Bodies of Water
A series of lakes on the border of Canada and the U.S. that make the HOMES acronym
What are the Great Lakes?
Made possible by Teddy Roosevelt and his famous palindrome
What is the Panama Canal?
This river separates the countries of Mexico and America
What is the Rio Grande?
Important cities of North America
What are Mexico City, New York, and Chicago?
The largest desert in the world
The two important seas of Europe
What are the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
Allows Egypt to control much of Eurasian trade and has led to multiple wars
What is the Suez Canal?
These rivers have previously set borders for how far American settlers could travel
What are the Mississippi and the Colorado?
Important cities of Europe
What are Paris, London, Barcelona, Moscow?
The tallest mountains in North America that made the city of Denver possible
What are the Rockies?
The often forgotten (and renamed) Pacific bodies of water
What are the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico?
Separates Europe and Asia by water
What are the Bosporus and the Dardanelles?
This river helped create the Egyptian Empire
What is the Nile?
Important cities of Asia
The shallow, worn-down mountains of the East coast that match the people.
What are the Appalachians?
China and the Philippines have been grappling over this sea over the past decade
What is the South China Sea?
Separates the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
Two important rivers of Asia
What are the Ganges and the Yangtze?
Important cities of the Middle East
What are Mecca, Cairo, and Tehran?
Home of Mt. Everest in Asia
What are the Himalayas?
The bodies of water of the Arabian Peninsula
What are the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
The site of a disastrous WWI campaign
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
Many travelers have gotten lost on this long river of South America
What is the Amazon?
Important cities of Africa
What are Johannesburg and Lagos?
The tallest mountains of South America and home of the Incas (and cannibal Rugby players)
What are the Andes?