Mountains
Rivers
Islands
Deserts Not Desserts
Forests
100
This mountain range continues to grow in height because of the collision of the Indian subcontinent with the main landmass of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
100
Water from Idaho, New York, Texas, and 28 other states flow into this North American River, which ranks third in total discharge.
What is the Mississippi?
100
Because of how they appear on maps, this European island is sometimes described as the football to Italy's boot.
What is Sicily?
100
The name of this African desert means "desert" in the Arabic language.
What is the Sahara?
100
This African rainforest shares its name with two countries and a major river.
What is the Congo?
200
This South American range includes Aconcagua, which is the tallest mountain outside of Asia but only the 189th tallest overall.
What are the Andes?
200
At over 7 million cubic feet per second, the discharge of this South American river is the greatest in the world, pushing a wedge of fresh water 200 miles into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon?
200
The South American archipelago is called "El Archipelago" in Ecuador and is known to the rest of the world for its role in Darwin's work on evolution.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
200
This Australian desert covers more than 70 percent of the continent and has been occupied by indigenous people for more than 50,000 years.
What is the Outback?
200
The world's largest forested area is the taiga of this country that straddles Europe and Asia.
What is Russia?
300
The final scene of the film The Sound of Music finds the Family von Trapp escaping through these mountains, which are the longest mountain range found entirely within Europe.
What are the Alps?
300
Sediment from the annual flood of this African river sustained agriculture in its floodplain for several thousand years, until it was greatly reduced by the World Bank's construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1950s.
What is the Nile?
300
This North American island is coterminous with a town and a county of the same name, and it is a favorite place of the author of this game!
What is Nantucket?
300
This North American desert straddles the U.S.-Mexico border and is the only place in the world where the iconic saguaro cactus occurs naturally.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
300
This North American national forest is named for a giant species that is the world's largest kind of tree.
What is Sequoia National Forest?
400
This North American mountain is often the windiest place on earth -- so windy that weather stations have sometimes been blown off the summit.
What is Mount Washington? (or Agiocochook)
400
Although sometimes listed as the longest and second-longest rivers in Australia, one of these is a tributary of the other, sharing a basin that began to form when the continent was part of Gondwanaland.
What are the Murray and the Darling?
400
This African archipelago is named for a point of land 500 miles to its east in Senegal and became independent of Portugal in 1975.
What is Cabo Verde? (or Cape Verde or Kabu Verdi)
400
This South American desert is the world's driest -- with rain events often years apart -- even though it is adjacent to the world's largest ocean.
What is the Atacama?
400
More than half of the forest of this continent are owned or managed by indigenous people.
What is Australia?
500
Because this tallest mountain in Africa is not part of a chain, it is also the tallest free-standing mountain in the world looming 4,500 meters above the surrounding plains in Tanzania.
What is Kilimanjaro?
500
This European River is known for the cafés along part of its left bank.
What is the Seine?
500
The United States defines its relationship with this island nation of Asia as both "robust" and "unofficial."
What is Taiwan?
500
This highland desert is the largest in Asia and is known for its abundant dinosaur fossils and relatively abundant plant and animal life.
What is the Gobi?
500
One of the most important products of the Amazon rainforest is harvested by slicing the bark of Hevea brasiliensis, a tree that is dispersed throughout the forest.
What is rubber? (or latex)