Name That Continent
Flags
Earth Science Vocab
Landforms
What's So Special
100
This continent is the coldest and driest on Earth and is covered by a massive ice sheet.
What is Antarctica?
100
This country’s flag features a red circle centered on a white background.
What is Japan?
100
This process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces without moving them.
What is weathering?
100
This landform is formed when a river cuts through rock over millions of years, creating a deep, narrow valley.
What is a canyon?
100
This continent is the largest on Earth.
What is Asia?
200
This continent contains the Sahara Desert, the world’s largest hot desert.
What is Africa?
200
This country’s flag is nicknamed the “Union Jack.”
What is the United Kingdom?
200
When two tectonic plates suddenly slip past each other, this natural disaster occurs.
What is an earthquake?
200
These landforms are created when tectonic plates collide and push Earth’s crust upward.
What are mountains?
200
This continent is the only one located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere
What is Australia?
300
This continent is home to the Himalayas, the tallest mountain range in the world, and experiences frequent earthquakes from plate collisions.
What is Asia?
300
This South American country has a green flag with a yellow diamond and blue globe in the center.
What is Brazil?
300
This Earth sphere includes all living organisms and ecosystems.
What is the biosphere?
300
This landform is a low area of land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
300
This country is the largest in South America and contains much of the Amazon Rainforest.
What is Brazil?
400
This continent often experiences hurricanes in one of its oceans and has landforms such as the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.
What is North America?
400
This African country’s flag has green, yellow, and red horizontal stripes with a blue circle of stars in the center.
What is Ethiopia?
400
The movement of heated material rising and cooler material sinking inside Earth’s mantle is called this.
What is convection currents?
400
This fan-shaped landform forms where a river slows down and deposits sediment as it enters a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
400
This continent is the only one with land in all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
500
This continent houses a major country that is known for wildfires, droughts, and the large desert region called the Great Victoria Desert.
What is Oceania?
500
This country's flag contains the only non-rectangular shapre among all national flags in the world.
What is Nepal?
500
This type of plate boundary forms when an oceanic plate sinks beneath a continental plate, often creating deep ocean trenches and volcanic mountain chains.
What is a subduction zone?
500
This landform is a large, flat area of land with few trees and is often used for farming.
What is a plain?
500
This continent has the most countries of any continent
What is Europe?