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International Geography Exam Part 4 2018 International Geography Bee 6. Which of the following measures the intensity of a International Geography Exam - Part 4 tornado? A. the Saffir-Simpson scale B. the Beaufort scale Instructions – This portion of the IGB Exam consists of C. the Enhanced Fujita scale 100 questions. You will receive two points for a correct D. the Richter scale answer. You will lose one point for an incorrect answer. Blank responses lose no points. Please fill in the bubbles 7. Most intense tornadoes develop from a type of completely on the answer sheet. You may write on the thunderstorm known as which of the following? examination, but all responses must be bubbled on the A. a thunderhead answer sheet. Diacritic marks such as accents have been B. a supercell omitted from place names and other proper nouns. You C. a waterspout have one hour to complete this set of multiple choice D. an eyewall questions. 8. Which of these countries has more deaths from 1. All of these are true of the demographic transition tornadoes per year on average than any other? model EXCEPT which of the following? A. the United States A. it traces the development of a society from pre- B. Bangladesh industrial to industrial C. the Netherlands B. it tracks birth and death rates of each stage of D. the United Kingdom development C. it originally had four stages, but recent studies 9. Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa, is located in what have included a fifth to account for post-industrial nation? societies A. Chad D. it expects the birth rates of industrial and post- B. Ethiopia industrial societies to increase C. Djibouti D. Niger 2. Which of the following populations was the first to emerge from stage one of the demographic transition 10. Which of these countries has the highest annual model in the late eighteenth century? precipitation? A. East Asia A. Somalia B. Western Europe B. South Africa C. the United States C. Chad D. the Middle East D. Sierra Leone 3. In stage two of the demographic transition model, which 11. Vredefort Crater is significant for which of the following of the following would be expected to happen? reasons? A. death rates would decline due to improved health A. it contains a massive saltwater lake care, sanitation and nutrition B. it is the largest verified impact crater on earth B. birth rates would decline due to access to C. it is the most important center of the diamond contraception and family planning mining industry in South Africa C. birth rates would increase sharply for economic D. it is the source of the Orange River reasons D. death rates would increase sharply due to 12. Lake Tana in Ethiopia is the source of which of the pollution and poor living conditions following? A. the White Nile 4. All of these countries have a birth rate below B. the Congo replacement level EXCEPT which of the following? C. the Niger A. Germany D. the Blue Nile B. Japan C. Mexico 13. Which of these regions hosts the largest terrestrial D. Italy mammal migration in the world? A. the Okavango Delta 5. In which of these areas are tornadoes the most B. the Serengeti common? C. Mount Kilimanjaro A. North Africa D. the Nile Delta B. the Great Plains of the United States C. Eastern Europe D. Central Asia 14. The Okavango Delta in Botswana is notable for which 21. Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan, is a member of of the following features? what relatively new Taiwanese political party? A. it is an inland delta that does not flow into any A. Kuomintang ocean or sea B. Minkuotang B. it is more saline than the surrounding ocean water C. Chinese Communist Party C. it is the largest river delta in Africa D. Democratic Progressive Party D. it has a higher water flow rate than the Amazon 22. Which of these is the most common religious affiliation 15. Which of these is the largest bi-national conurbation in South Korea, selected by a majority of South Koreans between the United States and Mexico? on the 2015 census? A. Laredo-Nuevo Laredo A. Presbyterian B. El Paso-Ciudad Juarez B. ‘not affiliated’ C. San Diego-Tijuana C. Korean Sindo or shamanism D. Brownsville-Matamoros D. Buddhist 16. San Jose is the capital of what Central American 23. After Honshu, which of these Japanese islands has nation? the largest population? A. Costa Rica A. Hokkaido B. Belize B. Shikoku C. Guatemala C. Shimoshima D. Honduras D. Kyushu 17. All of these are notable of the cuisine of Argentina 24. According to UNESCO, the average literacy rate for EXCEPT which of the following? UN member states is in which of these ranges? A. there is a large influence of European immigration A. 65% to 70% on the cuisine of Argentina B. 80% to 