Antarctica is technically classified as a desert, why?
What is because it receives less than 10 inches of rainfall each year.
100
What is an import?
What is a good that is received into a country to be sold.
100
Name the two Americans who explored the Louisiana Purchase for Thomas Jefferson
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
100
Name the four cardinal directions
What are north, east, south, and west.
200
Name the big tourist attraction on the east coast off of Australia. (hint: many sea creatures can be found here)
What is the Great Barrier Reef
200
Name an animal found in the Antarctic
What is Polar Bears, Penguins, Arctic Terns, etc.
200
What is an export?
What is a good that is shipped out of a country, to be sold in a new country
200
What did Thomas Edison invent? (hint: do not say the light bulb!)
What is the filament inside of the light bulb.
200
Name the four intermediate directions.
What are northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest
300
What is the capital of Australia?
What is Canberra
300
More than 98% of Antarctica is covered in what?
What is ice
300
What should we budget our money?
What is so we can pay bills, make investments, and have money for things we want
300
What did Clara Barton do?
What is she brought the Red Cross to America
300
Name the seven continents
What are North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
400
Aboriginals are people who did what?
What is they were the first people living in Australia
400
What are Arctic Terns most known for?
What is they fly from the Arctic to Antarctica twice each year.
400
Why should we allow other countries to send their exports to the U.S.?
What is because it allows us to build positive relationships with other countries, we want to send our goods to their countries, and it gives people in other countries jobs.
400
Name the famous American who escaped slavery and lived in Europe until he could buy his freedom?
Who is Frederick Douglass
400
Name the five oceans
What is the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Southern and Arctic
500
Why does the Australian flag have six stars on it?
What is because it has six states.
500
Who was the first person to set foot on Antarctica?
What is Roald Amundsen
500
Why do factories have assembly lines?
What is because it makes the work go faster, and it is easier for employees to have one specific job to do.
500
What was Harriet Tubman most known for?
What is for helping over 300 slaves escape to freedom, and never losing one of them
500
Name the country directly to the north of the U.S, and the country directly to the south of the U.S.