Geography Final (Ch. 4,5,6)
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