Geography Online Quiz Test

The International Date Line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth. It is located halfway round the world from the prime meridian—the zero degrees longitude established in Greenwich, England, in 1852.

Heligoland is located 46 kilometres off the German coastline.

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.

A falling air pressure generally means there is an approaching storm that will arrive within the next 12 to 24 hours.

Equatorial regions experience hot and humid climates because this region receives direct sunlight, water from the sea gets heated and is evaporated at a high rate. The moistures in the water vapours cause humidity.

The different types of clouds are cumulus, cirrus, stratus and nimbus. Cirrus clouds are short, detached, hair-like clouds found at high altitudes. These delicate clouds are wispy, with a silky sheen, or look like tufts of hair.

Shifting cultivation is a mode of farming long followed in the humid tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. In the practice of “slash and burn”, farmers would cut the native vegetation and burn it, then plant crops in the exposed, ash-fertilized soil for two or three seasons in succession.

The river Damodar is called the sorrow of Bengal because it brought floods and destruction. The river Hwang Ho was also known as the 'Sorrow of China' because it often used to change its course after floods.

Leh gets occasional snowfall during winter. The weather in the remaining months is generally fine and warm during the day. The average annual rainfall is only 102 mm (4.02 inches).

The Narmada, Periyar and Tapti are the only long rivers, which flow west and make estuaries. An estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. When freshwater and seawater combine, the water becomes brackish, or slightly salty.