Geography Facts
This is the third largest continent in the world.
What is North America?
This is the study of the earth.
What is geography?
This English missionary worked with the Canadian Inuit.
Who is Sir Wilfred Grenfell?
This country is directly north of the United States.
What is Canada?
This is the smallest and coldest ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This is the world's largest island.
What is Greenland?
This is ground that is permanently frozen.
What is permafrost?
This famous Native American was known as one of America's greatest athletes.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
This narrow waterway separates Alaska from Russia.
What is the Bering Strait?
These are the five large lakes located between the United States and Canada.
What are the Great Lakes?
This is the highest peak in North America.
What is Mt. McKinley?
This is a large mass of ice that slowly flows over the land.
What is a glacier?
This American was known as America's Greatest Storyteller.
Who is Will Rogers?
This major mountain range runs along the western part of North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This is the setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive.
What is a habitat?
This is the world's largest bay?
What is Hudson Bay?
This is the point beyond which trees cannot grow.
What is the timberline?
This people group lives in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic.
Who are the Inuit?
This major river flows through northern South America.
What is the Amazon River?
This famous animal has shaped the landscape of North America more than any other animal.
What is the beaver?
This is the world's largest gulf and is located south of the U.S.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
This civilization lived in South America and was especially associated with the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Incas?
This mountain range runs along the western side of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This line of latitude is located at 0° and divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?