daily geography week 25 Flashcards
Which gulf is the intersection of 30 degrees N and 50 degrees E located?
Persian Gulf
Which hemisphere has more land, the Northern or Southern?
Northern
Which side of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia is the dry side?
Eastern Side
What do the following South American rivers have in common: Japura, Madeira, Purus, Putumayo, Xingu?
All of them are tributaries from the Amazon RIver
Name the mountains in the northwest corner of Africa.
Atlas Mountains
What is the capital of Germany?
Berlin
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers formed the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia. In which modern country is that area found?
Iraq
Which of these lines of longitude runs through the Ural Mountains?
60 degrees E
A globe is the only accurate representation of the earth. All flat maps are projections that must distort at least one of the following properties, distance, shape, size, and…
Direction
What desert lies along the southwest coast of Africa?”
Namib desert
Budapest is to Hungary as ________ is to Belgium
Brussels
Which mountain range separates India and Nepal from China?
Himalayas
The large region around Lake Titicaca is called the Altiplano. What kind of land forms make up the Altiplano?
A high basin, or a series of plains
Which large lake is shared by the countries of Peru and Bolivia?
Lake Titicaca
A bay is an arm of an ocean, sea, or lake extending into land. Find an example of a bay on the North American continent.
Georgian Bay
What is the capital of the country that is located on a long boot-shaped peninsula that juts into the Mediterranean Sea?
Rome
Which African Lake borders Niger, Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon?
Lake Chad
A South American Country, hoping to lure people in because of its sparsely populated interior, built (1956-1960) a splendid new city at 16 degrees S and 48 degrees W. What is the city?
Brasilia
Southeast Asia is a land of islands and peninsulas stretching south and east from Bangladesh’s eastern border. What are the countries in this area?
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos
Which sea touches Hong Kong? How does it rank in size among the world’s seas?
South China Sea; Third Largest.
What is the capital of Luxembourg, a European country smaller in land area than rhode island?
Luxembourgh
What is the capital of the island nation southeast of Greenland?
Reykjavik
Where is the Sea of Okhotsk located?
East of Russia
Unlike lands near warmer ocean currents, lands near cold currents may be cool and dry. the cold Peru Current passes near the earth’s driest desert. What is its name?
Atacama Desert
A narrow inlet or a narrow passage of water, usally wider than a strait, is called a ______.
Sound
Gaborone is to Botswana as _______ is to Kenya.
Nairobi
Native Americans of the dry Southwest built homes of a sundried clay brick called adobe. Why didn’t they use wood and bark as people in the Northeast did?
Because trees were scarce or didn’t grow at all.
Which of the following cities does not fit? Lisbon, Portugal; Vienna, Austria; Sofia, Bulgaria; or Vaduz Malta. WHY?
Vaduz because it is not a capital
What do the following terms have in common? sierra, base, chain, range, piedmont.
they all relate to mountains
Does northwestern or southeastern France have higher elevations?
SOUTHEASTERN :):):):):):):):):)
What is the name of the large lake in south central Australia?
lAkE eYrE
