GRADE - 11 ASMARA COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL 2019/20 40% 60% 100%
GEOGRAPHY FIRST SEMESTER FINAL EXAMINATION
TIME : 60 MIN MAXIMUM MARKS : 40
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Part I. Choose the correct Answer [20 × 1]
1. A raised river bank caused deposition at the lower stage is:
A) Flood plain B) Delta C) Levee D) ox-bow lake E) All
2. which of the following is a feature formed in the middle stage.
A) Inter locking spur B) Rapids C) Gorge D) Meander E) All
3. How Delta is formed
A) When the coast is shallow B) when river carry more alluvium
C) When the sea has weak waves and current D) All E) None
4. The horizontal solidification of magma inside the earth’s surface.
A) Sill B) Dyke C) Batholith D) Laccoliths E) None
5. A land mass part of Gondwanaland that joins Eurasia due to continental drift.
A) India B) Australia C) Green land D) Africa E) All are correct
6. Identify the actual point where an earthquake occurs.
A) Epicenter B) focus C) Richter D) seismography E) All
7. A sand desert made of sand sheets and dune in Algeria is called .
A) Hamada B) Reg C) Serir D) Erg E) None
8. The feature which is hard flat mass of rock with furrows and ridges formed by wind Abrasion.
A) Inselberg B) Pediment C) zeugen D) Pedestal
9. The process by which sands and dust are removed from the ground by wind is:
A) Abrasion B) Deflation C) Corrasion D) Attrition E) All
10. A sand bar that connects an island to the main land is:
A) Sand bar B) Tombolo C) Spit D) Barchans E) Stump
11. Imagine if a shore is formed by mud, pebble and sand at the coast this feature is:
A) Shore line B) coast line C) Beach D) Cave E) All
12. One of the following statement is not true about the collision of two continental plates.
A) Fold mountains are formed B) Earthquake is created
C) One plate is sink under the other D) All are correct E) None
13. Assume when arid like condition is spread on the earth’s surface due to human’s impact on the natural
environment such process is called .
A) Deforestation B) Desertification C) Global worming D) Acid Rain E) All
14. The process by which limestone coast is eroded by setting chemical change and disintegration of the rock
occurred is called .
A) Corrasion B) Hydraulic action C) Attrition D) Deflation E) Solvent action
15. How the Pacific Ocean is widening?
A) When the sea floor spread B) when two Ocean floor is collide
C) It is formed in convergent plate boundary D) All E) None
16. A thin, shallow and narrow river channel at the mouth of the river is:
A) Distributaries B) Streams C) Tributaries D) Rills E) All
17. One of the extrusive volcanic activities is small in size because it erupts once and for short period of time.
A) Composite B) shield C) caldera D) cinder cone E) None
18. Why do you think in Tear faulting there is no fault scarp? This is because:
A) The rock blocks move vertically B) The rock blocks move horizontally E) None
C) The rock blocks move towards each other D) The rock blocks move away from each other
19. The formation of The Andes Fold Mountain is associated with:
A) The collision of India to Eurasia B) Separation of Africa from South America at sea floor
C) Collision of Nazca to South America D) Collision of Eurasia to pacific plate E) All are correct
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20. A zigzag river channel in the upper stage where hard rock projection separated and overlaps from opposite
sides of the river, this feature is called .
A) Interlocking spur B) Meander C) V-shaped valley D) Gorge E) None
Part II. Say True or false [5 × 1 ]
1. The automobiles and industrial in china relies smoke pollutants, this can affect the natural environment in
Eritrea.
2. Wind erosion in wet areas can create a deposition of sand dune with in the desert areas.
3. When caves in both sides of a headland joined they create a stack.
4. The volcano composed of ash and lava in extrusive volcanic eruption is called strato - volcano.
5. The main work of the river in the youth stage is head ward and vertical erosion because of many tributaries
with high amount of water.
Part III. Fill in the blank space [5 × 1 ]
1. is a flat and wide plain formed by alluvial deposition on the lower stage.
2. The rigid outer layer of the earth’s surface is called .
3. is the rise and fall in the sea level due to the gravitational attraction of sun or moon and the earth
twice a day.
4. is a crescent shaped sand dune in the desert area with thin horn at its tip.
5. is the totality of everything that we see it in nature, which has also an effect on living things.
Part IV. Give short and precise Answer for the following questions.
1. How waves are formed?[ 1 point ]
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2. Explain the difference between Inselberg and pediment. [ 2 points ]
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3. On what does the ability of a river to transport its load depends? [ 3 points ]
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4. State any two suggestions proposed by Alfred Wegener about the continental drift. [ 2 points ]
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5. Why people modify their natural environment? [ 2 points ]
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G ood luck !