1. 5th
/6th Grade Geography Essential Learning-Pre-test
1. Which city lies approximately 80º east of London?
Delhi
Washington, D.C.
Beijing
Jerusalem
2. Which city lies approximately 39º south of Washington, D.C.
Cape Town
Quito
Dallas
Delhi

2. 3. Which city is located at 20º N and 100º W?
Berlin
Moscow
Mexico City
Toronto
4. 1137 Maple Avenue
Clearwater, FL 33763 is an example of:
Region
Place
Culture
Location
5. The theme of _______________ helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to
another.
Movement
Location
Human-Environment Interaction
Region
6. An example of Human-Environment Interaction is:
Shopping in the supermarket
Cutting down the rainforest
Immigrating to another country
Participating in a religious ceremony

3. 7. The Himalayan Mountains are a _______________ in Southeast Asia.
Tundra
Place
Movement
Valley
8. People who share common beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living are a _______________.
Coup d'etat
Culture
Diversity
Democracy
9. The form of government in which the people elect leaders is a (n)
_______________,
Military Dictatorship
Oligarchy
Democracy
Monarchy
10. The four basic parts of a map are:
Latitude, Longitude, Title, Scale
Top, Bottom, Country, City
North, South, East, West
Title, Key, Scale, Compass Rose
11. The _______________ divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
North Pole
Prime Meridian
12. A Physical Map shows features such as _______________, _______________, and _______________.
Religions, lakes, territories
Mountains, plains, rivers
Continents, population, land use
Cities, countries, and states

4. 13. Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica are all examples of
_______________.
States
Continents
Countries
Cities
14. Of the religions shown in the graph, most people follow _______________.
Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
Judaism

5. 15. According to the graph, Buddhism and Hinduism combined make up what percentage of the world's
followers?
26.2%
35.3%
78.6%
54.4%
16. The _______________ Desert is located in Africa.
Great Victoria
Sahara
Gobi
Great Sandy
17. The pyramids are to Egypt as The Great Wall is to _______________.
China
Mongolia
Japan
India

6. 18. What do Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam have in common?
All three began in Northeast Asia.
They all began in Jordan.
They all have 5 pillars as part of their belief system.
All three are monotheistic (believe in one God).
19. People in the Mesopotamian society had different rights depending on where they were ranked in the
_________________.
Belief System
Class System
City-state
Feudal System
20. A government ruled by a religious leader is called a ______________________.
Monarchy
Democracy
Theocracy
Dictatorship
21. The continuing conflict between two groups claiming ownership of the land currently known as Israel and
formerly known as Palestine is (are) called the __________________.
Arab-Israeli Wars
Persian Gulf War
Iran-Iraq War
Operation Desert Storm
22. ___________________ and Shi'ites are the two main sects, or groups of Islam.
Kurds
Buddhists
Sunnis
Hindus
23. The military invasion of Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power is known as
_________________________.
Iran-Iraq War
Persian Gulf War
Vietnam War
Operation Iraqi Freedom

7. 24. Which of the following products is NOT an example of a petrochemical?
Make-up
Bricks
Fertilizers
Detergents
25. Most of northwestern Africa was colonized by the _________________.
French
German
Spanish
British

8. 26. Libya was colonized by the ________________ in 1912.
French
British
Portuguese
Italians
27. According to the map, one of Africa's independent states was _________________________.
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Algeria
Union of South Africa

9. 28. The buying and selling of people to be used as servants, soldiers, and farm workers is known as (the)
______________________.
Slave Trade
Free Enterprise
Nationalism
Capitalism
29. Mansa Musa was the African king of __________________, who established trading routes by giving
gold as gifts during his journey to Mecca.
Songhai
Bantu
Mali
Ghana
30. _________________ was the South African system in which racial groups were separated and racial
discrimination was legal.
Apartheid
Slavery
Desegregation
Colonialism
31. Today, Africa's traditions and its countries are being torn apart as a result of ______________________
that have (has) taken place for many years.
Animal Poaching
Civil Wars
Overcrowding
Elections
32. _____________________ is (are) a method of farming in which people grow food mainly to feed their
families.
Cash Crops
Standard of living
Terrace farming
Subsistance farming
33. _________________ such as diamonds and gold are plentiful in some parts of Africa.
Renewable Resources
Secondary Resources
Nonrenewable Resources
Cash Crops
.

10. 34. The total value of exports from Indonesia in 1999 was about:
58 billion
40 billion
32 billion
49 billion
35.Which country's exports had the lowest total value?
Singapore
Vietnam
Malaysia
Brunei

11. 36.Which country's exports had a value of about $37 billion?
Philippines
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
37.The religion that grew from Hinduism and was spread throughout Asia
by traders and travelers is ___________________.
Islam
Judaism
Buddhism
Christianity
38.A group of islands is called a(n) _________________________.
Archipelago
Plateau
Subcontinent
Peninsula
39.________________________ urged Indians to resist British rule
through nonviolence, which led to India's freedom in 1947.
Captain James Cook
Mohandas Gandhi
Confucius
Nelson Mandela

12. 40.The Vietnam War was a result of ___________________.
The Spread of Communism
The Holocaust
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The atomic bomb