal re-
serves? A. 1. Tropical Evergreen forests
A. Persian Gulf B. 2. Tropical Thorn forests and scrubs
B. Middle East C. 3. Tropical Deciduous forests
C. United States D. 4. Mangrove forests
D. China 155. What physical feature is this?
150. What are the major topics of geography?
A. Latitude, longitude, temperature, and
humidity.
B. People, places, things, and locations
C. Location, place, region, movement, hu-
man environment interaction
D. Time zone, rainfall, population, and
A. Gobi Desert
language
B. Himalayas
151. What is the main concern with nuclear
C. Ural Mountains
power?
D. Mount Fuji
A. Air pollution
B. Limited supply 156. Which of the following is NOT an ecosys-
C. High cost tem service?

D. Potential accidents A. Provisioning Services

B. Cultural Services
152. A country suddenly undergoes a severe
drought. What problem might arise from C. Regulating Services
this natural disaster? D. Economic Services

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157. What is the term for when humans 161. Which of the following is an example of
add unnatural substances into the atmo- a physical characteristic of a region?
sphere? A. The jobs that are available in that re-
A. Air pollution gion
B. Anthropogenic climate change B. The language that’s spoken in that re-
gion
C. Primary pollution
C. A sports team that everyone in the
D. Secondary pollution

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area roots for
158. What is the continent that is dark red? D. A mountain range located within that
region

162. Concept which reflects a middle path be-

tween the two ideas of determinism and
Possibilism
A. Environmental Determinism
B. Possibilism
A. North America C. Stop & Go Determinism
B. Europe D. Probabilism
C. Africa 163. Which type of energy source is consid-
D. Australia ered renewable?
A. Nuclear power
159. What is irrigation?
B. Natural gas
A. The process of bringing water to dry
C. Coal
land, especially for growing crops
D. Solar energy
B. The process of removing salt and other
chemicals from seawater 164. What is the current level of carbon diox-
C. The process of collecting water from ide in the atmosphere compared to the last
underground aquifers 1, 000, 000 years?
A. Higher
D. The process of flooding rivers to help
crops grow B. Lower
C. Same
160. Which statement best describes climate
change? D. Unknown

A. All locations around the world are get- 165. A fan-shaped landform created as rivers
ting hotter leave behind sediment as they meet the
ocean
B. Rising temperatures and changing
weather patterns A. Delta
C. Changes in water availability due to B. Valley
the building of dams & reservoirs C. Canyon
D. Less water available worldwide D. Plains

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166. Two mountain ranges located in North A. North America

America are B. South America

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A. the Himalayan and the Ural Mountains C. Australia
B. the Sierra Nevada and the Atlas Moun- D. Antarctica
tains
E. Africa
C. the Rocky and the Appalachian Moun-
tains 170. What type of resources are these?
D. the Alps and the Caucasus Mountains

167. What body of water is this?

A. Renewable
B. Nonrenewable
171. A huge body of salt water. Five of these
cover about 75% of the earth.
A. Pacific Ocean
B. Arctic Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean
D. Indian Ocean

168. Which of the following is NOT a way that

dams and reservoirs impact the environ- A. lakes
ment? B. seas
A. Floods areas behind the dam to create C. oceans
a lake, changing the habitats
D. ponds
B. Changes the amount of water down-
stream, impacting the ecosystems 172. Who coined the term ‘Ecology’?
C. Helps provide a reliable water source A. 1. A.G. Tansley
for people using irrigation B. 2. Charles Darwin
D. Causes increased air pollution, leading C. 3. Ernst Hackel
to climate change D. 4. Ratzel
169. What continent is this? 173. What is groundwater?

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A. Water that is on top of the ground. 178. Human, Physical or Environmental Geog-
B. Water that is found deep under raphy?
ground.
C. Water that is mixed with coffee
grounds.
D. Water that only fancy people can drink.

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much of the region to experience a scarcity
of ?
A. Environmental
A. Trading
B. Human
B. Rainfall
C. Physical
C. Oil production
D. none of above
D. Desalination plants
179. What is the continent that is light green?
175. What term refers to this picture?

