The Americas
this river forms much of the southern border of the state of Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
This long mountain range is often considered to be the dividing line between the continents of Europe and Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
What is the Sahara?
The two tallest mountains in the world, Mt Everest and K2, are both part of this mountain range in Southern Asia
What are the Himalaya Mountains? Technically, K2 is in the Karakoram Range which is part of the Himalaya Complex but technically a separate range.
The ocean that lies North of both Russia and Canada
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This mountain range along the Northern edge of Africa shares a name with a Greek titan and a great geography resource
What are the Atlas Mountains?
The farthest East of the American Great Lakes
What is Lake Huron?
the name of the peninsula that houses the countries of Spain and Portugal
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
The very narrow waterway that separates Northern Africa from Europe between Morocco and Spain
What is the Straits of Gibraltar?
The large desert that stretches through Southern Mongolia and Northern China
What is the Gobi desert?
this river in South America is one of the world's three longest and shares its name with the largest tropical rainforest
What is the Amazon?
The country of Lichtenstein, between Switzerland and Austria, is located in the midst of this famous European Mountain Range
What are the Alps?
the large peninsula that sticks up from the southern tip of Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
A famous river running through Paris and emptying into the English Channel, there was controversy surrounding the pollution there during the 2024 summer olympics
What is the Seine?
This large valley that runs through Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya is where the oldest archaeological remains of humans have been found
What is the Great Rift Valley or East African Rift?
The largest island entirely within Indonesia, it shares its name with a species of tiger
What is Sumatra?
This is the tiny waterway that separates North America from Asia at their closest point
What is the Bering Strait?
the only continent that is almost entirely desert
What is Antarctica?
Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere, and the Southern Hemisphere lies in Argentina, part of this mountain range
What are the Andes?
The Sea that lies between the Scandinavian Peninsula and the mainland Republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (collectively known by the same name as the sea)
What is the Baltic Sea?
Somalia is on the edge of the piece of land known as this
What is the Horn of Africa?
This huge lake in Siberia is the world's deepest - it is also the world's oldest and a hot spot for biodiversity
What is Lake Baikal?
two of the three continents which do not have any of the world's 10 largest lakes
What are South America, Antarctica, and Australia?
this enormous underwater complex of biodiversity is one of the natural wonders of the world, found off the Northeastern coast of Australia
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
this large Canadian province includes Cape Spear, the Easternmost point on the continent of North America
What is Newfoundland?
What are the Carpathian Mountains?
The country between Gabon and Cameroon has a misleading name because this latitude line does not, in fact, run through it
What is the Equator (0 degrees latitude)?
Asia contains 5 of the 10 largest rivers in the world; these are three of them
What are the Yangtze River (China), the Yenisei River (Russia), the Yellow River (China), the Ob River (Russia), and the Amur River (China and Russia)?
Two of the three countries that border the largest lake in Africa
What are Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania? (the lake is Lake Victoria)
The majority of Kazakhstan and the center of Mongolia are generally referred to as this biome
What are the Steppes?