Countries
Capital Cities
World Heritage
Weather
Geo Knowledge
100
The country that recently had the worst oil spill in Maritime history
What is The United States of America
100
The capital city of Australia
What is Canberra
100
The World Heritage-listed reef off the coast of Queensland
What is the Great Barrier Reef
100
A fancy name for a weather map
What is a synoptic chart
100
The highest mountain in the world
What is Mt Everest
200
The country that held the recent soccer world cup
What is South Africa
200
The capital of China
What is Beijing
200
A branch of the United Nations that is involved in protecting and managing World Heritage sites.
What is UNESCO
200
A line on a synoptic chart joining places of equal air pressure
What is an isobar
200
A type of map where height is shown using countour lines of equal height
What is a topographic map
300
The country that held the Winter Olympics in February of this year
What is Canada
300
The capital city of the United Kingdom
What is London
300
Criteria 1 - 6 are representative of which type of World heritage Criteria
What is Cultural Criteria
300
The direction that the wind blows in low pressure systems in the Southern Hemisphere
What is Clockwise
300
Grid lines that run around the world from east to west
What is latitude
400
The country that is holding the Commonwealth Games next month
What is India
400
The capital of Indonesia
What is Jakarta
400
The total amount of World Heritage sites in 2010
What is 911
400
The type of system is____, if the centre of it reads 1024 hectopascals, and the lines going out are 1022, 1020, 1018 and 1016
What is a high pressure system
400
The ocean off the coast of Sydney
What is the Pacific Ocean
500
The country that had a devastating earthquake in January of this year
What is Haiti
500
The capital city of Sri Lanka
What is Colombo
500
"to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius" is criteria number
What is criteria 1
500
Represented by a line with triangles on a synoptic chart
What is a cold front
500
All maps must have BOLTS - what do these letters stand for?
What is Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale