Geography Online Quiz Test

Digboi refinery is known as birthplace of the Oil Industry in India. It was commissioned on 11 December 1901. It has the distinction of being Asia's first refinery and one of the oldest still in operation.

Africa was known as the “Dark Continent” because it remained unexplored for a fairly long period of time.

Mohorovicic Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the Earth's crust from the subjacent mantle at depths of 30–50 km below the continents and 5–10 km below sea level in the oceans.

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.

Winters more severe in Southern Hemisphere than in Northern Hemisphere because of more iceberg activity in Southern Hemisphere. Northern Hemisphere is 39% land and 61% ocean while Southern Hemisphere is 19% land and 81% ocean. As absorbing rate of land is much higher then water, land heat up quickly but water(ocean) take time. That is the reason the average temp in northern hemisphere is 15.2 degree C while that of southern hemisphere is 13.3 degree C.

The ionosphere is said to be responsible for lightning and propagation of radio waves. It is also responsible for ionizing the atmosphere by solar radiation. It is a 48 km to 965 km vertical stretch, which roughly overlaps the thermosphere and the exosphere.

Jammu and Kashmir is the only state in India where saffron is produced.

Ankleshwar oil field is situated in the Bharuch district and Kalol oil field is in Panchmahal district in Gujarat.

The Mettur Dam is the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Cauvery where it enters the plains. Mettur Dam Hydro Power Project is a small town in Salem District, Tamil Nadu.

The three major rainforests in India lie mainly in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Western Ghats and the Northeast Himalayas. However, some smaller ones can even be found in remote locations like Odisha, Naga Hills Manipur, etc.