Africa's Geography
This African desert covers about 3.3 million square miles and makes up 25% of the continent.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This mountain range contains Mount Everest and serves as a natural barrier that affects weather patterns across Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This towering mountain range stretches across eight countries and serves as a natural barrier between northern and southern Europe.
What are the Alps?
This is the name of the world’s largest coral reef system, found off the northeastern coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This river, the second longest in the world, flows through the Amazon rainforest.
What is the Amazon River?
This empire became globally famous when its ruler, Mansa Musa, distributed so much gold during a pilgrimage to Mecca that it caused inflation in Egypt.
What is the Mali Empire?
Known as the "Cradle of Civilization," this region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers saw the rise of early cities like Ur and Babylon.
What is Mesopotamia?
This river flows through ten countries and four capital cities, earning its nickname as “Europe’s international highway.”
What is the Danube River?
The Great Dividing Range impacts this weather phenomenon by blocking moisture from the Pacific Ocean.
What is rainfall or precipitation?
This mountain range runs along the western edge of South America and is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This term describes the process in the Sahel where fertile land becomes desert due to drought, overgrazing, and deforestation.
What is desertification?
This Indian empire was ruled by Emperor Ashoka, who spread Buddhism and carved his moral teachings on stone pillars.
What is the Maurya Empire?
This city-state is credited with inventing democracy and was home to philosophers like Socrates and Plato.
What is Athens?
These animals, like kangaroos and koalas, carry their young in pouches.
What are marsupials?
The capital of Canada is this city, located in the province of Ontario, also a well-known Native Tribe that was reloacated to Kansas.
What is Ottawa?
This endangered predator, found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, faces threats from disease and human encroachment.
What is the Ethiopian wolf?
This is the most spoken language in the world and is written using characters rather than an alphabet.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
This event between 1347 and 1351 killed millions in Europe and weakened the feudal system.
What is the Black Death?
This egg-laying mammal has is native to Australia and proves the creator has a sense of humor.
What is the duck-billed platypus?
This Spanish-speaking country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
What is the Dominican Republic?
This Ethiopian tribe is known for its bull-jumping ceremony, a rite of passage into adulthood.
Who are the Hamar?
This religion began in India and emphasizes meditation, karma, and enlightenment, spreading to countries like China and Japan.
What is Buddhism?
This branch of Christianity is led by the Pope and remains strongest in countries like Italy, Spain, and France.
What is Roman Catholicism?
Aboriginal Australians believe that ancestral spirits created the land and people during this spiritual time period.
What is Dreamtime (or The Dreaming)?
This ancient civilization built large cities like Tenochtitlán and practiced human sacrifice in what is now Mexico.
What is the Aztec civilization?
Called the “Land of the Gods” by ancient Egyptians, this mysterious kingdom traded myrrh and gold but has never been definitively located.
What is the Land of Punt?
Nomadic herders in this desert of northern China and southern Mongolia face both scorching summers and freezing winters.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This August tomato-throwing festival held in Buñol, Spain, is one of Europe’s most famous and messy traditions.
What is La Tomatina?
This national event on May 26 honors the Aboriginal children removed from their families by past government policies.
What is National Sorry Day?
This legendary city of gold lured many European explorers into the rainforests of South America and as far up as Kansas.
What is El Dorado?
Will also accept the native name of Quivera!