Common World Geography questions and answers for interview preparation 27.Jul.2024

Q1. What Is The Latitude And Longitude Of Ontario?

Ontario, California: 34N05, 117W62

Ontario, Oregon: 44N02, 117W02

Ontario, Canada: irregular in shape, but extending from roughly 55N59'38" at its northernmost point (Fort Severn) 42N16 at its southernmost (Windsor)74W43'02.64" at its easternmost point (Cornwall)

Q2. What Are Decomposers In A Temperate Deciduous Forest?

In the Deciduous Forest, some decomposers that are living there include fungi, bacteria, and yes, even worms 

Q3. What Is The Difference Between A Natural Boundary And A Political Boundary?

A natural boundary might be something like a river, mountain range or an ocean. These are generally considered obstructions, which prevent crossing without additional equipment or assistance, such as a boat or horses to carry what you need to cross a mountain range.

A political boundary would be a real or imagined line in the sand that defines the boundary of a nation or state.

For example, Australia's boundary is an ocean and Switzerland's boundary is defined by mountains, these are both physical and natural boundaries. The boundaries of Colorado are all just surveying lines and there really is not much of a physical boundary involved.

Q4. How Does Building Hotels Affect The Planet?

Building hotels abroad encourages tourism meaning more aircraft is needed to trport people on holidays, therefore increasing carbon emissions

Q5. What Was The German Immigration Route To America?

Ellis Island, Chicago or Milwaukee 

Q6. How Do Social Scientists Define A Country?

To be considered a country, a place must have four characteristics...

  1. Territory
  2. population
  3. government
  4. sovereignty 

Q7. Is There More Land Mass Above Or Below The Equator?

There is more land above/north of the equator. The only continent completely south of the equator is Oceania. This fact is clearly illustrated in the movie "an inconvenient truth".

Q8. What Are Solutions To Deforestation?

Solutions to deforestation are as follows:

  1. Farming
  2. Forest management
  3. Reforestation
  4. Forest plantations 

Q9. What Is A Floodplain?

If a river tends to flood, the most practical solution may be to designate a more or less flat area along the river as the "floodplain". This Area is allowed to flood and thus save other, more valuable areas from flooding. Obviously, no buildings should be erected on the floodplain and it is usually unsuitable for farming, too.

Q10. What Is The Relevance Of Zoo Geographical Region In Relation To Taxonomy?

The location of a zoo that an animal is kept in will have nothing at all to do with its taxonomy. Taxonomy is the technical word for its classification, and that stays the same no matter where the animal is moved. Sometimes classification will have to do with its location, but the animal's species does not change because it has been moved. 

Q11. What Are The Three Main Bodies Of Water That Surround Ireland?

The island that is Ireland is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean except to the east, between itself and Great Britain. That body of water, though contiguous with the Atlantic at both the north and south of it, is known as the Irish Sea in the north and the Celtic Sea in the south.

Q12. What Are The Places Named After The Virgin Mary?

Mariefred, Sweden 

Q13. What Is The Distance Of The Equator?

It is roughly over 24000 miles. It is the circumference of the earth.  

Q14. What Is The Difference Between A Sea And An Ocean?

A sea is part of an ocean that is partially surrounded by land. If it is surrounded, then it has called an inland sea. An ocean is a body of salt water with no boundaries and limitless volume. It is limitless because with no boundaries, definitive quantity cannot be deduced.

Q15. What Is The Difference Between Magnetic And Geographical North?

The basic difference is that geographical north is static and the magnetic north is in constant motion, the magnetic field extends into the atmosphere and for lack of a better word is kind of like the wind.

Q16. Why Do Two Circles Of Latitude Never Touch?

The earth is always moving and lines move with it. If they are moving all at the same pace, they will never touch.

Q17. What Are The Fastest Growing States In Population?

There is an interesting article by demographer Michael Barone that appeared recently in the online version of the Wall Street Journal. He describes in some detail how some cities and states are gaining and losing people.

Q18. What Are Some Things You Could Use To Help Us Locate Places On The Map?

An atlas or map comes with an index use it to pinpoint the place you are looking for.

Q19. What Are Different Types Of Map Projections?

Some people argue that we should change to Peters Projection because it is fairer. With the Mercator projection, Polar Regions look bigger than they should, in comparison to equatorial regions. Of course, all projections change the shapes of places; but the Peters Projection does not change their relative areas.

Q20. What Is The Second Largest Desert In Africa That Is Partly In Botswana?

The second largest desert is Africa is the Kalahari Desert.

Q21. Why Is The Population Density Different In Various Parts Of The World?

Population density is the amount of people living in an area per square mile (miles, for ex.). The number of people living in any one area is determined by the desirability of the area.

Q22. What Crops Do They Grow In Madagascar?

The main crop is rice. Other important food crops are cassava, sweet potatoes, potatoes, maize, be, bananas, and peanuts. Leading crops for export are vanilla, coffee, cloves, sugarcane, cotton, sisal, and tropical fruits.

Q23. Where Are The Tropic Of Cancer And Tropic Of Capricorn And Arctic Circle And Antarctic Circle Located On A Globe?

The Tropic Of cancer is 23.5 degrees north from the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn is 23.5 degrees south of the equator. The arctic circle is the top of the globe and the Antarctic Circle is located south of the globe (way at the bottom)

Q24. What Is It Latitude And Longitude At Beijing?

It is 39 degrees north n 116 degrees east

Q25. Where In The World Is Bonnee?

If you mean Bonn, then it is Germany.

Q26. Who Is The Father Of Modern Geography?

ERASTOSTHENES is often called the 'Father of Modern Geography' 

Q27. What Country Borders Denmark?

