Geography Quiz
10 questions on geography today.
QUESTIONS
1. Chianti wine is produced in which country?
2. What word in geography means the wearing away of the Earth’s surface by wind, water and other natural agents?
3. In Germany this mountainous area is known Schwarzwald, how would we know it in English?
4. The Bight of Benin, also known as the Bay of Benin, is found in which ocean off the African coast?
5. The Rijksmuseum and the house where Anne Frank was hidden during WWII are both found in what European city?
6. During the initial planning stages of One World Trade Center, what name was given to the building that now stands at Ground Zero in New York City which hosts the One World Observatory?
7. What country is Kuala Lumpur the capital city of?
8. What is the largest of Morocco’s cities and is found on its Atlantic coastline?
9. Which of the Great Lakes has a northern shoreline in Ontario, Canada, and also shores in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York?
10. Which small Atlantic Ocean island, is found just south of the Equator and was the scene of a huge military build-up of the British Task Force en-route to the Falkland Islands in 1982?
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ANSWERS
1. Chianti wine is produced in which country?
ITALY
2. What word in geography means the wearing away of the Earth’s surface by wind, water and other natural agents?
EROSION
3. In Germany this mountainous area is known Schwarzwald, how would we know it in English?
THE BLACK FOREST
4. The Bight of Benin, also known as the Bay of Benin, is found in which ocean off the African coast?
ATLANTIC
5. The Rijksmuseum and the house where Anne Frank was hidden during WWII are both found in what European city?
AMSTERDAM
6. During the initial planning stages of One World Trade Center, what name was given to the building that now stands at Ground Zero in New York City which hosts the One World Observatory?
FREEDOM TOWER
7. What country is Kuala Lumpur the capital city of?
MALAYSIA
8. What is the largest of Morocco’s cities and is found on its Atlantic coastline?
CASABLANCA
9. Which of the Great Lakes has a northern shoreline in Ontario, Canada, and also shores in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York?
LAKE ERIE
10. Which small Atlantic Ocean island, is found just south of the Equator and was the scene of a huge military build-up of the British Task Force en-route to the Falkland Islands in 1982?
ASCENSION ISLAND