This major holiday in China when millions of people travel to their family home
Chinese New Year
This country is the largest in the world in terms of land area
Russia
This is the tallest waterfall in the world
Angel Falls
Kenya is on the coast of this ocean
Indian
The percentage of the earth's surface that's covered with water.
parents could only have one child
These two countries were the great powers in post-World War 2
This group of American artists painted landscape art between 1825 and 1870
Over the last 50 years, Côte d'Ivoire has lost 80% off this geographic feature
The system of imaginary lateral lines parallel to the equator.
Latitude
Nepal lies between these two powerful countries
China and India
This lake found in Russia is the deepest in the world
Lake Baikal
This change in the Arctic Ocean since 2000 has made the Northwest passage possible
Receding ice
The name of the book we read beginning of the year about Palestine and the Middle East
Blood Brothers
The term for the vast heartland of Australia
The outback
The idea that if Vietnam fell to the Communists, other countries in IndoChina and Asia might fall
The domino effect
These mountains form a border between Spain and France
The Pyrenees
Belize is the only country in Central America without this
A Pacific coast
How William Kamkwamba from "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" learned about windmills
By reading a used American science textbook
This New Zealander was the first person to successfully climb Mt. Everest
Edmund Hillary
Following the civil war after World War 2 in China, this is where supporters of the other party fled
Taiwan
The longest river in Europe
The Volga
This town is the setting for five of Laura Ingall's Wilder's books
De Smet, South Dakota
This country was the last in the world to allow women to drive
Saudi Arabia
This is the standard modern territorial limit countries can claim
12 miles