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What is the capital of the country who’s neighbors are Columbia, Brazil, and Guyana?

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Caracas

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What is the difference between a plateau and a plain?

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A plateau is a flat land that is raised above the ground. A plain is a plat, low-lying area

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What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?

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An absolute location is a precise point on Earth or another defined space. A relative location describes where something else is by using another familiar feature as a reference point.

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Name the 7 countries that make up Central America.

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Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua

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If it is winter in Poland, what season is it in Zimbabwe? Why?

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Summer because they are in opposite hemispheres.

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What is the capital of the country through which 40 degrees N and 20 degrees E pass?

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Tirane

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Into how many degrees of longitude is the Earth divided?

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360 degrees

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If it is dawn in the Eastern United States, is the western united states in darkness? Why or why not?

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Yes because the Earth rotates west to east.

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What country has the largest land area in the eastern hemispheres?

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Russia

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Which nation is farther north, Egypt or Greece?

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Greece

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Bogota is to Columbia as _______ is to India.

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New Delhi

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Tropical rain forests grow in hot areas near the equator that have no dry season. Here would you be likely to find such a forest, in Brazil or Egypt?

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Brazil

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What is the line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England called?

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0 degrees or Prime Meridian

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Kabul is the country that borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Pakistan. What is this country’s name?

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Afganistan

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When you look for city populations in an almanac, you may see figures for metropolitan areas. What is a metropolitan area?

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A large city with communities around it.

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Tunis is the capital of which country?

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Tunisia

17
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Which hemisphere has the most land area, the eastern or western?

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Eastern

18
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A thermometer is to air temperature as a _______ is to air pressure.

A

Barometer

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What is the capital of the country with the largest land area in the Western Hemisphere?

A

Ottawa

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Name the six countries in Africa that have coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and lie on or in between 20 degrees N and 10 degrees N.

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Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Sierra Leone.

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The largest sea in the world is south of Cuba, what is it?

A

Caribbean Sea

22
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How many degrees are there between the equator and the southern tip of Greenland?

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60 degrees

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Which country in southern Africa, with Mozambique and South Africa on its eastern and southern border respectively, used to be called Rhodesia?

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Zimbabwe

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Wind, or the movement of air, is an important part of weather. A weather vane measures the direction of wind. What instrument measures the speed of wind?

A

Anamometer

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Which direction does the sun rise in Los Angeles, California?

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East

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Name the four seas that surround the Philippines.

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Sulu Sea, Phillipine sea, South China sea, Celebes

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The tropic of cancer cuts through which large North American country?

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Mexico

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Which state is west of new hampshire and east of new york?

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Vermont

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What oceans border Australia

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Indian and Pacific

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Which landform and river form most of the eastern border of Europe(or the western borter of Asia)?

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Ural Mountains and Ural RIver

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Which city would probably have a warmer climate, one at 20 degrees N or one at 40 degrees S?

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20 Degrees N because its closer to the equator

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Which capital city is near the equator and 80 degrees W?

A

Quito, Equador

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