Geography Quiz Questions

SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHER’S ASSOCIATION OF
ZAMBIA
MONGU DISTRICT
WEEK 7 GEOGRAPHY QUIZ QUESTIONS
GRADE 10 – 12
1. Which of the nine planets is the biggest?

2. What causes deflection of winds and ocean currents?
3. Rift valley are formed as a result of?
4. Longitude 180 is also known as?
5. Mountain Kilimanjaro is example of?
6. A volcano that had erupted a long time ago and not show signs of further
eruption is classified as?
7. What is the other name for Block Mountain?
8. On a map, lines joining places with equal amount of cloud cover are called?
9. Orographic rainfall falls in mountainous areas, the side of the mountain
where there is little or no rainfall is called?
10.Iron ore with the highest content of iron is called?
11.What name is given to molten rock that flows from volcanoes of the earth is
the core, what is it’s geographic term?
12.The inner most structure of the earth is the core, what is its geographic
term?
13.The core is made up of metals and written as NIFE, what are these two
metals?
14. Which planet has a faint equatorial ring only discovered in 1979?
15. On which date is the sun directly overhead on the tropical of Capricorn?
16.Wheat, rice, maize or corn, barley are all called?
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17.State one type of fault?
18. What is conurbation?
19.Which type of power is called power of yesterday?
20.Mention one type of delta.
21.Hot spring are also called?
22........................... is a moss of solid snow or rock falling down the side of a
steep slope?
23.An area where the earthquake starts is called a?
24.An estimated number of years as a person must live on earth is called?
25.Trees in the savannah are deciduous in nature, this means they are?
26.The vegetation of the hot deserts is xerophytes which means?
27. A........................... is an instrument used to detect and record earthquakes.
28.In volcanism, rocks below the earth’s crust have high temperatures and
exist in a molten state called?
29.What factor can be considered for the successful building of an electrical
hydro electrical power station?
30.What do we call the steady down word movement of soil on all sloping
land?
31.Name one feature that is associated with the lower stage of a river?
32.Which country I Africa best describes a distinct savannah type of climate?
33.What do we call the farming practise of growing one crop?
34.When land is continually owned and administered by the chiefs, when land
tenure does it fall under?
35.Name one water weed or water invasive plant species?
36.State one benefit of forestry to the people?
37.Under estate farming, name one scheme in Zambia?
38.Give one characteristic of commercial farming?
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39.What type of energy produced by humans and animals waste in used for
lighting, cooking and generating electricity?
40.Why the equatorial region is sparsely populated?
41.Where in the world is dairy farming highly mechanised and practised?
42.The extreme diurnal range of temperature is characteristic of the?
43.Name the type of coal with least content of carbon?
44.What is plantation farming
45.How is the annual range of temperature calculated?
46.State the type of human settlement where people live following the road or
a river?
47.How many days is a leap year?
48.At what angle is the earth titled at its revolves in the orbit?
49. On March 21st and 23rd September the sun is vertically overhead at the
equator, what is this day called?
50.On weather maps, areas showing amount of pressure in millibars are joined
by one line as?
ANSWERS
1. Jupiter
2. Rotation of the earth
3. Faulting
4. International date lone
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5. Volcanic mountain
6. Extinct volcanoes
7. Horst mountain
8. isonephs
9. Leewardside
10. Haematite
11. Lava
12. Carry sphere
13. Nickel and iron
14. Uranus
15. 22nd December
16. Cereals
17. Reverse fault
18. Merging of towns
19. Coal
20. Birds foot, estuarine etc
21. Thermal springs
22. Avalanche
23. Focus
24. Life expectancy
25. Shed leaves in dry season
26. Drought resistance trees
27. Seismography
28. magma
29. capital, steep gradient, etc
30. soil creep
31. delta/ ox-bow lake etc
32. Sudan
33. Mono culture
34. Traditional or customary land
35. Kafue weed
36. Medicine, firewood etc
37. Nakambala, Kawambwa
38. Use machines, specialization
39. Biogas
40. Because of thick forest
41. Newzealand
42. Hot deserts
43. Peat
44. planting tree crops or sugar cane
45. Subtract lowest from high mean
46. linear settlement
47. 366 days
48. 66 ½ degrees
49. Equinox
50. isobars

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