geography Flashcards
What is geomorphology?
Form and structure of the surface of the earth
What is climatology?
Makes use of meteorology and deals with climatic conditions
What is biogeography?
It makes use of biology and is associated with the distribution of plant and animal life
What is soil’s geography?
It deals with the distribution of soil
what is pedology?
It is the study of soil including types
Which is the fastest planet?
Mercury
What is the most dense planet?
Venus
What is the least dense planet?
Saturn
Which planet is most tilted on its axis?
Uranus
Which planets moon Nereid has the most eccentric orbit?
Neptune
Which is the largest island?
Greenland
Which is the highest volcanic mountain?
Ojos Del Salado
Which Canal connects London and Baltic ports?
kiel canal
Which Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the red sea?
Suez canal
Which Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific ocean?
Panama Canal
Which is the highest waterfall? In the world
Angel Falls, Venezuela
How many nations are recognised by the Olympics?
206
What is the new name of the place of Constantinople?
Istanbul
What is the new name of Madagascar?
Malagasy
What is the old name of Japan?
Nippon
What is the new name of Egypt?
United Arab Republic
What is the old name of Ghanna?
Gold Coast
What is known as the battlefield of Europe?
Belgium
What is known as the city of the Golden Gate?
San Francisco
What is known as the city of popes?
Rome
What is known as the city of seven Hills?
Rome
What is known as the cockpit of Europe?
Belgium
What is known as the dairy of northern Europe? What is known as the Emerald city? What is known as the Empire city? What is known as the eternal city?
Denmark, Ireland, New York, Rome
What is known as the forbidden city? What is known as the gift of Nile? What is known as the holy land? What is known as the island of pearls? What is known as the land of cakes? What is known as the land of flying fish? What is known as the land of golden fleece?
Lhasa Lhasa,, Egypt, Palestine, Bahrain, Scotland, Barbados, Australia
What is known as the land of the Golden pagoda? What is known as the land of kangaroos? What is known as the land of the midnight sun? What is known as the land of milk and honey? What is known as the land of the rising Sun? What is known as the land of the thousand lakes?
Myanmar, Australia, Norway, Cannan, Japan, Finland
What is known as the land of white elephants, what is known as the lady of snow, what is known as the playground of Europe? What is known as the Queen of the Arabian Sea? What is known as the roof of the world? What is known as the sorrow of China?
Thailand, Canada, Switzerland, Kochi, Pamir Tibet, river Hwang Ho
What is known as the sick man of Europe,? What is known as the. Sugar bowl of the world? What is known as the store house of the world? What is known as the city of Arabian nights?
Turkey, Cuba, Mexico, Baghdad
Who is the major producer of rice?
China
Who is the major producer of corn?
USA
Who is the largest producer of coffee?
Brazil
Who is the largest producer of cotton?
China
Is the largest producer of wheat?
European Union
Who is the largest producer of tea?
China
The Durand line is b/w which two countries?
line demarcating India and Afghanistan
What is the name of the boundary dividing Germany and Poland?
Hindenburg line
What is the name of the boundary demarcating Russia and Finland?
Mannerheim line
What is the name of the line demarcating India and Pakistan?
Radcliffe line
What is the line demarcating India and Pakistan as declared by Pakistan?
24th parallel
Which line divides North Korea and South Korea?
38th parallel
The what is the boundary between US and Canada?
49th parallel
VELD temperate grasslands are located where?
South America
The worldwide rise or fall in the sea level is referred to as – – – –
Eustacy
