The Largest
Large desert located in Northern Africa
What is the Sahara Desert
The highest place on earth.
What is Mount Everest?
A narrow man-made channel of water that joins other bodies of water.
What is a canal?
He is probably the most famous mummy of ancient Egypt.
Who is King Tut?
An ancient form of Egyptian writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
The largest freshwater lake in the Continental US.
What is Lake Superior?
A person who draws maps is called this.
What is a cartographer?
Though he got close, he never crossed the Antarctica as his ship got stuck in the ice and eventually sank.
Who is Ernest Shackleton?
This is the worlds largest rock.
What is Uluru or Ayers Rock
The highest mountain in Japan.
What is Mount Fuji?
A narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger pieces of land.
What is an isthmus?
He discovered Victoria Falls.
Who is Dr. David Livingstone?
Early settlers who tried to get land illegally by occupying government land.
What are squatters?
The deepest canyon in the US.
What is Hells Canyon?
A narrow strip of lane that connects to largest pieces of land.
What is an isthmus?
The largest coral reef in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Africa's highest mountain peak.
What is Kilimanjaro?
A narrow stretch of water that connects 2 larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
He was the first man to reach the South Pole.
Who is Roald Amundsen?
A dry river bed.
What is a wadi?
North America's highest waterfalls.
What are Yosemite Falls?
The name of this continent means "Little Bear".
What is Antarctica?
This is river makes up the eastern border of Israel.
What is the Jordan River?
This country was formed in 1822 as a homeland for freed slaves.
What is Liberia?
The largest continent on earth.
What is Asia?
Europe's highest mountain peak.
What is Mount Elbrus?
A platform of ice that rests on the sea.
What is an ice shelf?
She was captured by Hernan Cortes.
Who is Malinche (Dona Marina)?
A large farm, ranch, or country estate.
What is a hacianda?
The world's tallest tree is located in this US state.
What is California?
(The California Redwood)
A blanket with a slit in the middle for the head, to be worn as a coat.
What is a poncho?
The largest peninsula in the world.
What is Arabia?
Highest mountain in North America.
Small shrimp-like creatures abundant in the ocean, an important food supply for polar animals.
What are krill?
He is a major Biblical person who was a vizier in Egypt.
Who is Joseph?
An armed Roman fighter who fought against other men or wild animals as a spectator sport.
What are gladiators?
These three ships carried Christopher Columbus and his crew to the new world.
What are the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria?
The world's driest desert located in Chile.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This state is not part of the continental US. It begins and ends with the same letter.
What is Alaska?