5th

/6th Grade Geography Essential Learning-Pre-test

1. Which city lies approximately 80º east of London?

Delhi

Washington, D.C.

Beijing

Jerusalem

2. Which city lies approximately 39º south of Washington, D.C.

Cape Town

Quito

Dallas

Delhi

3. Which city is located at 20º N and 100º W?

Berlin

Moscow

Mexico City

Toronto

4. 1137 Maple Avenue

Clearwater, FL 33763 is an example of:

Region

Place

Culture

Location

5. The theme of _______________ helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to

another.

Movement

Location

Human-Environment Interaction

Region

6. An example of Human-Environment Interaction is:

Shopping in the supermarket

Cutting down the rainforest

Immigrating to another country

Participating in a religious ceremony

7. The Himalayan Mountains are a _______________ in Southeast Asia.

Tundra

Place

Movement

Valley

8. People who share common beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living are a _______________.

Coup d'etat

Culture

Diversity

Democracy

9. The form of government in which the people elect leaders is a (n)

_______________,

Military Dictatorship

Oligarchy

Democracy

Monarchy

10. The four basic parts of a map are:

Latitude, Longitude, Title, Scale

Top, Bottom, Country, City

North, South, East, West

Title, Key, Scale, Compass Rose

11. The _______________ divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

Equator

Tropic of Cancer

North Pole

Prime Meridian

12. A Physical Map shows features such as _______________, _______________, and _______________.

Religions, lakes, territories

Mountains, plains, rivers

Continents, population, land use

Cities, countries, and states

13. Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica are all examples of

_______________.

States

Continents

Countries

Cities

14. Of the religions shown in the graph, most people follow _______________.

Buddhism

Islam

Christianity

Judaism

15. According to the graph, Buddhism and Hinduism combined make up what percentage of the world's

followers?

26.2%

35.3%

78.6%

54.4%

16. The _______________ Desert is located in Africa.

Great Victoria

Sahara

Gobi

Great Sandy

17. The pyramids are to Egypt as The Great Wall is to _______________.

China

Mongolia

Japan

India

18. What do Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam have in common?

All three began in Northeast Asia.

They all began in Jordan.

They all have 5 pillars as part of their belief system.

All three are monotheistic (believe in one God).

19. People in the Mesopotamian society had different rights depending on where they were ranked in the

_________________.

Belief System

Class System

City-state

Feudal System

20. A government ruled by a religious leader is called a ______________________.

Monarchy

Democracy

Theocracy

Dictatorship

21. The continuing conflict between two groups claiming ownership of the land currently known as Israel and

formerly known as Palestine is (are) called the __________________.

Arab-Israeli Wars

Persian Gulf War

Iran-Iraq War

Operation Desert Storm

22. ___________________ and Shi'ites are the two main sects, or groups of Islam.

Kurds

Buddhists

Sunnis

Hindus

23. The military invasion of Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power is known as

_________________________.

Iran-Iraq War

Persian Gulf War

Vietnam War

Operation Iraqi Freedom

24. Which of the following products is NOT an example of a petrochemical?

Make-up

Bricks

Fertilizers

Detergents

25. Most of northwestern Africa was colonized by the _________________.

French

German

Spanish

British

26. Libya was colonized by the ________________ in 1912.

French

British

Portuguese

Italians

27. According to the map, one of Africa's independent states was _________________________.

Madagascar

Ethiopia

Algeria

Union of South Africa

28. The buying and selling of people to be used as servants, soldiers, and farm workers is known as (the)

______________________.

Slave Trade

Free Enterprise

Nationalism

Capitalism

29. Mansa Musa was the African king of __________________, who established trading routes by giving

gold as gifts during his journey to Mecca.

Songhai

Bantu

Mali

Ghana

30. _________________ was the South African system in which racial groups were separated and racial

discrimination was legal.

Apartheid

Slavery

Desegregation

Colonialism

31. Today, Africa's traditions and its countries are being torn apart as a result of ______________________

that have (has) taken place for many years.

Animal Poaching

Civil Wars

Overcrowding

Elections

32. _____________________ is (are) a method of farming in which people grow food mainly to feed their

families.

Cash Crops

Standard of living

Terrace farming

Subsistance farming

33. _________________ such as diamonds and gold are plentiful in some parts of Africa.

Renewable Resources

Secondary Resources

Nonrenewable Resources

Cash Crops

.

34. The total value of exports from Indonesia in 1999 was about:

58 billion

40 billion

32 billion

49 billion

35.

Which country's exports had the lowest total value?

Singapore

Vietnam

Malaysia

Brunei

36.

Which country's exports had a value of about $37 billion?

Philippines

Indonesia

Malaysia

Thailand

37.

The religion that grew from Hinduism and was spread throughout Asia

by traders and travelers is ___________________.

Islam

Judaism

Buddhism

Christianity

38.

A group of islands is called a(n) _________________________.

Archipelago

Plateau

Subcontinent

Peninsula

39.

________________________ urged Indians to resist British rule

through nonviolence, which led to India's freedom in 1947.

Captain James Cook

Mohandas Gandhi

Confucius

Nelson Mandela

40.

The Vietnam War was a result of ___________________.

The Spread of Communism

The Holocaust

The attack on Pearl Harbor

The atomic bomb