World Geography Online Quiz

A lighthouse is a high tower equipped with a bright light and lenses that help guide ships to port at night and alert sailors about sandbars, reefs, and rocky coastlines. Each lighthouse features a large lamp on top of the building. At night, it lights up when everything around is dark.

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.

Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5 degrees east longitude from the clock tower in Mirzapur near Allahabad Uttar Pradesh, which is situated approximately on the corresponding longitude reference line.

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.

Washington DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. The capital of the United States of America is located in Washington District of Columbia.

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.

The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.

The depletion of the ozone layer leads to the formation of the ozone hole which is maximum over Antarctica. The ozone hole has developed because people have polluted the atmosphere with chemicals containing chlorine and bromine.

Dikes are man-made structures that defend against natural forces like water, climate and altitude and are mostly constructed of material found on site. Over the centuries, the Netherlands (Holland) had frequently been flooding, from the rivers as well as the sea in varying degrees and severity.