Portmanteau's
Geog Dept.
African Geography
Capitals
Peak Peaks
200

A word connecting two continuous continents!

Eurasia

200

What division is the geography department in?

Social Sciences
200

A "lake" and a "falls" named after this European monarch?

Victoria

200

This is the capital of California

Sacramento

200

The tallest mountatin in the Americas is...

Mt. Denali

400

This geography and travel term refers to travel that focuses on geological features and landscape conservation.

Geotourism

400

This room, on the ground floor of the palm court, holds many lectures for the geography department.

Bunche A163

400

"I bless the rains down in Africa" artist, named:

Toto

400

What is the capital of Turkey?

Ankara

400

This Gravity falls character shares the same name as a GA leader.

Gideon

600

A country that combines Tanganyika and Zanzibar

Tanzania

600

Who is the department manager?

Kasi McMurray

600

This semiarid band south of the Sahara was shaped by ancient climate change that dried the region over millennia.

The Sahel
600

The captial of Wales

Cardiff

600

Tallest mountain in the UK is...

Ben Nevis

800

This widely used term blends “human” with a geologic time suffix to describe the era where humans significantly shape Earth’s geology and ecosystems.

Anthroporcene

800

This professor often describes herself as a "scholar of vibe"

Kaily Heitz

800

This African city became world-famous as a trading hub and center of Islamic scholarship during the medieval trans-Saharan trade era.

Timbuktu

800

Name these three ancient Greek and classical Roman columnic orders.

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

800

The top of a population pyramid represents...

The size of the oldest age cohort.

1000

This term combines a word for the earth with a word for religious devotion to describe emotional reverence for landscapes and nature.

Geopiety

1000

Which professor, current, or former, has the highest h-index? (A quantitative measure of citation count)

Jared Diamond

1000

This Swahili Coast trading city was described in the 14th century as one of the most beautiful in the world and once connected East Africa to India and China.

Kilwa Kisiwani

1000

These are the three capitals of a southern African nation.

Bloomfontein, Pretoria, and JoBurg

1000

This mountain is on cans of Coors Light, located in Colorado

Mount Wilson // Wilson Peak

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