Abeka - Geography Bowl - Mountains, Deserts, Water

Into what body of water does the Yangtze River empty?

East China Sea

Through which two African countries does the Nile River flow?

Egypt and Sudan

Ships ferried over a million men across what body of water on D-Day, June 6, 1944?

English Channel

What is the only continent that does not have a large desert?

Europe

What European country has the most lakes?

Finland

What four great Americans are carved on Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota?

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln

Which desert in eastern Asia is one of the coldest deserts?

Gobi Desert

What is the name of the strait between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay?

Golden Gate

What is the largest desert area in North America?

Great Basin

What great American lake was discovered by Jim Bridger?

Great Salt Lake

Which mountains are the world's highest mountains?

Himalayas

The George Washington Bridge crosses what river to New York City?

Hudson River

Name the five Great Lakes.

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

The Zambezi River empties into what ocean?

Indian Ocean

Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean by crossing what strip of land?

Isthmus of Panama

Which mountains separate Italy from France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia?

Alps

What is the largest river system in the world?

Amazon River

What is North America's only aquatic songbird?

American Dipper

Which mountain range is the longest in the world?

Andes Mountain Range

What is the principal mountain range in the eastern United States?

Appalachian Mountains

Which mountain range has the most extensive deciduous forests in the world?

Appalachian Mountains

Which is the most mountainous continent?

Asia

What South American desert is one of the driest places in the world?

Atacama Desert

All rivers on the east of the Great Divide eventually flow into which ocean?

Atlantic Ocean

What range of mountains in northern Africa runs from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic?

Atlas Mountains

What bay is known for having some of the world's highest tides?

Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia

What has the Missouri River been nicknamed because of silt deposits?

Big Muddy

Into what body of water does the Danube River empty?

Black Sea

Which country has the most coastline?

Canada

Into what sea does the Volga River flow?

Caspian Sea

What is the world's largest lake?

Caspian Sea

Into which bay does the Potomac River flow?

Chesapeake Bay

What four South American countries have coastlines which touch the Pacific Ocean?

Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile

This flooding of which river canals in 1905 and 1906 resulted in the formation of the Salton Sea?

Colorado River

What is the principal river that runs through Arizona?

Colorado River

What river flows through the Grand Canyon?

Colorado River

What is the deepest lake in the United States?

Crater Lake

What river divides Budapest into two cities?

Danube River

What is the world's lowest lake?

Dead Sea

What is the largest high-altitude lake in North America?

Yellowstone Lake

What is the longest river in Alaska and the Yukon Territory?

Yukon River

What is the name of the wild sheep of North America that live in the Rocky Mountains?

bighorns

What trees in the Great Basin Desert have lived longer than any other trees in the world?

bristlecone pines

How many mountain ranges make up the Rocky Mountain Chain? a. 25, b. 50, c. 60

c. 60

What desert plant is native to the Western Hemisphere?

cactus

In which direction do all the chief rivers of China flow?

east

What formed many of the lakes located high in the Rocky Mountains?

glaciers

What is the term used for the beginning points of a river system?

headwaters

Of what are the Cascade Mountains made?

lava

At what time of day do most desert animals come out?

night

In which direction does the Nile River flow?

north

Which rodent plants most of the coniferous trees that root in the Rocky Mountains?

red squirrel

What kind of fish could you see swimming upstream to lay its eggs in the Columbia River to Oregon?

salmon

What powerful hydroelectric plant is located on the Panará River between brazil and Paraguay?

Itaipú Dam

Which European country is separated from its neighboring countries by mountain ranges?

Italy

What is the world's deepest lake?

Lake Baikal, Russia

On which lake is Cleveland, Ohio, located

Lake Erie

Between which two Great Lakes in Niagara Falls located?

Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

What is the name of the Australian lake which disappears and reappears without explanation?

Lake George

What lake is the source of the Mississippi River?

Lake Itasca

What is the largest lake in South America?

Lake Maracaibo

Which of the five Great Lakes lies entirely within the boundaries of the United States?

Lake Michigan

What is the largest lake in Central America?

Lake Nicaragua

On which of the Great Lakes does the city of Toronto stand?

Lake Ontario

What is largest freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Superior

Which African lake is the world's longest lake?

Lake Tanganyika

In which lake is there an island that is aid to be the cradle of Inca civilization?

Lake Titicaca

The valley of which French River is so studded with castles and country houses that it is called the chateau country?

Loire

In what sea is the Isle of Elba, where Napoleon was confined?

Mediterranean

In what country is the Chihuahuan Desert located?

Mexico

What is the world's longest mountain chain?

Mid-Oceanic Ridge

Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston organized the first steamboat company on what American river?

Mississippi River

What is the highest mountain in France?

Mont Blanc

On which Turkish mountain did Noah's ark land?

Mt. Ararat

Tibetans call this mountain Chomolungma; it is over 29,000 feet high and was first claimed in 1953. By what name do we know it?

Mt. Everest

What is the world's highest mountain?

Mt. Everest

What is the name and location of the highest North American peak?

Mt. Kinley (Denali), Alaska

What is the only active volcano on the European mainland?

Mt. Vesuvius

Few Australian rivers have water in them all year which is Australia's longest permanently flowing river?

Murray River

In which northeastern state are the White Mountains located?

New Hampshire

The Aswan Dam spans what great river?

Nile

What river was the center of ancient Egyptian civilization?

Nile

Which continent has the most lakes?

North America

Which desert in the United States spreads into ten states and part of Mexico?

North American Desert

What was the name of the famous route that began in Independence, Missouri, and ended in the Columbia River country?

Oregon Trail

On what ocean did the famous "Mutiny on the Bounty" take place?

Pacific Ocean

What mountain range is the backbone of England?

Pennine Mountains

Which mountains divide Spain and France?

Pyrenees

What river is Europe's most important inland waterway?

Rhine River

Which river forms part of the border between France and Germany?

Rhine River

What river forms part of the border between Mexico and the United States?

Rio Grande

Which mountains are called "the backbone of North America"?

Rocky Mountains

Which desert covers most of northern Africa?

Sahara Desert

What river runs through the middle of Paris

Seine

Which river flows through the Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in the United States?

Snake River

Approximately 70 percent of what Western European country is covered by mountains?

Switzerland

Name the mountains located in Turkey.

Taurus Mountains

Which two countries lie between the White Sea and the Black Sea?

Ukraine and Russia

Which mountain range divides Europe from Asia?

Urals

In which northeastern states are the White Mountains located?

Vermont