Test 4 (Chapters 4-5)

Question 1

A

Answer 1

Sahara Desert

Question 2

What country possesses the Sinai Peninsula?

Answer 2

Egypt

Question 3

What event caused Australia’s population to increase by nearly 200%?

Answer 3

Australian Gold Rush

Question 4

M

Answer 4

Queensland

Question 5

I

Answer 5

Perth

Question 6

What is the world’s largest desert?

Answer 6

Sahara

Question 7

J

Answer 7

Great Sandy Desert

Question 8

The world’s longest river

Answer 8

Nile

Question 9

Into what body of water does the Nile River empty?

Answer 9

Mediterranean Sea

Question 10

Sydney, the capital of ___, Australia, has the biggest suburban area in the world.

Answer 10

New South Wales

Question 11

U

Answer 11

New Zealand

Question 12

S

Answer 12

Canary Islands

Question 13

Afrikaners are descendants of the Dutch who settled in ___

Answer 13

South Africa

Question 14

What are the native inhabitants of Australia called?

Answer 14

Aborigines

Question 15

the largest city in Africa

Answer 15

Cairo

Question 16

P

Answer 16

Sudan

Question 17

Z

Answer 17

Coral Sea

Question 18

What famous African Christian was the first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?

Answer 18

Samuel Adjai Crowther

Question 19

Australia’s highest peak

Answer 19

Mount Kosciusko

Question 20

P

Answer 20

Melbourne

Question 21

N

Answer 21

Horn of Africa

Question 22

D

Answer 22

Congo River

Question 23

O

Answer 23

Egypt

Question 24

Africa’s largest freshwater lake

Answer 24

Lake Victoria

Question 25

DD

Answer 25

Cairo

Question 26

Y

Answer 26

Vanuatu

Question 27

What body of water separates New Zealand's main islands?

Answer 27

Cook Strait

Question 28

R

Answer 28

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 29

EE

Answer 29

Madagascar

Question 30

G

Answer 30

Lake Tanganyika

Question 31

BB

Answer 31

Liberia

Question 32

Australia's longest permanent river?

Answer 32

Murray

Question 33

BB

Answer 33

Great Barrier Reef

Question 34

F

Answer 34

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Question 35

Who named Lake Victoria?

Answer 35

David Livingstone

Question 36

What is the world's biggest natural structure formed by living things?

Answer 36

Great Barrier Reef

Question 37

___, the first independent black republic in Africa, was settled by freed slaves

Answer 37

Liberia

Question 38

B

Answer 38

South Africa

Question 39

Name the two men who led the first expeditions to the South Pole

Answer 39

Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott

Question 40

R

Answer 40

Bass Strait

Question 41

T

Answer 41

Tasman Sea

Question 42

What are the names of New Zealand's two main islands?

Answer 42

North Island, South Island

Question 43

C

Answer 43

Papua New Guinea

Question 44

the lowest point on the earth

Answer 44

Challenger Deep

Question 45

L

Answer 45

South Australia