Locating world countries, biomes and vegetation belts

Question 1

arid

Answer 1

little or no rain, barren

Question 2

fertile

Answer 2

antonym for arid – land that can
produce abundant vegetation

Question 3

densely

Answer 3

close together, crowded

Question 4

exceptional

Answer 4

unusual, not typical

Question 5

craggy

Answer 5

rock or rough cliff face

Question 6

scenery

Answer 6

natural features of the landscape

Question 7

continent

Answer 7

any of the world’s main
continuous expanses of land

Question 8

latitudes

Answer 8

regions with reference to their
temperature and distance from
the equator

Question 9

longitude

Answer 9

the distance of a place east or
west of the Greenwich meridian,
measured in degrees

Question 10

equator

Answer 10

an imaginary line around the earth
at equal distances from the poles,
dividing the earth into northern
and southern hemispheres

Question 11

hemisphere

Answer 11

a half of the earth

Question 12

biome

Answer 12

a region that has a specific climate
with animals and plants that are
adapted to live there

Question 13

Idiom:

through thick
and thin

Answer 13

to stick with or support someone through good times and bad times.

(An Old English saying, originally ‘through thicket and thin wood’, referring to moving through the English countryside, where thick, dense woodland would have been difficult to move through and
thin, sparse woodland would have been easy to move through.)

Question 14

Prefix / Suffix/ Root:

fer

Answer 14

carry

Example:

transfer, different, fertile, refer

Question 15

Prefix / Suffix/ Root:

min

Answer 15

less, smaller

Example:

minimum, minor, minority, miniscule

Question 16

Prefix / Suffix/ Root:

co

Answer 16

with, together

Example:

correspond, collaborate, co-ordinate

Question 17

Prefix / Suffix/ Root:

sect

Answer 17

cut

Example:

section, dissect, intersect

Question 18

Prefix / Suffix/ Root:

var

Answer 18

different, change

Example:

vary, variation, variety, various, invariable