Welcome to your Grade 11 Geography chapter 1
After carefully reading the following 30 questions, choose the correct answer.
1.
What is the estimated total surface area of the Earth?
2.
Which continent is the largest in the world by land area?
3.
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by the hydrosphere?
4.
During the Triassic period, what was the name of the single big continent?
5.
What is the ratio of land to ocean in the Southern Hemisphere?
6.
Which continent is permanently ice-covered and has no permanent human settlements?
7.
What was the name of the big water body surrounding Pangaea?
8.
Which era saw the rifting of Pangaea fully achieved and continents retaining their present form?
9.
Which mountain range separates Asia from Europe?
10.
What is the term for the formation of mountains through the folding of the earth's crust?
11.
Which continent is crossed by the Equator, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn?
12.
Around which area was Gondawana located during the Triassic period (~210 Ma)?
13.
How many countries are in the continent of Asia?
14.
Which ocean covers the area north of the Arctic Circle?
15.
Which is the smallest continent in the world?
16.
Approximately how many billion years ago did the Earth's continents evolve?
17.
Where is the Mariana trench (Challenger Deep) located?
18.
In the late Triassic (~180Ma), which continent moved to the north following the rifting of Pangaea?
19.
What percentage of Earth's water is found in glaciers and polar ice caps?
20.
Ground water is how many times more plentiful than water found in lakes and rivers?
21.
Which process describes the movement of crustal plates changing the position of continents?
22.
Which continent hosts two-third of the world population?
23.
During the Late Cretaceous (65 Ma), which continent was still placed at the South-Pole?
24.
The Dead Sea, which is the deepest depression, is found in which continent?
25.
What is the total estimated area of the Oceans on Earth?
26.
Which ocean is located between Eurasia and the Americas?
27.
In the Northern Hemisphere, what is the ratio of land to ocean?
28.
Which ancient supercontinent was centered around the equator during the late Permian?
29.
Oceans account for over what percentage of all the water on Earth?
30.
Which continent is the third smallest on the earth?
