Geography exam

Question 1

Where is Machu Picchu located in?

Answer 1

Peru

Question 2

What is the largest country in South America?

Answer 2

Brazil

Question 3

What is the Amazon River Dolphin?

Answer 3

The Pink River Dolphin

Question 4

What is a gaucho?

Answer 4

Cowboy from Argentina

Question 5

What is the tallest falls in the world?

Answer 5

Angel falls

Question 6

What is the world’s longest mountain range?

Answer 6

Andes mountain range

Question 7

What is the driest non polar place on earth and where?

Answer 7

Atacama Desert in Chile

Question 8

What is the name of the stretch of road that runs from North America to South America?

Answer 8

Pan American Highway

Question 9

What is a pampas?

Answer 9

Grassland in Argentina

Question 10

What is the language spoken in Brazil?

Answer 10

Portugese

Question 11

Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?

Answer 11

Coast of Australia

Question 12

What is the largest river by volume in the world?

Answer 12

Amazon river

Question 13

What are the 5 great lakes?

Answer 13

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, Superior

Question 14

What are the continents of North and South America named after?

Answer 14

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 15

What is the lowest point in North America on land?

Answer 15

Death Valley, California

Question 16

What is the largest island in the world?

Answer 16

Greenalnd

Question 17

What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area?

Answer 17

Lake Superior

Question 18

What state borders Niagara Falls?

Answer 18

New York

Question 19

How many islands are in the Caribbean Sea?

Answer 19

7,000

Question 20

Where is the 2nd largest coral reef and where is it located off the coast of?

Answer 20

Meso-American reef off the coast of Belize

Question 21

What two engineering projects created an around-the-world waterway?

Answer 21

Suez and Panama canal

Question 22

What does Polynesia mean?

Answer 22

Many islands

Question 23

What is the tallest mountain in North America?

Answer 23

Mt. Denali

Question 24

What is the name of the huge cave discovered in Vietnam in 1990 called?

Answer 24

Hang Son Doong

Question 25

How many islands makeup Indonesia?

Answer 25

18,000

Question 26

What explorer's crew was the first to make it all the way around the world?

Answer 26

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 27

Who brought sugarcane to Brazil?

Answer 27

Portugese explorers

Question 28

What is the deepest part of the Caribbean?

Answer 28

Cayman trench

Question 29

What sea is made of seaweed and is in what ocean?

Answer 29

Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean

Question 30

What is the world’s smallest humming bird and where is it located?

Answer 30

Bee hummingbird in Cuba

Question 31

How far is Florida from Cuba?

Answer 31

90 miles

Question 32

What is an isthmus?

Answer 32

Narrow piece of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land

Question 33

What is a cape?

Answer 33

A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean (similar to a peninsula)

Question 34

What are the 4 layers of a rainforest?

Answer 34

Forest floor, understory, canopy; emergent