Continents
This island continent is completely surrounded by water and shares its name with a country famous for its wildlife.
What is Australia?
This ocean borders the eastern coast of the United States and was used as a travel route for European explorers.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the longest river in North America at 3,734km.
What is the Mississippi River?
The largest desert in the world, this African desert covers 9,400,000 square kilometers.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The highest mountain in the world was named after the first surveyor general of India. It is likely this man never saw the mountain named after him.
What is Mount Everest?
This southern-most continent is 98% covered with ice and is considered a polar desert.
What is Antarctica?
The largest ocean in the world spans from Asia and Australia to North and South America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The longest river in the world, this waterway runs through Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
This arid region covers most of Nevada, the western half of Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and California.
What is the Great Basin?
At 6,190km, this is the highest mountain in North America and was formerly known as Mount McKinley.
What is Denali?
This continent is completely within the Northern Hemisphere and contains over 40 countries or territories including Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the United States.
What is North America?
This ocean surrounds Antarctica and is also called the Antarctic Ocean. It is the only ocean that encircles a continent.
What is the Southern Ocean?
Water from this Asian river flowed into Mesopotamia where the earliest known civilization thrived. It now runs through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
What is the Tigris River?
The largest desert in Asia, this region occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula and spreads throughout Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
What is the Arabian Desert?
The second tallest mountain in the world, only 367 people have climbed to its 8,611m peak due to the dangerous weather conditions around the mountain.
What is K2?
This continent is the world's second-largest and second most populous continent. The majority of the land is within the Northern Hemisphere with a significant portion in the Southern Hemisphere. The Sahara Desert spreads throughout the northeast of this continent.
What is Africa?
This is the smallest of the world's oceans and covers the northern polar region of the Earth.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This South American river contains fives times the amount of water as the Congo River. It runs through Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
What is the Amazon River?
This Asian desert covers 1,295,000 square kilometers.
What is the Gobi Desert?
The tallest mountain in Africa, this mountain is composed of 3 distinct mountain cones and is located in Tanzania.
What is Kilimanjaro?
This is the largest continent -over 17 million square miles. Because of the vastness of the continent, culture, geography, and climate range greatly. The Himalaya Mountains run through this continent and contain Mount Everest- the world's tallest peak.
What is Asia?
This is the third largest ocean in the world. It shores are Asia, Antarctica, Africa, and Australia. Monsoon winds made early voyages across this ocean possible.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The second longest river in Europe, this waterway runs through ten countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
What is the Danube River?
This region is a large, cold winter desert covering 670,00 square kilometers in Argentina and Chile.
What is the Patagonian Desert?
While most of Earth's tallest mountains are in Asia, this South American peak is the tallest mountain outside of Asia and rises 6,960m.
What is Aconcagua?