Basic Geography
Land of 10k Lakes
United States
Canada
Mexico
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Oceania
100
The weather of a place over a period of time.
What is the climate?
100
The state flower.
What is the lady slipper?
100
The longest mountain range in the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
Instead of states, Canada has these.
What are provinces?
100
This holiday, celebrated in Mexico, sometimes involves the decoration of sugar skulls.
What is Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos?
100
The largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon?
100
The country in Europe that is shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
100
The capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
100
Largest hot desert in the world
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
Australia is part of this continent.
What is Australia?
200
Name the seven continents and five oceans.
What is North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica, Australia and Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Southern?
200
What is the state bird?
What is the loon?
200
Nevada is part of this region of the United States.
What is the west?
200
This province is 10 miles north of us
Where is Manitoba?
200
The capital city of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
200
This mountain range runs along the west coast of South America
What is the Andes Mountains?
200
This popular city, is an independent city state in Europe that has its own governing body.
What is Vatican City?
200
This country is now the most populous
What is India?
200
Large island off the coast of Africa
Where is Madagascar?
200
This is the only animal that resides on Antartica
What is a penguin?
300
Parallel lines that run east and west across the earth.
What are lines of latitude?
300
Where does the Mississippi River start?
What is Lake Itasca?
300
This is the largest state
What is Alaska?
300
Capital of Canada
What is Ottawa?
300
This country colonized much of Mexico, central America & South America
Who is Spain?
300
This country connects South America to central America
Colombia
300
The capital of the country in Europe that is part of both Europe and Asia.
What is Moscow?
300
This country is an island just off the coast of India
Where is Sri Lanka?
300
This country is land locked by South Africa
Where is Lesotho?
300
This animal is unique to Australia
What is a kangaroo or duck billed platypus?
400
This type of map shows landforms.
What is a physical map?
400
Who is the Governor of Minnesota?
Who is Tim Walz?
400
Name the 5 Great Lakes
What are Superior, Erie, Huron, Ontario, Michigan?
400
Big body of water in the center of Canada
What is Hudson Bay?
400
The peninsula that looks like a hook and sticks out into the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
400
The name of the world's tallest waterfall that is located in Venezuela.
What is Angel Falls?
400
This was built to connect France and England
Where is the Chunnel?
400
The highest point of elevation in the world and the country it is in
What is Mt. Everest & Nepal?
400
The name of Africa's highest mountain which is also a volcano.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
400
This is a flightless bird in Australia
What is the kiwi?
500
Name all five themes of geography and give one example of each.
Answers will vary
500
What is the largest city in Minnesota?
What is Minneapolis?
500
Largest elevation point in the US
What is Mount Mckinley or Denali?
500
the 10 Provinces
What is Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island?
500
The thin pice of land that is a peninsula, goes South of California...
What is Baja California?
500
This set of islands off the coast of Ecuador helped Charles Darwin develop his theory of evolution.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
500
Name the countries in the UK
What is England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland?
500
Asia's southernmost country.
What is Indonesia?
500
This canal is a shortcut between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
What is the Suez Canal?
500
This popular tourist destination is just off the coast of Australia
What is the Great Barrier Reef?