Geography Quiz- Round 1 to 6 with Answers

GEOGRAPHY Quiz

by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Bhutan, Damphu Central School, Bhutan

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Geography Quiz- 1

1.      What is the total area of the world's second-largest continent, Africa?

2.      What percent of the total land area does Africa cover on earth?

3.      What is the width of the Isthmus of Suez?

4.      When did the Portuguese establish the first of many trading stations along the Guinea coast at Elmina in Africa?

5.      Name the fifth largest continent?

6.      What is the total area of Antarctica?

7.      What is the area of The Arctic Ocean?

8.      What is the average depth of the Arctic Ocean?

9.      Name the world largest continent.

10.  Which canal demarcates Asia and Africa?

11.  What is the size of the mean elevation of Asia?

12.  Name the Earth's second-largest ocean?

13.  What is the area of the Atlantic Ocean with its adjacent seas?

14.  What is the total area of the Atlantic Ocean without its adjacent seas?

15.  What is the volume of the Atlantic Ocean with its adjacent seas?

16.  What is the volume of the Atlantic Ocean without its adjacent seas?

17.  What is the average depth of the Atlantic, with its adjacent seas?

18.  What is the average depth of the Atlantic, without its adjacent seas?

19.  Name the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area.

20.  What is the total area of Europe?

Answer to Geography Quiz - 1

1.      30,244,050 km² (11,677,240 mi²), including the islands.

2.      20.3%

3.      130 km (80 miles)

4.      1482

5.      Antarctica

6.      13,200,000 km²

7.      14,090,000 km² (5,440,000 mi²)

8.      1,038 m (3,407 ft)

9.      Asia

10.  Isthmus of Suez

11.  950 m (3,117 ft)

12.  Atlantic Ocean

13.  106,400,000 km² (41,100,000 square miles)

14.  82,400,000 km² (31,800,000 mi²)

15.  354,700,000 km³ (85,100,000 mi³)

16.  323,600,000 km³ (77,640,000 mi³)

17.  3,332 m (10,932 ft)

18.  3,926 m (12,881 ft)

19.  Europe

20.  10,790,000 km² (4,170,000 sq mi)

Geography Quiz - 2

1.      What percent of Earth’s surface is Europe?

2.      What is the total area of Australia?

3.      In which plate is Australia on?

4.      Which seas separate Australia from Asia?

5.      What is the total length of Australian coastline?

6.      Name the world’s largest coral reef?

7.      Name the world's two largest monoliths located in Australia. Where are they located?

8.      Name the highest mountain on the Australian mainland.

9.      When was the six colonies federated and the Commonwealth of Australia formed?

10.  Name the third-largest body of water in the world.

11.  What percent of the Earth’s water surface does the Indian Ocean covers?

12.  What is the deepest point of the Indian Ocean?

13.  What is the total area of North America?

14.  What percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by North America?

15.  Name the third largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa?

16.  After whose name was both North and South America are named?

17.  Name the North America's only land connection is to South America.

18.  Between which two oceans does South America situated?

19.  What is the total area of South America?

20.  What percent of the Earth’s surface is South America?

Answer to Geography Quiz - 2

1.      2.1%

2.      7,686,850 km² (2,967,909 mi²)

3.      Indo-Australian Plate

4.      Arafura and Timor seas

5.      25,760 km (16,007 mi)

6.      The Great Barrier Reef

7.      Mount Augustus in Western Australia, and Uluru in central Australia

8.      Mount Kosciuszko on the Great Dividing Range

9.      1 January 1901

10.  The Indian Ocean

11.  20% of the Earth's water surface

12.  The Java Trench (7,450 m /24,442 ft)

13.  24,497,994 km² (9,458,728 sq mi)

14.  4.8% of the Earth's surface

15.  North America

16.  Amerigo Vespucci

17.  The narrow Isthmus of Panama

18.  The Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean

19.  17,821,601 km² (6,880,959 sq mi)

20.  3.5% of the Earth's surface

Geography Quiz - 3

1.      Name all the Caribbean South America nations.

2.      What do you mean by the Pacific Ocean?

3.      Name the world’s largest body of water?

4.      What is the total area of the Pacific Ocean?

5.      Name the lowest point on earth.

6.      How many Islands does The Pacific contain?

7.      Where is Atacama Desert?

8.      What is the name of the great desert that lies between China and Mongolia?

9.      Which mountains are the backbone of North America?

10.  Which mountains are the backbone of South America?

11.  Which African peak is also known as “The Mountain of the Cold Devils”?

12.  Name the longest mountain range in the world?

13.  What is the length of Andes Mountain in South America?

14.  What is Horticulture?

15.  Who first proposed that populations cannot grow indefinitely, a basic principle now known as the Law of the Minimum in 1840?

16.  What is Silviculture?

17.  Name the country located between Thailand and Vietnam?

18.  Which nation mines the most copper and has the largest reserves in the world?

19.  Apart from water, what runs through the mouth of the River Amazon and Lake Victoria?

20.  Name the world's third largest sea?

Answer to Geography Quiz - 3

1.      Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana

2.      The Peaceful Sea

3.      The Pacific Ocean

4.      179.7 million Km² (69.4 million sq miles)

5.      The Mariana Trench (10,911 m /35,797 ft) below sea level

6.      About 25,000 islands

7.      Chile

8.      The Gobi Desert

9.      The Rockies

10.  The Andes

11.  Mount Kilimanjaro

12.  Andes in South America

13.  15,000 miles long

14.  Science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees

15.  German chemist Justus von Liebig

16.  Studies the relationship of a forest to its environment and involves the development, care, and reproduction of stands of timber.

