World Geography Flashcards
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean
Indian Ocean
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Although British Columbia is Canada’s only province on the Pacific, this territory is farther west
Yukon
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Much of this range that begins in the Arctic & divides Asia & Europe is less than 1,000 meters in height
the Urals
$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Marseille, this country’s main seaport, is on its Mediterranean coast
France
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This body of water borders the northern coast of Wales
the Irish Sea
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The origins of Bangalore, a city in this country, go back to a mud fort erected in 1537
India
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Botany Bay is on the southeast coast of this country & Geographe Bay is on the southwest coast
Australia
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bavaria, this country’s southernmost state, is also its largest in area
Germany
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Belize & parts of Mexico & Guatemala are located on this peninsula
Yucatan Peninsula
$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| These 3 nations each border the world’s largest & smallest oceans
Russia, the United States & Canada
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The valley of this river is also called the North Italian Plain
Po
$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea is divided into the Yucatan, Cayman, Colombian, Venezuelan & Grenada basins
Caribbean Sea
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In medieval times, this southern peninsula of Greece was known as Morea
Peloponnesus
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Deep granite gorges of this river have led some to call it “the crease in the map of Spain”
the Tagus
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Rhine Valley occupies one-third of this 62-square-mile country; the Alps cover the rest
Liechtenstein
$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Even without its ice, this continent would have the highest average altitude
Antarctica
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Jeff Probst delivers the clue from China.</a>) Zhelin is sometimes called a lake, but it’s really one of these French-sounding bodies of water
a reservoir
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this Australian capital is from an aboriginal word for “meeting place”
Canberra
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1995 this country marked 20 years of reunification & the U.S. restored full diplomatic ties
Vietnam
$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 3 of this federation’s constituent parts are Ash Shariqah, Al Fujayrah & Umm Al Qaywayn
Unired Arab Emirates
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Jarama & Alagon are among the chief tributaries of this river that flows across Spain & Portugal
Tagus
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The capitals of British Columbia, Hong Kong & the Seychelles share this name
Victoria
$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Tropic of Capricorn, this, Brazil’s largest city, stays cool because of its altitude
São Paulo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This river flows through Toledo, Spain on its westerly trip to the sea
Tagus