Daily Geo 15_16

Hispaniola is an island in the West Indies (Caribbean Sea) that contains two separate countries. Name those two countries.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic

What is the only state that touches four of the five Great Lakes?

Michigan

What is the capital of West Virginia?

Charleston

What country, located entirely in Asia, has the largest population?

China

If you were visiting Arizona, would you most likely see a rainforest, a desert, or an ice cap?

Desert

What is the name of a large city in Southwest Tennessee?

Memphis

Which country located to the southeast of Australia, is made up mainly of two islands?

New Zealand

Which continent is almost entirely in the Northern and Western Hemispheres?

North America

What two oceans meet at the southern tip of South America?

Pacific and Atlantic Ocean

Name two large peninsulas found in Mexico

Yucatan Peninsula and Baja California Peninsula

What is the capital of Kentucky, the Bluegrass State?

Frankfort

If you travel from Amarillo, Texas to El Paso, Texas, in what direction will you go?

Southwest

What city is the capital of the United Kingdom? It lies on the Thames River.

London

Name three countries in Europe that are landlocked.

Luxembourg, Switzerland and Hungary

What does this mean? A region is a world within a world.

it means that every region has their own cultures and ways of life