Quiz. Geographical record breakers

Do you know any of the Earth's most amazing records?

If your answer is “Yes”, then you’ll have a wonderful chance to prove it.

If your answer is “No”, then prepare yourself for an incredible journey around our home planet.

1. Which is the largest continent?

Africa

Australia

Asia

Asia is the largest continent. It also has the most people: 4.4 billion)

2. Which is the world’s longest river?

The Nile

The Dniper

The Yangtze

(The Nile is the longest river in the world- 6,853 km.)

3. Which is the world's largest glacier? Find rhyming words to the words on the left. Use the letters without changing their order.

river - giver

lake - shake

mount - account

ocean - motion

sea - bee

desert - hazard

island - silent

The world's largest glacier is the Lambert glacier in Antarctica. The glacier is more than 96 km wide at its widest point

4. Which is the highest mountain in the world?

Everest

Kilimanjaro

Ben Nevis

Everest is 8848 metres high. It’s in Nepal and Tibet.

5. Which continent reports most footprints of Big Foot? Follow the footprints.

North America

Antarctica

Europe

Correct answer is North America.

6. What colourful phenomenon appears at a 42 degree angle to the rays of the sun? Do the puzzle.

Correct answer is RAINBOW.

7. Which is the world’s largest island?

Borneo

Greenland

New Guinea

Greenland is the world’s largest island 2,166 sqkm2. It is part of Denmark.

8. Which is the world’s largest lake?

The Caspian sea

Lake Baikal

Lake Superior in Northern America

Caspian Sea is the world’s largest lake. It is a saltwater lake.

9. Which is the world’s largest desert (if we don’t count Antarctica!)?

The Gobi

The Kalahari

The Sahara

Yes, the Sahara is 5159 km wide.

10. What is the highest waterfall in the world?

Angel Falls

Niagara Falls

Victoria Falls

Correct answer is Angel Falls. Its height is 979 meters.

11. What is the smallest country in the world?

Find all the words on the right and make up a word from the remaining letters.

Monaco, Germany, France, Canada, Poland, China, Japan, Cuba, Sweden.

And finally we get – The Vatican.

12. Which is called “the world’s largest mirror”?

Salt Flats in Bolivia

Lake Baikal in Russia

the biggest outdoor swimming pool in Chile

Correct answer is Salt Flats in Bolivia. The land is covered with a few meters of salt brine (соляной раствор). When it rains, this flat surface forms an incredible "mirror" that is so big, and so reflective, that governments actually focus on it to calibrate their satellites!

13. Which is the largest city in the world? Cross all the cities out and make up the word from the remaining letters.

Let’s check!

Shanghai, Hamburg, Paris, Chicago, Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow, Milan, Sydney, Minsk, Rome, Ottawa.

The largest city is New York.

14. Which is the largest country in the world by area? Find the flag that occurs more often.

Canada

China

Russia

Correct answer is Russia.

15. What spectacular natural phenomenon can you see in the picture?

Rainbow

Star Shower

Aurora

Correct answer is Aurora.

16. Which is the longest reef in the world?

Great Barrier Reef in Australia

Florida Reef in Northern America

Andros Coral Reef on Bahamas

The Great Barrier Reef is composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometers.

17. What was the world's largest volcano eruption in modern history? Do the crossword.

1.     A very high hill.

2.     The salt water that covers much of the Earth's surface.

3.     A living thing that is not a human   being or plant.

4.     It appears soon after the rain.

5.     The earth's natural satellite that shines at night.

6.     The Dnieper, The Thames, the Volga.

7.     A tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent.

Now check yourselves. Mount Tambora.

In 1815 it cast a cloud of ash around the world that lasted for several years causing “a year without summer”.

18. Which is the deepest place on Earth?

the Mariana Trench

Lake Baikal in Russia

Dead Sea

(The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest place on Earth, nearly 11 kilometers below the waves.)

The “lovely” creatures on the photos live in the depth of the Mariana Trench.

Well, well, well.... I want to ask my question again. Do you know any of the Earth's most amazing records?

I hope now you can answer for sure “Yes, I do!”

If you answered all the questions or almost all of them correctly, then my congratulations!

If you managed to answer at least half of them or less I hope you’ve learnt some new and useful facts about the planet.