Exam Geo

Choose the correct letter. (60 points)

1. It is made up of the physical features and human features of a place.

a) Climate b) environment c) habitat

2. They are the things that people add to the landscape of a place.
a) Physical features b) human features

3. They are affected by their environment.

a) Climate b) environment c) habitat

4. People do this to change their ways of life to fit their environments.

a) modify b) adapt c) travel

5. It is an event in nature that causes great harm to people and damages their property.
a) Natural disaster b) adaptation c) climate

6. They are examples of natural disasters.

a) Tornadoes, earthquake, and car accident c) hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes
b) Hurricanes, fires, and deforestation

7. They can damage buildings and roadways.

a) Hurricanes b) tornadoes c) earthquakes

8. They can knock down trees and damage houses.

a) Hurricanes b) tornadoes c) earthquakes

9. They can destroy houses, cause flooding, and knock down trees and power lines.
a) Hurricanes b) tornadoes c) earthquakes

10. It uses small pictures to show the number of items.

a) Map b) bar graph c) pictograph

11. It uses bars to show amounts.

a) Map b) bar graph c) pictograph

12. People do this change in the environments to meet their needs or to do their jobs.
a) modify b) adapt c) travel

13. It is a path that runs under the soil.

a) Canal b) tunnel c) subway
14. It is a waterway dug across land.
a) Canal b) tunnel c) subway

15. They can greatly change the way the environment looks.
a) Climate and mining b) farming and mining c) farming and natural disasters

16. They are giant stairs cut into hillsides.

a) Mountains b) hills c) terraces

17. It is the moving of water to dry areas.

a) Watering b) raining c) irrigation

18. They are huge structures built to hold back water.

a) Windmills b) dams c) electric factories

19. It produces electricity through machines in dams.

a) Windpower b) hydroelectric power c) electric power

20. They are the objects used to get the energy of the wind.
a) Wind turbines b) dams c) electric factories

21. It`s anything that makes a natural resource dirty or unsafe to use.
a) Reuse b) recycle c) pollution

22. They can cause air pollution.

a) Factories and cars b) factories and fires c) cars and smoke

23. It is the mixing of smoke and fog.

a) Fire b) fuel c) smog

24. It is the saving of resources to make them last longer.

a) Recycling b) conservation c) reusing

25. It is to use resources over again.

a) Recycling b) conservation c) reusing

26. It is something that is difficult or hard to understand.

a) Problem b) explanation c) speech

27. It is an answer to a problem.

a) Answer b) solution c) result
28. It is 10 years of change.
a) A millennium b) a decade c) a century

29. It is 100 years of change.

a) A millennium b) a decade c) a century

30. It is 1,000 years of change.

a) A millennium b) a decade c) a century

31. It is a diagram that shows when and in what order events took place.
a) Pictogram b) time line c) bar graph

32. They are things that are made for the first time.
a) Inventions b) natural disasters c) communities

33. George Stephenson developed it to run on a track.

a) Railways b) train engine c) car

34. He was called the Father of the Railways.

a) Thomas Edison b) Henry Ford c) George Stephenson

35. He changed the way buildings were made.

a) George Stephenson b) Thomas Edison c) William Jenney

36. It is someone who designs ways to build and make things.

a) Engineer b) doctor c) pilot

37. It was designed to safely carry people.

a) Railways b) cars c) elevator

38. She designed the first elevator.

a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton b) Susan B. Anthony c) Elisha Otis

39. It is to make a choice that gets counted.

a) Solution b) result c) voting

40. It is the right to vote.

a) Voting b) suffrage c) solution

41. They set up groups of people to work for woman`s suffrage.

a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Elisha Otis c) Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b) Elisha Otis and Susan B. Anthony
42. They are short sayings on buttons and signs to tell their message.
a) Billboards b) slogans c) charts

43. In this year women won the right to vote.

a) 1920 b) 1930 c) 1940

44. They worked for equality or equal treatment.

a) Susan B. Anthony and Elisha Otis c) Thomas Edison and William Jenney
b) Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

45. They are the rights to be treated equal.

a) Voting b) civil rights c) equality

46. It is a record made by people who saw or took part in an event.

a) Secondary source b) primary source c) witness

47. It is a record of an event that was made by a person who was not there.
a) secondary source b) primary source c) witness

48. He invented the telegraph in 1840s.

a) Thomas Edison b) Samuel Morse c) Alexander Graham Bell

49. He changed the way people communicated by building a telephone.

a) Thomas Edison b) Samuel Morse c) Alexander Graham Bell

50. He made a car named Model T.

a) Henry Ford b) Samuel Morse c) Alexander Graham Bell

51. They built the plane.

a) Henry Ford and Samuel Morse c) Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
b) Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright

52. They invented the first practical electric lightbulbs.

a) Henry Ford and Samuel Morse c) Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
b) Lewis Latimer and Thomas Edison

53. It was the world`s earliest civilization in southwestern Asia in a place called Mesopotamia.
a) Native Americans b) Sumerians c) Indians

54. They are the two inventions the Sumerians invented.

a) The car with wheels and the writing b) the fire and the bar graph c) the tv and the fax
55. It is the invention the Egyptians invented.
a) The Eiffel tower b) the Chinese wall c) the pyramids

56. They are the inventions the Chinese invented.

a) Fireworks, paper, and printing b) the chopsticks and the high heels c) the hat and the skateboard

57. This place was the world`s first democracy.

a) Athens b) China c) Egypt

58. It is where citizens make the decisions.

a) Voting b) suffrage c) democracy

59. It is where citizens vote to choose government leaders.

a) Democracy b) vote c) republic

60. It is all the land and people under the control of a powerful nation.
a) Republic b) democracy c) empire