Important Geography Quiz 20
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Term the area in which the river enters a lager body of water?
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When water vapour in the atmosphere condenses it falls as rain, snow, sleet or hail. What is called this process?
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Name the layer which extends to about 48 km above the earth's surface and within this layer is ozone layer?
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Name the tide which occurs when sun, moon and earth are in a straight line and gravitational forces of sun and moon are combined?
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How is known the area that lies at a lower elevation than the land surrounding it?
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Steep sided, long and narrow area of elevated land is called as:
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What are called the strips or ridges of coral, sand or rock that lie along the edges of oceans?
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What world is used to mention difference in elevation between the top and bottom of landform?
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Which of the following is the tropical wind that blows strongest in, Pakistan India and Southeast Asia. During winter this wind blows from the land to sea and in summer it blows from sea onto land?
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What is commonly known a grassland with scattered trees and shrubs?
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When sun appears directly over the equator then both poles of the earth are at equal distance from the sun. At this time day and night are equal in length all over the world. What this phenomenon is called?
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What is called the body of salt water the covers part of the surface of the earth?
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How is known the highest point of the mountain?
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Name the large and nearly level area of elevated land?
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The term "silt" refers to:
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What does mean by prairie?
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Ozone layer contains ozone gas molecules, which are formed as sunlight reacts with oxygen. How it protects life on earth?
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How is known the long deep valley bounded by normal faults?
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Which phenomenon occurs when land and water absorb and lose heat from the sun at different rates?
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Name the land which borders a body of water?
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Within the stratosphere, about 24 km above earth's surface what is present?
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Thich, grey, low-level clouds that form at altitudes as low as 610 metres (2,000 feet) are called:
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Name the body of salt water which is more or less land locked?
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What is called the region which can be adjacent to the Tropics of Capricorn and cancer?
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Usually damming rivers make natural or artificical lakes. What is it called?
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Which of the following is a small body of standing water which is sufficiently shallow for the plants to grow across its floor?
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How is known a low place in mountain range used for transport route?
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Which theory provides a useful way to explain the causes of earthquakes, volcanoes, mid-oceanic ridges and other geological features?
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In water, what is called a narrow channel between tow areas of land?
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How is termed the maridian of longitude O?, from which all other longitudes are measured?
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When the gravitational forces of the sun and Moon are acting at 90? to each other, the smallest difference between high and low tides occurs during this stage. What this process is called?
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How is known the place in the desert that has a water supply?
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What refers to a particular geographical region or the surface features of an area?
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What is called a source of groundwater flowing naturally from soil to rock?
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What would be called the climate that is neither very cold nor very hot?
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Which of the follwing phrases is used for a large natural stream that drains a large area of land and eventually flows into another river, lake or ocean?
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What are called grasslands of middle latitude, semi-arid regions?
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Term, imaginary line that runs east and west and connects points of equal latitude on the globe?
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Evergreen forest grows in the regions with high rainfall are called:
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What indicates the permanent frozen layer of soil and water that occurs in tundra climates in arctic, subarctic and alpine regions?
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How is called the How is called the basic type of cloud, the rain cloud?
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The average level of the surface of the ocean is called:
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How is known the summit or highest part of a mountain which is usually steep-sided?
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Northernmost geographical point of the earth is known as:
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Earth's crust is divided into large and rigid segments. What these segments are called?
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What indicates the stretch of a river where the water flows fast and usually over or around rocks?
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How is known the narrow body of water which connects two larger bodies of water?
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Name the wetland in which trees or shrubs are the dominant form of vegetation?
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What is called the area of land surrounded by water on three sides?
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Narrow, deep valley, which has been eroded by the running water of a stream or a river, is called:
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