Sunday: Geography Flashcards
Name this island off the southern coast of Australia.
Tasmania
This range includes the Maritime Alps, and the tallest mountain in this range is Corno Grande.
Apennines
This range includes the Maritime Alps, and the tallest mountain in this range is Corno Grande.
Apennines
This region includes Tenaya Valley, and an old tradition here consisted of pushing a bonfire off a cliff in a namesake “firefall” on Glacier Point.
Yosemite
This city’s broadest street, called the “widest avenue in the world,” was modeled by Georges-Eugène Haussmann after the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Buenos Aires
Its subway system consists of eleven spoke lines connected by a 20-kilometer ring line, and some of its ornate stations are decorated with once-royal chandeliers.
Moscow
One of this country’s islands is also called Bird of Paradise Island, and it is home to the mud volcano system known as the Devil’s Woodyard.
Trinidad and Tobago
Its large cities include Toliara, Antsirabe, Toamasina, and Fianarantsoa.
Madagascar
Delicias City and Hidalgo del Parral are other cities in this state.
Chihuahua
The Rodo Park is located in this city to the north of the Punta Carretas.
Montevideo
Hobart and Darwin are the capitals of two of its states.
Australia
Identify this nation named for its two major islands which lies northeast of Venezuela in the Caribbean and has its capital at Port of Spain.
Trinidad and Tobago
Prominent ethnic groups in this country include the Invincible and Inseparable Multitudes and the Elevated People, or Merina, and the main traditional deity of this country is Zanahary
Madagascar
Mountain ranges in this country include the Espinhazo, Serra do Mar and Mantiqueira while it is the owner of the archipelagos Fernando de Norhonha, Trinidade and Martim Vaz, the Rocas Atoll and Marajo Island.
Brazil
Also called las Islas Malvinas, identify this island group in south Atlantic that was the target of a two-year war between the Argentines and the British.
Falkland Islands
The Kaibab Plateau borders one part of this geological feature known as the North Rim
Grand Canyon
The Tiber River flows from, which mountain range, often called the “backbone of Italy”?
Apennines
Name this island nation with capital at Antananarivo.
Madagascar
These features are characterized by large drainage basins, which deposit sediment.
Deltas
Flowing into the Beaufort Sea, identify this river that begins at Great Slave Lake, the longest in Canada.
Mackenzie River
Identify this South American city whose name means “I see a mountain” and is the capital of Uruguay.
Montevideo
The Kakabeka Falls are located on a tributary of this body of water, the Kaministiquia River, and it is also fed by the Nipigon and St. Louis Rivers.
Lake Superior
The northern range of the wild Bactrian camel lies in this country, which lies north of Xinjiang and south of Tuva and which also contains the cold Gobi Desert.
Mongolia
As of 2007, this city’s disproportionate size led poet and philosopher Ezequiel Martínez Estrada to liken it to “The Head of Goliath.”
Buenos Aires
One mountin in this range is Mount Alvernia, and one subrange of this range is the Sibillini.
Apennines
Its eastern portion, home to the Chelif river valley, is populated by Berbers.
Atlas Mountains
This city’s broadest street, called the “widest avenue in the world,” was modeled by Georges-Eugène Haussmann after the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Buenos Aires
This city is located near the confluence of the Parana River and the Rio de la Plata, and the larger province that shares its name is characterized by flat, grass-covered plains known as the Pampas
Buenos Aires
Name this state, the largest in Mexico, which is home to Ciudad Juárez on the south of the Rio Grande and shares its name with a breed of dog.
Chihuahua
A trail that can be followed in this site travels along the Bright Angel Fault.
Grand Canyon
Many dolerite columns named “Organ Pipes” lie on this island’s Mount Wellington, which overlooks its largest city as well as the Derwent estuary.
Tasmania
Its namesake peninsula contains Port Arthur, a former settlement for convicts, and another name for it is van Dieman’s Land
Tasmania
Name this country of steppes with a capital at Ulan Bator that is landlocked between China and Russia.
Mongolia
The Liard River joins it at Fort Simpson, and the Redstone and Keele rivers enter it north of Wrigley.
Mackenzie River
This geological feature has a Vishnu Group that consists of the Vishnu, Brahma, and Rama Schists.
Grand Canyon
As of 2007, this city’s disproportionate size led poet and philosopher Ezequiel Martínez Estrada to liken it to “The Head of Goliath.”
