Geographical Epithets Quiz 1
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What are the Roaring Forties?
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What is the latitude of the Arctic Circle?
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What is the more common name for the winds that are sometimes called the Anti-trades?
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What are those unique "Pillar" formations found limestone caves?
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What is an oasis and where would you find it?
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From which language is the word "Monsoon" derived?
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In which part of the world would you find cyclones?
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What do contours on maps indicate?
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Who or what are Mollweide, Bonne and Gall?
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How are heights of land expressed?
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What are the Doldrums?
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What is loess?
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What common feature do Intermountain, Piedmont, and Continental describe?
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When is the Summer Solstice?
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What happens during the equinoxes?
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What are the Selvas?
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The surface of the earth is about 500 million sq. km. About how much of this is water?
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Four of the five most populous countries are also among the five largest countries in the world by area. Which is the fifth largest by area?
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Where is the Torrid Zone?
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Which one is the smallest planet?
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What happens when ships cross the International Date Line?
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When is the Vernal Equinox?
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What is sometimes referred to as the World Ocean?
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What does the scale 1: 1,000,000 represent in linear measure?
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Where would you find the Trade Winds?
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Which ocean surrounds Antarctica?
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What have Humboldt, Benguela and Kuro Siwo in common?
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Which expedition was the first to sail round the world and conclusively prove that the Earth is round?
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Which is the busiest ocean of the world in normal times?
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What is Cash Crop?
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What is the upper part of the atmosphere called?
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What have the Sirocco, Fohn and Mistral in common?
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What is another name for a Highland climate?
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Which is the specific feature of the Mercator Projection?
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What is the Continental Shelf?
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What are permeable rocks?
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Which part of the earth is the South Temperate Zone?
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What do the USSR, China, Brazil, India, and the USA have in common?
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How many times does the Earth move round the Sun in a year?
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Which is the most densely populated continent?
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How many satellites does the largest planet have?
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What are Chernozem soils?
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What is stock farming?
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If the water surrounding the land man lives on is called the hydrosphere, what is the rocky crust of the earth on which we live called?
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Which is the hottest place on earth?
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What is the distance around the earth at the Equator?
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Outside Antarctica, which is the deepest part of the earth?
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Which part of the world is regularly visited by tornadoes?
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What happens in land that is in the rain shadow?
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Which one is the Earth's satellite?
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