Geography (Terms and Places)
Geography (Map)
Names and Faces
Exploration
Mixed Bag
Middle Ages
100
The imaginary line that divides Earth into two equal parts: the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
100
Name of the country marked by the star.
What is Portugal?
100
Monarchs of Spain during Christopher Columbus’ expeditions. They agreed to fund Columbus expeditions after successfully driving out the Moors from Spain. They were very staunch Catholics.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
100
Italian explorer of the 15th century who wanted to reach the Far East by sailing west from Europe across the Atlantic.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides is called a/an _________________.
What is a peninsula?
100
True or False: The Crusades were a huge success and the Christian soldiers managed to recover the Holy Land from the Turks in the end.
What is false?
200
The imaginary line that divides Earth into two equal parts: the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.
What is the prime meridian?
200
Name of the country marked by the star.
What is Spain?
200
Known as “The Virgin Queen,” she boldly led England in a seismic defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Her father was the famous Henry VIII.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
200
Known for establishing a special school for navigation, _________________ of Portugal led the way in the Age of Exploration.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
He is credited with being the first to discover that Columbus had discovered a new continent. For this reason, our country is named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
A large estate or farm, part of which was set aside for the lord and the rest divided among his peasants.
What is a manor?
300
The name for the region that contains Spain and Portugal.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
Name of the country marked by the star.
What is the Netherlands?
300
Conquistador who famously conquered the Aztecs under Montezuma.
Who was Hernando Cortez?
300
Explorer who discovered an all-water route to India 38 years after Prince Henry's death.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
300
Names of Columbus' three ships.
What were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
300
The Muslim Turks who Christians fought during The Crusades were also called _____________________.
Who were the Saracen (Seljuk) Turks?
400
The strait that cuts through the southern tip of South America is called ___________________ after the Spanish explorer who discovered it.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
400
Name of the country marked by the star. 
What is the United Kingdom? (or England)?
400
One of Queen Elizabeth’s famous “sea dogs” (pirates), he circumnavigated the entire world on a global plunder mission and was personally knighted by the queen upon his return.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
400
These two inventions made sailing safer and sailors more confident during the 15th century.
What are the compass and astrolabe?
400
The second longest river in America, flowing 2,350 miles from its source at Lake Itasca through the center of the continental United States to the Gulf of Mexico. 
What is the Mississippi River?
400
From mid to late antiquity, the Germanic people lived in rugged forests west and north of the ____________ and ____________ rivers.
What were the Rhine and the Danube?
500
A narrow strip of land that forms a bridge between two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
500
Name of the French explorer who founded Quebec in 1608. One of the Great Lakes is named after him. 
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
500
Italian explorer commissioned by Henry VII to explore New World in 1497. His suspected landing sight is Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland.
Who is John Cabot?
500
First explorer to round the southern tip of Africa, also called the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
500
True or false: The main goal of the 15th and 16th French explorers was to drive the Spanish conquistadors out of Canada.
What is false?
500
In the year ____________, the Byzantine Capital of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks.
What is 1453?