Geography
Geography
Ancient Peoples
Intro Geology
Intro geology
100
How many continents are there?
What is 7 continents? Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
100
What is the largest US state by area?
What is Alaska?
100
What country is Machu Picchu located in?
What is Peru?
100
What is the most well known fault in California?
What is the San Andreas Fault? The earth is slipping along the San Andreas fault at a rate of about 2" per year. This means that in about 15 millions years Los Angeles and San Francisco will be neighbors.
100
What is the hardest known mineral on Earth?
What is a diamond?
200
What is the Earth's largest continent?
What is Asia?
200
What is the deepest natural point on Earth? (not manmade)
What is the Mariana Trench? At 35,814 ft. below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger deep.
200
Where is the ancient Aztec city, Tenochtitlan located?
What is modern day Mexico City? The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco.
200
What causes a tsunami?
What is earthquakes, landslides/rock fall, volcanoes, and meteorite impact? The most common is megathrust earthquakes on the seafloor.
200
Where is one of the largest known volcanoes in the world and the largest volcanic system in North America?
What is under Yellowstone in Wyoming? It is a giant caldera
300
Where is the tallest mountain (above sea level) located?
What is Nepal, the Himalayas? Mount Everest stands at 29,035 feet.
300
After Alaska, which US state has the longest coastline?
What is Florida? Alaska's coastline spans 6,640 miles, Florida's coastline spans 1,350 miles, and California's spans 840 miles.
300
Where was writing first developed?
What is Mesopotamia? Scholars generally agree that the earliest form of writing appeared almost 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq)
300
What is the most dominant element in the air we breath?
What is nitrogen? Our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen.
300
Where was the largest tsunami ever recorded?
What is Lituya Bay a fjord in Alaska? A 1,720 foot tsunami triggered by a giant rockfall that displaced the water.
400
Where is the tallest mountain (measuring base to summit) located?
What is Hawaii? The mountain is called Mauna Kea at a total height of 33,500 feet.
400
What is the area commonly known as the Bermuda triangle?
What is the North Atlantic Ocean, between Florida and Puerto Rico?
400
Lascaux Cave is a Paleolithic cave that houses some of the most famous examples of prehistoric cave paintings, close to 600. Where is the cave located?
What is southwestern France?
400
What type of plate boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
What is a Divergent boundary?
400
Where is the deepest manmade hole on the Earth and deepest artificial point on Earth?
What is Russia (Kola Borehole)? In the Kola Peninsula deep in the Arctic Circle. Locals swear you can hear screams coming from it. (40,230 ft. deep)
500
What is the driest place on Earth?
What is the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica?
500
By area, what is the smallest country in the world?
What is Vatican City?
500
Lucy, the name given to several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus was discovered where?
What is Ethiopia? Lucy is dated to about 3.2 million years ago
500
What geologic theory explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past?
What is Plate Tectonics?
500
You know that asteroid strike that helped trigger Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction (the dinosaurs). Where is the crater from that strike located?
What is the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico? The Chicxulub crater, with a depth of 12 mi and a diameter of 93 mi