Geography Flashcards
“Land of Many Waters” in South America
What is Guyana?
Capital of Brazil’s state of Pernambuco, “reef” in Portuguese
Recife
Longest river entirely within Spain
What is the Ebro River?
Peninsula almost entirely surrounded by Black Sea and Sea of Azov, formerly known as the Tauric Peninsula
What is Crimea?
Western French peninsula that jutts out into the Atlantic Ocean
What is Brittany?
Island nation in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea
What is Cyprus?
Island of Cyprus peninsula that stretches towards Turkey
What is the Karpaz peninsula?
Peninsula that borders Germany, separates North and Baltic seas
What is Jutland?
Southernmost state in Mexico
What is Chiapas?
Largest Mediterranean island
What is Sicily?
Second largest Mediterranean island
What is Sardinia?
Bay in western Japan at the South central end of the main island, Honshu
What is Osaka bay?
World’s largest inland body of water
What is the Caspian sea?
Body of water bounded by Kazakhstan (NE), Russia (NW), Azerbaijan (SW), Iran (S), and Turkmenistan (SE)
What is the Caspian sea?
Largest freshwater lake by volume, world’s deepest lake, world’s oldest lake
What is lake Baikal?
This country’s extra long staple cotton generally fetches a premium
What is Egypt?
Highest mountain in New Zealand
What is Mount Cook?
This fourth-largest Vietnamese city is located in the Mekong Delta region is known for its floating markets and picturesque rural canals
What is Can Tho?
Northernmost island in the Mediterranean
What is Krk Island?
Sea separating the Italian and Balkan peninsulas
What is the Adriatic Sea?
Country occupying a peninsula jutting 100 miles north into the Persian gulf
What is Qatar?
Capital of Qatar
What is Doha?
In the beginning of what war was Liberia the only independent nation in West Africa?
What is WWI?
Capital of Tanzania
What is Dodoma?
African country home to the continent’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro
What is Tanzania?
Africa’s highest mountain
What is Kilimanjaro?
Most populous country entirely south of the equator
What is Tanzania?
Most populous country at least partly below the equator?
What is Indonesia?
Zanzibar’s two main islands
What are Unguja and Pemba?
Fifth-most-populous city of Iran and capital of its Fars Province
What is Shiraz?
This River received National Wild and Scenic River designation in 1990, it originates in north-central New Mexico and empties into the Rio Grande in Texas
What is the Pecos?
Founder of New Westminster in 1858, which served as the capital of British Columbia until 1866
Who is Richard Moody?
One of the world’s largest waterfalls on the Zambia and Zimbabwe border, on the Zambezi River
What is Victoria Falls?
Location and name of Europe’s tallest observation wheel
What is the Millennium Wheel in Lambeth, London? (Or London Eye)
Oldest bridge in Paris and the river it’s on, its name is deceiving
What is Pont Neuf (New Bridge) on the Seine?
Capital of Saint Lucia
What is Castries?
Because it switched so often between British and French Control, this Caribbean Island was known as the “Helen of the West”
What is Saint Lucia?
City home to the oldest university in the western world, nicknamed The Red, The Fat, and The Learn’d
What is Bologna, Italy?
The three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls
What are the America, Bridal Veil, and Horseshoe falls?
The three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls
What are the America, Bridal Veil, and Horseshoe falls?
