Questions for Contest

1. What province in the Philippines holds the largest deposit of nickel?

-Surigao del Norte
2. What conditions can be observed when one is in the eye of the storm
-Calm winds and clear skies
3. The ITCZ is known to sailors as doldrums. What does ITCZ mean?
-Intertropical Convergence zone
4. What is the effect of El Nio in South America?
-Torrential Rains
5. In which province is Mt. Bulusan located
-Sorsogon
6. The platypus is endemic to what continent
-Australlia
7. The zone of transition in Africa is known to have a semi-arid climate known as what
-Sahel
8. Mountain system that extends1 200 miles from the coastline of South France ending in
Albania
-The Alps
9. Most major rivers in Siberia including the great Siberia Rivers empty into what ocean
-Artic Ocean
10. What mountain system serves as a natural border between France and Spain
-Pyrenees Mountains
11. Most of the Ganges Delta is situated in what country
- Bangladesh
12. What language is dominantly spoken in the Bicol Region?
-Bikol language
13. What world language has the second largest number of native speakers?

-Spanish
14. The Hutu majority and Tutsi minority make up most of the population of what African
country north of Bulundi
-Rwanda
15. A greenhouse gas that is capable of absorbing infrared radiation, thereby trapping and
holding heat. What greenhouse gas is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
-Water Vapor
16. The maximum population size of a given species that can be supported indefinitely by
the environment
-Carrying Capacity
17. The eruption of the volcano in AD 79 that led to the burning of the Roman city of
Pompeii.
-Mt. Vesuvius
18. What do you call the oceanic plate named after the region in South Peru?
-Nazca Plate
19. An international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission
reduction targets.
-Kyoto Protocol
20. A type of land use that is dominant in this satellite image
-Agricultural
21. The difference between a countrys exports and imports
-Balance of Trade
22. What is 70 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit?
23. What do you call the line on the map or chart that indicates points of equal atmospheric
conditions?
-Isobar
24. The Sugar Bowl of the Philippines
-Negros Occidental

25. The trading route, well know during the Han Dynasty stretching from China to Eastern
Europe
-Silk Road
26. Where is the Kaaba Located?
-Mecca
27. The Christ the Redeemer that symbolizes Brazilian hospitality has been famous a
famous icon of which S. American city after 1931
- Rio de Janeiro
28. Fault lines, least prone to Earthquakes
-Choices: C. Palawan
29. Which of these Countries is ruled by a person known as sultan?
A. Oman
B. Afghanistan
C. Ukraine
D. Jordan

Answer: A. Oman

30. What is the name of the US navy ship that rammed and damaged the Tubataha reef last
June 17, 2013
U.S.S. Guardian
31. The oldest independent country in Africa and also the location where oldest human
ancestor was found
-Ethiopia
32. What country on the Gulf of Honduras was formerly known as British Honduras?]
- Belize
33. The first person who used the term Geography. He also accurately measured the
circumference of the Earth
- Etathosthenes
34. The North Atlantic Current also known as North Atlantc Strait brings warm water to the
tropic of what Continent
Europe

35. TYe ruins of Persopolis, the economical capital of the Achaeminid Empire is located in
what country today.
-Iran
36. What region do the most Muslim reside
-Asian Pacific
37. What does CUT MEAN?
- Coordinated Universal Time
38. Which country from these choices does not require a Schengen Visa?
Answer: Romania

Others:

Types of Volcano
Aral Sea
Great Blue Hole
Tanganyika
Galatea Deep
Ayers Rock or Uluru
Contour lines- Ridge
Philippine Deep
Panthalasa

Iguaza Falls
Herculaneum
Map scales
Zanzibar