America: Basics
What are the three subcontinents of America?
North, Central, and South America
What are the main types of relief in America?
Large mountains, plateaus, and plains
The largest river in the world with many tributaries and a rainforest.
Amazon River
Which of the following climate groups can you find throughout the continent?
a. Hot climate, b. Temperate climate, c. Cold climate
b. Temperate climate
This country has two capitals: La Paz and Sucre.
Bolivia
The largest island on Earth is in North America. What is it called?
Greenland
Refers to the mountain range found on the Western side of North America.
Rocky Mountains
Give an example of a river on the Atlantic drainage basin.
Mississippi, Amazon
What climate can you mainly find around the Andes?
Mountain Climate
The second, fourth, and the fifth largest countries on Earth are located in the Americas. What countries are these?
Canada (second largest), USA (fourth largest), Brazil (fifth largest)
The region where Romance languages, especially Portuguese, French and Spanish, are spoken.
Latin America
Which of the two has a regular coast: North or South America?
South America
Between the borders of the US and Canada, there are five likes called: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Michigan. What are they called as a group?
The Great Lakes
True or False: Oceanic climates have deciduous forests.
True
The island of Hispaniola (or La Española) is located in Caribbean. What two countries share this island?
Dominican Republic and Haiti
Enumerate the four main countries/territories in North America.
Greenland, Canada, USA, Mexico
At 6,961 meters above sea level, this mountain is the highest peak in the whole American continent.
Mount Aconcagua
Located between Bolivia and Perú, its surface elevation is 3,812 meters above sea level, making it the highest lake in the world. What is this lake called?
Lake Titicaca
What climate type has taiga and humid grasslands?
Continental
Tornadoes, a swirling mass of rapidly spinning air, form in a specific area of the Great Plains region of the USA called:
a. Tornado Plain, b. Tornado Valley, c. Tornado Alley, d. Tornado Corner
c. Tornado Alley
This is a body of water, a canal, that allows ships to pass from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean (and vice versa) quickly.
Panama Canal
Name a mountain range from each of the three sub-continents of America. (Three answers for full points.)
North America: Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains
Central America: Sierra Madre
South America: Andes
Enumerate the three drainage basins in America.
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic Basins
Enumerate the three types of hot climates and describe each one.
Equatorial climate, with rainforests; tropical climate, with tropical forests and savannahs; and desert climate, with little vegetation
True or False: Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on Earth.
True. It receives an average rainfall of only 0.15 millimetres a year.