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7th Grade Geography First Nine Weeks
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1 Which of the following lists the themes used to organize information about Earth and its people?
A location, animal-plant interaction, movement, position, regions,
B movement, regions, position, human-environment interaction, place
C animal-plant interaction, place, regions, movement, location
D location, regions, place, movement, human-environment interaction
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B
According to the global grid above, on what continent would you find the address 40ºN, 100ºE?
Europe
C Africa
Australia
D Asia
3 What is absolute location?
A Absolute location indicates where a place is by describing the places near it.
B Absolute location describes the north-south circles around the globe.
C Absolute location indicates where a place is by using degrees of latitude and longitude.
D Absolute location indicates the absolute degree by identifying its meridian.
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The change in population expressed in the above graph reflects the result of
the birth rate and death rate being equal.
the failure of the Green Revolution.
the increase of the food supply and improvement in medical care.
the overabundance of fossil fuels.
5 What causes a country’s population to grow?
A The population density of a specific area grows.
B The death rate is higher than the birth rate.
C The birth rate is higher than the death rate.
D The number of births and the number of deaths are equal.
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Study the graphic organizers below and use the information to answer the questions 6-8.
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What do the graphic organizers above explain about some of the causes of migration, exploration, and
colonization?
A Things such as poverty, lack of jobs, war, natural disasters, or a lack of freedom cause
people to explore and colonize.
B Poverty and lack of freedom cause people to stay in one place because life will not be
better elsewhere.
C People explore and colonize new regions because they want the population to increase.
D People are influenced to explore and migrate by the economic opportunities they already
have at home.
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Based on the above graphic organizers, if every “push” has an opposite “pull,” which of the following would
be listed in the blank on the “Pushes” web?
A freedom
C riches
B unemployment
D fear
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B
According to the push/pull graphic above, one example of a pull factor is
flood.
C drought.
famine.
D employment.
9 What geographic concept best describes the movement from rural to urban areas?
A migration loss
C urbanization
B immigration
D population loss
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10 Which of the following statements best explains the relationship between language and culture?
A Language and culture are not related.
B Language provides a basis for culture.
C Most cultures have language, but a few do not.
D A few cultures have language, but most do not.
11 What term do geographers use to identify peoples’ natural surroundings?
A resources
C industrialization
B environment
D energy sources
12 What is the difference between chemical weathering and mechanical weathering?
A Chemical weathering occurs when the sun dissolves rocks and mechanical weathering
occurs when humans break up rocks.
B Chemical weathering occurs when moving water, ice, or wind breaks rocks into little
pieces and mechanical weathering occurs when rainwater dissolves rocks.
C Chemical weathering occurs when human action break up rocks and mechanical
weathering occurs when the sun dissolves rocks.
D Chemical weathering occurs when rainwater dissolves rocks and mechanical weathering
occurs when moving water, ice, or wind breaks rocks into little pieces.
13 In the past, why did most people settle in areas with rich soil and good sources of water?
A Most people grew their own food.
B Most people enjoyed rural life.
C Most people wanted to be near a big city.
D Most people worked on rivers and lakes.
14 Which process accounts for the cultural diversity of North America?
A urbanization
C migration loss
B immigration
D population loss
15 Which of the following is a greater problem in developed nations than in developing nations?
A food shortages
C pollution
B unsafe water
D disease
16 How does deforestation affect the ecosystem?
A It creates farmland that helps feed many people and strengthens the ecosystem.
B It destroys the homes of many plants and animals and may result in a loss of biodiversity.
C It destroys the atmosphere’s ozone layer but replenishes algae and plant life in lakes and
rivers.
D It reduces the world’s human population, pollutes water, and increases the oxygen
content in the air.
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17 Because many of Earth’s resources are limited, people will have to
A use available resources now, before they run out.
B reduce their use of limited resources.
C find new sources of air and water pollution.
D stop using solar power and wind power.
18 Countries are classified as either developed or developing by the
A number of cities and population.
B number of industries and level of technological advancement.
C amount of energy resources.
D type of government.
19 Which statement best describes the relationship between developed and developing nations?
A Developed nations depend on developing nations for natural resources and simple
industrial products.
B Developing nations sell high technology products to developed nations.
C Developed nations sell food to developing nations.
D Developing nations are not interested in the products of developed nations.
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Study the map and map key below and use that information to answer questions 20-21.
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B
According to the map, what area of Africa generally has the fewest people per square mile?
central
C south
north
D southwest
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A
B
Which of the following North African cities has the highest population?
Tripoli, Libya
C Cairo, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
D Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
22 Since the 1800s, what human activity has led to the growth of large cities in many countries?
A Industrialization
C Suburbs
B Subsistence Farming
D Technology
23 Pollution is considered a spillover because
A it is often caused by chemical spills.
