Continents
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia.
This country is famous for the Great Wall.
What is China.
This language is spoken in Spain and most of Latin America.
What is Spanish.
A place that is hot and has very little rain is usually called a ________ climate.
What is desert.
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile (or Amazon, depending on measurement method).
This continent is completely covered by ice and has no permanent population.
What is Antarctica.
This country is made up of four parts: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
What is the UK.
This language has the most native speakers in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese.
This line around the middle of Earth receives the most direct sunlight.
What is the equator.
The highest mountain above sea level.
What is the Mount Everest.
This continent includes more than 50 countries and is known as the birthplace of Western civilization.
What is Europe.
This European country has both the Alps and the city of Milan.
What is Italy.
This language is spoken in Brazil but not in most other South American countries.
What is Portuguese.
Which climate zone is hot and has a lot of rain all year?
What is the tropical climate.
The world’s largest desert (by area).
What is the Antarctic Desert.
This continent includes the Sahara Desert and the Nile River.
What is Africa.
This South American country is the largest rainforest holder.
What is Brazil.
This language family includes English, German, and Dutch.
What is Germanic languages.
This climate zone has four seasons and moderate rainfall.
What is the temperate climate.
A place where two tectonic plates meet and one sinks beneath the other.
This continent is often called “The Island Continent.”
What is Australia/Oceania.
This Middle Eastern country has two major cities: Riyadh and Jeddah.
What is Saudi Arabia.
This Indian language is one of the most widely spoken in the world and uses the Devanagari script.
What is Hindi.
What do we call rain, snow, or hail?
What is precipitation.
The world’s deepest ocean trench.
What is the Mariana Trench.
This continent was once part of Pangaea and later split into South America, Africa, Antarctica, India, and Australia—what ancient landmass was it part of?
What is Gondwana.
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
What is Canada.
This is the official language of Ethiopia and uses a unique script called Ge’ez.
What is Amharic.
This effect describes how mountains block rain on one side, creating a dry area on the other side.
What is the rain shadow effect.
The type of rock mostly found in oceanic crust, formed from volcanic lava.
What is basalt.