17.  Laos

18.  Chile

19.  The Equator

20.  The Mediterranean

Geography Quiz - 4

1.      In which continent would you find the Queen Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Maud mountain ranges?

2.      Where in South American country is the Atacama Desert?

3.      When was the South Sea renamed as Pacific Ocean?

4.      Who renamed the South Sea as the Pacific Ocean?

5.      Name the canal that connects The Mediterranean and the Red Seas?

6.      Name the highest mountain in New Zealand.

7.      Name the deepest lake in New Zealand?

8.      What is an isohel?

9.      What is a Mirage?

10.  Name the clouds that are composed mainly of ice-crystals?

11.  What are “Mare’ Tails”?

12.  What is a bore on a river?

13.  Of which continent’s highest mountain is the Vinson Massif?

14.  What numbers of rivers are there in Saudi Arabia?

15.  To which sea does the river Volga flow?

16.  In which river banks do ‘Shakespeare’s birth place’ stand?

17.  Name the ‘world’s deepest sea-bed’ that lies off the Pacific coast of Japan.

18.  What are the four main islands of Japan?

19.  Name two lakes that form the frontiers of Switzerland.

  Answer to Geography Quiz - 4

1.      Antarctica

2.      Chile

1.      3.1520

3.      Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521, Portuguese explorer

4.      The Sewage Canal

5.      Mt Cook

6.      Hauroko

7.      A line on a map connecting places having equal amount of sunshine.

8.      A mirage is a trick of nature. E.g. In a desert, there is a layer of very dense hot air above the ground. This layer of air bends light rays passing through it distorting the images of distant objects.

9.      Cirrus clouds

10.  Feathery strands in the sky made when Cirrus clouds are blown about.

11.  A tidal wave

12.  Antarctica

13.  No rivers

14.  Caspian Sea

15.  Avon

16.  The Tuskarova Deep

17.  Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku and Kyushu

18.  Lake Constance and Lake Geneva

19.  Portugal

Geography Quiz - 5

1.      What is an Archipelago?

2.      What do you mean by Snowline?

3.      What is the term for a limestone deposit from the roof to the floor of a cave?

4.      What is the name of porous volcanic-rock that floats on water?

5.      What do you mean by a “Ring of Fire”?

6.      Name the clouds that are composed mainly of ice-crystals?

7.      What are Willy-willies?

8.      What is Fohn?

9.      How many planets are there in our solar system officially?

10.  Name all eight planets in our solar system

11.  Does mercury have an atmosphere?

12.  How old is the solar system?

13.  Name the only two planets that have moons?

14.  Name the planets that can be seen with our naked eye (Without telescope or binoculars)?

15.  Which planets are called as the gaseous planets?

16.  By how many times the sun is larger than the earth?

17.  What is the percentage composition of the atmosphere in Venus?

18.  What is the percentage composition of the atmosphere on Earth?

19.  What is the percentage composition of the atmosphere in Saturn?

20.  What is the gravity of Mars comparing to the Earth?

Answer to Geography Quiz - 5

1.      A cluster of islands

2.      A level on the mountain above which snow lays permanently

3.      Stalactite

4.      Pumice

5.      The “Ring of fire” is a belt of volcanoes that nearly encircles the Pacific Ocean

6.      Cirrus clouds

7.      Violent tropical cyclones in Australia

8.      A warm dry wind blowing down the Alps across the Pampas

9.      Eight

10.  Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

11.  Mercury doesn’t really have an atmosphere

12.  5 billion years

13.  Earth and Mars

14.  Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

15.  Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

16.  330330 times

17.  Venus is 96% Carbon dioxide and 4% nitrogen

18.  78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, Carbon-dioxide 0.03%, and Inert gases 0.95%

19.  19% helium and the rest hydrogen

20.  Mars’s surface gravity is only 38 percent of the gravity of Earth

Geography Quiz - 6

1.      What is the speed of light?

2.      How far is our Earth from the Sun?

3.      How long does it take for light from the Sun to reach Earth?

4.      How fast does the Sun travel?

5.      How many years does the Sun take to make one revolution of the Milky Way Galaxy?

6.      Name the only known planet where life began about 600 million years ago.

7.      Which planets are also called as ‘rocky’ or’ terrestrial’ planets?

8.      Name the four gas giant planets having rings.

9.      What is the asteroid belt?

10.  Name the world’s most powerful telescopes.

11.  In which year Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary and into the vast region at the edge of our solar system?

12.  Name the ‘largest gulf in the world’?

13.  Name the mountain ranges, stretching for nearly 1000 miles, from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.

14.  Name the World’s Warmest Sea?

15.  What is the main difference between a Hurricane and a Tornado?

16.  What is the geographical term for ‘a ring-shaped coral island’?

17.  Euphrates River is the source of which country?

18.  Name two countries that are separated by the Strait of Malacca?

19.  Which country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula was previously known as Aden?

20.  What porous volcanic-rock floats on water?

Answer to Geography Quiz - 6

1.      Approximately 300,000,000 m / s

2.      149.6 million km

3.      8 minutes

4.      220km/s

5.      225-250 million years

6.      Earth

7.      Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

8.      Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

9.      A zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

10.  Hubble

11.  2007

12.  The Gulf of Mexico

13.  The Caucasus

14.  The Red Sea

15.  A Hurricane is a storm with violent wind, rain, thunder and lightning. A tornado is a violent, destructive, funnel- shaped whirlwind that travels in a narrow path over the land

16.  An atoll

17.  Armenia

18.  Malaysia and Indonesia

19.  Yemen

20.  Pumice