Geography Final (Ch. 4,5,6)

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The Amazon is the largest river in the world. How long is it?

4000 miles

What are the native inhabitants of Australia called?

Aborigines

The driest desert in the world.

Atacama Desert

What event caused Australia's population to increase by nearly 200%?

Australian Gold Rush

What body of water separates North America from Asia?

Bering Strait

Which South American Country has two capitals?

Bolivia

_______is the largest city in Africa.

Cairo

__________ is the lowest point on earth.

Challenger Deep

Which country lies farthest South?

Chile

What country borders both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea?

Colombia

What body of water separates New Zealand's main islands?

Cook Strait

Fidel Castro established the Western Hemisphere's first Communist dictatorship in _______.

Cuba

Who named Lake Victoria?

David Livingstone

What body of water separates South America from Antarctica?

Drake Passage

The Galapagos Islands belong to which nation?

Ecuador

What country possesses the Sinai Peninsula?

Egypt

Name the group of islands that lies off the southeastern coast of Argentina?

Falkland Islands

Who named South America's southernmost archipelago? What did he name it?

Ferdinand Magellan; Tierra del Fuego

Name the Spain Conquistador who defeated the Inca of Peru.

Francisco Pizzaro

What is the name of Paraguay's hardwood forest?

Gran Chaco

What is the world's largest canyon

Grand Canyon

an imaginary border which separates the the New World between Spain and France

Line of Demarcation

Canada's longest river

Mackenzie River

Into what body of water does the Nile River empty?

Mediterranean Sea

What is North America's largest river?

Mississippi River

Australia's highest peak is ______

Mount Kosciusko

peak in the Andes mountains which has the highest elevation in the Western Hemisphere

Mt. Aconcagua

Canada's highest point

Mt. Logan

highest point in North America

Mt. McKinley

The _____ River is the world's longest river.

Nile

What are the names of New Zealand's two main islands?

North/ South Island

The Portuguese naval commander whose discovery of Brazil gave Portugal its foothold in the New World

Pedro Cabral

Which Canadian province is the smallest?

Prince Edward Island

______ is the only part of the Unites States ever visited by Columbus.

Puerto Rico

Which Canadian province is known for its French culture and heritage?

Quebec

What river forms part of the U.S.-Mexican Border?

Rio Grande River

Who is one of the two men who led the first expedition to the South Pole?

Roald Amusenden

What is the world's largest desert?

Sahara

Who became South American's first avowed Marxist to be elected head of state?

Salvador Alledene

What famous African Christian was the first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?

Samuel Adjai Crowther

Which city is South America's largest?

Sao Paulo

Name the Venezuelan creole who helped the Northern Andean Countries win their independence from Spain.

Simon Bolivar

Afrikaners are descendants of the Dutch who settled in ______.

South Africa

The Great Lakes and the ______ River form the world's longest inland seaway.

St. Lawrence Seaway

What are the five Great Lakes?

Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, Erie

______ has a naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The U.S.

Which country lies completely south of the tropic of Cancer?

Uruguay

Why were the first French settlers most interested in the New World?

to establish a fur trade

What is the world's biggest natural structure formed by living things?

Great Barrier Reef

North America's largest desert area

Great Basin

largest body of water entirely in Canada

Great Bear Lake

world's largest prairie

Great Plains

North America's largest inland body of salt water

Great Salt Lake

What is the world's largest gulf?

Gulf of Mexico

The countries of _____ and the Dominican Republic are both located on the mountainous island of Hispaniola.

Haiti

What explorer conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain?

Hernando Cortes

A magnificent waterfall at the convergence of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay

Iguacu Falls

Andean Indians of South America who developed the most advanced political society of the American Indians

Inca

The _____ are an Amerindian group of northern Canada who traditionally lived in igloos and depended on hunting for food, clothing, and fuel.

Inuit

Chile is the world's leading producer of what metal?

copper

people of European descent born in Latin America

creole

Ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway bypass the Niagara Falls by using the ______.

Welland Ship Canal

What history course will you be taking in the 10th grade?

World History

Which countries are landlocked?

Bolivia, Paraguay

What South American countries do not have Spanish as an official language?

Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname

Which Canadian province is the only one that borders the Pacific Ocean?

British Colombia

What saucer-shaped basin surrounds Hudson Bay?

Canadian Shield

the highest active volcano in the world located in Ecuador

Cotopaxi

What is the most important mineral resource or crop in the Guianas?

bauxite

Brazil is the largest producer of which important crop or resource?

coffee

People of mixed European Amerindian ancestry

mestizos

______ was a famous Canadian missionary to China.

Jonathan Goforth

The capital of Jamaica is ______.

Kingston

The largest lake in South America

Lake Maracaibo

What body of water is nearly surrounded by Venezuela?

Lake Maracaibo

world's largest freshwater lake in area

Lake Superior

What body of water forms part of Bolivia's border with Peru?

Lake Titicaca

What is the highest navigable freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Titicaca

What is Africa's largest freshwater lake?

Lake Victoria

_____, the first independent black republic in Africa, was settled by freed slaves.

Liberia

What is Australia's longest permanent river?

Murray

Sydney, the capital of _____, Australia, has the biggest suburban area in the world.

New South Wales

Most of Ecuador's population are descendants of what indigenous people?

Quechuas

What mountain range is called the "Backbone of North America"?

Rocky Mountains


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