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Geography final p1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the world's biggest natural structure formed by living things? | Great Barrier Reef |
| Which South American lake is the continent's largest? | Lake Maracaibo |
| What is the world's largest canyon? | Grand Canyon |
| What is the world's largest desert? | Sahara Desert |
| What is the world's highest waterfall? | Angel Falls |
| What is the world's largest island? | Greenland |
| What's the world's longest river? | Nile River |
| What is the world's largest freshwater lake in area? | Lake Superior |
| What mountain range is considered the "Backbone of North America?" | Rocky Mountains |
| What is the wide mouth where the ocean tide meets a river current called? | estuary |
| What seaway is the world's largest inland seaway? | St. Lawrence Seaway |
| What canal of North America provides passage for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? | The Panama Canal |
| What is the longest mountain range on land? | Andes Mountains |
| What religion do the majority of South Americans practice? | Roman Catholicism |
| What is the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere? | Mt. Aconcagua |
| What country has more livestock than any other country in the world? | India |
| What is the world's highest navigable freshwater lake? | Lake Titicaca |
| Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Indians of ? | Peru |
| What country produces more emeralds than any other country? | Columbia |
| Where is Sao Paulo, South America's largest city in population? | Brazil |
| Who is remembered for leading Venezuela and several other South American countries to independence from Spain? | Simon Bolivar |
| What is the official language of Brazil? | Portuguese |
| What country is known as the "granary of the South?" | Argentina |
| The Galapagos islands belong to which nation? | Ecuador |
| What separates South America from the Antarctica? | Drake Passage |
| Afrikaners are dutch inhabitants of ? | South Africa |
| Both Jews and Muslims consider what city a holy city? | Jerusalem |
| What is Canada's French Province? | Quebec |
| About 1/4 of ? is polder that was taken from the sea by using dikes, dams, and windmills from the land. | The Netherlands |
| A gold rush 1851 caused the population of what country to increase by nearly 200%? | Australia |
| Which country became the western hemisphere's first communist dictatorship? | Cuba |
| Which African country was settled by freed slaves? | Liberia |
| What is the only Asian country where a majority of the people practice Roman Catholicism? | The Philippines |
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