Rivers
Lakes
Even More Rivers
Mountains
Antarctica and the Arctic
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Europe's longest river
What is the Volga River in Russia?
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Lake in Scotland that has the largest volume, famous for its monster sightings.
What is Loch Ness?
100
It is also generally regarded as the second longest river in the world, has the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi), and accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow.
What is Amazon River?
100
Home to the planet's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
What is Himalayas?
100
The coldest temperature ever recorded here on Earth was minus 128.56 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees Celsius), registered on July 21, 1983.
What is Antarctica's Vostok station?
200
This river passes through 4 capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea.
What is Danube River?
200
This lake borders three countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
What is Lake Victoria?
200
Generally regarded as the longest river in the world.
What is Nile River?
200
The highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world at 5,895 metres or 19,341 feet above sea level.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
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Russia's third largest city, Novosibirsk,is found along this river.
What is the river Ob?
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Go to this link to see this famous disappearing lake. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pQyvcBbJ0Fs/TNAXAPBYxII/AAAAAAAAC3c/WPjdQObG_1k/image%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800
What is Lake Chad?
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An extremely important river to Hindus, it is the trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh
What is the Ganges?
300
The primary mountain range that divides Europe and Asia. The mountains stretch a distance of over 1,550 miles from the Arctic Ocean in the north almost to the Caspian and Aral Seas in the south.
What is Ural Mountains?
300
The largest of Antarctica's ice shelves.
What is Ross Ice shelf?
400
Third longest river in the world and the longest that is found within one country.
What is Yangtze River?
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Situated within the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, and is confined by the mountainous walls of the valley. It is the largest rift lake in Africa and the second largest lake by volume in the world.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
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A European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Austrian, Swiss- Liechtenstein border, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands.
What is Rhine?
400
Mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
What is Caucasus Mountains?
400
Divides Antartica into East and West sections.
What is Transantarctic Mountains?
500
Called "the cradle of Chinese civilization", because its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization.
What is Yellow River?
500
World's oldest and deepest lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
500
The longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia
What is Euphrates?
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An Andean stratovolcano in the Colombian department of Nariño, near the departmental capital Pasto. A 1993 eruption killed nine people, including six scientists who had descended into the volcano's crater to sample gases.
What is Galeras?
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When this thaws, it will emit methane, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that will speed up climate change.
What is permafrost?
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