GEOGRAPHY QUIZ

GOOGLE EARTH
PICTURE ROUND
2015 - 2016
1A The mountain Devali, shown looking from the North is the highest in its
continent.
i) Which continent is it in? 1 mark.
ii) Which country/state/territory/county is it in? 1 mark.
1B Like many features it has two names, the other is Mt McKinley, state
the origin of either of the mountains names. 1 mark.
1C Running southwards in the centre distance of the view are two white
curvy lines. What are they? 1 mark.
2A The image shows the Victoria Falls from the south.
i) What is the name of the river shown? 1 mark.
ii) Which ocean/sea does it flow into? 1 mark.
2B Name the two countries shown either side of the river. Both start
with the same letter. 2 marks.
2C This river is one of the four largest in Africa, name two of the others.
3A This is the central area of government of a European capital.
i) Which capital city is it in? 1 mark.
ii)What is the name of the government complex outlined by the red
brown
wall? 1 mark.
iii) What is the name given to the space outlined by a green line? 1
mark.
 % increase 1990 -
Country 1990 2010 2010
Puning 76,000 911,000 1199
Shenzhen 875,000 9,005,000 1029
Dongguan 553,000 5,347,000 967
Foshan 429,000 4,033,000 940
Jinjiang 98,000 858,000 876
Huizhou 205,000 1,384,000 675
Yamoussou
kro 136,000 885,000 651
Quanzhou 174,000 1,068,000 614
Abuja 330,000 1,995,000 605
Ougadougo
u 537,000 1,908,000 355

City growth
Source State of the world's cities 2012
It depends how city growth2013 is measured as
to the scale of the problem.
Some people measure the actual number but the rate of growth gives
a more accurate assessment of the scale of the problem. It also
depends on the period of time over which the figures are measured.
As a result a Google search of worlds fastest growing cities unearths a
wide range of lists, some of which have completely different cities
listed.
Remember also the difficulty of conducting a census in any country,
especially the very poor or those with a wide discrepancy of wealth.
4A Of the 10 fastest growing cities in the world seven are in one country
which is hardly surprising, but most people would be surprised to learn the
other three are all in West Africa and all are capitals in their respective
countries. Which country has the fastest growing cities? 1 mark.
4B Can you match the names on the previous page with the numbers
shown above and name one of the countries one of these fastest growing
cities are in? 3 marks.
4C At the start of 2014 until the early part of 2015 a terrifying outbreak of
a disease occurred in this region.
i) Name the disease. 1 mark.
5 This image shows the island of Lampedusa.
i) What sea surrounds it? 1 mark.
ii) Which country is it part of? 1 mark.
iii) Why did it make the news in the early part of 2015? 1 mark.
6 This lake forms part of one of the worlds prime transport networks.
i) Which two areas of water does it link? 2 marks.
ii) Which country is it in? 1 mark.
7 Sometimes referred to as the largest slum in Asia Dharavi was
where much of the film Slum Dog Millionaire was filmed.
i) Which Indian city is it located in? 1 mark.
ii) What was the former British name for the city? 1 mark.
 Just south of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, lies the island of Nauru
(less than 5 kilometres square in which live 10 000 people). In the late
20th Century it boasted an income per head above that of the USA due
to rich resources of phosphates. These have now become exhausted
and the people are struggling to survive. The Australians have opened
two detention centres to house boat people from Asia and in return
pay for the privilege.
8A This type of economic exploitation is sometimes referred to as a
robber economy.
i) Explain this term. 1 mark.
ii) State what is the opposite term. 1 mark.
8B In the summer of 2015 a proposal was submitted to increase the
mining of phosphate in/under a UK National Park which one? 1 mark.