Lines on the Globe
Continents
Rivers
Oceans
Seas
100
This line marks the center of the globe, halfway between the poles.
What is the Equator?
100
This continent includes Canada.
What is North America?
100
This American River has a name that children like to spell.
What is the Mississippi?
100
We swim in this ocean. So do people from Asia, Australia and South America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
This sea separates Alaska from Russia.
What is the Bering Sea?
200
This line is the international date line and separates the world into Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
This continent includes Brazil and the Amazon River.
What is South America?
200
This river flows past the pyramids of Egypt in northern Africa.
What is the Nile?
200
This ocean separates North America and South America from Europe and Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
This sea is south of the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
300
This tropic line is north of the equator.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
300
This continent is sometimes called Oceania or Australasia.
What is Australia?
300
This river is famous for its jungles and rainforest habitat. It is in Brazil, South America.
What is the Amazon?
300
This ocean touches the shores of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
This sea is between Europe and Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This tropic line is south of the equator.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
This is the largest continent and includes Russia, India and China.
What is Asia?
400
This river flows east through Europe.
What is the Danube?
400
This ocean touches the shores of southern South America, southern Africa and Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
400
This sea is between Japan and Russia.
What is the Sea of Japan?
500
These lines mark the coldest areas on earth, one at each pole.
What are the Antarctic and Arctic Circles?
500
This continent includes England, France and Italy.
What is Europe?
500
This river was called the Yangtze.
What is the Chang Jiang?
500
This ocean is home to icebergs, polar bears and the north shores of Canada.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
500
This sea borders Australia.
What is the Coral Sea?
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