geography quiz

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  1. 4. recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.
  2. 6. two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes.
  3. 7. largest creature that has ever lived.
  4. 17. myna/ a medium-sized (up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) long), stocky myna, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail.
  5. 18. of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water
  6. 20. country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world.
  7. 21. Everest/ Earth's highest mountain.
  8. 22. body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
  9. 23. Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole
  10. 24. community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system.
  11. 25. the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria.
  12. 27. star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process.
  13. 29. an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles.
  14. 30. sovereign state situated at the crossroads between Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans.
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  1. 1. pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).
  2. 2. gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium.
  3. 3. Capital Region of Jakarta, is the capital and most populous city of the Republic of Indonesia.
  4. 5. a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo
  5. 8. a country in Central Europe
  6. 9. group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, especially in Antarctica.
  7. 10. Earth's surface
  8. 11. an astronomical object orbiting a star or stellar remnant
  9. 12. an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south, and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun".
  10. 13. a republic in Southeast Europe which borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of 238,391 square kilometres (92,043 sq mi) and a temperate-continental climate.
  11. 14. a sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
  12. 15. Earth's largest and most populous continent
  13. 16. a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi).
  14. 19. Something of, from, or related to China
  15. 26. a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and slippery.
  16. 28. a luminous sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity.