Sample Assessment Items

NOTE: the teacher should identify specific information that students should label on maps. Use items 1-6 as a guide to develop those instructions. Asterisk (*) indicates correct answer.

  1. Annotate an unlabeled outline map of the world with world climate regions and specific vegetation regions.

  2. Place on an unlabeled outline map of the world the areas where the following weather phenomena would most likely occur: monsoons, typhoons, hurricanes, tornadoes.

  3. Identify on an unlabeled outline map of the world specific cultural regions where heavy concentrations of Buddhism would be found.

  4. Using an unlabeled outline map of the world, identify countries that are members of NATO.

  5. Using an unlabeled outline map of the world, identify the area known as the Middle East.

  6. Place on an unlabeled outline map of the world specific statues and monuments in their proper country or location.

  7. What country changed is borders by reclaiming land from the sea with the construction of polders?
    A. France.
    B. Netherlands. *
    C. Norway.
    D. Finland.

  8. The dominant languages in Canada are
    A. French and Spanish.
    B. English and German.
    C. French and English. *
    D. Italian and Spanish.

  9. Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians are ethnic groups in
    A. the former Soviet Union.
    B. Saudi Arabia.
    C. Austria.
    D. the former Yugoslavia. *

  10. Conflict between Jews, Christians, and Muslims have created major division in
    A. Ireland.
    B. England.
    C. Jerusalem. *
    D. Baghdad.

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