North and South America
What is the difference in Middle America and Central America?
Central America consists of the countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Middle America is Mexico + Central America + the Caribbean Islands.
Which European country has the shortest coastline of any country in the world?
Monaco
What is important about the location of Khartoum, Sudan?
Why is Australia called "The Land Down Under"?
Because it is below the equator and below most all of the other continents throughout the world.
Name the Cardinal and intermediate directions
North, south, east, west
Northeast, southeast, Northwest, southwest
What is the highest mountain peak in North America
Denali in Alaska
Which of the following countries are peninsulas?
A. Ireland
B. Denmark
C. Bulgaria
D. Italy
B and D
Tunisia.
What are the Australian natives called (the first settlers there)?
Aborigines
What is an archipelago?
A group of islands
What is the only great lake that lies entirely within the US?
Lake Michigan
What is the natural feature that forms the physical boundary between Europe and Asia in the North?
The Ural Mountains
What African country is completely surrounded by another African country?
Lesotho
Is Australia a country, a continent or an island?
All of the above!
What is an isthmus?
A narrow piece of land that joins two larger areas of land
If you flew directly south from Chicago, Illinois, what South American country would you fly over first?
None. You would pass over the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, and the Pacific Ocean.
What are the two most highly populated countries in the world?
India and China
Of the six inhabited continents, which has the lowest population density?
Australia
True
What is a plateau?
A large area of land where the highest elevation is generally the same
What South American City is the world's highest national capital?
La Paz, Bolivia
What Asian country has the highest concentration of nuclear energy plants?
Japan
What is the ring of fire?
The name given to the band of volcanoes encircling the Pacific Ocean
What is Oceania?
Made up of New Zealand, part of New Guinea, and thousands of other islands
How are a sea and ocean different?
A sea is a large body of salt water partly surrounded by land - smaller than an ocean. An ocean is the world's largest body of water.