Geography Online Quiz Test

Copper mining is a significant business in the US, and in 2020 an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of the metal were unearthed. Bolivia's mines had produced cassiterite, the chief source of tin, since 1861. Mexico is the number-one silver-producing country in the world.

A hailstorm is an unusual weather phenomenon in which balls of ice, called hail, fall from the sky. It is formed when drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of thunderstorm clouds.

Iron and Steel, Aluminium and Cement industries maximise savings on transport costs by being located near the sources of materials.

The Campos, grassland with few trees or shrubs except near streams, lies between 24°S and 35°S; it includes parts of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, and all of Uruguay.

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.

In frost covered plants, ice crystals form inside plant cells. These crystals cause expansion of cells. Cells can expand up to a certain limit, after which they got ruptured and plants ultimately are killed due to mechanical damage.

Delhi (city) has the maximum number of registered vehicles (over ten million). Maharashtra (state) had the highest number of registered motor vehicles (over 30 million).

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in India as well as the largest lake in North East India. It is famous for the phumdis floating over it. The lake is located at Moirang in Manipur.

Most of the major rivers of the peninsula such as the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Cauvery (Kaveri) flow eastwards and drain into the Bay of Bengal. West flowing rivers such as the Narmada, the Tapi drained into the Arabian Sea.