Extreme Earth
Holding over 20% of the world's river water flow, this South American river runs through the world's largest tropical rainforest.
What is the Amazon River?
If you are eating authentic tacos, tamales, and guacamole made with fresh avocados, you are enjoying cuisine from this country.
What is Mexico?
This luxurious, lightweight fabric made from the cocoons of caterpillars was the most famous export from ancient China, giving the trade network its name.
What is silk?
The massive rivalry match between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona is known around the world by this famous two-word Spanish title.
What is El Clásico?
This imaginary line around the middle of the Earth sits at 0 degrees latitude and divides the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Spanning 11 time zones, this is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
In India, many people practice vegetarianism largely due to the religious beliefs of Hinduism and this other major religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
Merchants traveling long distances along the Silk Road moved together in large groups called this, using camels to transport heavy goods across dangerous deserts.
What is a Caravan?
Before moving to their modern home, Espanyol played for over a decade at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, situated high atop this famous promontory hill overlooking Barcelona's port and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Montjuic?
These lines on a map run parallel to the Equator and measure distances north or south.
What are the lines of latitude?
Mount Everest, the highest peak above sea level on Earth, is part of this massive mountain range in Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
Papas Arrugadas con Mojo are from this Spanish autonomous community.
What are the Canary Islands?
The Silk Road did not just carry physical goods like spices and glass—it also spread major ideas and religions across Asia, such as this tradition that started in India and spread into China.
What is Buddhism?
Celta Vigo and Deportivo La Coruña represent Galicia, a lush region in Spain’s northwest corner situated directly north of this country on the Iberian Peninsula.
What is Portugal?
The Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich in this European capital city.
What is London?
Covering most of Northern Africa, this is the largest hot desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara Desert?
In the Middle East, this popular dish made of spiced, ground chickpeas formed into balls and fried is often served in pita bread.
What is falafel?
These harsh geographical features—including the Gobi and Taklamakan—made travel extremely difficult, forcing merchants to travel along oasis towns.
What are deserts?
The Derbi Sevillano between Real Betis and Sevilla FC divides the largest city in southern Spain, which lies in the valley of this famous river—the only major navigable river in all of Spain.
What is the Guadalquivir River?
This box on a map explains what the symbols, colors, and patterns mean.
What is the Map Key/Legend?
Located in the Pacific Ocean, this horseshoe-shaped area is home to about 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
"Injera," a sour fermented flatbread used both as a plate and an utensil to scoop up stews, is the national dish of this Horn of Africa nation.
What is Ethiopia?
In the 1200s, Genghis Khan unified nomadic tribes to create this massive empire, which made the Silk Road far safer and faster by placing the entire route under a single protective rule—a era known as the Pax Mongolica.
What is the Mongol Empire?
The Derbi Asturiano pits Real Oviedo against Sporting de Gijón across a steep landscape created by this northern mountain range, which runs parallel to the Atlantic coast and shields Asturias from the central plateau.
What are the Cantabrian Mountains (Cordillera Cantábrica)?
Because the Earth is a sphere, flat maps always distort size, shape, distance, or direction—a problem solved by using different map ________.
What are projections?