High School Geography
This Alabama city, the first Confederate capital, has a Jefferson Davis High.
What is Montgomery?
The crest of Montgomery is a six-pointed star that contains the words “Cradle of the Confederacy,” Birth Place of the Civil Rights Movement” and “City of Montgomery.”
What is Thailand?
The Baan Chang Elephant Park is a family-run eco-park where every elephant is considered a member of the family with its own name and personality.
Wyoming’s largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park.
What is Yellowstone Lake?
Yellowstone Lake is the largest lake at high elevation in North America, however, Lake Tahoe is larger at a lower elevation.
Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital.
What is New Zealand?
Today, the capital of New Zealand is Wellington which has a population of 395,600.
This capital that shares its name with its country lies about 12 miles inland from Italy’s Adriatic coast.
What is San Marino?
San Marino is one of the world’s tiniest and oldest republics that you never knew existed. It’s not technically Italy, however, a day trip from Florence or Bologna is a breeze.
The largest gulf.
The Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is the largest gulf in the world. A gulf is a basin of the sea that creeps over the land.
The smallest and shallowest of the world’s five oceans is this one.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The thousand-mile long river separating Texas and Oklahoma has this colorful name.
What is the Red River?
The Red River, 1,360 miles, is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It gets its name from the red-bed country of its watershed.
Number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean. Can you name them?
What is five?
The states are Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.
Corsica and this Italian island are packed so close together they’re only about seven miles apart.
What is Sardinia?
Much of Sardinia’s tillable land is devoted to growing fruit and cultivating cereal.
The highest point in North America.
Denali
Denali is the highest point in North America. Named Mt. McKinley outside of Alaska for many years, a naming dispute between the Alaskan state legislature and the federal government restored the name "Denali", which was what it had been called by Alaskan indigenous peoples.
Yucatan, Iberian, and Balkan are all examples of this physical feature.
What is a Peninsula?
The name of the colorful mountainous range found in the western states of South Dakota and Wyoming.
What are the Black Hills?
The Black Hills are home to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. They get their name from their dark appearance from a distance. European Americans discovered gold in the Black Hills in 1874, which spiked the Black Hills gold rush.
Less than 5,000 square miles in area, the Gambia is the smallest independent mainland country on this continent.
What is Africa?
This French city became the capital of the papacy in 1309.
What is Avignon?
Avignon became the capital of the papacy in 1309. It was bought by Clement VI, the fourth of seven Avignon popes, in 1348 from Queen Joan of Provence and remained papal property until the French Revolution.
The world's largest prairie.
What are The Great Plains?
The Great Plains is the world's largest prairie. The Great Plains covers all of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota, along with parts of other states.
This body of water separates North America from Asia.
What is the Bering Strait?
The Bering Strait separates North America from Asia. Specifically, the Bering Strait separates the U.S. from Russia.
The capital city of this Canadian province or territory contains a color and a utensil in its name.
What are the Northwest Territories?
Prior to 1999, the Northwest Territories (NWT) was the largest of Canada's 12 provinces and territories. On April 1 of that year, the geographical boundaries were redrawn and a third territory, Nunavut, was created. Nunavut is almost twice the size of the new NWT and is now the largest of the territories and provinces. The new NWT is ranked third behind Nunavut and Québec.
The capital city, Yellowknife, is known colloquially as "Golden Blade" or simply "The Blade".
The name of this smallest South American country can be spelled with or without an e.
What is Suriname?
Suriname, which gained its independence on November 25, 1975, was formerly known as Dutch Guiana.
Major Italian city, famous for its history and architecture, is located on a group of islands in a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea.
What is Venice?
The city of Venice is a major seaport and the capital of both the province of Venezia and the region of Veneto in northern Italy. It is located on a group of islands in a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea. Venice is unique environmentally, architecturally, and historically.
This river runs along part of the U.S.-Mexican border.
What is The Rio Grande?
The Rio Grande runs along part of the U.S.-Mexican border. The name is Spanish for "Big River."
The highest point in Canada.
Mt. Logan
Mt. Logan is Canada's highest point. The mountain was named after Canadian geologist, Sir William Edmond Logan.
The city of _________ in New South Wales, Australia is a well known fruit growing area.
What is Orange?
Although many types of fruit do grow there, despite its name, there are no oranges grown in Orange as it is too cold. The city was actually named in 1846 in honor of Prince William of Orange.
The Madeira Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean belong to this country.
What is Portugal?
An archipelago of volcanic origin in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Madeira Islands belong to Portugal and consist of two inhabited islands, Madeira and Porto Santo, and two uninhabited groups, the Desertas and the Selvagens.
The longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga River?
As Europe’s longest river and the principal waterway of western Russia, the Volga sprawls across about two-fifths of the European part of Russia, where almost half of the entire population of Russia resides.