SOL Review
Deepest freshwater lake found in the world.
What is lake Baikal?
This sea has shrunk dramatically over the last 50 years due to cotton farming.
What is the Aral Sea?
This canal connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
Paris is found on intersecting rivers, also known as this.
St. Petersburg was built on this body of water so that they may have a warm water port.
What is the Baltic Sea?
Fine soil that is carried downstream by the river Nile.
Coastal desert found in South America and known for stargazing.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The Canadian shield wraps around this water feature.
What is the Hudson Bay?
Ground that is permanently frozen.
What is permafrost?
A large chain of volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates that surround the brim of the Pacific ocean.
What is the ring of Fire?
Nuclear energy is this type of resource.
What is non renewable energy?
A political and economic alliance found amongst countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
What is ASEAN?
The citadel of the Russian Government.
What is the Kremlin?
Giant black cube found in Mecca and is a site for the Islamic religion.
What is the Kaaba?
Landlocked country north of China, well known for it's nomadic people.
What is Mongolia?
A union of nations that aim to keep the price of oil at a marketable range.
What is OPEC?
Landlocked sea that shares between multiple countries such as Iran, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
What is the Caspian?
A place of worship for Muslims.
What is a Mosque?
A type of farming where you only grow enough for you and your family.
What is subsistence farming?
This economic activity focuses on research, processing or sharing information.
What is quaternary?
River that flows north into the Arctic Ocean.
What is the Ob River/Mackenzie River?
Chinese dam that is found on the Yangtze river.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
A religious city important to Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
What is Jerusalem?
Sailing from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea would have you go through this water feature first.
What is the Bosporus strait?
A region of semi arid steppe found between the Sahara desert and sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Sahel region?