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Geography Quiz #644

Geography Quiz for 16 May 2021

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Q1. Dust carried in winds from the Bodélé Depression, an ancient desiccated lake bed in the south-west corner of the central African country of Chad, has been identified as a key source of phosphorus — a vital nutrient for plant growth — in what area?

Note: This question was updated in January 2024
A
South Africa
B
Ethiopia
C
Amazon rain forest
D
Peru
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Q2. Where is it thought that the ancient dead who were preserved in what are known as the Tarim Mummies lived?

A
Central and north-eastern Asia
B
Northern Egypt
C
Central Africa
D
Eastern Japan
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Q3. China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is understood, as at 2020, to be planned to run from the Chinese coast to where?

A
Trieste, Italy
B
Malé, in the Maldives
C
London, UK
D
South Louisiana, USA
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Q4. What does the "C" stand for in the meteorological metric known as ACE?

A
Cyclone
B
Cloud
C
Care
D
Conical
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Q5. If you were from the Cayman Islands, which is part of the British West Indies, what sort of passport would you have?

A
British Virgin Islands
B
Cayman Islands
C
British West Indies
D
British
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Q6. Where is what is often referred to simply as The Loess Plateau?

A
Central north China
B
Iowa, USA
C
Canterbury, New Zealand
D
Southern Ukraine
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Q7. What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati?

A
Micronesia
B
Polynesia
C
Australasia
D
Melanesia
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