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Quiz Bowl-Geography
Geography (physical features) questions to study for HS Quiz Bowl
Question | Answer |
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Name of the Hoover Dam from 1935 to 1947 | Boulder Dam |
Going from Morocco to Tunisia - North African mountain range | Atlas Mountains |
Asian mountain range that hosts Mount Everest, and five other of the 14 highest peaks in the world. | Himalayas |
World's largest glacier (non-Polar regions) Note: Indo-Pak border | Siachen |
Name of the artificial lake created in 1935 by the operation of the Hoover Dam. | Lake Mead |
World's smallest continent | Australia |
1883 volcano whose explosion put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that the sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost 2 years. | Krakatoa |
World's Largest River (NOT the longest - that is the Nile) | Amazon |
World's Largest Continent | Asia |
World's Largest Desert | The Sahara |
World's Largest Sea | South China Sea |
World's Driest Desert | Atacama Desert (Chile) |
World's Largest Ocean | Pacific |
World's Highest Waterfall (Venezuela) | Salto Angel |
Deepest Part of the Ocean | Mariana Trench (in the Pacific) |
World's Largest Gulf | Gulf of Mexico |
World's Largest Bay | Hudson Bay |
South America's highest mountain range | the Andes |
River from Valdia Plateau (Moscow) to Caspian Sea | Volga |
Which two oceans do the Panama Canal link? | Atlantic/Pacific |
River from Tibetan Plateu into China Sea | Yangtze-Kiang |
River Seine flows through what city? | Paris |
The only "true" on on the U.S. Atlantic coast is Somes Sound (Maine), the longest one in the world is Greenland's Scoresby Sund, the deepest one is found in Skelton Inlet in Antarctica (give term) | fjord |
World's lowest river, arises from 3 springs near Mount Harmon; major tributaries include the Yarmouk and Jabbok | Jordan River |
Location of the Atacama Desert | Chile |
Lowest freshwater lake in the world, largest in Israel | Sea of Galilee |
Longest river in Asia (3rd in world) | Chang Jiang |