1. Which of the following in NOT a major feature of Southeast Asian geography?

a. Southeast Asia has an extremely long coastline

b. Mountains and seas help to unite Southeast Asia
c. Southeast Asia is a region of islands and Peninsulas
d. Several important cities are located near the river deltas
2. Which of the following would have the greatest effect on the lives of the Chinese people?
a. The mountains
b. The monsoons
c. The north wind
d. The Desert
3. In which production does India lead world?
a. Wheat
b. Tea
c. Spices
d. Jute
4. Which best describes most of Russia’s coastline?
a. It is very good for trade because it is straight.
b. It is very good because it is the longest in the world
c. It is not very useful because there are not too many good ports
d. It is not very useful for trade because it stays frozen part of the year.
5. Why do much of the world’s trade passes through the Middle East
a. Because the people of the Middle East are among the best traders.
b. Because the best harbors are found in the Middle East
c. Because the Middle East connects three continents
d. All of the above
6. The geographic position of Southeast Asia has influenced its development in what way?
a. It is set apart from the rest of the world.
b. It is a natural area for the development of industry
c. It has forced Southeast Asian countries to conquer neighboring lands
d. It has made it an important trade center between the Indian and Pacific Oceans
7. Which of the following statement is true about Chinese geography?
a. The mountains of China are along the east coast.
b. Geography has in part isolated China from the world.�
c. The Rivers of China are navigable for only a short distance.
d. Geography has had little to do with China’s unique development.
8. Which of the following statements about India’s geography is NOT true?
a. Southern India is a land of mountains, forest and jungles
b. The Deccan was isolated China from most of India by geography.
c. Mountain pass through the Himalayas have helped migrations into India.
d. The rivers of India play only a small role in the lives of the people.
9. What climate is most of Russia known for?
a. Tropical
b. Continental
c. Temperate
d. Humid
10. What does the Suez Canal connect?
a. Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
b. Atlantic Ocean with the Black Sea
c. Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea
d. Mediterranean Sea with the Black Sea
11.If you went from Hanoi to Saigon, you would probably travel in which direction?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
12. As a person travels west in China what will he most likely to find?
a. Mountains and desert country
b. Densely populated cities
c. Large agricultural areas
d. Dry loess plains
13. The earliest civilization of India was located in the valley what river?
a. Ganges River
b. Indus river
c. Brahmaputra river
d. Godavari River
14. Where are the great forests of Russia found?
a. Tundra
b. Taiga
c. Steppe�
d. Desert
15. Most of the land of the Middle East is
a. Jungle
b. Steppe
c. Desert
d. Savanna
16.Saigon is located to the east of what country?
a. Hanoi
b. Rangoon
c. Manila
d. Djakarta
17. The most densely populated areas of China are found in what area?
a. Near industrial areas
b. In the river valleys
c. in the western mountains
d. on the southern plateau
18. Which of the following does NOT affect the climate?
a. Cold winds from central Asia
b. The wide range of latitude
c. The monsoon winds from the south
d. The warm ocean currents along the coast
19. Why were the Mongols able to invade Russia easily?
a. The Russian had an excellent army
b. Many Russians welcomed the Mongols
c. The Mongols had the help of other nations
d. There were no barriers in the steppe to stop them
20. Only 15% of the land of the Middle East is suitable for farming. 85% is unsuitable for what
reason?
a. It is too dry
b. It is too hilly
c. There are too many factories
d. None of these
21. What activities can make significant improvements in students’ communicative effectiveness
and using the world atlas and geography culture, in those students can build up written fluency?
a. Case study method
b. Concept formation activities�
c. Print-based activities
d. on-line activities
22. What teaching strategy is best to use when you like to facilitate the use of matrix headings as a
model to guide the transformation of information?
a. The teacher must first distribute to the class a summary report or descriptive report.
b. The teacher may provide a visual aid when possible to explain abstract concepts.
c. The teacher may use a concept development strategy.
d. The teacher may identify a concept for the observers.
23. What teaching technique is used when you select or create learning supports or an alternative
of providing time to conduct research on the topic, problem, assertion, or question? This technique
requires you to arrange the chairs so that there is a small circle for the student who will actively
discuss and a large outer circle for the observers.
a. Case study
b. Fishbowl
c. dueling documents
d. on line
24. What strategy will you use to examine unique events, issues or a pressing problem that can be
real, fictional or hypothetical? This strategy can also be used to describe the drivers group of
people, cultures, ethnic groups and languages?
a. Gallery walk
b. Synaptic
c. Case studies
d. Concept formation
25. What game to play when the Social Science teacher explains the two documents that are
competing to tell the story of the past and the task is to decide which documents should win the
game?
a. Dueling documents
b. Debriefing
c. gallery walk
d. KWL
26. This is the largest of all the continents. It covers nearly 1/3 of the world’s land surface. This
continent gave the world its earliest civilizations and major religions.
a. Europe
b. Asia
c. Africa
d. North America�
27. This country is known as the "world’s melting pot" and "land of refugees" for having history of
successive migration.
a. Canada
b. Australia
c. United States
d. Great Britain
28. This is often called as the "eternal city" for having been the seat of power during ancient and
modern period.
a. Paris
b. Milan
c. Brussels
d. Rome
29. Melanesia refers to the "black islands" who’s inhabitants are generally short with dark skin and
frizzy hair. Which of the following does NOT belong to the Melanesia group of islands?