Buenos Aires
Name this home of the Kremlin and capital of Russia.
Moscow
This home of the Bolshoi Ballet and St. Basil’s Cathedral is centered on Red Square
Moscow
Storm Bay and the Bay of Fires lie off the coast of this island, whose northwest contains a temperate rainforest, the Tarkine.
Tasmania
Name this geological feature that occurs when a river flows into a lake or ocean, which is named for the shape of the Greek letter formed by the Nile one.
Deltas
Its notable features include El Capitan and Half Dome
Yosemite
Its delta begins to form shortly before Arnheim
Rhine River
Name this national park located in the Sierra Nevadas of eastern California.
Yosemite
Russian satellite Cosmos 954 plunged into this river’s source in 1978
Mackenzie River
This geological feature has a Vishnu Group that consists of the Vishnu, Brahma, and Rama Schists.
Grand Canyon
This city is located near the confluence of the Parana River and the Rio de la Plata, and the larger province that shares its name is characterized by flat, grass-covered plains known as the Pampas
Buenos Aires
Its large cities include Toliara, Antsirabe, Toamasina, and Fianarantsoa.
Madagascar
The south of this country is home to the Nullarbor Plain, which is north of its “Great Bight.
Australia
This river broadens to four miles in width at Norman Wells, and its water transportation routes terminate at Tuktoyaktuk, North of the Sans Sault Rapids.
Mackenzie River
The Sieg joins this river at Niederkassel, and the Neckar joins it after flowing past Heidelburg and Mannheim, where it turns west.
Rhine River
This and other broad avenues unofficially divide the city into several distinctive neighborhoods, the one of which is La Boca, now an artists’ colony.
Buenos Aires
This range is home to San Marino, and it ends in Calabria and runs through Umbria.
Apennines
Lake Khovsgol lies near this nation’s Khangai Mountains and drains north into the Selenge River.
Mongolia
Name this Southeast Asian nation that was reunified in 1975 after a bloody war between the communist north and U.S.-aligned south.
Vietnam
In 2007, a glass skywalk was opened at this site for public use
Grand Canyon
The peninsula that forms the southern portion of its east island is called Lafonia, and Mount Usborne is the highest peak on these islands.
Falkland Islands
Name this largest of the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior
The Canal Street, Riverfront, and (*) St. Charles Street lines are all that remains of this city’s historic streetcar system.
New Orleans
Name this island nation with capital at Antananarivo.
Madagascar
Rivers in this nation include the Araguaia, a tributary of the Tocantins, and its largest, the Sao Francisco, while the Iguazu Falls are formed by another.
Brazil
Khuiten Peak is part of the Five Saints Peaks in this nation’s section of the Altay Mountains, which form part of the northwestern boundary of this nation.
Mongolia
This geographical feature was once home to its continent’s only native bear species, now extinct.
Atlas Mountains
The Bay of Antongil is located on this country’s east coast, and the island of Nosy-Be in this country was a stop on the Russian Baltic Fleet’s journey to Japan.
Madagascar
Name this mountain range spanning Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, named after a Greek titan who held up the sky.
Atlas Mountains
Called Gichigami in Ojibwe, the Mesabi Iron Range is to its northwest, and its western terminus is at Duluth, Minnesota
Lake Superior
This nation’s capital includes the Temple of the Trung Sisters and is located on the Red River.
Vietnam
This nation’s capital city was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin.
Australia
This range is home to San Marino, and it ends in Calabria and runs through Umbria.
Apennines
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest established it as the Roman northern frontier, and its namesake crisis occurred when Adolphe Thiers discussed making it a border
Rhine River
The Kaibab Plateau borders one part of this geological feature known as the North Rim
Grand Canyon
In 2007, a glass skywalk was opened at this site for public use
Grand Canyon
The Jason Islands lie northwest of the main group of this political entity.
Falkland Islands
A giant sandstone formation in this country is called Uluru by its aboriginal inhabitants, and is also known as Ayers Rock
Australia
Name this city south of Lake Ponchartrain whose Lower Ninth Ward was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and whose French Quarter is famous for Mardi Gras.
New Orleans
Treme is a notable African-American neighborhood in this city, and the old red-light district was known as Storyville.
New Orleans
Name this capital of Argentina.
Buenos Aires
Its namesake capital is found in the Sierra Madre Occidental and is home to Quinta Luz, a former home of Pancho Villa.
