Geography Maps and the world: scale, directions, latitude and longitude, map projections, time zones, continents and oceans, islands and seas, the countries and capitals of Europe, the British Isles, the United States, the English-speaking world, and the regions of Asia, Africa and the Americas.
The questions of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 64 lessons, 955 questions, every question and option parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: the course at school .
1 Maps and scale 15 questions · my cousin says people in 1337 thought the earth was flat lol. right? 2 Directions, latitude and longitude 15 questions · Why is there a natural zero for latitude but not for longitude? 3 Projections: why Greenland looks huge 15 questions · Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than correct sizes? 4 Time zones and the date line 15 questions · Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. How far apart are they in longitude? 5 Continents and oceans 15 questions · Mate reckons there's exactly seven continents and that's a scientific fact. Right? 6 Islands, seas and lakes 15 questions · In EU5 you see Denmark and Greenland together in 1337. What did the real map look like? 7 Europe: countries and capitals 15 questions · Why can two atlases give different numbers of European countries? 8 The British Isles and the United Kingdom 14 questions · In EU5 you start as England in 1337. Who rules Scotland? 9 The United States 15 questions · Why was the capital of the United States put outside every state? 10 Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world 15 questions · If a game map painted all of Ireland in English colours in 1337, what was the real picture? 11 East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals 15 questions · Jack says: «China's got the most people in the world, everyone knows that.» What is right? 12 The Middle East and Central Asia 14 questions · Leo says: «Dubai's the capital of the Emirates, obviously, it's the famous one.» What is right? 13 Africa: countries and capitals 15 questions · Tom says: «Africa's basically one big country, isn't it?» What is right? 14 Latin America and the Caribbean 15 questions · Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit». What is right? 15 The Arctic and Antarctica 15 questions · A cartoon shows a polar bear hunting penguins. Could this happen in the wild? 16 The great rivers 15 questions · Max says: «The Amazon is definitely longer than the Nile, my teacher said.» What is the best answer? 17 Mountains and highlands 15 questions · Ruby says: «Everest is the tallest mountain, end of story.» What is the best answer? 18 Deserts 15 questions · Josh says: «Antarctica can't be a desert, it's all ice!» What is the best answer? 19 Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors 15 questions · In Europa Universalis 5, a strait is just a crossing for armies and a good spot for a fort. What does the ga… 20 Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts 15 questions · In Europa Universalis 5 you can never sail through Suez. Is that a mistake in the game? 21 Climate zones and why they are where they are 15 questions · My mate says it's summer cos Earth is closer to the Sun. Right? 22 Winds, monsoons and ocean currents 16 questions · Why does a beach often get a breeze from the sea in the afternoon? 23 Weather, storms and the changing climate 15 questions · It snowed loads today so global warming is fake lol 24 Population and cities 15 questions · My mate says the world has always had about 8 billion people. Right? 25 Languages and peoples on the map 16 questions · Why does Romanian look a bit like Italian although they are far apart? 26 Food and farming around the world 16 questions · My mate says potatoes are an old Irish food, been there forever. True? 27 Resources and what countries trade 16 questions · Why does Britain import bananas? 28 The Silk Road 15 questions · Did traders in 1300 call it the Silk Road? 29 The spice trade and the Indian Ocean 15 questions · Why did pepper cost so much more in Europe than in India? 30 The Atlantic routes and the slave trade 15 questions · My mate says ships just sailed straight there and straight back. Why did they take different routes? 31 Borders: why they are where they are 15 questions · My mate says Hadrian's Wall is the England–Scotland border, innit? 32 Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean 15 questions · My mate says Lepanto smashed the Ottomans for good. Right? 33 Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires 15 questions · My teacher said Columbus discovered the Earth was round. That right? 34 Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew 15 questions · In EU5 you "form Great Britain" with one decision. How did it really happen? 35 The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia 15 questions · lol my cousin says the Great Wall is the only thing you can see from space. true? 36 The people who were already there: what colonisation did 15 questions · In EU5 you "colonise an empty province" in North America. What really happened in such places? 37 How empires fell: the map of the 20th century 15 questions · In EU5 the colonial map of the Americas looks rock solid in 1836. What is the truth? 38 Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth 15 questions · my mate reckons Brexit happened in 2016. not quite, is it 39 Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands 16 questions · lol Vatican City is a city not a country. right? 40 The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies 15 questions · My mate says "in EU5 I took this province in 3 months, so armies were fast back then." What is wrong? 41 Inside the Earth 15 questions · Jack says: "Under the ground it's all lava, like a giant soup, that's why volcanoes happen." Put him right. 42 Plate tectonics 14 questions · Leo says the plates float on a sea of liquid lava. Put him right. 43 Moving continents: from Pangaea to today 15 questions · Your friend says: "The continents have always been where they are now, maps never change." Put her right. 44 Earthquakes 14 questions · Jake says: "In an earthquake the ground opens up and swallows whole cities." Put him right. 45 Tsunamis 14 questions · In a film, a surfer rides a giant curling tsunami into the beach. What's wrong with it? 46 Volcanoes: how and where 14 questions · Ben says: "Lava and magma are two different kinds of rock." Put him right. 47 Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes 14 questions · A cartoon shows the people of Pompeii slowly drowned by a river of lava they could easily outwalk. What's cl… 48 Igneous rocks and the rock cycle 14 questions · Ella's granite worktop has big speckles. Her brother says it cooled fast in a volcano's lava. Put him right. 49 Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks 14 questions · Josh says the top layer of a cliff must be the oldest because it's been there longest in the sun. Put him ri… 50 Minerals and crystals 14 questions · "found gold in the stream!!! shiny cubes, gonna be rich" What should you check first? 51 Gemstones and precious metals 15 questions · Jake reckons diamonds and pencil lead are totally different stuff. right? 52 Weathering and erosion 15 questions · my mate says weathering and erosion is the same thing innit 53 Rivers shaping the land 15 questions · Why does a river cut a V-shaped valley up in the hills but wind in loops near the sea? 54 Glaciers and ice ages 15 questions · In a cartoon a glacier zooms down the mountain like a car. What should be corrected? 55 Coasts and caves 15 questions · little sis: "stalagMITES go up, stalacTITES come down — how do i remember?" which is right? 56 Soil 14 questions · kid at school: "soil's just dead dirt, nothing lives in it lol" — what's true? 57 Fossils 15 questions · Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually. Right? 58 Deep time and the story of life 16 questions · A cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. What is wrong? 59 Coal, oil and gas 15 questions · "oil comes from dead dinosaurs" — it says so on a cartoon dinosaur at a petrol station. What is true? 60 Metals, mining and what they cost 15 questions · Ella reckons metals just come out of the ground shiny and ready. right? 61 The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey 15 questions · «latitude and longitude are the same thing really» What would you say? 62 The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel 15 questions · «the river in wind in the willows is made up, there's no real one» What is right? 63 Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ 15 questions · Your mate says "I walked 1 km south, 1 km east, 1 km north and I'm back at my tent." Where could his tent be? 64 Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ 15 questions · Quizmaster in Dudley: "I'm massive, I've got 11 time zones and a bit stuck between Poland and Lithuania. Bos… ← previous Frenchnext → History↑ back to the questions This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/