What causes the seasons of the year?
The 23 1/2 degree tilt of the Earth's Polar axis relative to the Sun.
Give the name of the line of longitude that is 0 degree?
Prime meridian.
Which is the largest bay in the world?
The Hudson Bay in Canada.
What are stalagmites and stalactites composed of?
Mineral matter
Of which republic is Djibouti the capital?
The Republic of Djibouti.
Prior of Canberra, what was Australia's capital?
Melbourne.
Prior to Moscow, which city was Russia's capital?
St. Petersburg.
What was the former name of Oslo, the capital of Norway?
Christiania
How, formerly, did we know Beijing, capital of the people's Republic of China?
As Peking.
Which is the world's oldest capital city?
Damascus, the capital of Syria.
In which of Canada's lakes is the world's largest lake island, Manitoulin Island?
Lake Huron.
Which country has the world's highest fishing catch?
Japan.
Which sea, not fed by any large river, has a higher salinity than any ocean?
The Red Sea.
Which river has its true source near the summit of Cerro Huagra in Peru?
The Amazon.
Which river and mountain range separate Europe from Asia?
The river Ural and the Ural Mountains.
What are Mauna Loa and Stromboli?
Both are active volcanoes.
Name the five circumpolar nations i.e. those lying round the North Pole.
Canada, Norway, U.S.A. U.S.S.R. and Denmark (by virtue of Greenland).
What is the name of the country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa?
Lesotho, The capital is Maseru.
How was the Grand Canyon in Colorado, U.S.A. formed?
The rushing waters of the river Colorado which, in the course of thousands of years, cut the gorge, some of it through solid rock. Even now, year by year, it continues to deepen.
What line of latitude constitutes most of the boundary between Canada and the U.S.A?
Latitude 490 sometimes called the 49th Parallel.
Near which Canadian city are the Plains of Abraham?
Quebec, Canada, at the western edge of the city.
The Patagonian Plateau makes up one of the world's largest sheep raising areas. Where is it?
In south Argentina and Chile, extending from the Andes to the Atlantic.
Where is the island known as Tierra del Fuego?
Off the southern tip of South America.
Which modern republic spreads over the area known in ancient times as Mespotamia?
Iraq.
On how many islands is Stockholm, the 'city of water' built?
22 islands in Stockholm the 'city of water' built.