World Geography
Hawaii Geography
Australia Geography
Geography Vocabulary
100

This is the tallest mountain in the world when measured from its base. 

What is Mauna Kea?
100

This is known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific.

What is the Waimea Canyon?


100

This is the largest island in the world.

What is Austrailia?

100

This is the word that represents the average weather conditions in an area.

What is climate?

200

This Hawaiian island is home to the longest continuous fringing reef in the world.

What is Molokai?

200

This island has zero permanent residents living on it?

What is Kahoólave.

200

This is the capital of Austrailia.

What is Canberra?

200

These imaginary lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole and measure how far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian.

What is longitude?

300

This is the largest active volcano on the planet.

What is Mauna Loa?

300
Name the 8 major Hawaiian islands in order from biggest to smallest.

Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Kahoolawe.

300

Over 2/3 of Australia is called this.

What is the Outback? 

The Outback refers to the vast, remote interior of Australia, covered by arid and semi-arid deserts, with high temperatures and limited rainfall.

300

This is a place deep inside the Earth where very hot, melted rock pushes up through the surface, creating volcanoes and islands, like the Hawaiian Islands.

What is a Hot Spot?

400

This is home to the tallest sea cliffs in the world, rising more than 3,000 feet.

What is Molokai?

400

The Hawaiian chain is made up of how many major islands, atolls, and smaller islets?

What is 132.

400

These are tall, pointy limestone rocks that stick up from the sandy desert in Western Australia, and they were formed over thousands of years by wind and rain shaping ancient seashells.

What are the Pinnacles

400

This is the traditional Hawaiian land division system which runs from the mountains to the sea.

What is the Ahupua‘a System?

500

This is the closest U.S. state to Hawaii.

The distance between the Hawaiian island of Kure Atoll and Amatignak Island (Nitrof Point) in Alaska is only about 1,573 miles. While it is commonly (but mistakenly) believed that the state of California is closest to Hawaii, it is the state of Alaska that is closest to Hawaii.

500

This is the tallest peak on Kauai.

What is Kawaikini?

500

This is the highest peak in Austrailia. 

What is Mt. Wilhelm?

500

What is the name for a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets that surround a lagoon? 

What is an atoll.

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