A. North America
A. Natural Hazard B. South America
B. Pollution C. Africa
C. Settlement D. Australia
D. none of above 180. Countries with low GDPs who have
176. The environment is the combination of economies made up of mostly primary and
secondary sector jobs have difficulty im-
A. human and economic aspects plementing “clean” alternatives to manu-
B. Physical and human aspects facturing.
C. physical and financial aspects A. True
D. none of above B. False
177. Water found just underneath the Earth’s 181. What is the name of this line at 0 degrees
surface is called It is used for wells and latitude?
springs.
A. rain water
B. acid rain
C. groundwater
D. none of above

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C. North Pole C. Asia
D. South Pole D. Antarctica
182. Which of the following is a more sustain- 186. Which ocean?
able alternative to the lumber trade?
A. Monoculture
B. Polyculture
C. Bamboo cultivation
D. Using horses for labor

183. What continent is this?

A. Pacific Ocean
B. Atlantic Ocean
C. Indian Ocean
D. Arctic Ocean

187. The greatest biodiversity on the earth is

A. Asia found in biome.
B. Africa A. taiga
C. Australia B. grassland
D. Europe C. temperate deciduous forest
E. South America
D. tropical rainforest
184. The services ecosystems provide that
make processes we do ourselves (such as 188. The field of engineering focused on struc-
filtering water) more efficient tures and buildings of all kinds.

A. cultural services A. Industrial Engineering

B. provisioning services B. Civil Engineering

C. regulating services C. Mechanical Engineering
D. supporting services D. none of above

185. What is the continent that is yellow? 189. Which of the following would have a neg-
ative impact on an ecosystem
A. constructing highways
B. planting trees
C. recycling paper
D. none of above

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190. A sample of radioactive waste has a half- 195. Which of these Southwest Asian nations
life of 10 years and an activity level of 2 has the MOST secure and reliable access to
curies. After how many years will the ac- water?
tivity level of this ample be 0.25 curie? A. Iraq
(Half-life)
B. Kuwait
A. 10 years
C. Israel
B. 20 years
D. Turkey

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C. 30 years
D. 40 years 196. A biome is a group of plants and animals
E. 80 years in the same region that have adapted to-
gether to the region’s environment.
191. Why has overfishing become a problem?
A. True
A. The ocean is getting smaller so fish
B. False
have less ocean to swim in
B. Too many people have started fishing 197. What is another term for anthropogenic
as a hobby climate change?
C. Large operations (companies) have in- A. Renewable energy
creased their harvesting practices
B. Acid rain
D. Increases international cooperation
has led to good, sustainable fishing prac- C. Global warming
tices D. Air pollution
192. Which fossil fuel is considered the ‘dirti- 198. Which country among the following has
est’ in terms of air pollution? the lowest CO2 emissions?
A. Coal A. Poland
B. Petroleum B. Mexico
C. Natural gas C. Japan
D. Biofuel
D. Iran
193. What is the smallest continent?
199. Choose the correct option
A. Australia
B. Asia
C. Europe
D. Antarctica

194. What are the two primary types of re-

sources?
A. Food and soil A. The Great Lakes
B. Energy and minerals B. The Rio Grande
C. Water and air C. Appalachian Mountains
D. Plants and animals D. Chesapeake Bay

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200. Which of the following is NOT an ecosys-

tem service?

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A. Provisioning Services
B. Supporting Services
C. Regulating Services
D. Associating Services

201. Irrigation helps to provide water to farm- A. China

land. However, this usage can lead to B. Nepal
what? C. Bhutan
A. Overgrazing D. India
B. Drought 205. What is the continent that is dark green?
C. Water stress and insecurity for some
areas
D. Depletion of soil

202. National parks and endangered wildlife

need to be
A. protected A. North America
B. South America
B. managed
C. Europe
C. conserved
D. Australia
D. none of above
206. is considered a human feature.
203. The combustion of one gallon of automo- A. Pier
bile fuel produces about 5 pounds of car-
B. Coast
bon (in CO2). Two autos are making a trip
of 600 miles. The first auto gets 20 miles C. spit
per gallon and the second gets 30 miles D. Marshes
per gallon. Approximately how much less
carbon (in CO2) will be produced by the 207. Freidrich Ratzel, father of Environmental
second auto on this trip? (Resources) Determinism was native of which country?
A. 300 lbs A. Germany
B. France
B. 150 lbs
C. USA
C. 100 lbs
D. Britain
D. 75 lbs
208. What is the cleanest city in the world?
E. 50 lbs
A. Sfax, Tunisia
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C. Ifrane, Morocco 213. What continent is this?

D. New York, USA
209. Which biome has a short growing season
of approximately 50-60 days in a year?
A. Arctic Tundra
B. Temperate Grassland
C. Tropical Rainforests

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D. Subtropical Deserts A. Africa

210. Why do we use non-renewable resources B. Asia

instead of renewable resources? C. Antarctica
A. Less Expensive D. North America
B. More Energy E. South America
C. All of the above
214. Why is water pollution of great concern
D. none of above in Southwest Asia?
211. Which of the following statement best de- A. because clean drinking water is scarce
scribes Physical Geography? in the region
A. the distribution of populations and re- B. because the economy is dependent
sources, land use, and industries upon exporting water
B. branch of geography dealing with how C. because it prevents ships from travel-
human activity affects or is influenced by ing along major waterways
the earth’s surface
D. because it reduces the amount of elec-
C. branch of geography dealing with nat- tricity generated by hydropower
ural features and processes.
D. the study of Continents and Oceans 215. What resource is harvested using frack-
ing?
212. Choose the correct option A. Fracks
B. Oil/natural gas
C. Copper
D. Diamonds