a. Papua New Guinea
b. Solomon Islands
c. Vanuatu
d. Tuvalu
30. This is a doctrine in geography which states that nature is passive and man is active who is free
to change his environment.
a. Marxist
b. Possibilism
c. Feminist Geography
d. Critical Geography
31. This is often called as "land of emeralds" because it has 90% of the world’s supply of emeralds.
This country is the only nation with coastlines washed by both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific
Ocean.
a. Colombia
b. Brazil
c. Ecuador
d. Bolivia
32. This is the least developed and poorest country in Central America. This country’s name
originated from Spanish word for "depths". This is also known as the "Banana Republic".
a. Honduras
b. Guatemala
c. Nicaragua
d. El Salvador�
33. Why is Africa often called "Dark Continent" until the 19th century?
a. It is a land of mystery and paradox
b. Its peoples are all black and dark
c. Its forest are impenetrable
d. Its notorious for diseases
34. This is the third largest continent. It is home of megacities like Mexico City, New York and Los
Angeles. Its highest point is Mt. McKinley and lowest point is the Death Valley.
a. South America
b. North America
c. Caribbean
d. Oceania
35. This is the second largest continent, home of the largest desert and was also believed to be the
birthplace of humanity.
a. Africa
b. North America
c. South America
d. Asia
36. This is the best manifestation of the cultural landscape of Islam.
a. Pagodas
b. Mosques
c. Stupas
d. Bazaar
37. This is the largest city in Africa which is also often called "city of victory".
a. Cairo
b. Pretoria
c. Addis Ababa
d. Mogadishu
38. This is popularly called as "Empty Quarter". This is one of the largest true deserts in the world
which has no settlement and no vegetation at all.
a. Rub Al Khali
b. Sahara
c. Nubian
d. Libyan
39. This is the heart of the Mayan civilization. It is most populous country in Central America and
half of the populations are Mayan Indians.
a. Honduras
b. Costa Rica�
c. Guatemala
d. Mexico
40. This is the 6th largest country in the world in terms of land area. In fact, it is the only nation that
is a continent, but it has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world.
a. India
b. Australia
c. USA
d. Canada
41. This is how we call the location is based on the use of longitudes and latitudes.
a. Nominal
b. Relative
c. Astronomical
d. Absolute
42. This literary means "land without people". This country became independent in 1990 and has
one of the highest sand dunes in the world.
a. Angola
b. Ghana
c. Namibia
d. Senegal
43. The name of "Far East" is a misnomer being coined by western geographers and European
mariners. This region refers to
a. India, Pakistan
b. Russia, Kazakhstan
c. Saudi Arabia, Jordan
d. China, Korea, Japan
44. Paradise Lost, that’s the story of this country which was rocked by 66 nuclear blast by the
United States from 1946-1958.
a. Nauru
b. Vanuatu
c. Marshall Is.
d. Tonga
45. The April 1986 Chernobyl explosion is the world’s worst nuclear disaster wherein 3 people
were killed in the initial explosion. Chernobyl is located in
a. Ukraine
b. Russia
c. Latvia
d. Lithuania�
46. The Prime Meridian passes through
a. London
b. Rome`
c. Samoa
d. Warsaw
47. This country assumed full sovereignty over a strategic canal from the United States on
December 31, 1999.
a. Solomon Island
b. Panama
c. Egypt
d. Colombia
48. "Rainbow Warrior", the flagship of the Greenpeace Organization was bombed and sunk in
Auckland by French secret agents due to the former’s nuclear testing. Where is Auckland?
a. Australia
b. New Zealand
c. Guam
d. Japan
49. This often called a "heaven of peace" in Central America. This country had led the way in forest
conservation and demilitarization.
a. Nicaragua
b. Costa Rica
c. El Salvador
d. Honduras
50. This is the second most populated country in the world. This nation still practices caste
determination, child bride, dowry system and girl-child infanticide especially in the rural areas.
a. China
b. India
c. Canada
d. Pakistan
51. During the Vietnam war, wide areas of forest and mangroves were sprayed with this herbicide
which contains dioxin, a high toxic compound. This dioxin later was responsible for fetal
deformities. What do you call this dioxin?
a. Agent Orange
b. Uranium
c. Formalin
d. all of the above�
52. This is one of the world’s leading oil producers. The country has the highest per capital income
in Latin America, though its national wealth is very unevenly distributed. This country helped in the
founding of OPEC.
a. Mexico
b. Brazil
c. Venezuela
d. Ecuador
53. This is the only Portuguese – speaking country in a Hispanic-Latin region.
a. Mexico
b. Aruba
c. Nicaragua
d. Brazil
54. This literally means "Opposite the Arctic". This is the 5th largest landmass and the least
a. Africa
b. North Pole
c. South Pacific
d. Antarctica
55. In 1989, it became the very first country to sanction homosexual marriage and to give
homosexuals most of the legal rights accorded to heterosexuals.
a. Germany
b. Finland
c. Netherland
d. Denmark�
Answer Key
Majorship – Social Science
1. B
2. B
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. D
7. D
8. D
9. B
10. D
11. B
12. A
13. B
14. B
15. C
16. B
17. A
18. B
19. D
20. A
21. C
22. A
23. B
24. C
25. A
26. B
27. C
28. D
29. D
30. B
31. A
32. A
33. A
34. B
35. A
36. B
37. A
38. A
39. C
40. B
41. D
42. C
43. D
44. C
45. A
46. A
47. B
48. B
49. B
50. B
51. A
52. C
53. D
54. D
55. D