World Geography - General Knowledge Questions

A)
Asia and Africa
B)
Europe and Asia
C)
North America and South America
D)
Africa and South America

Correct Answer :   Africa and South America

The continents that form a mirror image of each other are Africa and South America.

A)
Oxygen
B)
Helium
C)
Hydrogen
D)
Uranium

Correct Answer :   Hydrogen

Therefore,the nuclear fuel in the sun is hydrogen gas. The sun can be considered as a big thermonuclear furnace where hydrogen atoms continuously get fused into helium atoms. Mass gets lost during these fusion reactions and energy is being produced.

A)
Trophical Evergreen Forests
B)
Trophical Thorn Forests
C)
Tropical most Decidous
D)
Alpine forests

Correct Answer :   Trophical Thorn Forests

A)
Over the Atlantic Ocean
B)
Over the North pole
C)
Over the Pacific via Siberia
D)
Through the latitude which passes through them

Correct Answer :   Over the Atlantic Ocean

The Shortest air route from Moscow to San Francisco is over the Atlantic Ocean.
 
Moscow 37⁰ and Los Angeles 118⁰W show a longitude difference of 155⁰ across the Atlantic and of 205⁰ across the Pacific.

A)
Sweden
B)
Tibet
C)
Antarctica
D)
Northern hemisohere

Correct Answer :   Tibet

Second ozone hole was detected over Tibet in the year 2006. Ozone is a form of oxygen, acts as a high-altitude atmospheric screen against cancer-causing ultraviolet light.
 
The main source of these halogens in the stratosphere is photodissociation of man made halocarbon refrigerants, solvents, propellants and CFC's.

A)
Newton
B)
Aryabhatta
C)
Kepler
D)
Nicolaus Copernicus

Correct Answer :   Nicolaus Copernicus

Although the Greek philosopher Aristarchus of Samos had speculated on a heliocentric reordering of the cosmos, Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century developed a mathematically predictive heliocentric system.

A)
27° East
B)
27° West
C)
30° East
D)
30° West

Correct Answer :   30° East

For every 1° longitude, there is a difference of 4 minutes
For 2 hrs, there will be a difference of 30°. So the correct answer is 30° east as Cairo is ahead of Greenwich time.

A)
Sweden
B)
Portugal
C)
Finland
D)
Holland

Correct Answer :   Finland

Finland is called "the land of thousand lakes. The thousands of lakes in Finland are the reason why the country's nickname is "the land of a thousand lakes". A comparison of the number of lakes with its population reveals that there is one lake for every 26 Finns. Water makes up 10% of the land area in Finland.

A)
Terrestrial
B)
Artificial
C)
Fresh water
D)
Marine

Correct Answer :   Terrestrial

Grasslands are found in most ecoregions of the Earth.
 
For example, there are five terrestrial ecoregion classifications of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecosystem, which is one of eight terrestrial ecozones of the Earth's surface.

A)
Iron and oxygen
B)
Oxygen and silicon
C)
Silicon and iron
D)
Iron and magnesium

Correct Answer :   Oxygen and silicon

Quartz is made of the two most abundant chemical elements on Earth: oxygen and silicon.