Simple Geography Quizzes for Kids

How well do you understand geography? Before looking for the answer in the box below each question, try the questions below.

1. Coal belongs to which type of stone?

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Sedimentary rock

2. What are the sands formed by the wind called?

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Dunes

3. What type of storm is shaped like a funnel and has tremendous destructive power when it hits the ground?

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Typhoon

4. What is the Saffir-Simpson scale used to measure?

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Measure the wind strength of the storm

5. What is the name of the submerged margin of a continent?

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Continental shelf

6. What will magma after rising when the volcano erupts will be called?

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Lava

7. Water or wind that erodes parts of the Earth is called what process?

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Erosion process

8. What is the season between winter and summer?

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Spring

9. What happens when ice and rock suddenly collapse down the mountainside?

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Avalanche

10. What acidic precipitation occurs when sulfur dioxide accumulates in clouds?

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Acid rain

11. What is the average falling rate of raindrops?

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About 6.4 m/s

12. What type of cloud looks thick and bouncy, which can sometimes turn into a thunderstorm?

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Clouds

13. What is the seasonal rain that occurs in Southeast Asia called?

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Rainy season

14. Where is the deepest land canyon on Earth?

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Grand Canyon

15. What does a seismologist study?

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Earthquake

16. On Earth, which layer lies below the geological crust?

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Mantle layer

17. What is the layer of molten rock beneath the earth’s surface called?

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Magma

18. What phenomenon will radiation hitting the Earth’s atmosphere create?

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Aurora

19. What process causes the destruction of rock by wind, air or rain?

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Physical weathering

20. What is the energy emitted by the sun called?

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Solar radiation

21. Phytotoxin is a poison created from where?

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Plants

22. What disaster is a combination of downflow and updraft?

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Typhoon

23. How many major tectonic plates are there on the earth’s surface?

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7 plates

24. What happens to the pressure of the water as the depth increases?

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The pressure will also increase

25. What is the person who specializes in the study of the physical structure and formation of the earth called?

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Geologist

26. What device is used to measure altitude of an object above a fixed level?

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Altimeter

27. What word is used to describe the shaking that occurs after an earthquake?

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Aftershock

28. What does the Earth do to create day and night?

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Rotation

29. What is the fossil name that best defines the stratigraphic unit?

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Indicator fossil

30. What is the elevation of the sea surface usually called?

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Sea level

31. Oxygen makes up about how much of the atmosphere on Earth?

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1/5

32. What fuel is made from decomposing animal and plant carcasses?

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Fossil fuels

33. What is the energy from the inner heat of the Earth’s center called?

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Geothermal

34. What is the official name for the climate science?

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Climatology

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