Tectonics & Lithography
Which Japanese stratovolcano is the highest in Japan, and a tourist attraction near Tokyo as well?
Fuji
As the largest hydropower plant in the world, which dam is located in Yichang of Wuhan Province and took its name from a tourist attraction in Chongqing along the Yangtze River?
Three Gorges/Sanxia Dam
Formed due to the interruption of energy in the seawater caused by the wind, what is the marine process that can cause erosion, transportation and deposition of materials on the coast?
Wave
Commonly found on the equator, which kind of climate is famous for its heavy precipitation throughout the whole year and its biodiversity?
Rainforest climate
Carbon dioxide and methane are examples of what kind of gas that can cause increasing temperature of the world due to a namesake effect?
Greenhouse
What is the term referring to the state when one plate boundary moves beneath another one, usually found at the plate boundary between an oceanic and a continental plate?
Subduction
With a larger drainage basin area than Yangtze River and longer total length than Yellow River, which Northeastern-Asian River gave its name to both a province of China and a federal subject of Russia?
Amur/Heilong River
Influenced by the prevailing wind near the coastline, what’s the process describing the movement of the sediments on the coastline by the wave in a zig-zag way?
Longshore drift
A hygrometer is a weather instrument that measures the humidity of air, but it also contains which instrument for measurement of temperature?
Thermometer
American city of Atlanta is also called ‘Hotlanta’, due to which effect that depicts the higher temperature in urban area than the surrounding rural area?
(Urban) heat island
What is the name of the enormous belt of earthquakes and fire around the Pacific Ocean?
Ring of Fire
Northern China Plain is an example of a floodplain formed due to the river process, which put down sediments in the river due to lower energy of water in the river?
Deposition
What do we call the phenomena where seawater flows in a direction in the ocean because of reasons like wind, density, salinity and temperature difference?
Ocean current
Containing the Tarim River, the longest endorheic river in China, which desert is the largest in China, located between the Tianshan and Kunlun Mountain ranges?
Taklamakan Desert
Syracuse is a city in New York state of the USA famous for its heavy snow, this is because it is located near which huge system of water containing five lakes in Northern America?
The Great Lakes
Cape Verde and Hawaii are volcanic islands formed by which kind of volcanic locales in the centre of tectonic plates?
Hot spot
What term refers to water flowing on the surface of the land, which can cause soil erosion?
Surface runoff/Overland flow
Cities like Vladivostok, Niigata and Busan are all located on the coastline of which Northeastern Asian Sea between the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria and Japan?
Nihonkai/Sea of Japan
Called a typhoon in Asia and a hurricane in America, what is the general term for the windstorm that forms over the sea and brings strong winds and rain to coastal areas?
Due to the monsoon from the Pacific Ocean, Huoshaoliao village gets the highest annual precipitation in the entire East Asia, which is located on the eastern shore of which Chinese Island?
Taiwan
Rocks like Basalt, Granite and Andesite are all which type of rock formed due to the condensation of magma or lava?
Igneous rock
Lake Kariba and Lake Volta are the two largest reservoirs in the world by volume and surface area respectively, which are both located in which continent with rivers like Volta, Zambezi and Congo?
Africa
Countries like France, China and Germany all have military bases in an African country called Djibouti to guard the safety of navigation of which sea between Northeastern Africa and the Arabic Peninsula?
Red Sea
What unit measures each one-eighth of the sky covered by clouds?
Oktas
With a Spanish name means ’boy’, what is the phenomena that describes the increased seawater temperature in Eastern Pacific Ocean?
El Niño