World Geography Atlas Practice Exam

Question 1 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Bhutan?

Riga. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative); Colombo (commercial). Addis Ababa. Thimphu.

Question 2 World Geography Atlas

What is savanna?

Oslo. Tokyo. A grassland with scattered trees, typical of parts of Africa. Thimphu.

Question 3 World Geography Atlas

Which country is the largest by area?

Russia, ~17.1 million km². Geographic Information System. 66.5° S, the southern equivalent of the Arctic Circle. A long, deep, narrow inlet of the sea between high cliffs, formed by glacial erosion.

Question 4 World Geography Atlas

What is the highest mountain range in the world?

The Himalayas. Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system. Vientiane. Sucre (constitutional); La Paz (seat of government).

Question 5 World Geography Atlas

What is the second-largest ocean?

Moscow. The Atlantic Ocean. Algiers. A vast grassland region in Eurasia.

Question 6 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest hot desert?

The Pacific Ocean. The Sahara. The science and art of making maps. A line on a map connecting points of equal elevation.

Question 7 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Ethiopia?

The remote, arid interior of Australia. Addis Ababa. Northern Chile. Australia (Oceania), about 8.6 million km².

Question 8 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of the Netherlands?

Brussels. A cold, treeless biome with permafrost. The Andes in South America, about 7,000 km. Amsterdam (seat of government is The Hague).

Question 9 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Macedonia (North Macedonia)?

Muscat. Skopje. Subregion of Oceania northeast of Melanesia, including thousands of small islands. China and Russia each border 14 countries.

Question 10 World Geography Atlas

Where is Patagonia?

Buenos Aires. Mount Everest, 8,849 m. A cold, treeless biome with permafrost. The southern tip of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.

Question 11 World Geography Atlas

What is the doldrums?

Naypyidaw. Equatorial regions with light, unpredictable winds where trade winds converge. Dublin. Kathmandu.

Question 12 World Geography Atlas

What is the longest mountain range underwater?

The Amazon. The Nile, at roughly 6,650 km (some sources put the Amazon longer). The Mid-Atlantic Ridge. An African-led initiative to grow a belt of trees across the Sahel to combat desertification.

Question 13 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Ecuador?

Hanoi. Quito. Where plates collide, producing mountains, volcanoes, or subduction zones. Zagreb.

Question 14 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest continent by area?

Asia, about 44.5 million km². Damascus. Harare. Geographic Information System.

Question 15 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Senegal?

Dakar. Where plates slide past each other, producing faults like the San Andreas. Lisbon. The theory that Earth's lithosphere is broken into plates that move and interact.

Question 16 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Afghanistan?

Naypyidaw. Amsterdam (seat of government is The Hague). Kabul. Buenos Aires.

Question 17 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Fertile lowland plains in South America (mainly Argentina). A mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, including Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. Sarajevo. Madrid.

Question 18 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Belgium?

Brussels. The clearing of forests, typically for agriculture, logging, or development. A region including Norway, Sweden, Denmark (and often Finland, Iceland). Sarajevo.

Question 19 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of India?

Moscow. The Bering Strait. Prague. New Delhi.

Question 20 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Sweden?

Stockholm. Skopje. A boreal coniferous forest biome. Kampala.

Question 21 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest country in Africa by area?

A map showing terrain features through contour lines. Algeria. Being one of the driest non-polar deserts on Earth. Tirana.

Question 22 World Geography Atlas

Which mountain is sacred to Greek mythology?

Bern. Mount Olympus. Sarajevo. Juba.

Question 23 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Belarus?

Minsk. Jerusalem (recognized by some countries; Tel Aviv hosts many embassies). Bangkok. Nicosia.

Question 24 World Geography Atlas

Where is the Atacama Desert?

Kabul. Buenos Aires. Northern Chile. Tbilisi.

Question 25 World Geography Atlas

What river forms the border between Germany and Poland in part?

Islamabad. The Oder. Kabul. Vilnius.

Question 26 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest country in South America?