85% B. the country has the highest consumption of red C. 95% to 100% meat in the world, traditionally prepared as asado, D. below 65% a type of barbeque C. wine is rarely consumed, with beer being the 25. Which of these is a religious or philosophical tradition alcoholic beverage of choice among most of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with Argentinians ‘the way’? D. empanadas, pastries filled with meat, vegetables A. Confucianism or other fillings, are commonly eaten B. Shinto C. Taoism 18. Uruguay ranks first in Latin America in all of these D. Buddhism categories EXCEPT which of the following? A. low perception of corruption on the Corruption 26. After the languages of the Indo-European family, Perceptions Index which of these language families has the largest number B. peace on the Global Peace Index of speakers in the world? C. income inequality based on Gini coefficient A. Afro-Asiatic D. absence of terrorism on the Global Terrorism B. Sino-Tibetan Index C. Kra-Dai D. Dravidian 19. Which of these Latin American nations is the most populous Spanish-speaking nation in the world? 27. Which of these pairs of countries have the greatest A. Argentina irrigated land area in the world? B. Colombia A. Mexico and Russia C. Peru B. Pakistan and Brazil D. Mexico C. China and India D. the United States and Canada 20. Which of the following lines runs through the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England? 28. Which of the following is defined by the US A. 0° longitude Department of Agriculture as ‘limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or B. 180 longitude ° limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in C. 100° north latitude socially acceptable ways’? D. the equator A. homelessness B. malnutrition C. food insecurity D. urban poverty 29. Lines on a topographic map that represent elevation 37. All of these are landlocked countries in Europe above or below sea level are known by which of the EXCEPT which of the following? following terms? A. Montenegro A. vectors B. Moldova B. map lines C. Belarus C. contour lines D. Kosovo D. choropleths 38. The highest peaks in the Carpathian Mountains are all 30. Which of these consists of a terminal moraine and located in what country? outwash plains? A. Slovenia A. Cape Cod B. Poland B. Cape Hatteras C. Romania C. the Atlantic Coast of Florida D. Slovakia D. Chesapeake Bay 39. Through which national capital does the Rhine River 31. Which of these areas has on average the highest flow? number of tropical cyclones per year? A. Vaduz A. North Atlantic B. Amsterdam B. Eastern Pacific C. Prague C. Western Pacific D. Berlin D. Australian Region 40. Both the Veryovkina Cave and the Krubera Cave, the 32. How many earthquakes above 9.0 on the Richter deepest caves known to exist on earth, are located in the scale have occurred since 2000? Western Caucasus Mountains in what Autonomous A. 0 Region disputed between Georgia and Russia? B. 1 A. Transnistria C. 2 B. Abkhazia D. 3 C. Nagorno Karabakh D. South Ossetia 33. Earthquakes caused by human activity as opposed to the movement of tectonic plates are known as which of 41. All of these are true of the state of Colorado EXCEPT the following? which of the following? A. seismic risk A. it has the highest low elevation point of any US B. seismic front state C. induced seismicity B. it has boundaries defined solely by lines of D. epicenter events longitude and latitude C. its highest point is Pike’s Peak 34. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, known as the D. it has the highest average elevation of any US ‘Dragon King’ is, the head of state of which of the state following? A. Nepal 42. The source of the Columbia River is located in which B. Bhutan of the following? C. Maldives A. British Columbia, Canada D. Afghanistan B. Alberta, Canada C. Montana, USA 35. The eight nations of South Asia collectively have the D. Washington, USA largest population in the world of all of these religious groups EXCEPT which of the following? 43. The namesake ‘smoke’ of the Great Smoky Mountains A. Muslims is caused by which of the following? B. Hindus A. actual smoke from frequent forest fires in the C. Sikhs region D. Jains B. haze caused by pollution from nearby factories and power plants 36. The most populous state in India is which of the C. particularly low-lying stratus clouds following? D. volatile organic compounds being exhaled by A. Andhra Pradesh vegetation B. Punjab C. Uttar Pradesh D. Uttarakhand 44. Buffalo in New York and the cities of Cleveland and 51. Which of the following best defines the term urban Toledo in Ohio are settlements on which of the following primacy? bodies of water? A.
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