Asia
What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
Astana
What is the administrative capital of South Africa?
Pretoria
What is the capital city of Greece?
Athens
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
What is the collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean?
Oceania
Among the active volcanoes associated with the Ring of Fire are Krakatoa on Rakata Island in Indonesia, Mount Pinatubo on Luzon in the ____________, and Mount Aso on Kyushu in Japan.
Philippines
The continent is bounded on the north by the Tropic of Cancer and on the south by the Tropic of __________.
Capricorn
Which ocean borders Europe on the north?
Arctic
What is the capital city of Peru?
Lima
What is the national flower/national floral emblem of Australia?
Golden Wattle
Acacia pycnantha
This mountain in Malaysia reaches 13,455 feet (4,101 metres).
Mount Kinabalu
In antiquity, what was the name the Greeks said to have called the continent?
Libya
What is the highest peak in Great Britain which stands at an elevation of only 4,406 feet (1,343 metres)?
Ben Nevis
What is the name of the mountain that occupies almost entirely the western portion of South America?
Andes Mountains
Oceania has traditionally been divided into four parts: Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), Melanesia, Micronesia, and _____________.
Polynesia
The Captain of the British Royal Navy who landed with the First Fleet at Botany Bay in 1788.
Arthur Philip
Which mountain is the highest point on the continent at 19,340 feet (5,895 metres)?
Kilimanjaro
What is the largest area of oldest rocks in the continent?
Baltic Shield
This mountain is not only the South American continent’s highest point but also the highest elevation in the Western Hemisphere. What is the name of this mountain?
Mount Aconcagua
The Captain of the British Royal Navy who landed with the First Fleet at Botany Bay in 1788.
Arthur Philip
What are the three major mountain chains in Mongolia?
1. The Mongolian Altai Mountains
2. The Khangai Mountains (Khangain [or Hangayn] Nuruu)
3. The Khentii Mountains (Khentiin [or Hentiyn] Nuruu).
The African continent essentially consists of five ancient Precambrian cratons—Kaapvaal, __________, Tanzania, Congo, and West African.
Zimbabwe
This country is a unique occurrence in Europe: it is a volcanic island situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge within the still-opening Atlantic Ocean.
Iceland
Which sea bounds the North American continent on the south?
Carribean Sea
This treaty, which was an unprecedented landmark in diplomacy, preserves the continent for nonmilitary scientific pursuits and placed Antarctica under an international regime.
Antarctic Treaty