Physical Geography Online Quiz

A geosynchronous orbit is located at 35,786 km above Earth's equator. This position is a valuable spot for monitoring weather, communications and surveillance. Geosynchronous orbit is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.

A biome is a large geographical area that contains distinct plant and animal groups which are adapted to live in that environment. They are the interactions between biota, such as plants and animals, within the environment, and many ecosystems can make up a single biome.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates (Earth's outermost layer) are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere.

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, and is also where nearly all weather conditions take place. It contains 75% of the atmosphere's mass and 99% of the total mass of water vapour and aerosols.

A geyser is a spring characterized by an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam.

Mongoloids people are concentrated in the nearby areas of the Himalayas, e.g. Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and other areas of the north-eastern India.

The sphere of living matter together with water, air and soil on the surface of the earth is known as Biosphere. The biosphere, also known as the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610.