Continents/Poles/Equator
What is the biggest continent in the world?
a) Asia b) Africa c) North America
Asia (44,391,162 square kilometres)
Which is bigger? (km2)
a) China
b) Brazil
c) Russia
d) Canada
c) Russia (17,098,242 square kilometres)
Which river is longer?
a) the Amazon
b) the Nile
c) the Mississippi
a) OR b)! The Amazon, in South America, is about 7,000 km long and the Nile, in Africa, is about 6,900 km long, but it depends on where you start measuring them.
What has a bigger number of legs - a spider or a butterfly?
A spider (8 legs). (A butterfly has 6 legs.)
Which plant has faster growth in the world?
a) seaweed
b) bamboo
c) roses
b) bamboo (seaweed is not a plant - it is a type of algae.)
What is the smallest continent in the world?
South America b) Australia c) Antarctica
b) Australia (9,008,500 square kilometres)
Which country is smaller?
a) the Vatican
b) Monaco
c) Colombia
d) Madagascar
a) The Vatican (0.44 square kilometres)
What's taller, a giraffe or an African elephant?
A giraffe - the tallest male giraffe was about 5.9 metres tall.(The tallest elephant ever recorded was only 4 metres tall.)
How tall is the tallest tree in the world?
a) about 56m
b) about 116m
c) about 216 m
c) about 116m. A redwood tree in California, named Hyperion, was measured at 115.92 metres tall.
Where are penguins more common - in Antarctica or at the North Pole?
In Antarctica. There are no penguins at the North Pole.
Which country is bigger, Australia or the USA?
The USA (9.8 million square kilometres) (Australia's area is about 7.7 million square kilometres.)
Which animal has a longer life - elephants or mice?
Elephants. The oldest elephant in the world died at age 86. Mice only live for a few years at the most.
Which plant is more poisonus?
a) death cap mushrooms
b) oleander flowers
b) oleander flowers. Mushrooms are not plants - they are a type of fungus.
Which continent has a larger population - Africa or Asia?
Asia (about 4.4 billion people) (Africa has about 1.2 billion people)
Which is wealthier?
a) Macau (in East Asia)
b) Qatar (in the Middle East)
c) the USA
b) Qatar (Macau=3rd, USA= 13th. International Money Fund, 2017)
Which waterfall is _____________ - the Niagara Falls in Canada or Angel Falls in Venezuela? (tall)
Angel Falls (979 metres tall). (Horseshoe Falls, which is the tallest part of the Niagara Falls, is only 57m tall.)
What is faster - a kangaroo or a horse?
A kangaroo- the fastest speed ever recorded was 71km/h. The fastest speed ever recorded for a horse was 70.76 km/h.
Indonesia has the biggest flower in the world.
It isn't very pretty and it smells horrible!
How wide is it?
a) about 30
b) about 50
c) about 100
c) about 100
Which of these cities is closer to the equator?
a) Sydney (Australia)
b) Tokyo (Japan)
c) London (UK)
d) New York City (USA)
a) Sydney. Its latitude is 33.8688° S.
Which country is happier ?
a) Australia
b) Norway
c) Costa Rica
b) Norway. (Australia= 9th, Costa Rica=12th. United Nations "World Happiness Report" 2017)
Australia is one of the driest continents.
How much of it is desert?
a) 10%
b) 35%
c) 55%
35%
Which country's snakes are more dangerous - Australia's or New Zealand's?
Australia's. There are no native snakes in New Zealand!
How old is the oldest living tree on Earth?
a) about 120 years old
b) about 500 years old
c) about 5,000 years old
d) about 10,000 years old
c) about 5,000 years old. (The unnamed pine tree, which is in the White Mountains in the USA, is 5,066 years old.)