Continents/Poles/Equator
What is the biggest continent in the world?
Asia (44,391,162 square kilometres)
What is the biggest country in the world (land mass)?
Russia (17,098,242 square kilometres)
What is longest river in the world?
a) the Amazon b) the Nile c) the Mississippi
a) OR b)! The Amazon, in South America, is about 7,000 km long and the Nile, in Africa, is about 6,900 km long, but it depends on where you start measuring them.
This explorer sailed on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
Who is Christopher Columbus
Which mountain range is the tallest in the United States?
a) Appalachian mountains
b) Rocky Mountains
c) Cascade Mountains
d) Sierra Nevada
b) Rocky Mountains
What is the smallest continent in the world?
b) Australia (9,008,500 square kilometres)
What is smallest country in the world ?
a) the Vatican
b) Monaco
c) Colombia
d) Madagascar
a) The Vatican (0.44 square kilometres)
Mt Everest is higest mountain in the world. In which two countries is it located?
China and Nepal. (The border between the two countries goes across the highest part of the mountain.)
This Spanish explorer sailed to the New World in hopes of finding Aztec gold in the 16th century.
Who is Hernan Cortes
Which is the tallest mountain in North America?
a) Mt. McKinley (Alaska)
b) Pikes Peak (Colorado)
c) Mt. Whitney (California)
a) Mt. McKinley (Denali, Alaska)
Where are penguins commonly found?
In Antarctica.
Which country is bigger? Australia or the USA?
The USA (9.8 million square kilometres) (Australia's area is about 7.7 million square kilometres.)
Where is biggest desert in the world? **Bonus Points if you know the name of the desert!**
a) Africa
b) Asia
c) Australia
a) Africa (the Sahara Desert)
With the help of Sacagawea (a Native American woman) these two explorers journeyed 11,300 kilometers into unknown territory.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
Which mountain range is located in California?
a) Appalachian mountains
b) Rocky Mountains
c) Cascade Mountains
d) Sierra Nevada
d) Sierra Nevada
Which continent has the largest population?
Asia (about 4.4 billion people)
What is the wealthiest country in the world?
a) Macau (in East Asia)
b) Qatar (in the Middle East)
c) the USA
b) Qatar (Macau=3rd, USA= 13th. International Money Fund, 2017)
Which waterfall is the tallest?
a) Niagara Falls in Canada
b) Angel Falls in Venezuela?
a) Angel Falls (979 metres tall). (Horseshoe Falls, which is the tallest part of the Niagara Falls, is only 57m tall.)
This Portuguese explorer led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan.
What is the largest river in the United States?
What is the Mississippi River?
Which of these cities are closest to the equator?
a) Sydney (Australia)
b) Tokyo (Japan)
c) London (UK)
d) New York City (USA)
a) Sydney. Its latitude is 33.8688° S.
What is happiest country in the world?
a) Australia
b) Norway
c) Costa Rica
b) Norway. (Australia= 9th, Costa Rica=12th. United Nations "World Happiness Report" 2017)
Australia is one of driest continents. How much of it is desert?
a) 10% b) 35% c) 55%
b) 35%
This explorer was a merchant and explorer who traveled throughout the Far East and China for much of his life during the 13th and 14th century. His stories were the basis for what much of Europe knew about Ancient China for many years and is even today a very popular book.
Who is Marco Polo.
What is the largest state in the United States?
What is Alaska.