Geography quiz

More questions about Geography

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1. 1 Easy

   What geographic term describes the science of making maps?

   Answer: Cartography

   Why: Ptolemy's Geographia, written around AD 150, already listed roughly 8,000 places by latitude and longitude for mapmakers to plot.

2. 2 Medium

   Which Southern Hemisphere city has the largest metropolitan population?

   Answer: Jakarta

   Why: The UN's 2025 report put Greater Jakarta near 42 million, the world's largest urban area, and it lies 6 degrees south of the equator.

3. 3 Hard

   What caused the initial formation of the Great Barrier Reef?

   Answer: Rising sea levels

   Why: The reef sits on a drowned coastal plain: seas rose about 120 metres after the ice age, and corals began ringing its hills about 13,000 years ago.

4. 4 Easy

   Which climate zone lies between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn?

   Answer: Tropics

   Why: Every place between the two tropics sees the Sun directly overhead at least once a year, so seasons there differ more by rainfall than by temperature.

5. 5 Medium

   Why is the Panama Canal freshwater instead of saltwater?

   Answer: It uses lake water

   Why: Locks lift ships up to Gatun Lake and lower them again, and every transit spills that lake water out to sea, which is why droughts force the canal to cut crossings.

6. 6 Hard

   Why do the deepest earthquakes happen only in a few places?

   Answer: Slabs sink into mantle

   Why: Only sinking slabs stay cold enough at 300 to 700 km for minerals to snap into denser forms, since pressure there should make rock flow, not crack.