TEST YOUR GEOGRAPHY I.Q.

1. In September 1995 the capital city of the world's most populous country was the site of the World Conference on Women. Name this East Asian capital city.

2. The city that is the center of the Jewish religion is also holy to Christians and Muslims. Name this city in the Middle East.

3. Swahili is spoken by people living in the countries that make up the eastern region of which continent?

4. Forests and lakes are being damaged by a kind of pollution created when moisture in the air combines with byproducts released by burning fossil fuels. What is the term for this type of pollution?

5. Precipitation commonly occurs along the boundary between warm and cold air masses. What is the general term for this boundary?

6. The term "killer bee" is popularly used to refer to a kind of aggressive honeybee that resulted from crossbreeding South American bees with bees from which other continent?

7. Name the natural resource that is transported by pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska.

8. Which country spans the greatest number of time zones?

9. The earth's saltiest body of water has no outlet. Name this body of water, which is more than a thousand feet below the level of the nearby Mediterranean Sea.

10. Farmers in the U.S. state that is the world's leading producer of crawfish often flood their rice fields after harvest to raise crawfish. Name this Gulf state.

11. Coal, iron, and steel have made the Ruhr and middle Rhine regions leading industrial centers of which European country?

12. Tea and coffee grown in the southwestern highlands around Nairobi are the main agricultural exports of a country in East Africa. Name this country.

13. What is the term for the mechanism that makes it possible for ships to navigate between bodies of water that have different elevations by raising and lowering water levels?

14. Islands that were once known as the Dutch East Indies make up Southeast Asia's largest country in terms of area. Name this island country.

15. What is the term for a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river?

16. Gauchos are cowboys who tend cattle on the mid-latitude grasslands of which continent?

17. The halls of Montezuma referred to in the opening line of the hymn of the U.S. Marine Corps are in which North American country?

18. The communist government of an island country is experimenting with an economic plan that allows its citizens to use pesos to buy U.S. dollars. Name this island country.

19. Seven U.S. states currently have such small populations that each can elect only one person to the U.S. House of Representatives. Name two of these states.

20. Madras is a kind of patterned fabric that takes its name from a city in one of the world's leading cotton producing countries. Name this country in South Asia.

21. Cambodia, Laos, and which neighboring country made up the region once known as French Indochina?

22. Eight of the world's 10 highest active volcanoes are in which mountains in the Western Hemisphere?

23. The Gulf of Bothnia separates Finland from which other northern European country?

24. In an attempt to protect its Buddhist culture from outside influence, the smallest country in the Himalaya allows only a few thousand foreign tourists each year. Name this Buddhist kingdom.

25. A country that was once known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union is also known for its large deposits of coal and iron ore. Name this country.

Answers:

1. Beijing, 2. Jerusalem, 3. Africa, 4. acid rain, 5. front, 6. Africa, 7. oil, 8. Russia, 9. Dead Sea, 10. Louisiana, 11. Germany, 12. Kenya, 13. lock, 14. Indonesia, 15. tributary, 16. South America, 17. Mexico, 18. Cuba, 19. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, 20. India, 21. Vietnam, 22. Andes, 23. Sweden, 24. Bhutan, 25. Ukraine.