Geography Terms
Latin America
Europe and Russia
Africa
Capital Cities
100
The name of the horizontal lines on a map
What is latitude
100
The country Mexico won it's independence from
What is Spain
100
An example of a monarch
What is a king or queen
100
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile
200
The term for the seven major land masses on Earth
What is continents
200
An early civilization in Middle America
What is Mayan, Aztec, or Inca
200
The country that was divided after World War II and then reunited in 1990
What is Germany
200
The ocean to the west of Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean
200
The capital of Egypt
What is Cairo?
300
The term for the imaginary vertical lines on the Earth used for finding locations
What is longitude
300
The major mountain range that covers parts of Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru
What is the Andes
300
The special name for Russian emperors from 1547-1917
What is a czar
300
The ocean to the east of Africa
What is the Indian Ocean
300
The capital of Libya
What is Tripoli
400
Name three of the five themes of geography
What is location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions
400
The large river that runs through Brazil
What is the Amazon
400
The name of the sea that is on three sides of Italy
What is the Mediterranean Sea
400
A person who moves around to make a living, usually by herding animals, trading, hunting or gathering food
What is a nomad
400
The capital of France
What is Paris
500
A map feature that usually shows the four cardinal directions
What is a compass rose
500
the amount of money the average Haitian earns each year
What is $300
500
The European country that invented democracy (a kind of government that citizens run themselves)
What is Greece
500
The South African system in which racial groups were separated and racial discrimination was legal
What is apartheid
500
The capital of Venezuela
What is Caracas
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