Statistics
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
What is 70%
What is the capital of Canada?
What is Ottawa
Which ancient civilization, known for its pyramids, developed along the banks of the Nile River?
What is the Egyptian civilization?
What is the term for a sudden shaking of the ground, often caused by the movement of tectonic plates?
What is earthquake
What common geographical tool is used to determine direction and find one's way using a magnetic needle?
What is a compass
What is the population of the most populous country in the world as of 2022?
What is China
What is the capital of England?
What is London
Where is Mount Everest located?
What is in Himalayan Mountains
What was the event of the nuclear power plant in Ukraine that suffered a catastrophic reactor meltdown in 1986 called?
Which geographical tool, often associated with explorers, is used to measure angles and navigate using the position of celestial objects, such as the sun and stars?
What is a sextant
What is the approximate Earth's circumference in kilometers?
What is around 25.000 thousand miles
What is the capital of Germany?
What is Berlin
Why was the Great Wall of China, which spans over 13,000 miles, built?
What is to serve as a defensive force
What do we call a large, destructive ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption?
What is a tsunami
What is the purpose of a topographic map?
What is to tell the heights and shapes of mountains.
Can you name the three countries with the largest land area in descending order?
What is Russia, Canada and the USA
What is the capital of Japan?
What is Tokyo
Where did D-day take place?
What is in Normandy, France
Which human activity is responsible for the majority of wildfires around the world?
What is deforestation
What do cartographers create using geographical tools like GPS and remote sensing?
What is maps?
Around how old is the earth?
What is the capital of the Philippines?
The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting the East and West. Can you name two major goods that were traded along the Silk Road?
What is silk, spices, tea, ivory, cotton, wool, precious metals, etc.
Name at least 2 environmental and health hazards associated with a volcanic eruption.
What are lava flows, pyroclastic flows, lahars, jökulhlaups, and landslides or debris avalanches
This navigational tool relies on signals from a network of satellites to determine precise locations on Earth's surface. What is it?
What is a GPS