Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 63

The Quaternary, the latest period of the Cenozoic era, is divided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene epochs. The Quaternary began about 2.58 million years ago.

South-eastern Cameroon lies inside the drainage area of the Congo river, and the country is one of the six nations that share the Congo Basin rainforest.

Bauxite is a mixture of hydrated aluminium oxides and hydroxides, not a silicate, and it is the main ore of aluminium.

New Zealand forms the south-western corner of the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific islands are grouped into three regions.

Spring tides have the highest high tides and the lowest low tides, so the tidal range is at its greatest.

In January the northern oceans are warmer than the frozen continents, so isotherms bend north over the sea and south over the land; the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift are warm currents, not cold ones.

The Madhesis belong to Nepal and the Rohingya to Myanmar, while the Kurds have nothing to do with Bangladesh. The Madhesis are the people of the Terai plains of southern Nepal, close to the Indian border, with strong ties of language and kinship to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Plantations do lie mostly in the humid tropics, but the soils there are generally poor, not highly fertile. Plantation farming grows a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cocoa, banana or oil palm on large estates with heavy capital and hired labour.

Sudbury in Ontario, Canada, works a nickel and copper deposit of the Canadian Shield formed in an ancient impact structure, and it is the first name in any question on nickel, with Norilsk in Russia and New Caledonia in the Pacific as the others.

Koeppen grouped climates by temperature and rainfall and gave each group a capital letter, and E stands for the polar group, where the mean temperature of the warmest month stays below 10 degrees Celsius.

A homolographic or equal-area projection keeps the ratio of areas on the map the same as on the globe, which is why world distribution maps of population, crops or forests are drawn on projections such as Mollweide's or the sinusoidal.

The Blue Revolution means the rapid rise in fish production, so it belongs to pisciculture, the rearing of fish. In India it began with the Fish Farmers Development Agency set up in the early 1970s, and Dr Hiralal Chaudhuri, who worked out induced breeding in carp, is called its father.

It runs for about eight hundred kilometres between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, joining the Andaman Sea with the South China Sea, and is the longest strait in the world as well as one of the busiest shipping lanes, carrying a large share of the oil…

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

Its highest summit is Kibo, also called Uhuru peak, and it stands close to the Equator yet carries snow and shrinking glaciers, a favourite illustration of climate changing with altitude.

India covers about 32.87 lakh square kilometres, which is roughly 2.4 per cent of the world's total land area. That small share supports about 17 to 18 per cent of the world's people, and this gap between land and population is what the question is really testing.

Most of the Great Artesian Basin lies beneath Queensland, with smaller parts under New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

All three are classic pieces of evidence used to support Alfred Wegener's theory that the continents were once joined. Wegener proposed in 1912 that all continents formed one supercontinent, Pangaea, which later broke apart.

Only the Aral Sea has shrunk drastically because of human activity. The Aral Sea, on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the world's fourth-largest lake.

The equator crosses none of these three water bodies; in Africa it passes through Lake Victoria, not Lake Tanganyika.