B the environment can’t absorb enough of the pollutants.
C water pollution is the most dangerous type of pollution.
D if affects parts of the environment not involved in the activity that caused the pollution.
24 Why are energy sources such as fossil fuels facing future scarcity?
A Because they are nonrenewable resources.
B Because they are renewable resources.
C Because they are not very valuable.
D Because they are not natural resources.
25 Why might people living in similar environments use their land differently?
A Because land use never changes.
B Because land use only relates to how people use small plots of land.
C Because they have different customs and ways of life.
D Because one way is often better than another.
26 What is the difference between a renewable resource and a nonrenewable resource?
A A renewable resource will eventually run out, and a nonrenewable resource will never
run out.
B A renewable resource is something that can be found in nature, and a nonrenewable
resource is something that cannot be found in nature.
C A renewable resource is something that cannot be found in nature, and a nonrenewable
resource is something that can be found in nature.
D A renewable resource can be replaced by Earth or people, and a nonrenewable resource
cannot be replaced in a short period of time.
27 Demographers measure the rate at which a population is growing by
A adding the birth rate to the infant mortality rate.
B subtracting the infant mortality rate from the birth rate.
C comparing the birth and death rates.
D counting the number of people in a given area.
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28 The main reason that people migrate within a country is to
A escape religious persecution.
C escape political injustices.
B find new customs and cultures.
D find jobs.
29 How does the theme of location differ from the other themes of geography?
A The theme of location describes where a place is found, while the other themes describe
the features of a place itself.
B The theme of location describes a place, while the other themes describe where that
place is found.
C The theme of location is only used in political maps, while the other themes are used in
all kinds of maps.
D The theme of location is never used when studying a political map.
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Based on the Average Yearly Precipitation shown on the above chart, which country would struggle with
drought?
A Tehran, Iran
C Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
B Cairo, Egypt
D Nairobi, Kenya
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A
B
According to the chart above, which country in East Asia will experience regular flooding?
Kenya
C China
England
D Egypt
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B
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Based on the above graph, which region of the world is a powerful oil producing region?
Southwest Asia
C North America
East Asia
D Kuwait
Based on the information in the graph, the predominate resource found in Southwest Asia is considered what
type of resource?
A geothermal
C subsistence
B renewable
D non-renewable
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A
B
Based on the low life expectancy illustrated in the above chart, this country would be best described as a
developed country
C industrialized country
capitalist country
D developing country
35 What is the process of moving from one place to live in another?
A globalization
C migration
B cultural diffusion migration
D innovation
36 One of the many ways that the process of deposition contributes to changing the Earth’s surface includes
A breaking down large landforms such as a plateau.
B fracturing rocks when water freezes.
C building up a mountain range.
D creating beaches along the coastline.
37 Weathering and erosion impact human settlement patterns because as these processes break down landforms and
rocks into smaller pieces, they also contribute to
A dividing the continent into watersheds.
C creating beaches along the coastlines.
B generating volcanoes.
D providing soil for agriculture.
38 The theory of plate tectonics states that magma under Earth’s surface causes
A plates in Earth’s crust to move in different directions.
B plates in Earth’s crust to move in a similar direction.
C a hesitation in Earth’s orbit around the sun.
D a shift in ocean currents..
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39 How does plate movement create mountains?
A The pressure created by moving plates forces magma up through Earth’s crust, forming
mountains.
B When two plates push against each other, this pressure makes the crust bend to form
mountains
C When plates slide against each other at faults, mountains are formed.
D When plates move away from each other, the gap they leave creates mountains.
40 When a geographer studies the migration patterns of humans over many centuries and how that has affected the
geography of North America, the geographer is using the theme of
A location.
C place.
B region.
D movement.
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Short Answer
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Government Systems
Authoritarian
Democracy
Economic Systems
Market
Command
Examine the government and economic systems identified in the above table.
Choose one government and one economic system that would work best together and explain why you
chose those two using complete sentences. Your answer must include:
1. a topic sentence
2. 3 supporting statements of evidence
3. a concluding statement
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7th Grade Geography First Nine Weeks
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SHORT ANSWER
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Rubric:
Students must have:
1. a topic sentence
2. 3 supporting statements of evidence
3. a concluding statement
Points: 10 maximum
1 point for a topic sentence
1 point for each supporting statement of evidence
1 point for a concluding sentence
Possible points - 5
1 point for each complete sentence used for the topic sentence, supporting
evidence statements and concluding sentence.
Possible points - 5
Example: 1 point for a topic sentence + 1 point if it was a complete sentence = 2
STA: 4.4, 4.5
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