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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 2

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Atmosphere
b) Hydrosphere
c) Crysophere
d) Lithosphere
e) Anthrosphere

Question 2:


a) vegetation
b) animals
c) human beings
d) air
e) plants

Question 3:


a) 29 per cent
b) 50 per cent
c) 8 per cent
d) 17 per cent
e) 71 per cent

Question 4:


a) 30 per cent
b) 80 per cent
c) 70 per cent
d) 10 per cent
e) There is no land in the Northern Hemisphere.

Question 5:


a) Pacific
b) Indian
c) Australian
d) Atlantic
e) Arctic

Question 6:


a) Pacific
b) Indian
c) Australian
d) Atlantic
e) Arctic

Question 7:


a) Continental shelf
b) Continental slope
c) Continental rise
d) Abyssal plain
e) Oceanic ridge

Question 8:


a) Africa
b) South America
c) North America
d) Eurasia
e) Antarctica

Question 9:


a) volcanic mountain
b) volcanic mountain on the seafloor
c) valley system
d) prevailing wind

Question 10:


a) rock
b) air
c) water
d) life
e) earth

Question 11:


a) abyssal mounts
b) midoceanic ridges
c) continental rises
d) midoceanic mounts
e) continental shelves

Question 12:


a) 10 per cent
b) 20 per cent
c) 50 per cent
d) 80 per cent
e) 95 per cent

Question 13:


a) Africa
b) South America
c) North America
d) Eurasia
e) Australia
f) Antarctica

Question 14:


a) land area
b) habitat
c) ecumene
d) biosphere
e) ecosystem

Question 15:


a) North America
b) Antarctica
c) Australia
d) Africa
e) Indonesia

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False