Rivers
What river begins in Wisconsin and ends in Louisiana?
Mississippi River
What is a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream or river?
Tributary
The longest mountain chain in the world that stretches 4,500 miles from the southern tip of Chile to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela.
Andes Mountains
Which desert can be found across the north of Africa?
Sahara
Which U.S. coastline is most at risk for hurricanes?
The Gulf Coast — warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico fuel powerful storms that often hit Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
What river runs through 3 states only? Utah, Arizona, and _________.
Colorado River
What is an area of high land?
Plateau
These mountains are young mountains stretch from Yugoslavia to France and are the mountains in Switzerland.
The Alps
The Atacama is considered by many to be the world's driest desert, getting very little rainfall. In what continent is this desert located?
South America
What “B” fish, known as a “cuda” for short, is a large saltwater fish of genus Sphyraena?
Barracuda
What river is found in the North and only flows through one state?
Hudson River
What is a piece of Sub-continental land that is surrounded by water?
Island
This ancient volcano is a snow covered peak near the equator in Africa.
Mount Kilimanjaro
The names of deserts are usually related to their geographic location. Sometimes, however, the name is even simpler. What is the meaning of both Gobi and Sahara?
Desert
Which country has over 17,000 islands along its coastline?
Indonesia — it’s the world’s largest archipelago nation!
Name two benefits of living near a river
What is fertile soil, crops, transportation, trade
What are 2 disadvantages of living near a mountain
What is lack of arable land, barrier to cultural diffusion
This mountain range stretch from Alaska to Mexico and are rich in mineral resources including gold.
Rockies
What are the main types of deserts?
Hot deserts, cold deserts
A "smack" is the collective term for a large group of what sea creatures?
Jellyfish
Name 2 early river valley civilizations and the rivers that supported them
What is India-Indus River, Mesopotoamia-Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Eygpt-Nile River, China- Huang He/Yellow River
A peninsula is an area of land surrounded on __ sides by water. Give a specific example of a peninsula .
What is 3 . Italy, India , Arabian
What mountain range runs north to south through Western Russia?
The Ural Mountains
The Atacama Desert is classified as which type of desert?
Cool coastal
The Pacific Ocean, is found off the American West Coast. How many U.S. states have coastlines on the Pacific Ocean?
Five
The earliest river valley civilization was named "Mesopotamia" because
What is Mesopotamia means land between two rivers and it was located in between Tigris and Euphrates
The process of ___________ has been claiming lot of arable land in North Africa
What is desertification
What island of Japan is Mount Fuji on?
Honshu Island
This desert can be found in northern China and Mongolia?
Gobi
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada — with over 202,000 km (125,000 miles) of coastline
Rivers bring what economical benefit?
What is trade
A positive impact of mountains is
What is protection from invasion
What mountain climber responded to the question, “why did you want to climb Mount Everest” with the response, “because it’s there”.
George Mallory
A lot of people know that the Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. But not everyone knows the origins of the name of its desert. It comes from the word "sahra", a word from what language?
Arabic
Which country is said to have the most beaches in the world?
Australia — with over 10,000 beaches