daily geography week 25

Question 1

Which gulf is the intersection of 30 degrees N and 50 degrees E located?

Answer 1

Persian Gulf

Question 2

Which hemisphere has more land, the Northern or Southern?

Answer 2

Northern

Question 3

Which side of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia is the dry side?

Answer 3

Eastern Side

Question 4

What do the following South American rivers have in common: Japura, Madeira, Purus, Putumayo, Xingu?

Answer 4

All of them are tributaries from the Amazon RIver

Question 5

Name the mountains in the northwest corner of Africa.

Answer 5

Atlas Mountains

Question 6

What is the capital of Germany?

Answer 6

Berlin

Question 7

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers formed the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia. In which modern country is that area found?

Answer 7

Iraq

Question 8

Which of these lines of longitude runs through the Ural Mountains?

Answer 8

60 degrees E

Question 9

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…

Answer 9

Direction

Question 10

What desert lies along the southwest coast of Africa?”

Answer 10

Namib desert

Question 11

Budapest is to Hungary as ________ is to Belgium

Answer 11

Brussels

Question 12

Which mountain range separates India and Nepal from China?

Answer 12

Himalayas

Question 13

The large region around Lake Titicaca is called the Altiplano. What kind of land forms make up the Altiplano?

Answer 13

A high basin, or a series of plains

Question 14

Which large lake is shared by the countries of Peru and Bolivia?

Answer 14

Lake Titicaca

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Georgian Bay

Question 16

What is the capital of the country that is located on a long boot-shaped peninsula that juts into the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer 16

Rome

Question 17

Which African Lake borders Niger, Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon?

Answer 17

Lake Chad

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

Brasilia

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos

Question 20

Which sea touches Hong Kong? How does it rank in size among the world’s seas?

Answer 20

South China Sea; Third Largest.

Question 21

What is the capital of Luxembourg, a European country smaller in land area than rhode island?

Answer 21

Luxembourgh

Question 22

What is the capital of the island nation southeast of Greenland?

Answer 22

Reykjavik

Question 23

Where is the Sea of Okhotsk located?

Answer 23

East of Russia

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

Atacama Desert

Question 25

A narrow inlet or a narrow passage of water, usally wider than a strait, is called a ______.

Answer 25

Sound

Question 26

Gaborone is to Botswana as _______ is to Kenya.

Answer 26

Nairobi

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

Because trees were scarce or didn’t grow at all.

Question 28

Which of the following cities does not fit? Lisbon, Portugal; Vienna, Austria; Sofia, Bulgaria; or Vaduz Malta. WHY?

Answer 28

Vaduz because it is not a capital

Question 29

What do the following terms have in common? sierra, base, chain, range, piedmont.

Answer 29

they all relate to mountains

Question 30

Does northwestern or southeastern France have higher elevations?

Answer 30

SOUTHEASTERN :):):):):):):):):)

Question 31

What is the name of the large lake in south central Australia?

Answer 31

lAkE eYrE