Cultural Geography Quiz Questions

1. Which country has the most square miles?

Brazil

Peru

Argentina

Bolivia

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

Explanation

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

2. Where is most of the South American rain forest located?

Paraguay

Brazil

Uruguay

Colombia

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

Explanation

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

3. Which country is the most populated?

Paraguay

Brazil

Uruguay

Argentina

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

Explanation

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

4. Which of the following mountain ranges runs down the Pacific coast of South America?

Rockies

Andes

Sierra Madre

Appalachians

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

Explanation

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

5. What is the ancient technique used to grow crops on hillsides or mountain slopes?

Push-and pull

Slash-and-burn

Crop rotation

Terraced farming

NGS 8C.3 Evaluate the long-term effects of the human modification of ecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affects water bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheres ozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health of humans)

NGS 14.2 The significance of the global impacts of human modification of the physial environment

NGS 14B.3 Examine the characteristics of major global environmental changes and assess whether the changes are a result of human action, natural causes, or a conmbination of both factors (e.g., increases in world temperatures attributable to major global action, the link between changes in solar emissions and amounts of volcanic dust
in the atmosphere attributable to natural causes)

Explanation

NGS 8C.3 Evaluate the long-term effects of the human modification of ecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affects water bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheres ozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health of humans)

NGS 14.2 The significance of the global impacts of human modification of the physial environment

NGS 14B.3 Examine the characteristics of major global environmental changes and assess whether the changes are a result of human action, natural causes, or a conmbination of both factors (e.g., increases in world temperatures attributable to major global action, the link between changes in solar emissions and amounts of volcanic dust
in the atmosphere attributable to natural causes)

6. Which of the following rivers begins in the Andes Mountains and flows eastward across South America to the Atlantic Ocean?

Mississippi

Orinoco

Paraná

Amazon

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

Explanation

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

7. Which country has the smallest number of people?

Peru

Ecuador

Bolivia

Guyana

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

Explanation

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

8. Which of the following is a growth industry throughout Latin America?

Farming

Technology

Fishing

Tourism

NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)

NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,

Explanation

NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)

NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,

9. Which of the following areas is most affected by frequent water pollution?

The northern coast of South America

The coast of Chile

The southern tip of South America

The coast of Brazil

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

10. Which of the following countries has coastal areas with severe water pollution?

Ecuador

Peru

Colombia

Venezuela

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective