Wednesday, August 29, 2018

LET SOCIAL STUDIES PRACTICE TEST


Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer.
1.       This is the largest of all the continents. It covers nearly 1/3 of the world’s land surface. This continent gave the world its earliest civilizations and major religions.
a.       Europe                                                 c. Africa
b.       Asia                                                      d. North America

2.       This country is known as the ‘world’s melting pot’ and ‘land of refugees’ for having history of successive migration.
a.       Canada                                                 c. United States
b.       Australia                                               d. Great Britain

3.       This is often called as the ‘eternal city’ for having been the seat of power during ancient and modern period.
a.       Paris                                                     c. Brussels
b.       Milan                                                    d. Rome

4.       Melanesia refers to the ‘black islands ‘ who’s inhabitants are generally short with dark skin and frizzy hair. Which of the following does NOT belong to the Melanesia group of islands?
a.       Papua New Guinea                               c. Vanuatu
b.       Solomon Islands                                    d. Tuvalu

5.       This is a doctrine in geography which states that nature is passive and man is active who is free to change his environment.
a.       Marxist                                                 c. Feminist Geography
b.       Possibilism                                            d. Critical Geography

6.       This is often called as ‘land of emeralds’ because it has 90% of the world’s supply of emeralds. This country is the only nation with coastlines washed by both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
a.       Colombia                                              c. Ecuador
b.       Brazil                                                    d. Bolivia

7.       This is the least developed and poorest country in Central America. This country’s name originated from Spanish word for ‘depths. This is also known as the ‘Banana Republic’.
a.       Honduras                                              c. Nicaragua
b.       Guatemala                                            d. El Salvador

8.       Why is Africa often called ‘Dark Continent’ until the 19th century?
a.       It is a land of mystery and paradox
b.       Its peoples are all black and dark
c.       Its forests are impenetrable
d.       Its notorious for diseases

9.       This is the third largest continent. It is home of megacities like Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. Its highest point is Mt. McKinley and lowest point is the Death Valley.
a.       South America                                      c.  Caribbean
b.       North America                                       d. Oceania

10.     This is the second largest continent, home of the largest desert and was also believed to be the birthplace of humanity.
a.       Australia                                               c. South America
b.       Europe                                                 d. Africa

11.     This is the best manifestation of the cultural landscape of Islam.
a.       Pagodas                                               c. Stupas
b.       Mosques                                               d. Bazaar

12.     This is the largest city in Africa which is also often called ‘city of victory’.
a.       Cairo                                                    c. Addis Ababa
b.       Pretoria                                                d. Mogadishu

13.     This is popularly called as ‘Empty Quarter’. This is one of the largest true deserts in the world which has no settlement and no vegetation at all.
a.       Rub Al Khali                                          c. Nubian
b.       Sahara                                                 d. Libyan

14.     This is the heart of the Mayan civilization. It is most populous country in Central America and half of the populations are Mayan Indians.
a.       Honduras                                              c. Guatemala
b.       Costa Rica                                            d. Mexico

15.     This is the 6th largest country in the world in terms of land area. In fact, it is the only nation that is a continent, but it has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world.
a.       India                                                     c. USA
b.       Australia                                               d. Canada

16.     This is how we call the location is based on the use of longitudes and latitudes.
a.       Nominal                                                c. Astronomical
b.       Relative                                                d. Absolute

17.     This literary means ‘land without people’. This country became independent in 1990 and has one of the highest sand dunes in the world.
a.       Angola                                                  c. Namibia
b.       Ghana                                                  d. Senegal

18.     The name of ‘Far East’ is a misnomer being coined by western geographers and European mariners. This region refers to
a.       India, Pakistan                                      c. Saudi Arabia, Jordan
b.       Russia, Kazakhstan                               d. China, Korea, Japan

19.     Paradise Lost, that’s the story of this country which was rocked by 66 nuclear blast by the United States from 1946-1958.
a.       Nauru                                                   c. Marshall Islands
b.       Vanuatu                                                d. Tonga

20.     The April 1986 Chernobyl explosion is the world’s worst nuclear disaster wherein 3 people were killed in the initial explosion.  Chernobyl is located in
a.       Ukraine                                                 c. Latvia
b.       Russia                                                  d. Lithuania

21.     The Prime Meridian passes through
a.       London                                                 c. Samoa
b.       Rome`                                                  d. Warsaw

22.     This country assumed full sovereignty over a strategic canal from the United States on December 31, 1999.
a.       Solomon Island                                     c. Egypt
b.       Panama                                                d. Colombia

23.     ‘Rainbow Warrior’, the flagship of the Greenpeace Organization was bombed and sunk in Auckland by French secret agents due to the former’s nuclear testing. Where is Auckland?
a.       Australia                                               c. Guam
b.       New Zealand                                         d. Japan

24.     This often called a ‘heaven of peace’ in Central America. This country had led the way in forest conservation and demilitarization.
a.       Nicaragua                                             c. El Salvador
b.       Costa Rica                                            d. Honduras

25.     This is the second most populated country in the world. This nation still practices caste determination, child bride, dowry system and girl-child infanticide especially in the rural areas.
a.       China                                                    c. Canada
b.       India                                                     d. Pakistan

26.     During the Vietnam War, wide areas of forest and mangroves were sprayed with this herbicide which contains dioxin, a high toxic compound. This dioxin later was responsible for fetal deformities. What do you call this dioxin?
a.       Agent Orange                                       c. Formalin
b.       Uranium                                                d. all of the above

27.     This is one of the world’s leading oil producers. The country has the highest per capital income in Latin America, though its national wealth is very unevenly distributed. This country helped in the founding of OPEC.
a.       Mexico                                                  c. Venezuela
b.       Brazil                                                    d. Ecuador

28.     This is the only Portuguese – speaking country in a Hispanic-Latin region.
a.       Mexico                                                  c. Nicaragua
b.       Aruba                                                   d. Brazil

29.     This literally means “Opposite the Arctic”. This is the 5th largest landmass and the least inhabited.
a.       Africa                                                    c. South Pacific
b.       North Pole                                            d. Antarctica

30.     In 1989, it became the very first country to sanction homosexual marriage and to give homosexuals most of the legal rights accorded to heterosexuals.
a.       Germany                                              c. Netherland
b.       Finland                                                 d. Denmark