Germany 

Q28. What Treasures Did Ancient Egypti Keep In The Tombs?

They put bowls, food, jewels, clothing statues, sandals, games in their tombs. 

Q29. What Countries Are In Equatorial Africa?

  1. Sao Tome and Principe
  2. Gabon
  3. Republic of the Congo
  4. Democratic Republic of Congo
  5. Uganda
  6. Kenya
  7. Somalia  

Q30. Why Are The Oce Salty?

As water flows in rivers, it picks up small amounts of mineral salts from the rocks and soil of the riverbeds. This very-slightly salty water flows into the oce and seas. The water in the oce only leaves by evaporating (and the freezing of polar ice), but the salt remains dissolved in the ocean - it does not evaporate. So the remaining water gets saltier and saltier as time passes.

Q31. What Is The Definition Of Urbanization?

Urbanization can be defined as the rapid and massive growth of, and migration to, large cities. Positive and negative consequences resulted. In US urbanization, some of these issues were employment, sanitation, housing, sewage, water, fire, social welfare, role of government, political machines, etc...

Q32. Why Is It Warmer In Winter Near The Equator Than It Is In Summer At The North Pole?

Because of the way the earth is tilting when its summer The "TOP" of the earth is always leaning away from the sun, winter or summer In addition, the sun's rays hit the equator at a more direct angle that at the Poles.

Q33. What Is The Height Of Powerscourt Falls In Hectometers?

It is 350 feet, or 1.0668 hectometers high.

Q34. What Is The Average Time Zone?

The average time zone is 1 hour.

Q35. What Does Physical Geography Mean?

This article concerns the development of conceptual understanding of a physical phenomenon with computational representations. It examines how students make sense of and interpret computational representations, and how their understanding of the represented physical phenomenon develops in this process. Eight studies were conducted, in which pairs of students were engaged in an exploratory activity of natural harmonic oscillation. They first explored physical oscillators (e.g., springs, pendulums) and then interacted with dynamic and interactive computational representations that represent aspects of natural harmonic oscillation. The analysis focuses on selected episodes demonstrating critical steps in the development of the students' understanding. It offers a detailed description of these steps and closely examines students' interaction with various features of the representations in order to identify the relations between use of representations and students' developing understanding.

A theory of conceptual change, coordination class theory (diSessa & Sherin, 1998), is used to track the development process of students' understanding with representations. The detailed analysis aims to construct a model describing mechanisms of developing understanding through the mediation of computational representations. The significance of this study is in its close look at the detailed process of learning and conceptual change in computational environments.

Q36. What Is The Name Of Earths Driest Desert?

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on Earth, and is virtually sterile because it is blocked from moisture on both sides by the Andes Mountain and by coastal mountains.The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica is Earth's driest desert. 

Q37. Why The Two Ways Polar Regions And Deserts Are Alike?

Two ways Polar Regions and deserts are alike is that they both have drought and very little or no life. 

Q38. For The Intermediate Directions, Why Is North And South Listed First?

As arbitrary as it may be, it is up and down, side to side. The x and y-axis' it is the way maps were first drawn and have always been. A compass points north. The sign of the cross starts N S E W. 

Q39. What Is The Difference Between A Compass Heading And A Compass Bearing?

  • Heading indicates the direction the ship/aircraft/vehicle you are in is moving.
  • Bearing is normally used to indicate the direction something else is relative to you.
  • The ship was heading 085 and maintaining a station on the carrier at two miles and a bearing of 200 from the carrier.
  • This is often the case where a ship or airplane is "pointed" on a bearing across the wind or current and "moving" on a heading that is the natural consequence of the combined forces on the hull.

Q40. An Imaginary Line From Which Other Meridi Are Measured The Degree Is 0 Of The Line?

The equator

Q41. What Are The Major Landforms In Barbados?

Volcanic rock

Q42. How Are Fold Mountains Formed?

Fold Mountains are formed from the collision of continental tectonic plates. Since neither plate sub ducts under the other, the colliding plates wrinkle and fold like a rug being pushed into a wall.

Q43. What Is The Lowest Spot On Earth That You Can Visit?

The Dead Sea at 1,378 ft below sea level is the lowest place on earth.  

Q44. Is Ireland Part Of Great Britain?

Ireland and Great Britain are the two largest islands among a group of islands off the north-west coast of mainland Europe.

Q45. What Is The Easiest Way To Remember Compass Directions?

The earth rotates, so the sun is shown to appear rising on the east part of the world as we see it. No matter which way you are facing other than up or down, east are the morning sun, and west are get ready for nighttime. On the other hand, assume looking at the globe being on a clock with it being sown as a normal world instead of upside down or other abnormal configuration. 3 are east, 12 is north, 6 is south, and 9 is west.

Q46. What Are Names Of The Dams On River Nile?

The major Nile dams are the Aswan High Dam, the Owen Falls Dam, the Sennar Dam and the Rosires Dam.

Q47. What Is The Name Of The Highest Mountain Region In Florida?

The highest elevation in Florida is called Britton Hill. It is in Walton County and stands 345 feet above sea level.

Q48. What Is The Longitude And Latitude Of The Amazon Rain Forest?

It is 15 degrees to 25 degrees north and south of the equator. Approximately, it is 46 degrees west.

Q49. What Is The Use Of Geographical Coordinates?

Geographical coordinates allow locations or devices with the geographical locations to be tracked and located. In essence, if a phone has geographical positioning built inside the phone can be tracked by satellite and located. An example of this is people call 911 and they are not sure where they are. Operators are still able to locate where they are and send help. 

Q50. What Is A Map Locator?

A locator map is a map that shows a certain area's specific place.