Countries:Key Facts
The capital city of the USA.
What is Washington, D.C?
63 tributaries feed into this lake, however there is only one going out of the lake – the Truckee River.
What is Lake Tahoe?
This continent has the largest population.
What is Asia?
A mountain of ice is called this.
What is a glacier?
Earth is round.
What is false?
Earth isn’t flat, but it’s not perfectly round either. Earth’s rotation causes the planet to bulge at the equator and flatten at the poles, while the distribution of mass on Earth (which is not perfectly uniform) causes small variations in the gravitational pull at different locations on the planet. These variations are too small to be seen in pictures of Earth from space, so it appears round to the human eye.
Country bound by these 2 major bodies of water: The Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
What is Australia?
The Finger Lakes are located here.
Where is New York state?
This continent is found entirely in the northern hemisphere.
What is North America?
The highest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
Coral reefs are Earth's largest living structure.
What is true?
These underwater ecosystems are made up of colonies of tiny animals called coral polyps, which build calcium carbonate skeletons that accumulate over time and form the complex structures we know as coral reefs.
Country that hosts the volcano called Pico de Orizaba.
What is Mexico?
Sea that cleanly separates Ireland from Great Britain.
What is the Irish Sea (or the Manx Sea)?
The world's smallest continent and second least populated.
What is Australia?
Where is Hawaii? (Mauna Kea volcano)
The moon is drifting away from Earth.
What is true?
The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at a rate of approximately 4 cm per year. This phenomenon is caused by the Moon pulling on Earth’s oceans creating tidal forces that produce a bulge of water on the side of Earth facing the Moon.
The fifth largest country in the world.
What is Brazil?
The world's largest enclosed inland body of water.
What is the Caspian Sea?
There are 50 sovereign countries in this continent.
What is Europe?
Country with the most mountain peaks over 7,200 meters above sea level.
What is China? (50)
What is false?
The Atacama Desert, located in South America, is widely considered to be the driest place on Earth, outside of the Antarctic dry valleys. This vast expanse of land spans over 100 000 sq km and receives an average of less than 1 mm of rainfall per year.
This country and its many islands (almost 1,500) extend southward from the European continent into the Aegean, Cretan, Ionian, Mediterranean and Thracian seas.
What is Greece?
Lake Strom Thurmond is located here.
Where is the South Carolina-Georgia border?
Names of the seven continents.
What are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Number of mountains on earth with elevations of 7,200 meters or greater above sea level.
What is true?
Unlike our geographic North Pole, which is in a fixed location, Earth’s magnetic north wanders. Until the early 1990s, the magnetic North Pole was known to lie some 1600 km south of true north, in Canada. Yet scientists realised that the location of magnetic north wasn’t fixed and was drifting at a rate of 15 km a year. Since the 1990s, however, the drift of Earth’s magnetic pole has turned into more of a sprint.