Your World
About what percentage of Earth’s surface is covered by water?
What is 71 percent?
This imaginary line at 0° latitude circles Earth halfway between the poles.
What is the Equator?
Most of ancient Mesopotamia lies within this modern country.
What is Iraq?
This mountain is an important landmark associated with Armenia.
What is Mount Ararat?
This strait connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
These initials stand for the satellite-based system used to identify locations on Earth.
What is the Global Positioning System?
This 0° line of longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This English name refers to the vast sand desert also called the Rubʿ al-Khali.
What is the Empty Quarter?
Turkey is located on both of these continents.
What are Europe and Asia?
These three cultures intersect in Tunisia.
What are African, European, and Islamic cultures?
This geologist helped map the ocean floor.
Who is Marie Tharp?
This part of a map explains what its symbols mean.
What is the legend?
This ethnic group is widely dispersed across the Middle East and lacks a recognized national homeland.
Who are the Kurds?
Armenia lies between these two seas.
What are the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?
The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia helped begin this wider protest movement.
What was the Arab Spring?
A branch of geography studies people, cultures, and how they relate to places.
What is human geography?
This is the process of transferring locations on Earth onto a map surface.
What is a map projection?
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
These two cities in Saudi Arabia are considered holy by Muslims.
What are Mecca and Medina?
This canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, creating a major route between Europe and Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
This is the title of the 17-volume work about the known world written by the ancient geographer Strabo.
What is Geography?
When a round Earth is represented on a flat map, mapmakers cannot preserve all of these properties perfectly.
What are size, shape, distance, or direction?
These two rivers gave Mesopotamia its name, meaning “between rivers.”
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This country was the last in the world to allow women to drive.
What is Saudi Arabia?
During World War II, control of North Africa mattered partly because it helped control shipping through this canal and routes across the Mediterranean.
What is the Suez Canal?