World Geography Final

1. One example of a primary source would be a. Textbook b. Teacher c. Eye-witness d. Newspaper 2. What object do you use to find the location of any place in the world or locally? a. Scale b. Legend c. Map d. Car 3. What is a source? a. A person, statement, or item that provides you with information b. A person, statement, or item that provides you with materials c. A person, statement, or item that provides you with money d. A person, statement, or item that provides you with employment 4. What is a primary source? a. A source that was created based on a source created at the time of study b. A source that only gives you good information about your topic c. A source that was created during the time that is being studied d. A source that only gives you bad information about the topic being studied 5. What is a secondary source? a. A source that was created based on a source created at the time of study b. A source that only gives you good information about your topic c. A source that was created during the time that is being studied d. A source that only gives you bad information about the topic being studied 6. A landform is a. A natural feature of the earths surface b. A man-made feature of the earths surface c. A form of art that is all about the earths land d. A material that allows you to create land 7. The imaginary lines that go around the earth vertically and measure east and west from the Prime Meridian are known as a. Longitude b. Latitude c. Altitude d. Scale

8. What are the 5 themes of geography? a. Location, human-environment interaction, food, religion, & language b. Place, region, location, movement, & physical features c. Region, movement, human characteristics, language, & landmarks d. Location, place, movement, human-environment interaction, & region 9. What is bias? a. Having a one-sided view on a topic b. When you approve of both sides of an issue c. When you do not form any opinion on an issue d. The belief in forming opinions 10. Which of the following would be an example of a secondary source? a. Diary b. Eye-witness c. Biography d. 1st person video 11. Which of the following are ways to identify bias? a. Persuasive language, selective facts, flawed research, date of last revision b. Contact information, author credibility, url ending, site purpose c. Persuasive language, misquoting a source, selective facts, flawed research d. Misquoting a source, selective facts, author resources, information comparison 12. Which of the following are things you would check to evaluate a source? a. Author credentials, author references, audience, site purpose b. Look of the website, amount of information, audience, url ending c. Author references, site purpose, url ending, quality of pictures d. Contact information, site purpose, revision date size of font 13. What is plate tectonics? a. The practice of dropping plates and seeing the pattern they make when broken b. The earths center that is vibrating and causing changes in the earths surface c. The top layer of the earths crust that moves over the earths mantle d. The middle layer of earth that is trying to push the top layer off for new land 14. Which of the following would best describe the desert biome? a. Located in the tropics and has tons of rain with a bunch of different plants and animals b. Located mostly in the mid-latitudes, it is hot, dry, with few plants and animals c. Located mostly in the mid-latitudes, it is dry with short grasses and plants d. Located in the far north regions, it is cold with snow most of the year and very few plants

15. Which of the following is the term for the biome that is located in the tropics and has a wide variety of exotic plants and animals? a. Tropical rainforest b. Deciduous forest c. Temperate forest d. Grassland 16. What is the purpose of the 5 themes of geography? a. Serve as a tool to analyze and study countries b. Find out where a country is located c. Serve as a way to find what resources a country has d. Find out what country a person wants to travel to 17. What is climate? a. The weather you see outside every day b. The long term pattern on snow c. The long term pattern of weather d. The weather that happens every summer 18. How is weather and erosion connected? a. Erosion is how people try to change the weather and weathering is how people deal with storms b. Weathering is the process of tracking weather and erosion is how we determine how weather changes c. Erosion breaks down the earths materials and weathering carries away those materials d. Weathering breaks down the earths materials and erosion carries away those materials 19. Which of the following are factors that determine climate? a. Sun, latitude, and elevation b. Moon, longitude, and water c. Sun, longitude, and wind d. Moon, latitude, and elevation 20. The three types of plate boundaries are called what? a. Transform, convergent, and conform b. Convergent, divergent, and bornvergent c. Transform, cuneiform, and bondform d. Divergent, transform, and convergent 21. The imaginary line that runs across world at 0 degrees latitude is known as what? a. Equator b. Prime Meridian c. The Flat Line d. The Middle Line

22. What would you call the area of a map that tells you what the map symbols mean? a. Legend b. Compass Rose c. Scale d. Symbol list 23. The imaginary lines that go around the earth horizontally and measure north and south from the Equator are known as a. Longitude b. Latitude c. Altitude d. Scale 1. A transform boundary is one where the plates a. Pull apart from each other b. One plate slides under another c. Plates slide past each other d. Change into something else 2. A convergent boundary is one where the plates a. Pull apart from each other b. One plate slides under another c. Plates slide past each other d. Merge to form a giant plate 3. A divergent boundary is one where the plates a. Pull apart from each other b. One plate slides under another c. Plates slide past each other d. Break up with each other 4. Which of the following is the example of how plate tectonics have shaped the earth? a. Plate tectonics was the force that created the earth b. Plate tectonics created massive mountain ranges c. Plate tectonics created the oceans d. Plate tectonics was the force that created our climate 5. Which of the following is NOT a way that physical features can impact our lives? a. Providing people with food to eat b. Providing people with transportation routes c. Hurting and destruction through pollution d. Hurting and destruction as vehicles of natural disasters 6. Which of the following are factors that lead to the creation of biomes? a. Soil, temperature, and precipitation b. The sun, latitude, and people

c. Climate, animals, and tourist attractions d. Soil, temperature, and pollution 7. Which biome is made up of wide, continuous flat areas of grass a. Temperate forest b. Grassland c. Taiga d. Desert 8. Which biome goes through seasons and is made up of deciduous trees? a. Temperate forest b. Grassland c. Taiga d. Tropical forest 9. What is a biome? a. A region that shares the same culture b. A region that shares the same biology c. A region that shares the same climate, animal, and plant life d. A region that shares the same climate and alien life 9. Plagiarism could be defined as... a. To pledge your service to your teacher b. To steal another persons words, ideas, or other work and pass it off as your own c. To borrow another persons words, ideas or other work and return it to them later d. To pledge your loyalty to your parents 10. Which of the following is NOT an example of plagiarism? a. copying and pasting work from the Internet b. turning in someone else's work as your own c. failing to put a quotation in quotation marks d. copying words or ideas from someone else and giving the author credit

1. Plain 2. Harbor 3. Peninsula 4. Archipelago 5. Gulf 6. Canyon 7. Strait 8. Plateau 9. Sea 10. Delta 11. River 12. Island 13. Mountain range 14. Desert 15. Valley

a.) an area of relatively level high ground b.) a deep inlet of the sea that is almost surrounded by land with a narrow opening c.) a piece of land completely surrounded by water d.) a large area of flat land with fee trees e.) a triangle shaped piece of land created by sediment left at the mouth of a river f.) a low area of land between hills or mountains g.) a place on the coast where ships can find shelter h.) a long strand of mountains i.) a dry, barren area of land j.) a chain of islands k.) a narrow passage of water connecting 2 seas or larger bodies of water l.) a large natural stream of water m.) a piece of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides n.) a deep gorge o.) a large body of salt water that is mostly enclosed by land