World Geography Online Quiz

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The Equator is the greatest circle of earth. If you were to cut into the Earth right on its Equator, you’d have two equal halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The Equator is the only east-west line that is a great circle. All other parallels (lines of latitude) get smaller as you get near the poles.

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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.

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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.

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The biggest buyers of cut flowers are the EU and the US, but the biggest growers and exporters are the Netherlands, Ecuador, Colombia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Roses, carnations and chrysanthemums are the most popular blooms.

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The London Metal Exchange (LME) is a futures and forwards exchange with the world’s largest market in standardised forward contracts, futures contracts and options on base metals.

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In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero is the point on the ground directly below the nuclear detonation and is sometimes called the hypocenter. The World Trade Center (in New York) site, formerly referred to as “Ground Zero” or “the Pile” immediately after the September 11 attacks.

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New Britain and New Ireland is the island of Papua New Guinea. New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.

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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.

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The Garden of Eden or Garden of God, also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31. Location of the Garden of Eden include the head of the Persian Gulf, as argued by Juris Zarins, in Kutch region of South Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in the Armenian Highlands or Armenian Plateau.

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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.

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The Black Forest is a mountainous region in southwest Germany, bordering France. Known for its dense, evergreen forests and picturesque villages, it is often associated with the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

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Infrastructure sector includes power, bridges, dams, roads, and urban infrastructure development. Food production is not in the infrastructure sector.

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Heligoland is located 46 kilometres off the German coastline.

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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is the world’s biggest hydroelectric facility.

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In spite of the shortage of raw material (iron and coal), Japan has become one of the leading steel producers of the world. After China, Japan is the second largest producer of pig iron and crude steel in the world.

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Greenland is the world’s largest island, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.

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The Roof of the World or Top of the World is a metaphoric description of the high region in the world. The term usually refers to the mountainous interior of Asia, including the Pamirs, the Himalayas, the Tibet, the Tian Shan, and the Altai Mountains.

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The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India.

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The time increases at a rate of 4 minutes per one degree of longitude, east of the Prime Meridian.

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Kazakhstan produces the largest share of uranium from mines (approx 42% of world supply), followed by Canada (13%) and Australia (12%).

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Agro-based and Mine-based is the classification of Industries on the basis of raw materials.

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According to the FAO, agriculture leads to around 80% of deforestation. Due to the overgrowing demand for food products, a huge amount of trees are felled to grow crops, and 33% of agriculture-caused deforestation is because of subsistence agriculture.

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The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

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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.

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Energy that is produced commercially from coal is called Thermal energy.

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The English Channel is considered the busiest shipping lane in the world and a critical route in the European shipping network. It connects the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

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The McMahon Line is the effective boundary between China and India. This line was determined by Sir Henry McMahon, then Foreign Secretary in the Government of British India. The length of this line is 890 kilometers. The McMahon line was the result of the Shimla Treaty of 1914 which took place between India and Tibet.

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

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The capital of North Korea is Pyongyang. Seoul is the capital of North Korea.

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The Golden Crescent of South Asia comprises Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. This region is considered a global hub for heroin and morphine production.

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The Baltoro Glacier, at 63 km in length, is one of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions. It is located in Gilgit-Baltistan region of POK. It runs through part of the Karakoram mountain range.

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China is the largest producer of world’s mica. Following China is Rus, Finland, USA.

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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.

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The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands from each other in the Bay of Bengal. The two sets of islands together form the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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The Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia) is the longest railway in the world. It was built between 1891 and 1916 to connect Moscow with the Far-East city of Vladivostok (9,198 km).

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The Gulf stream is a strong current of warm water which influences the climate of the east coast of Florida, keeping temperatures there warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer than the other southeastern states. Since the Gulf Stream also extends toward Europe, it warms Western European countries as well.

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Presence of more plankton that are food for fish avail large numbers of fish. In the northern hemisphere, there are extensive continental shelves which favour fishing grounds. The rugged and hilly terrain make agriculture difficult, many people opt for fishing as the main economic activity hence its development.

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The total forest area in world is approximately 4.06 billion hectares. Forests are not equally distributed around the globe. More than half of the world’s forests are found in only five countries (1st-Russia, 2nd-Brazil, 3rd-Canada, 4th-USA and 5th-China) and two-thirds (66 percent) of forests are found in ten countries.

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The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Ozone hole over the Antarctic is one of the largest and deepest in recent years. Analyses show that the hole has reached its maximum size.

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The Tin Bigha Corridor is a strip of land belonging to India on the West Bengal–Bangladesh border which, in September 2011, was leased to Bangladesh so the country could access its Dahagram–Angarpota enclave from the mainland.

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When a sea has no access to the ocean then it is known as a land-locked sea.

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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.

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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.

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China produces the largest amount of aluminium in the world followed by India, Russia and Canada.

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Colima volcano, 3,820 m, also known as Volcan de Fuego, is part of the Colima Volcanic Complex consisting of Volcan de Colima, Nevado de Colima and the eroded El Cantaro. It is the youngest of the three and as of 2015 is one of the most active volcanos in Mexico and in North America.

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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.

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Bamboo is not tree but grass. However, the Indian Forest Act, 1927 considered it a tree. The Dragon bamboo also known as Giant Bamboo or Giant Burmese Bamboo- Dendrocalamus giganteus is the tallest known Grass in the world.

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An exclusive economic zone, as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. the coastal country may establish an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) extending 200 nautical miles (370 km) from shore.

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Uranium, plutonium and Thorium are the main atomic minerals. Other atomic minerals are beryllium, lithium and zirconium.

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The Earth’s equator is an imaginary planetary line that is about 40,075 km long in circumference. The equator divides the planet into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and is located at 0 degrees latitude, the halfway line between the North Pole and South Pole.

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A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed at an altitude of approximately 35,800 kilometers directly over the equator, that revolves in the same direction the earth rotates (west to east).

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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.

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