Chihuahua
One mountin in this range is Mount Alvernia, and one subrange of this range is the Sibillini.
Apennines
The Porcupine Mountains are to its south, and Copper Island is an extension of Keweenaw Peninsula in this feature.
Lake Superior
Name this geological feature of northern Arizona that was created by the Colorado River.
Grand Canyon
This is the equivalent of an alluvial fan located in water.
Deltas
The Tiber River flows from, which mountain range, often called the “backbone of Italy”?
Apennines
It is separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait and its capital is Hobart
Tasmania
This city’s Garden Ring is a series of roads which follow the path of sixteenth-century fortifications.
Moscow
The Arafura Sea is directly north of this country’s Gulf of Carpenteria
Australia
Name this geological feature of northern Arizona that was created by the Colorado River.
Grand Canyon
Gratham Sound divides the island group in half, and Port Louis served as the former capital of these islands, but since 1845 the capital had been located in Stanley.
Falkland Islands
This city is home to a theater whose ballet company premiered Spartacus and a church whose many sanctuaries are each toped with onion domes.
Moscow
This state’s natural features include the Basaseachic waterfall and Copper Canyon
Chihuahua
This and other broad avenues unofficially divide the city into several distinctive neighborhoods, the one of which is La Boca, now an artists’ colony.
Buenos Aires
Manitou and Madeline are among the Apostle Islands in this lake, which drains via the St. Marys River and also contains Isle Royale.
Lake Superior
Name this country whose largest cities include Salvador, Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil
Prominent ethnic groups in this country include the Invincible and Inseparable Multitudes and the Elevated People, or Merina, and the main traditional deity of this country is Zanahary
Madagascar
Containing the Draa valley, its “Tell” subrange contains the Er-Rif region, while its “Anti” range connects to the “High” range via Mount Siroua.
Atlas Mountains
It is found between Coahulia on its east, Durango on its south, and Sinaloa and Sonora on its west.
Chihuahua
The Keo Nua Pass in this country is one of the few passes through the Annamese Cordillera (CORE-dee-YARE-uh).
Vietnam
This country celebrates Arrival Day for its substantial Indian minority.
Trinidad and Tobago
Name this capital of Argentina.
Buenos Aires
A war including the Battle of Caudine Forks, the Samnite wars, took place in this mountain range
Apennines
Suburbs of this city include Gretna and Kenner.
New Orleans
The imperial citadel of Dai Noi is found in this country’s onetime capital Hue (hway)
Vietnam
A trail that can be followed in this site travels along the Bright Angel Fault.
Grand Canyon
With its highest peak at Jbeb Toubkal, 60 kilometers south of Marrakesh, it is bordered to the south by the Sahara Desert.
Atlas Mountains
This country contains the asphalt deposit of Pitch Lake, and the major island of this nation is separated from the South American coast by the Gulf of Patria.
Trinidad and Tobago
This park is near a cliff of polygonal basalt columns, Devils Postpile National Monument, and it includes Bridalveil Fall.
Yosemite
his city’s namesake department is bordered by Canelones on the north and San Jose on the northwest
Montevideo
Name this river of West Germany.
Rhine River
This geological feature retreats in a process known as transgression, and it can grow outward and upward in progradation and aggradation, respectively.
Deltas
Caroni Swamp is the home of the national bird of this country, the scarlet ibis
Trinidad and Tobago
To the west of this city, the Santa Lucia River empties into an isthmus formed by the Rio de la Plata.
Montevideo
With its highest point at Neblina Peak, this nation is the source for both the Uruguay and Parana Rivers
Brazil
This feature can be described as cuspate, arcuate, bird-foot, or estuarine.
Deltas
Its namesake, discovering that it did not terminate in Cook Inlet, dubbed it “Disappointment River” after exploring from a trading post of Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca
Mackenzie River
A war including the Battle of Caudine Forks, the Samnite wars, took place in this mountain range
Apennines
Its namesake (*) falls drop into the Merced River, and, like Sequoia National Park, its creation was instigated by John Mui
Yosemite
It contains Cradle Mountain and its tallest point is at Mount Ossa
Tasmania
This city has a “sister city” relationship with the seat of Chippewa County, Minnesota, with which it shares its name.
Montevideo
Deserts in this country include the Gibson, Great Sandy, and Great Victoria.
Australia
The Treaty of Versailles declared the area around it a demilitarized zone, and it flows past Bonn and Cologne on its way to the North Sea.
Rhine River
