198 Earth Trivia Questions with Answers
198 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the deepest known point in the ocean, located in the Mariana Trench?
Answer
Challenger Deep
Which body of water is the largest lake on Earth by surface area?
Answer
Caspian Sea
What is the name of the boundary that separates the Earth's crust from the mantle?
Answer
Mohorovičić discontinuity
In which layer of the Earth is the planet's magnetic field generated?
Answer
Outer core
What is the imaginary line at 23.5 degrees south latitude called?
Answer
Tropic of Capricorn
What geometric shape best describes the Earth, being slightly flattened at the poles?
Answer
An oblate spheroid
What scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals?
Answer
The Mohs scale
Roughly how old is the Earth?
Answer
4.5 billion years
What is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth?
Answer
The Amazon
What is the largest coral reef system on Earth?
Answer
The Great Barrier Reef
What is the innermost layer of the Earth called?
Answer
The inner core
Approximately what percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water?
Answer
71 percent
What is the deepest ocean trench on Earth?
Answer
Mariana Trench
Which continent is located at the Earth's South Pole?
Answer
Antarctica
What is the largest hot desert on Earth?
Answer
The Sahara
What is Earth's only natural satellite?
Answer
The Moon
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
What is the tallest mountain above sea level on Earth?
Answer
Mount Everest
Which age is known as the "Age of Fish"?
Answer
Devonian Period
Where is the deepest land gorge on Earth?
Answer
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
When a meander is cut off, what is formed?
Answer
Oxbow Lake
What word means "the shakes that come after the earthquakes"?
Answer
Aftershocks
What type of scientist studies microscopic plants and animals?
Answer
Microbiologist
What type of satellites are always in the same spot in Earth's orbit?
Answer
Geostationary Satellites
What type of rock is coal?
Answer
Sedimentary Rock
What substance, added to fog, makes smog?
Answer
Smoke
What season is between winter and summer?
Answer
Spring
What scientist purposed the theory of continental drift?
Answer
Alfred Wegener
What process helps to break down rocks by wind, air or rain?
Answer
Physical Weathering
What ongoing process allows water to be constantly recycled?
Answer
Water Cycle
What name was given to the west wind by the Greeks?
Answer
Zephyrus
What name is given to 23.5 degrees north latitude?
Answer
Tropic Of Cancer
What layer of the Earth is right below the crust?
Answer
Mantle
What is the very bottom soil horizon called?
Answer
Bedrock
What is the trapping of the sun's solar energy and radiation called?
Answer
Greenhouse Effect
What is the tendency of Earth's rotation to turn winds called?
Answer
Coriolis Effect
What is the study of plant life called?
Answer
Botany
What is the release of water vapor from plants called?
Answer
Transpiration