Test 6 (Chapters 1-7)

Question 1

What is the world’s highest waterfall?

Answer 1

Angel Falls

Question 2

What is the world’s largest island?

Answer 2

Greenland

Question 3

Y

Answer 3

Prime Meridian

Question 4

CC

Answer 4

Caribbean Sea

Question 5

What is the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 5

Mt. Aconcagua

Question 6

Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca of ___.

Answer 6

Peru

Question 7

B

Answer 7

Cape of Good Hope

Question 8

What seaway is the world’s largest inland seaway?

Answer 8

the St. Lawrence Seaway

Question 9

What is the world’s largest canyon?

Answer 9

Grand Canyon

Question 10

capital of Canada

Answer 10

Ottawa

Question 11

What is the world’s largest freshwater lake in area?

Answer 11

Lake Superior

Question 12

What mountain range is considered the “Backbone of North America”?

Answer 12

Rocky Mountains

Question 13

D

Answer 13

Lake Titicaca

Question 14

capital of Spain

Answer 14

Madrid

Question 15

T

Answer 15

Indonesia

Question 16

What is the longest mountain range on land?

Answer 16

Andes

Question 17

P

Answer 17

Venezuela

Question 18

The ___ separates South America from Antarctica.

Answer 18

Drake Passage

Question 19

What is the only Asian country where a majority of people practice Roman Catholicism?

Answer 19

the Philippines

Question 20

capital of Thailand

Answer 20

Bangkok

Question 21

What is the world’s longest river?

Answer 21

Nile River

Question 22

I

Answer 22

Cape Town

Question 23

What is the wide mouth where the ocean tide meets a river current called?

Answer 23

estuary

Question 24

capital of Liberia

Answer 24

Monrovia

Question 25

F

Answer 25

Uruguay

Question 26

BB

Answer 26

Moscow

Question 27

C

Answer 27

Gobi Desert

Question 28

X

Answer 28

Pampas

Question 29

capital of Libya

Answer 29

Tripoli

Question 30

capital of Egypt

Answer 30

Cairo

Question 31

What is the world's largest desert?

Answer 31

Sahara

Question 32

C

Answer 32

California

Question 33

L

Answer 33

Ural Mountains

Question 34

What is the official language of Brazil?

Answer 34

Portuguese

Question 35

Afrikaners are the Dutch inhabitants of ___.

Answer 35

South Africa

Question 36

produces more emeralds than any other country

Answer 36

Colombia

Question 37

J

Answer 37

Columbia

Question 38

F

Answer 38

Yucatán Peninsula

Question 39

Z

Answer 39

Spain

Question 40

H

Answer 40

Brazil

Question 41

capital of South Korea

Answer 41

Seoul

Question 42

U

Answer 42

Pacific Ocean

Question 43

S

Answer 43

Georgetown

Question 44

capital of China

Answer 44

Beijing

Question 45

Which African country was settled by freed slaves?

Answer 45

Liberia

Question 46

capital of Australia

Answer 46

Canberra

Question 47

Z

Answer 47

Tierra del Fuego

Question 48

Q

Answer 48

Buenos Aires

Question 49

Because its major religion prohibits the killing of cattle, the country of ___ has more livestock than any other country in the world.

Answer 49

India

Question 50

"Granary of the South"

Answer 50

Argentina

Question 51

S

Answer 51

Mississippi River

Question 52

N

Answer 52

Cuba

Question 53

W

Answer 53

Falkland Islands

Question 54

The Galápagos Islands belong to which nation?

Answer 54

Ecuador

Question 55

V

Answer 55

New Zealand

Question 56

I

Answer 56

Mt. Everest

Question 57

What religion do the majority of South Americans practice?

Answer 57

Roman Catholicism

Question 58

O

Answer 58

Egypt

Question 59

G

Answer 59

Andes Mountains

Question 60

What is the world's highest navigable freshwater lake?

Answer 60

Lake Titicaca

Question 61

capital of the Netherlands

Answer 61

Amsterdam

Question 62

___ is Canada's French province

Answer 62

Quebec

Question 63

S

Answer 63

Ukraine

Question 64

About 1/4 of ___ is polder that was taken from the sea by using dikes, dams, and windmills to drain water from the land.

Answer 64

the Netherlands

Question 65

N

Answer 65

Caspian Sea

Question 66

K

Answer 66

London

Question 67

capital of Greece

Answer 67

Athens

Question 68

capital of Japan

Answer 68

Tokyo

Question 69

I

Answer 69

Chile

Question 70

capital of India

Answer 70

New Delhi

Question 71

F

Answer 71

Queensland

Question 72

T

Answer 72

Lima

Question 73

Q

Answer 73

Germany

Question 74

L

Answer 74

French Guiana

Question 75

capital of Ukraine

Answer 75

Kiev

Question 76

Both Jews and Muslims consider ___ a holy city.

Answer 76

Jerusalem

Question 77

Who is remembered for leading Venezuela and several other South American countries to Independence from Spain?

Answer 77

Simón Bolívar

Question 78

Q

Answer 78

Hudson Bay

Question 79

M

Answer 79

China

Question 80

W

Answer 80

Arctic Circle

Question 81

A

Answer 81

Amazon River

Question 82

What canal of North America provides passage for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

Answer 82

the Panama Canal

Question 83

A gold rush in 1851 caused the population of ___ to increase by nearly 200%.

Answer 83

Australia

Question 84

Which country became the Western Hemisphere's first Communist dictatorship?

Answer 84

Cuba

Question 85

capital of Philippines

Answer 85

Manila

Question 86

E

Answer 86

Ontario

Question 87

AA

Answer 87

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 88

Which South American lake is the countries largest?

Answer 88

Lake Maracaibo

Question 89

São Paulo, ___, is South America's largest city in population

Answer 89

Brazil

Question 90

K

Answer 90

Ecuador

Question 91

R

Answer 91

Indian Ocean

Question 92

U

Answer 92

Italy

Question 93

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

Answer 93

Great Barrier Reef