General Geography Quiz 2
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What is the Gulf Stream?
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What is the science of making maps called?
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When a high area of land drops steeply, especially into the sea, what is the land formation that results called?
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What is the triangular landmass that forms at its mouth when a river splits into several branches just before entering the sea
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Outside the Mediterranean region, where else is a Mediterranean climate found?
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What is a more precise geogrphical name for a tableland?
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Which continent doesn't have a permanent population?
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These "rivers of ice" are always slowly on the move. What is their corect name?
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What is another name for the "Cold deserts" of the world?
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What is the approximate Russian equivalent of the prairie?
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What are those smaller rivers that flow into a large, main river called?
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What is the temperature of the sun estimated at approximately?
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What is significant about the town of Greenwich?
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What do you call a narrow neck neck of land that connects two larger landmasses?
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How many principal planets are there in the Solar System?
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Approximately when does the South-West Monsoon begin in Pakistan?
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What is the approximate African equivalent of the prairie?
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In what units is rainfall usually measured in Pakistan?
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Excluding Australia, generally treated as a continent, which is the largest island in the world?
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Which continent is in its entirety further north of the Equator?
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What is the water-surrounded bit of land called?
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What is a prairie?
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What do isobars indicate?
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What does a braometer indicate?
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What is a typhoon called in the Atlantic?
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What do Mauna Loa, Krakatoa and Stromboli have in common?
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What is the largest gorge in the world?
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In which part of the world would you find the Veld?
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How many degrees north and south are the Tropics?
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What is peninsula?
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Which water body surrounds the North Pole?
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What colour is laterite soil?
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What do isotherms indicate?
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Which is the largest Ocean?
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Which continent has the largest area of Equatorial Rain Forest?
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What is the time difference for every degree of longitude?
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The earth is not a true sphere. Then what is it?
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What is the difference between a fulf and a bay?
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What is geographical term for "land's end", that tip of land which projects into the sea?
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What meridian is the International Date Line?
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In which direction is the Tropic of Capricorn in relation to the Equator?
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What is a narrow waterway separating two bits of land called?
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How are alluvial plains formed?
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Where is the greatest ocean depth found?
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From West to East, what are the three main island groups in the Pacific called?
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How is density of population usually heasured?
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Which three continents have the largest areas of coniferous forest?
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What is the name given to the widened river mouth found at the point in river enters the sea?
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How did the Atlantic get its name?
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What is the difference between a lake and a tank?
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