The Gulf Stream / North Atlantic Drift. Ulaanbaatar. The Amazon. Brazil.

Question 27 World Geography Atlas

What is the Ring of Fire?

A region comprising Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Budapest. The southernmost latitude where the sun is directly overhead (23.5° S). A belt around the Pacific Ocean known for high earthquake and volcanic activity.

Question 28 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Paraguay?

A line on a map connecting points of equal elevation. Yerevan. Asunción. A city with more than 10 million inhabitants.

Question 29 World Geography Atlas

What plateau covers most of Tibet?

Belgrade. Nicosia. Reykjavík. The Tibetan Plateau.

Question 30 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Malta?

Lake Baikal in Russia. Valletta. The peninsula containing Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar. Bucharest.

Question 31 World Geography Atlas

What is a divergent boundary?

Where tectonic plates move apart, forming mid-ocean ridges or rifts. The area of land where all surface water drains to a common outlet. A long, deep, narrow inlet of the sea between high cliffs, formed by glacial erosion. The rotation: counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern.

Question 32 World Geography Atlas

What is the Balkan Peninsula?

Bratislava. The imaginary line at 0° latitude dividing Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Where plates slide past each other, producing faults like the San Andreas. A peninsula in southeastern Europe containing countries like Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia.

Question 33 World Geography Atlas

What is the Outback?

Caracas. The remote, arid interior of Australia. Nicosia. Hanoi.

Question 34 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Japan?

Tokyo. Rome. Tashkent. Oslo.

Question 35 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Czechia?

Where plates collide, producing mountains, volcanoes, or subduction zones. The Pamir Mountains and Tibetan Plateau. A widely used system classifying climates based on temperature and precipitation patterns. Prague.

Question 36 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest active volcano in the world?

The Pacific Ocean. A region comprising Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The Sahara. Mauna Loa in Hawaii.

Question 37 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest rainforest?

A line on a map connecting points of equal elevation. Kyiv. A mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, including Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. The Amazon rainforest.

Question 38 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Lebanon?

Bogotá. Astana (formerly Nur-Sultan). Pretoria. Beirut.

Question 39 World Geography Atlas

What island chain is Hawaii part of?

Lisbon. Yerevan. The Hawaiian Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific. The Three Gorges Dam.

Question 40 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Mongolia?

Bangkok. Ulaanbaatar. The Dead Sea shore, about 430 m below sea level. Zagreb.

Question 41 World Geography Atlas

What is the prime meridian?

Ankara. The 0° longitude line passing through Greenwich, England. Buenos Aires. A boreal coniferous forest biome.

Question 42 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Algeria?

Algiers. A transitional semi-arid region between the Sahara and the savanna. Equatorial regions with light, unpredictable winds where trade winds converge. Riyadh.

Question 43 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of France?

Paris. Lusaka. The Andes in South America, about 7,000 km. A boreal coniferous forest biome.

Question 44 World Geography Atlas

What is the largest lake by surface area overall?

The southern tip of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile. Beirut. Tokyo metropolitan area (about 37 million). The Caspian Sea (saline).

Question 45 World Geography Atlas

What is cartography?

Ankara. Dhaka. Dublin. The science and art of making maps.

Question 46 World Geography Atlas

What is the Three Gorges Dam?

The cooling counterpart of El Niño, with opposite weather effects. The Atlantic Ocean. A massive hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze River in China. Copenhagen.

Question 47 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Myanmar?

Naypyidaw. A line on a map connecting points of equal elevation. Algiers. An African-led initiative to grow a belt of trees across the Sahel to combat desertification.

Question 48 World Geography Atlas

What is endorheic basin?

Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Buenos Aires. A drainage basin with no outflow to the ocean (e.g., the Caspian basin). Kathmandu.

Question 49 World Geography Atlas

What is the capital of Kosovo?

Pristina. Kampala. Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system. Moscow.

Question 50 World Geography Atlas

What is the Pampas?

Dublin. Fertile lowland plains in South America (mainly Argentina). A narrow body of water connecting two larger ones. Ottawa.