A Level Geography Quiz 2018 Part 2

15 Questions

Quiz Description

To study A level Geography, you need to have an enquiring and open mind. Geography is a study of the world around us and you need to be aware of issues worldwide.

The A level Geography is often split into human and physical geography even though geography is a very fluid subject with some of the issues overlapping. Human topics such as urbanization and globalization while physical geography looks at topics such as natural hazards and look at how hazards occur, what can be done to predict them and the management that is in place if one occurs.

As a student going in for an examination, it is very necessary for you to go through all the content and the syllabus. And the rate determining step depends on how prepared you are for these exams.

To test yourself, we have a quiz of 15 questions based on the topics of both physical and human geography. Each question has four possible answers and only one is correct among the four.

Good luck!!!

1:

The following are ways of protecting or defending a coast from threats. Three of them are hard defences and one is a soft defence. Identify the soft defence


Correct
  • 1:
    Building concrete sea walls
  • 2:
    Making groynes of wood at right angles to the coast line
  • 3:
    Placing concrete blocks behind a beach to reduce wave energy.
  • 4:
    Beach replenishment at the base of cliffs to replace lost sand and shingle
2:

Which of the following soil structures is likely to hinder the infiltration of water


Correct
  • 1:
    Platy
  • 2:
    Prismatic
  • 3:
    Crumby
  • 4:
    Blocky
3:

A Soil type that develops in areas of poor drainage is called


Correct
  • 1:
    Ferrallitic soil
  • 2:
    Brown earth
  • 3:
    Podzol
  • 4:
    Gley soil
4:

"It has sharp boundaries between the horizons. On the surface is a layer of raw humus and below this is an ash-grey A2 sandy layer that is bleached of its sesquioxidcs and bases”. Which is the soil type?


Correct
  • 1:
    Ferruginous
  • 2:
    Podzol
  • 3:
    Chernozem
  • 4:
    Ferrallitic
5:

Which of the following is an abiotic component in the grassland ecosystem?


Correct
  • 1:
    The rabbits that borrow into the soil
  • 2:
    The soil minerals in the ferruginous soil
  • 3:
    The termites that live in, the soil
  • 4:
    The beetles that eat animal dung
6:

When the vegetation in a place is prevented from reaching its climax due to. interruption caused by local factors Stich as soils and human interference, it is called


Correct
  • 1:
    A sub climax
  • 2:
    A secondary succession
  • 3:
    A plagio-climax
  • 4:
    A mono-climax
7:

The amount of energy, that is left in plants, after losses through respiration describes


Correct
  • 1:
    Primary productivity
  • 2:
    Gross primary productivity
  • 3:
    Net primary productivity
  • 4:
    Secondary productivity
8:

Which one of the following is not a hydro climatic hazard?


Correct
  • 1:
    desertification
  • 2:
    flooding
  • 3:
    tropical cyclones
  • 4:
    Deforestation
9:

Isolate from the list below the effect of deforestation of the tropical rainforest which is not environmentally-related


Correct
  • 1:
    loss of nutrients
  • 2:
    disruption of the carbon dioxide balance
  • 3:
    fall in revenue from timber in states within the rainforest tribe
  • 4:
    loss of biological diversity
10:

Which of the following is the most significant trigger or cause of accelerated soil erosion?


Correct
  • 1:
    Pressure of population growth
  • 2:
    High rainfall and winds
  • 3:
    Steep slope and loose soils
  • 4:
    Overgrazing and deforestation
11:

Population density refers to:


Correct
  • 1:
    Number of persons living in an area
  • 2:
    Concentration of people in a region
  • 3:
    Average number of persons per unit area
  • 4:
    Clustering of people in a region
12:

Which of the following characteristics best suits the description of a normal population pyramid?


Correct
  • 1:
    Asymmetrical with fewer adults in the middle
  • 2:
    Symmetrical with many numbers from apex to base
  • 3:
    Symmetrical with fewer numbers from base to apex
  • 4:
    Asymmetrical with many children at the base
13:

A situation of Zero population growth can best be described as:


Correct
  • 1:
    When BR and DR arc equal and the average number of children per family is 2.3
  • 2:
    When BR are declining but DR are increasing with on average family size of 3
  • 3:
    When both BR and DR are declining with an average family size of 2
  • 4:
    When DR and BR are increasing and the number of children per family is 4.2
14:

Given that world population stood at 6 billion in the year 2000 and that the average world
growth rate is 1.9%. What would be the projected world population by 2025?


Correct
  • 1:
    7,850,000,000
  • 2:
    8,850,000,000
  • 3:
    8,525,000,000
  • 4:
    6,114,000,000
15:

The Large-scale movement of young adults from Africa to Europe is due mainly to


Correct
  • 1:
    Growing economic difficulties in most African countries
  • 2:
    development in transport, facilitating movement
  • 3:
    Search -for better educational opportunities
  • 4:
    The open immigration policies of Europe and USA

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