Earthquakes
What is the name of the small earthquakes that occur after an earthquake.
What country in the Pacific has the capital city of Suva?
Fiji
What is the bottom of a river called?
The River Bed
France is in which continent?
Europe
What is the 5th planet from the sun?
Jupiter
Earthquakes are caused by large tears across the earth known as:
Fault Lines or Plate Boundaries
Which of these is closer to New Zealand: North Pole or South Pole?
South Pole.
This river, in Te Reo, is called Waikirikiri, which translates as Gravelly Stream.
The Selwyn River.
What language do they speak in Brazil?
Portuguese.
What is the scientific family name for Spiders?
Arachnid
The two major earthquakes that occurred in Christchurch occurred in what two years?
2010 and 2011
What are the three cultural/ethnic groups found in the Pacific Islands?
Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian
What is the longest river in New Zealand?
The Waikato river.
This country is famous for the 'Leaning Tower of Pisa'
Italy
What is the last name of the brothers famous for being the first to create a powered airplane?
Wright Brothers
What town in the middle of the Southern Alps is at risk of complete destruction if an earthquake hits its location due to a fault line running through its petrol station?
Franz Josef
Name one of New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands.
Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Snares Islands
The process of destroying the physical material around a river through constant water motion is called what?
Erosion.
How many neighbors does Vietnam have?
Three - Cambodia, Laos, China.
King Henry the 8th had how many wives before he died?
Six - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
What is the name of the fluid that seeps out of the ground after an earthquake?
Liquefaction.
What island group is split in two between an independent country and the United States?
Samoa
What is the name given to a smaller river that feeds into a larger central river?
Tributary
True or False: United Kingdom and Spain are neighbors.
True, through a small piece of land in Spain called Gibraltar, owned by the United Kingdom.
The subject of 'Algebra' gets its name from which language?
Arabic - الجبر (al-jabr)