216. What continent is this?

A. big River
B. Hudson River
C. Mississippi River
D. Chesapeake Bay A. Asia

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B. Africa 221. Music, art, and architecture born from

C. North America interactions with nature are examples of
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D. South America
A. Provisioning
E. Europe
B. Cultural
217. Which is the most recent era of time-the
C. Regulating
one that we are currently in?
D. Supporting
A. Mesozoic
B. Paleozoic 222. The mountain range pictured on the map
is
C. Cenozoic
D. Precambrian
218. Name the ocean labeled 2?

A. Indian Ocean
A. Olympic Mountains
B. Arctic Ocean
B. Sierra Nevada Mountains
C. Atlantic Ocean
C. Black Hills
D. Southern Ocean
D. Appalachian Mountains
219. What are the effects of deforestation?
223. Aquatic biomes cover roughly how much
of the Earth’s surface
A. 10%
B. 25%
C. 50%
A. loss of habitat D. 75%
B. increased green house gasses 224. What is Human Geography?
C. soil erosion and flooding A. the distribution of populations and re-
D. all of the above sources, land use, and industries
B. branch of geography dealing with how
220. What is the wettest place in the world?
human activity affects or is influenced by
A. Maui, Hawaii the earth’s surface
B. Let’s do it C. branch of geography dealing with nat-
C. Island of Bio ural features and processes.
D. Dammam D. the study of Continents and Oceans

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225. Select all of the bodies of water known 230. How has the use of chemical fertilizers
as an OCEAN BASIN. affected water supplies in many countries
A. Pacific in Southwest Asia (Middle East)?

B. Atlantic A. The use of chemical fertilizers means

crops must be watered constantly
C. Indian
B. Water supplies have been contami-
D. Arctic nated by the chemicals through runoff
from the fields

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226. What is the main factor that separates
the biomes? C. Chemical fertilizers help take the salt
out of water supplies in Southwest Asia
A. Land
(Middle East)
B. Water
D. Enormous amounts of water must be
C. Climate used to produce chemical fertilizers
D. Longitude
231. This is a photo of the mouth of the Nile
227. The Green Revolution has allowed grow- River in Egypt. The green feature is an ex-
ers to modify crops using GMOs. What ample of
countries does this help the MOST?
A. Large countries with big populations
B. Undeveloped countries with low re-
sources
C. Countries with lots of farmland
D. Countries with little farmland

228. Why should other countries care about a A. an alluvial fan.

natural disaster that doesn’t directly af- B. a river flooding its banks.
fect them? C. an ancient river.
A. Globalization has causes countries to D. none of above
become isolated from one another
232. What is the preservation and wise use of
B. Increased trade and specialization
natural resources called?
mean that economies rely on one another
A. conservation
C. The destruction from natural disasters
can spread to other countries B. ecology
D. It may help prevent natural disasters C. habits
in their own countries D. biodiversity
229. Humans possess the ability to dominate 233. This country is the most populous country
their environment is known as in the world and the second richest.
A. environmental determinism A. The United States
B. possibilism B. Russia
C. feminism C. China
D. animism D. Brazil

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234. The Galapagos islands are most famous A. Cascade Mountains

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A. Rare plant species C. Colorado Mountains
B. Rare animal species D. Sierra Nevada Mountains
C. Abundance of diseases
239. Japan, the Philippines, and Hawaii are all
D. Volcanic activity
examples of which geographic feature?
235. place where a river meets an ocean A. Archipelago
A. preserve B. Isthmus
B. estuary C. Peninsula
C. delta D. Plain
D. none of above
240. What is culture?
236. This is the longest river in Africa and A. different foods and traditions
also the longest river in the world, flowing
B. the way of life of a group of people
through the eastern part of Africa through
Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt. C. how people dress
A. Congo River D. a theme of geography
B. Nile River 241. The ability to adapt and change can be
C. Zambezi River called
D. Niger River A. resilience

237. The number and variety of organisms in B. pollution

an area at one time is called C. stability
A. biodegradable D. alteration
B. biodiversity
242. This is the world’s largest desert.
C. point-source pollutant
A. Sahara
D. deforestation
B. Gobi
238. The mountain range pictured on the map C. Great Painted Desert
is the
D. The Congo

243. Which country would be able to respond

to a natural disaster the best?
A. A country with a low GDP
B. A country with lots of water availability
C. A country with high elevation
D. A country with high GDP

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