Tectonics & Geology
River and hydrology
Environment
Weather & Climate
Coast & Ocean
100
Mount Fuji is a famous volcano in Japan. Is it a shield or a stratovolcano?
Stratovolcano
100
Known as the greek word for 'triangle', what is the name of the depositional landform usually found on the estuary of river?
Delta
100
"Clear waters and green mountains are as valuable as gold and silver mountains"（“绿水青山就是金山银山”）
Who said this sentence?
President Xi Jinping
100
What is the name of the white wooden box used to install several weather instruments?
Stevenson Screen
100
Amanohashidate (天橋立) is a thin ridge of sand formed on the coastline. What kind of depositional landform is this called?
Sand spit
200
Subduction zone means a plate moves underneath another one. This can be usually found in which kind of plate boundary?
Convergent/Destructive/Collision plate boundary
200
During the Sino-Japan war, General Chiang Kai Shek destroyed the embankment of which Chinese river in Henan to prevent Japanese army invading southward?
Yellow River
200
Excessive artificial lighting can cause the invisibility of galaxy. What kind of pollution is this?
Light pollution
200
Cape of Goodhope, California and Southern Europe all share which kind of climate with a dry summer and wet winter?
Mediterranean Climate
200
Chinese government set up the city of Sansha to manage the islands and other natural resources on which sea?
South China Sea
300
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge is formed on which kind of plate boundary?
Divergent/constructive plate boundary
300
In Tarim Basin, water are retained internally without any outflow. What kind of basin is this called?
Endorheic basin
300
Catalyst converter in a car can reduce the emission of which two acidic contaminations in car exhaust?
Nitrogen Monoxide & Nitrogen Dioxide
300
What is the storm that forms in tropical area, being called Typhoon in Asia and Hurricane in America?
Tropical Cyclone
300
What is the name of large-scale movement of sea water in the ocean?
Ocean current
400
In 1975, Chinese geologists successfully predicted an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 in which province?
Liaoning
(Haicheng Earthquake, 04-02-1975)
400
Recently China started to build several hydropower plants in Nyingchi, Tibet on which river?
Yarlung Zangpo River/Brahmaputra River
400
Excess usage of fertilisers may lead to some of them being washed into water bodies.
What is the phenomenon that nutrients of fertilisers accumulate in water and lead to disruption of ecosystem?
Eutrophication
400
When two air masses of different density and temperature meet, what is the boundary separating them?
Weather front
400
What is the special name refers to an earthquake happened in the sea?
Tsunami
500
Karst landform is formed when what kind of rock undergoes a chemical weathering?
Limestone/Calcium Carbonate
500
What is the name of the underground layer bearing water?
Aquifer
500
Minamata disease (水俣病) is a kind of disease caused by the poisoning of which heavy metal element?
Mercury
500
Generally low altitude area is hotter than the high altitude area.
If the low altitude area has a lower temperature than high altitude area, what weather phenomenon happened?
Temperature inversion
500
With a Spanish name meaning 'The boy', what is the phenomenon for the temperature of sea water of East Pacific to increase unusually?
El Niño