Test yourself: Sample questions from the National Geographic Bee

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These are some of the questions asked at the National Geographic Bee.

The winning question: Below the equilibrium line of glaciers there is a region of melting, evaporation and sublimation. Name this zone.

Other questions included:

1. The Apennines are to Italy as the Elburz mountains are to what country?

2. The Nile Delta is to Egypt as the Irrawaddy Delta is to what country?

3. Flamenco music is closely associated with Gypsy tradition in the southernmost region of Spain. Name this region.

4. Keith Wilmott has discovered over 50 new species of butterflies near Cotopaxi National Park in which South American country?

5. Raul Valdez tracks urial, or wild sheep, populations from a cliff in the Badkhyz Nature Reserve southeast of Ashgabat in what country?

6. If a plane flies northwest over Victoria Falls, what country will it fly over once it crosses the Zambezi River?

7. Which of the following items does not belong on this list, and why: core, crust, mantle, mesopause, Moho?

8. Which mountain range extends along most of Switzerland's border with France?

9. India's most populous state has an estimated 150 million people. Name that state.

10. In March, Maeve Leakey discovered a human skull more than 3.5 million years old along the shore of Lake Victoria in which African country?

The answers:

The Winning Answer: Zone of ablation.

1. Iran

2. Myanmar, or Burma

3. Andalusia

4. Ecuador

5. Turkmenistan

6. Zambia

7. Mesopause because it's not associated with Earth structure

8. Jura

9. Uttar Pradesh

10. Kenya