Geography Quiz- Round 7 to 12 with Answers
GEOGRAPHY Quiz
by
Santosh Kumar Biswa, Bhutan, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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Geography
Quiz - 7
1.
Where is Thar Desert
located?
2.
Name the two largest deserts
in North and South Africa.
3.
Name the famous active and
highest volcano on the Island of Sicily, Europe?
4.
In which range of mountains
is Mt. Everest?
5.
Among the entire continent,
which continent does not have deserts?
6.
Where is K-2 mountain range?
7.
Where is Fujiyama Mountain?
8.
Where is Mt. Egmont?
9.
Where is Mt. Erebus?
10. Where is The Pennines Mt.?
11. Where is Mt. Popocatepetl?
12. What do you mean by Doldrums?
13. What is the capital of Morocco?
14. What name is given to the notorious tidal current in the Lofoten islands
off northern Norway?
15. What is Oasis?
16. What is Estuary?
17. What is Quicksand?
18. What is Glen?
19. Which capital city stands on the river Tiber?
20. On which river is the Aswan Dam?
Answer
to Geography Quiz - 7
1.
India
2.
Sahara (North), Kalahari
(South)
3.
Etna
4.
The Himalayas
5.
Europe
6.
Godwin Austen - Karakoram
7.
Japan
8.
North Island, New Zealand
9.
Ross Island, Antarctica
10. England
11. Mexico
12. The belt of low-pressure around the equator
13. Rabat
14. Maelstrom
15. A part of the desert where water and vegetation are found
16. A broad channel formed by the mingling of the sea and river water
17. A patch of ordinary sand Saturated by water from an underground source
that makes it soup-like
18. A secluded narrow valley
19. Rome
20. Nile
Geography
Quiz - 8
1.
Which is the ‘largest
freshwater lake’ in the world?
2.
Which ‘longest Spanish
river’ flow into the Mediterranean?
3.
Where are the North
Yolla-Bolly Mountains?
4.
Which Islands are surrounded
by New Zealand’s largest marine reserve?
5.
Name the New Zealand’s
largest lake.
6.
Where is the Alimentary
Canal located?
7.
Which line on a map connects
places of the same height?
8.
What is a line on a map
connecting places having equal amount of sunshine called?
9.
What is a line on a map
connecting place with the same amount of rainfall called?
10. What is the gentle breeze from the west, named after the Greek God of
the West Wind, Zephyrus called?
11. What is an Isthmus?
12. What is a bore on a river called?
13. Which line on a map connects places of the same height?
14. What is a strong cold wind of South America which blows across the
Pampas called?
15. What is a hot wind from the Sahara Desert called?
16. Name the ‘largest salt lake’ in the world
17. Where is a New Guinea island located?
18. Where is Java Island located?
19. What name is given to the Group of seventeen Atolls 400 miles south-west
of Sri Lanka?
20. In which country would you find both the rivers Oder and Vistula, which
flow into the Baltic Sea?
Answer
to Geography Quiz - 8
1.
Lake Superior
2.
The Ebro
3.
USA, California
4.
The Kermadec Islands
5.
Lake Taupe
6.
Northern part of Indiana
7.
Contour
8.
Isohels
9.
Isohyets
10. Zephyr
11. A narrow piece of land connecting 2 larger bodies of land
12. A tidal wave
13. Contour
14. Pampero
15. Sirocco
16. The Caspian Sea
17. South-west Pacific
18. Arabian Sea
19. The Maldives Islands
20. Poland
Geography
Quiz - 9
1.
Name two largest Passes
through the Austrian Alps.
2.
Name the mountain that forms
the ‘backbone of the Italian Peninsula’?
3.
What the well-known mountain
ranges in Turkey that has the name of a sign of the Zodiac?
4.
Where is The Victoria Falls?
5.
What geographical term is
the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet?
6.
Which mountain lies within
the territories of France, Switzerland and Italy?
7.
Which mountain range
separates Europe from Asia?
8.
What is the diameter of the
sun?
9.
At what speed does the earth
revolve around the sun?
10. What is the radius of the earth approximately?
11. Name the greatest archipelago on the globe?
12. Which planet has the shortest day?
13. Where is the sea of Tranquillity?
14. Name the pass that link China and India?
15. Name the biggest star in our galaxy.
16. What is Ox-bow lake?
17. Name the belt that goes between temperate grassland and Tundra?
18. Name the largest Dam is Asia.
19. Name the largest dam in India.
20. Which river crosses the Equator twice?
Answer to Geography Quiz – 9
1.
Brenner and Semmering
2.
The Apennines
3.
Taurus
4.
Zambezi
5.
Delta
6.
Mount Blanc
7.
The Ural Mountains
8.
1382000 km
9.
29.7 km/sec
10. 6400km
11. Indonesia
12. Mercury
13. Moon
14. The Karakoram pass
15. Proxima centauri
16. Lake formed due to cut off meander
17. The Taiga belt
18. Bakra Nangal Dam
19. Hirakud dam
20. Cango River
Geography
Quiz - 10
1.
Name the star that is
brighter than the sun.
2.
Who discovered the earth’s
revolution?
3.
Who discovered Neptune?
4.
Which geographical area is
part of both Chile and Argentina?
5.
Where is Blue Mountain?
6.
What is known as “The Power
Keg of Europe”?
7.
Which river is also called
as China’s sorrow?
8.
Where would you find the
Roof of the World in Asia?
9.
In which city was the famous
black hole in India?
10. Where in Africa is “White Man’s Grave”?
11. Which country is bordered by both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
12. What does ‘AU’ stand for?
13. At which degree latitude is the Equator?
14. At which degree longitude is the Greenwich Meridian?
15. At which degree longitude is the International Date Line?
16. Name the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
17. Which place in India is called as Land of Five Rivers?
18. Which river in India is called as Bengal’s Sorrow?
19. What is a layer of air all around our earth called?
20. What percent of nitrogen is present in the atmosphere?
Answer
to Geography Quiz - 10
1.
Egin star.
2.
Copernicus
3.
Joseph Leverrier
4.
Tierra del Fuego
5.
Nilgiris, South India
6.
The Balkans
7.
The Hwang-Ho
8.
The Pemir
9.
Calcutta
10. Guinea Coast
11. Republic of South Africa
12. Astronomical Unit
13. Zero
14. Zero
15. 180 degree
16. Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua
17. Punjab
18. Damodar River
19. Atmosphere
20. 78.09%
Geography
Quiz - 11
1.
Name the five major
atmospheric layers.
2.
Which layer of atmosphere
extends to a height of 8 km near the poles and 18 km near the Equator?
3.
Which layer of atmosphere
extends to a height of 80 km?
4.
Which layer of atmosphere
extends to 600 km and beyond up to 1050 km?
5.
Which layer of atmosphere
extends to a height of 50 km?
6.
Which layer of atmosphere
extends beyond 300 km?
7.
What is the main source of
heat for the Earth?
8.
Why do you think that the
noon is hotter than any other part of the day?
9.
What is insolation?
10. What is ‘Vertical distribution’ of the temperature?
11. What are the factors that affect the distribution of temperature?
12. What is ‘Horse Latitude’?
13. What are ‘Trade Winds’?
14. What is ‘Polar Belt’?
15. What is the hot, dry and dirty wind that blows from the Sahara Desert
across the Mediterranean to Italy called?
16. What do you mean by cyclones?
17. What are two types of cyclones?
18. What is the amount of wetness in the air called?
19. What according to you is the ‘Dew Point’?
20. What are nimbus clouds?
Answer
to Geography Quiz - 11
1.
The five major atmospheric
layers are:
·
The Troposphere,
·
The Stratosphere
·
The Mesosphere,
·
The Ionosphere, and
·
The Exosphere.
2.
The Troposphere
3.
The Mesosphere
4.
The Exosphere
5.
The Stratosphere
6.
The Ionosphere
7.
The Sun
8.
Because at noon the rays of
the Sun fall almost vertically on the ground
9.
Sudden prostration due to
exposure to the sun or excessive heat
10. When the heat is transferred from the particles of the lower layer of
the air to those of the upper layer, by contact
11. The factors that affect distribution of temperature are: latitude,
altitude, and distance from the sea
12. The high pressure belt
13. The wind which blow from the high pressure belts, lying north of the
Tropic of Cancer and South of the Tropic Capricorn, towards the Equatorial low
pressure belt
14. The winds that blow from the High Pressure Belts to Sub Polar Low
Pressure belts
15. Sirocco
16. The rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure centre;
circling counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the
southern
17. The two types of cyclones are: tropical cyclones and temperate cyclones
18. Humidity
19. The temperature at which the air gets saturated
20. The dark grey or black low-level clouds
Geography
Quiz - 12
1.
What is the extra amount of
water vapour which cannot be held by the air any longer is converted into
droplets of water or ice particles floating in the air called?
2.
What are the six forms of
condensation?
3.
Define clouds?
4.
Define mist?
5.
Define fog?
6.
Define frost?
7.
Define dew?
8.
Define hail?
9.
Name all the five oceans in
the Earth.
10. What keeps the ocean waters always moving?
11. What are useful to us in ascertaining geographical directions like north
and south on the Earth’s surface?
12. What is absolute humidity?
13. What instrument is used to measure relative humidity?
14. What separates Asia from Europe?
15. What is an area of Europe?
16. What are two main types of crust?
17. What is oceanic crust?
18. What is Continental crust?
19. What is the temperature in the core of the earth?
20. What is a geyser?
Answer
to Geography Quiz - 12
1.
Condensation
2.
The six forms of
condensation are: clouds, mist, fog, frost, dew, and hail
3.
A visible mass of water or
ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
4.
Droplet of water suspended
in the atmosphere close to the surface of the Earth
5.
Droplets of water vapour
suspended in the air near the ground
6.
Ice crystals forming a white
deposit (especially on objects outside)
7.
Water that has condensed on
a cool surface overnight from water vapour in the air
8.
Ice pellets falling from
clouds
9.
The five oceans in the Earth
are:
·
The Arctic Ocean,
·
The Pacific Ocean,
·
The Atlantic Ocean,
·
The Indian Ocean, and
·
The Antarctic Ocean
10. Waves, current, and tides
11. Stars
12. The actual amount of water-vapour present in the air
13. Hygrometer
14. The Ural Mountain and the Ural River
15. 10,400,000 square kilometres
16. Continental crust and oceanic crust
17. Thin and dense, composed mainly of basalt, 5 km thick in average
18. Thick and light, composed mainly of granite, 20 to 60 km thick
19. 4300 degree Celsius
20. A spring that discharges hot water and steam
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