Geography
This is the largest country in South America by land area
What is Brazil
What continent is home to the Amazon Rainforest?
What is South America.
Hurricanes form over this type of warm water.
What is warm ocean water.
What are the three great ancient African Kingdoms?
What are Ghana, Mali and Songhai.
This famous explorer’s ships got stuck in ice while searching for a Northwest Passage in the Arctic during the 1500s.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This river flows through northern South America and is the longest river on the continent.
What is the Amazon River
This is where the Amazon Rainforest get its name from.
What is the Amazon Rainforest.
Thi is how hurricanes are rated from category 1 to category 5.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
This ancient African kingdom was known for its wealth from gold and salt trade.
What is Ghana
In 1869, this famous landmark in New York Harbor was first illuminated with gaslights during the winter holiday season.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This mountain range runs along the western edge of South America and affects the climate of the region.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This layer of the rainforest is home to most animals and receives the most sunlight.
What is the canopy.
This part of the hurricane is calm and located at the center of the storm.
What is the eye of the storm.
This trade route crossed the Sahara Desert and helped spread goods, ideas, and religion.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade route.
In medieval Europe, people would light these during the darkest days of winter to celebrate the return of longer days.
What are Yule logs.
This is the largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest
This rainforest animal lives in the trees and has moss grow on it.
What is a sloth.
This is the largest hurricane to hit and devastate the United States in the 21st century?
What is Hurricane Katrina
This famous ruler of Mali was known for his great wealth and his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who was Mansa Musa
This term describes animals that sleep or slow their activity during the winter to save energy.
What is hibernation.
This imaginary line passes through Ecuador and gives the country its name
What is the Equator
This human activity is the biggest cause of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is deforestation for Farming or cattle ranching.
This natural hazard is often the most dangerous part of a hurricane and causes flooding along the coast.
What is storm surge?
This city in the Mali Empire became a center of learning with mosques and universities.
What is Timbuktu?
This event occurs around December 21 and marks the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the winter solstice?