Physical Geography
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River.
What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa.
What is the name of the flat, grassy plains in Argentina?
Pampas
What is the term for a seasonal wind that brings heavy rains to South Asia?
Monsoon.
What is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to cities?
Urbanization.
What mountain range separates Europe from Asia?
What mountain range separates Europe from Asia?
Which country is the largest by land area?
Russia
Which famous canyon is located in Arizona, USA?
The Grand Canyon
What phenomenon causes a warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator?
El Niño
What are factors that encourage people to leave a place called?
Push factors.
What is the largest dry desert in the world?
The Sahara Desert.
How many countries are in South America?
Twelve
What landform is surrounded by water on three sides?
A peninsula.
What is the driest place on Earth?
The Atacama Desert in Chile.
What is the world's most densely populated country?
Monaco
Which ocean is the deepest?
The Pacific Ocean.
What is the smallest country in the world by area?
Vatican City
What is the name of the underwater mountain chain in the Atlantic Ocean?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What do we call a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean?
A hurricane.
What is the process of moving to a new country to live permanently called?
Immigration.
What is the name of the highest mountain in North America?
Denali (Mount McKinley).
What country has the most people in the world?
China.
What is the name of the area of rich soil around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Fertile Crescent.
What is the term for permanently frozen ground found in polar regions?
Permafrost.
What country has the largest population in Africa?
Nigeria.