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1 Week 1 1. What US city has the largest population? 2. Where is Aachen? 3. What is the capitol of Florida? 4. What is the longest mountain range in Spain? 5. What countries border Equador? Week 2 1. What is longitude and latitude? 2. What imaginary latitude line is at 0? 3. What imaginary longitude line is at 0? 4. What are the names of the four hemispheres of the Earth? 5. What is the longest river in North America Week 3 1. What does a star or dot in a circle usually mean on a map? 2. What part of a map contains information on what the symbols on a map mean? 3. What are the names of the seven continents? 4. What oceans does the Equator cross? 5. What line of longitude forms the other side of the Prime Meridian?

2 Week 4 1. Between what two latitude lines are the Tropics? 2. What is the capital of Brazil? 3. What country in the western hemisphere has the largest land area? 4. How many degrees south of the Equator is the South Pole? 5. Is Lima, Peru, east or west of 80 West? Week 5 1. Is Australia a continent, island, or both? 2. How many degrees of longitude is the Earth divided? 3. Which U.S. coast sees the sunrise first? 4. What world capital is located at 40 N and 20 E? 5. What are the four largest cities in Texas? Week 6 1. What nation is farther north, Egypt or Greece? 2. Which hemisphere, East or West, has the most land area? 3. What are the eight cardinal and intermediate directions? 4. What is the capital of Canada? 5. From which direction does the sun rise in Los Angeles?

3 Week 7 1. What state is west of New Hampshire and east of New York? 2. What landform separates Europe from Asia? 3. What world capital is located near 0 and 80 W? 4. Washington, D.C. is to the U.S. as is to China. 5. Which ocean is larger, the Arctic or Indian? Week 8 1. What oceans border Australia? 2. Name the three seas that surround the Philippines. 3. What two factors affect the climate of an area? 4. How many time zones are in the world? 5. Name the four oceans, from largest to smallest. Week 9 1. What two oceans touch Russia? 2. What are the names of the five Great Lakes? 3. What is the name of the largest lake in Central America? 4. What country in southeast Asia was once called Siam? 5. What is the closest ocean to Mongolia?

4 Week What is the longitude line for the International Date Line? 2. What country is completely surrounded by South Africa? 3. Seoul is the capital of what Asian nation? 4. What is the name of the Spanish islands off the northwest coast of Africa? 5. Which is larger, the Red Sea or Mediterranean Sea? Week How many degrees are between the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer? 2. What states border Lake Michigan? 3. What continents have no land in the southern hemisphere? 4. The Beaufort Sea touches what two North American countries? 5. What two countries are located on the Iberian Peninsula?

5 Week What is the body of water that separates Iran and Saudi Arabia? 2. What body of water connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Hudson Bay? 3. What five Southeast Asian countries are landlocked? 4. What continent lies south of the Atlantic Ocean? 5. What large country did Estonia and Latvia belong to prior to 1991? Week Which country has the smallest land area in Central America? 2. What country was created in the Middle East in 1948? 3. What major world capital is located at 20 North and 100 West? 4. What is the only U.S. state capital with three words in its name? 5. Would you find a scale of 1 inch = 1,500 miles on a city, state, or world map?

6 Week What isthmus connects North and South America? 2. What natural boundary separates Texas and Mexico? 3. What large desert is found in northern China and Mongolia? 4. Which direction does the Nile River flow? 5. What body of water connects Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean? Week What state is due south of Kentucky? 2. Halfway between the North Pole and Equator is degrees latitude? 3. Is Africa mostly north or south of the Equator? 4. If you were at 0 and 0, would you be on land or in water? 5. Which continent and hemispheres do we reside?

7 Week Does the Tagus River have its source or mouth in Spain? 2. What continents does the Arabian Sea border? 3. Where is the mouth of the Paraná River? 4. What is land that is formed at the mouth of a river called? 5. What body of water is found on the border of Israel and Jordan? Week Kathmandu is the capital of what Asian nation? 2. What is the lowest point on the Earth s surface? 3. What is the capital of New Zealand? 4. What country owns Easter Island off the coast of South America? 5. What country is located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain?

8 Week What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago? 2. What large river in Eastern Europe passes through Vienna, Austria? 3. What large desert in northern Africa is almost as big as the 48 contiguous United States? 4. What is the natural boundary between France and Spain? 5. What two cities are located near the delta of the Nile River? Week What large island is found off the coast of southern Labrador? 2. What city is located at 60 N and 30 E? 3. What river is found in northeast India? 4. Is Phnom Penh or Hanoi the capital of Vietnam? 5. What river runs west to east across northern Italy? Week What is the capital of Finland? 2. What country has the longest border on the Arabian Sea? 3. What gulf is located at 50 E and 30 N? 4. What is the capital of Lebanon? 5. What mountain range is located in the northwest corner of Africa?

9 Week What natural boundary separates Tennessee and Arkansas? 2. What is the southernmost state in the U.S.? 3. What mountain range separates India from China? 4. What desert lies along the southwest coast of Africa? 5. What meridians divide the Earth into Western and Eastern Hemispheres? Week What African lake borders Niger, Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon? 2. What sea touches Hong Kong? 3. What is the capital of Luxembourg? 4. What country claims Greenland? 5. What is the northernmost state in the U.S.?

10 Week Does northeastern or southeastern France have higher elevation? 2. What is the name of the large lake in South Central Australia? 3. What large lake is shared by the countries of Peru and Bolivia? 4. What chain of islands off the Alaskan Peninsula is part of the U.S.? 5. What sea separates Europe and Africa? Week Name the three countries that border the Bay of Bengal? 2. Name two capes at the southern tip of Africa? 3. What direction does the Volga River flow? 4. What bay borders both France and Spain? 5. What two Great Lakes border Wisconsin? 6. Week What large river flows west to east in northern South America? 2. What is the official language of Brazil? 3. How many time zones are in the United States? 4. What state has the longest border with Canada? 5. What mountains run between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?

11 Week What island nation is just south of Cuba? 2. What direction does the Yangtze River flow? 3. The Ganges River flows into what bay? 4. Is the Kalahari Desert north or south of the Equator? 5. What river in South America has its delta near Trinidad and Tobago? Week On what large body of water is Buffalo, New York located? 2. What is the capital of Switzerland? 3. What large canal runs through the country of Panama? 4. On what major river is St. Louis located? 5. What canal joins the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez?

12 Week What is the largest country in area on the Arabian Peninsula? 2. The Beaufort Sea is what direction from Alaska? 3. Which will have dawn first, western or eastern Europe? 4. What island in the Caribbean Sea has the largest land area? 5. Which time zone is farthest west in the continental U.S.? Week What state is due southwest of South Carolina? 2. What is the capital of Australia? 3. What country has the longest border with Mali? 4. What country in Africa has the largest land area? 5. Besides Mexico and Canada, what country is closest to the United States? Week Which has higher elevation, Greenland or Australia? 2. What archipelago has Jakarta as its capital? 3. What is the capital of Uruguay? 4. What countries border the Caspian Sea? 5. What is the capital of Illinois?

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