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Geography trivia for kids
1. Geography word derives from which language?
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The Greek word, γεωγραφία: Geographia.
2. Geographia means?
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Description of earth.
3. Who was the first person to use word γεωγραφία?
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Eratosthenes.
4. Define geography?
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Study of land, inhabitants, features, and phenomena of the Earth and planets.
5. Geography is often defined in how many branches?
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Two branches.
6. Name that two branches?
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Human Geography and physical geography.
7. What is human geography?
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Study of people and their communities, cultures, and interaction with the environment by studying their connection with and across space and place.
8. What is physical geography?
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Study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere.
9. What are the four historical traditions in geographical research?
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Spatial analysis of human and natural phenomena, the study of human land relationship area, studies of places and region, and the Earth sciences.
10. Geography also called?
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‘The world discipline’ and the ‘bridge between the human and the physical sciences’.
Cultural geography, Development Geography, Economic, Health, Historical and time, Political geog. and Geographics, Pop geog. or demography, Religion, Social, Transportation, Tourism, Urban geography.
14. What is planetary science?
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Study of other planets.
15. What is areology?
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Study of Mars.
U.S geography trivia questions and answers
16. Which is the world’s third-largest country in size?
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The United States of America.
17. What is the capital of America?
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Washington DC.
18. What is the population of the US?
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329,256,465.
19. Currency used in the US?
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Dollar.
20. What is the form of government in the US?
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Constitution-based federal republic.
21. Major rivers of America?
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Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado.
22. The lowest point in America is?
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In the Death Valley (-86 meter).
23. The highest peak in America is?
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Denali, Mt. McKinley. (6,198 meters).
24. The national bird of the US is?
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Bald eagle.
25. The country is divided into 6 regions. Name it?
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New England, the mid-Atlantic, the South, the Midwest, the Southwest, and the West.
26. President lives in the?
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White House in the capital city of Washington DC.
27. Name the two houses of Congress?
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The Senate and the house of representatives.
28. Who elected as President of the United States in 2008?
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An African, Barack Obama.
29. In which year, it declared as an independent country from Britain?
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On July 4, 1776.
30. Which has the largest coal reserves in the world?
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America.
Geography trivia facts
31. Which is the only country that covers four hemispheres?
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Africa.
32. Which is the smallest country in the world?
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Vatican city.
33. Which country spans 11 time zones?
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Russia.
34. Name the world’s tallest mountain?
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Mount Everest.
35. Name the deepest part of the ocean?
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Marianas Trench.
36. Which country is wider than the moon?
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Australia.
37. How many meters below the sea level, the dead sea is located?
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429 meters.
38. What is big and little Diomede?
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Russia and the US, meet their closest points, are about 2.4 miles apart because of these two islands it is known as Big (Russia) and little (US) Diomede.
39. How many percents of Earth’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere?[/su_spoiler] [/su_accordion]
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90%.
40. Which country has more people than all of Canada?
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California.
41. Earth’s greatest sheer vertical drop (4,101 feet) situated in?
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Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada.
42. It is said that the Continents shift at about the same rate as?
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Your fingernails grow.
43. What is cartography?
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Making maps is called cartography.
44. GPS stands for?
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Global positioning system.
45. GIS stands for?
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Geographic information system.
In this portion, we include the questions related to the history of geography, mapping, etc. The contribution of European and Muslim geographers in order to make the world’s map. More it includes some interesting facts about geography and our planets for the kids. Let’s have a look at it…
Medium geography questions for kids
46. The oldest world-known map is?
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Babylonian world map.
47. What is gnomon?
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A Greek instrument used to measure the latitude.
48. Who invents this gnomon?
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Anaximander.
49. Who is also credited with the prediction of eclipses?
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Thales.
50. Foundations of geography Cam be traced into which era?
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The ancient medieval and early modern Chinese.
51. Who was the first to explore geography as both art and science?
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Greek.
52. Who was able to demonstrate that the profile of the Earth was circular by explaining eclipses?
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Anaxagoras.
53. Who was one of the first estimates of the radius of the Earth?
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Eratosthenes.
54. Which Muslim geographer produced a detailed world map?
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Muhammad Al-Idrisi.
55. Which Turkish geographer, drew a world map on a linguistic basis?
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Mahmud al-Kashgari.
56. Who was the first described a polar equi-azimuthal equidistant projection of the celestial sphere?
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Abu Rayhan Biruni.
57. Who founded the “Balkhī school” of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad?
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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi.
58. Name some Muslim geographers?
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Yaqut al-Hamawi, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Ibn Battuta, and Ibn Khaldun.
59. Name some European explorers?
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Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, and James Cook.
60. Who invents the chronometer?
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John Harrison.
Geography quiz questions and answers 2017
61. What is Grand Canyon in Arizona/USA?
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Largest canyon of the world.
62. This largest canyon steep sides have been cut out by the Colorado River for a length of about?
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More than 440km/270miles.
63. Name the longest international border situated in between?
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Canada and the USA.
64. How many km/miles long the border is?
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8,890 km/5,525miles.
65. The world’s largest Sahara desert located in the?
Vary in between -180°C and 430°C/-290°F and 842°F.
75. Which mission was launched in October 2018 and now travels in space towards Mercury?
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The BepiColombo mission.
National geographic trivia for kids
76. Which is the hottest planet of our solar systems?
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Venus.
77. The temperature of Venus is?
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460°C/480°F.
78. Who successfully landed eight space probes on Venus during the 1970s and 1980s?
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The Soviet Union.
79. Which planet has two moons?
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Mars.
80. Name two moons of Mars?
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Phobos and Deimos.
81. Which planet’s surface has a Great Red Spot?
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Jupiter.
82. What is Juno?
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One spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter is called Juno.
83. Which planet is the second-largest and known for its ring?
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Saturn.
84. In 2005, who landed a space-probe called ‘Huygens’ on Titan(largest moon of Saturn)?
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NASA and ESA (European space agency).
85. Why Uranus is blue in color?
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Because of gases.
86. Neptune is the furthest planet from the Sun. How many years for Neptune to go once around the Sun?
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165 years.
87. Who was the first man to land on the moon and made the first steps on the moon in 1969?
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Neil Armstrong.
88. He erected a flag on the moon. Which country’s flag was that?
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America.
89. Who were the first men to climb and reach the top of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest?
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Sir Edmund Hillary and the sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
90. Japan is referred to be the?
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Land of the rising sun.
It includes some easy MCQs for the kids as well as some fun facts related to the solar system, about US geography, continent facts, ocean facts, etc. How much you guys know about the world, our solar system. First, you have to try by your self then look at the answer. How much you can answer these questions. Go through it…
Geography trivia questions and answers multiple choice
91. Which is the fifth largest planet of our solar systems?
Jupiter
Venus
Earth
Mars
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Earth
92. How many percents of water covers the surface of the earth.
40%
90%
60%
70%
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70%
93. How many oceans are there covering the surface of our globe?
8
5
3
7
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5
94. The biggest ocean in the world is?
The Atlantic Ocean
The Southern Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
The Indian Ocean
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The Pacific Ocean
95. The largest coral reef in the world is located in?
Canada
Austria
Hawaii
Australia
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Australia
96. The Southern Ocean is home for?
Penguin and Wandering Albatrosses
Whales
Seals
Ducks
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