The desert NOT located in Africa is: the Sahara Desert, the Kalahari Desert, the Nubian Desert, or the Mohave Desert.
What is the Mohave Desert? The Mohave Desert is in California.
100
These animals live in Antarctica: penguins, seals, whales, or all three.
What are all three?
100
The longest river in China is: the Huang He (Yellow) River, the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River, the Ganges River, or the
Thames River.
What is the Chang Jiang (or Yangtze) River?
The earliest civilization in China began along the Huang He (or Yellow) River, which is the second longest river in China.
100
This is one of the world's greatest natural wonders and is a long, narrow underwater formation made by skeletal remains of millions of tiny animals off the northeastern coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
100
This great Colosseum was erected by emperors Vespasian and Titus in 70-82 A.D. in this city.
What is Rome, Italy?
The Colosseum was an arena for professional fighters that held 50,000 spectators.
200
Although most of Africa is located along the equator, this tallest mountain in Tanzania is topped with snow.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
200
This treaty was signed in 1959 by twelve countries and prohibits military activities and mineral mining in Antarctica.
What is the Antarctic Treaty?
200
A Mausoleum or burial place, for Emporer Shah Jahan's favorite wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
Built outside the city of Agra, India, it took 22 years to build the Taj Mahal, which many consider to be the "most beautiful building" in the world.
200
This capital of Australia is located in a federal territory similar to Washington, D. C., within the state of New South Wales.
What is Canberra?
In 1901, when Australia was founded, Melborne and Sydney both vied to become capital. Instead a new capital city was built.
200
This narrow peninsula in Europe is only 8 miles from Africa and is a great refueling stop for ships traveling from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Gibraltor? (Also known as the Rock of Gibraltor.)
300
The African country with the most people.
What is Nigeria?
Africa's most populous country with about 126 million people. The average Nigerian woman gives birth to about 6 children in her lifetime.
300
This sea, island, and ice shelf were named for this British explorer.
Who is Ross for whom the Ross Sea, Ross Island and Ross Ice Shelf were named for?
300
Japan is made up of more than 3,000 islands, but this is the number of islands that make up the main island(s) of Japan.
What is 4?
The four main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.
300
This is what Australians call the rugged, dry, desert region that makes up much of the interior and western lands.
What is the "outback?"
This region includes the Great Sandy Desert, the Great Victorian Desert, and the Gibson Desert. Most Australians live along the coast.
300
Many fairy tales originated in the Black Forest of this country.
What is Germany?
400
North Africa and the Middle East are the world's largest supplier of this natural resource.
What is oil?
Because oil can be used in so many ways and is such a valuable resource, oil production gives these countries a lot of political power.
400
Name 4 of the 7 countries that claim a territory in parts of Antarctica.
What are Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and United Kingdom?
400
This largest country in Southeast Asia consists of 13,700 islands and is located along the equator between the Pacific and Indian oceans.
What is Indonesia?
Jakarta is the capital.
400
This former British colony has long been a major wool exporter, which perhaps explains why the sheep outnumber the people in this two-island nation.
What is New Zealand?
400
On the hill of the Acropolis in this ancient city, a beautiful white marble temple known as the Parthenon, took nine years to build.
What is Athens, Greece?
500
The name of Africa's largest lake.
What is Lake Victoria?
Larger than the state of West Virginia, it is located in the Great Rift Valley.
500
The southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (or the northern lights) that is visible in Antarctica.
What is the aurora australis?
500
Six former republics of the Soviet Union, as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan are countries that all end in "stan," which means this.
What is land or nation?
So Afghanistan is "land of Afghans."
500
The United States used this island for testing grounds for nuclear weapons and the two-piece swimsuit got its name from the Bikini Atoll where this is located.
What is Marshall Islands?
Located in the central Pacific Ocean.
500
In Westminster Tower in London this bell that weighs 13.5 tons and is 7.5 feet high hangs in the tower.
What is Big Ben?
The bell was cast in 1858 to replace an earlier bell that cracked. It was named after the commissioner in charge of the first bell, Sir Benjamin Hall.