U.S. Geography
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington, D.C
What is the capital of France?
Paris.
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific Ocean.
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest.
Which country is directly south of the United States?
Mexico
What is the longest river in the United States?
The Missouri River.
What is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo.
What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
The Equator.
What desert is the largest hot desert in the world?
The Sahara Desert.
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
What U.S. state has the largest population?
California.
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa.
What type of landform is formed by lava from a volcano?
An igneous rock formation (or volcanic mountain).
What canyon was carved by the Colorado River?
The Grand Canyon.
What country has the largest land area in the world?
Russia
What major mountain range runs along the eastern United States?
The Appalachian Mountains.
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra.
What process describes the wearing away of rocks by wind, water, or ice?
Erosion.
What mountain range separates Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains.
What region includes countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Iran?
The Middle East
What line of latitude forms the southern border of Tennessee?
The 35th parallel north.
What is the capital of South Africa? (Trick: there are three.)
Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial).
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago?
Pangaea.
What type of boundary forms when two tectonic plates collide and create mountains?
A convergent boundary.
What European country was formerly known as Czechoslovakia before it split in 1993
The Czech Republic and Slovakia