Land and Climate
This is the largest Greek Island.
What is Crete?
These people are muslims from North Africa.
What are Moors?
Hamburg is a city in this country.
What is Germany?
This is Europe's most prominent mountain range.
What are the Alps?
This is a classification in Europe that began during the Cold War. It was used to distinguish the free countries of the West from the Communist countries in the East.
What is Eastern Europe, and Western Europe?
This Union is an organization which makes rules and sets agendas for its members and countries.
What is EU - European Union?
Athens is the capital of this country.
What is Greece?
These are long narrow inlets of the sea with steep, rocky banks.
What are fjords?
This is the Viking explorer who colonized Greenland.
Who is Eric the Red?
Barcelona is a city in this country?
What is Spain?
This is the highest Peak in Greece.
What is Mount Olympus?
A gold rush in 1851 caused the population to increase by 200% in this country.
What is Australia?
These are the three political/historical divisions of the island of Great Britain.
What is Scotland, England and Wales?
Afrikaners are the Dutch inhabitants of _____.
What is the South Africa?
This is the largest Greek Island.
What is Crete?
This is a name for Ethnic Hungarians.
What is Magyars?
This is the capital of Ukraine
What is Kiev?
This is the world's deepest fresh water lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
This Norwegian explorer was the first to reach the South Pole.
Who is Roald Amundsen?
This communist group was formed by Russia in 1922 and eventually included Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, the countries of Transcaucasia, and Central Asia.
What is the USSR - Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics?
Tripoli is the capital of this country.
What is Libya?
This mountain range forms the border between France and Spain.
What is Pyrenees mountain range?
The first known European to sail below the Antarctic circle. He was also a famous explorer of the South Pacific.
Who is Captain James Cook?
Amsterdam is the capital of this country.
What is Netherlands?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This is was the first black bishop ordained by the Church of England.
Who is Samuel Adjai Crowther?
This is a international agreement which stipulates that Antartica be used for scientific research and not for military, security, or nuclear-testing purposes.
What is the Antarctic treaty?
This African country was settled by freed slaves.
What is Liberia?
Africa's highest peak.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
These are Australia's native inhabitants.
Who are Aboringines?
The capital of Spain is ______.
What is Madrid?
The world largest natural structure formed by living things.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This is the massacre of 1,700 Africans and about 100 European settlers and missionaries by native Kenyan tribes, especially Kikuy, who resented British intrusion.
What is the Mau Mau Rebellion?
This is the communist leader of African National Conference (ANC) who became South Africa's first black president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
In this country, about 1/4 is polder that was taken from the sea by using dikes, dams, and windmills to drain water from the land.
What is the Netherlands?
This is the largest desert in the world and is located on the continent Africa.
What is the Sahara desert?
This was Ghana's first president.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
The capital of Liberia is _____.
What is Monrovia?
This is Australia's longest permanent inland river.
What is the Murray River?
This Portuguese prince who promoted exploration and navigation.
Who is Prince Henry?
This is an organization of the former Soviet republics.
What is CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States?
The Island of Ireland is also called...
What is the "Emerald Isle"?