The variety of plants and animals living in one area.
What is biodiversity?
100
Body of water that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
World's most populous country.
What is China?
100
Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates are all located on this land form.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
100
Helps you find real life distances on a map.
What is the scale?
200
World's highest navigable lake.
What is Lake Titicaca?
200
The two countries located on the island of Hispaniola. One country speaks Spanish, the other speaks French.
What are the Dominican Republic and Haiti?
200
Areas in China, mostly along the east coast, where a free market economy is allowed.
What are special economic zones?
200
Over half of the world's crude oil reserves are found in and around this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
The part of a map that helps you find an exact spot on the map.
What is the grid?
300
The highest elevation zone in the Andes Mountains.
What is the tierra helada?
300
Name for the train that carries tens of thousands of Central American migrants to the United States.
What is the Beast (La Bestia) or the Train of Death (El Tren del Muerte)?
300
A measure of how crowded an area is.
What is population density?
300
Country between Egypt and Algeria.
What is Libya?
300
Zero degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
400
Using the resources of an area in a way that makes money without hurting the environment. Ecotourism is an example of this.
What is sustainable development?
400
The constant flow of migrants from one country to another.
What is a migration stream?
400
A place of great natural or cultural value. UNESCO has designated over 1,000 of these places in the world.
What is a World Heritage Site?
400
Islamic place of worship.
What is a mosque?
400
Another name for a line of latitude.
What is a parallel?
500
Name the two land-locked countries in South America.
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
500
Largest island in the Caribbean.
What is Cuba?
500
The first two men to successfully summit Mount Everest.
Who are Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary?
500
ISIS is short for ...
What is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
500
When you take Earth, a three dimensional sphere, and project it onto a two dimensional map it will change the size and shape of some locations. This is called...