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Grade 6 World Geography Practice Test

Build Grade 6 Social Studies skills with five 10-question practice tests on maps, coordinates, continents, oceans, physical geography, human geography, resources, and geographic reasoning.

World Geography Practice Tests

These Grade 6 Social Studies practice tests help students read maps, use latitude and longitude, identify continents and oceans, and explain relationships between physical geography and human activity. Students also practice landforms, climate regions, population patterns, migration, natural resources, sustainability, and geographic evidence.

Skills covered

  • Reading political, physical, thematic, and topographic map information
  • Using map legends, scales, compass roses, latitude, longitude, and hemispheres
  • Identifying continents, oceans, landforms, rivers, climate regions, and physical patterns
  • Explaining population density, migration, urbanization, culture, and human-environment interaction
  • Interpreting geographic data and comparing regions using evidence

How to use these practice tests

Start by identifying the type of map, location, physical feature, or human pattern in the question. Use the legend, scale, labels, and data when they are provided. Then connect physical conditions, resources, movement, and settlement patterns to choose the answer best supported by geographic evidence.

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Grade 6 World Geography Practice Tests

A 10-question Grade 6 Social Studies practice test on maps, coordinates, continents, oceans, physical geography, human geography, resources, and geographic reasoning.

Read each map and geography question carefully, identify the relevant physical or human pattern, and use evidence to choose the best answer.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

What does population density describe?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The number of people living in a given area.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Population density compares population with land area.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Population density compares population with land area.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Why do many cities develop near rivers, coasts, or natural harbors?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is These locations can support transportation, trade, water access, and economic activity..

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Waterways and harbors historically support movement, trade, settlement, and access to water.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Waterways and harbors historically support movement, trade, settlement, and access to water.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

What is migration?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The movement of people from one place to another.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Migration can be temporary or permanent and may be caused by push and pull factors.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Migration can be temporary or permanent and may be caused by push and pull factors.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which is a push factor that may cause people to leave a place?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is A lack of jobs or safety.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Push factors encourage people to leave, while pull factors attract people to another place.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Push factors encourage people to leave, while pull factors attract people to another place.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

What is urbanization?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The growth of cities as more people move to or live in urban areas.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Urbanization changes settlement patterns as urban populations and built areas grow.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Urbanization changes settlement patterns as urban populations and built areas grow.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

Which example shows human-environment interaction?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Farmers build terraces on a steep slope to grow crops while reducing erosion..

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Human-environment interaction describes how people depend on, adapt to, or modify their surroundings.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Human-environment interaction describes how people depend on, adapt to, or modify their surroundings.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a natural resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is A useful material or feature obtained from the natural environment.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Water, soil, forests, minerals, sunlight, and fossil fuels are examples of natural resources.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Water, soil, forests, minerals, sunlight, and fossil fuels are examples of natural resources.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

Which practice is most likely to conserve a limited resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Using water efficiently and protecting sources from pollution.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Conservation protects resources so they remain available and ecosystems remain healthier.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Conservation protects resources so they remain available and ecosystems remain healthier.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Why can language and religion be important geographic information?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is They help describe cultural patterns and connections among places..

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Cultural characteristics help geographers understand how people and places are connected.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Cultural characteristics help geographers understand how people and places are connected.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a pull factor?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is A condition that attracts people to a new place.

  1. Identify the geography concept: Determine whether the question asks about a map, location, physical feature, human pattern, or geographic data.
  2. Use the evidence: Jobs, safety, family connections, and education can attract migrants to a location.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect location, environment, people, and data to confirm the answer.

Jobs, safety, family connections, and education can attract migrants to a location.

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Frequently asked questions about Grade 6 World Geography

What topics are covered?

The page covers maps, map symbols, scale, latitude, longitude, hemispheres, continents, oceans, landforms, climate, population density, migration, urbanization, culture, resources, sustainability, and geographic reasoning.

How should students analyze a geography question?

Identify the location or pattern, use the map or data evidence, and connect physical and human characteristics before selecting the answer that is best supported.

How many questions are on this page?

The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 6 World Geography questions in total.