Mountains
True or False: It is colder at the top of a mountain than at the base.
True.
True or False: Deserts are always hot.
False. Deserts can be hot or cold, but they are always very dry.
True or False: Rivers will flow into larger bodies of water, like lakes, seas, or oceans.
True!
True or False: The Amazon River is in North America.
False. The Amazon River is in South America.
This mountain range has the tallest mountain in the world; Mt. Everest is 8,850 meters tall.
A. The Rocky Mountains B. The Alps C. The Himalayas D. The Andes Mountains
C. What are the Himalayas?
Largest inhabited desert of the world
A. Sahara B. Gobi C. Kalahari D. Antarctica
This river, the longest in the world, begins at Lake Victoria and flows northward through Africa.
A. Nile B. Yangtze C. Amazon D. Volga
A. What is the Nile River?
The Andes mountain range starts in Venezuela and runs all the way through Chile in this continent.
What is South America?
This mountain is the tallest in Seoul with a height of 836 meters.
What is Bukhansan?
Driest desert on earth located in Chile.
A. Mojavi B. Atacama C. Gobi D. Sahara
B. What is the Atacama Desert?
This river starts in the Tibetan mountains and runs all the way through China.
A. Mississippi B. Yangtze C. Amazon D. Nile
B. What is the Yangtze river?
This continent is all one desert.
What is Antarctica?
This animal lives in the mountains of North America, clinging to the mountainsides with its cloven hooves. They climb the mountains to eat grass and shrubs in the higher altitude.
What are mountain goats?
This animal lives in the desert and stores fat in their humps to combat the dry environment.
What is a camel?
This dangerous reptile lives in the tropical rivers of Africa, Asia, and South America.
What are crocodiles?
Kangaroos can only be found on this continent.
What is Australia?
True or false: Mountains can grow and shrink.
True! The Himalayas are growing, but the Appalachian mountains in North America are shrinking.
This type of plant in deserts stores water inside and has spiky thorns to protect it.
What are cacti?
True or False: A river can move over time as it erodes the dirt and rock surrounding it.
True. Rivers change shape over time as their banks erode.
This continent has Mt. Vesuvius, a volcano that suddenly erupted in 79 ad that covered the city of Pompeii.
What is Europe?