1. What country located southeast of Australia is one of the world’s leading producers of wool?
2. Over one-fourth of the world’s bananas are exported from a South American country whose capital is Quito. Name this country.
1. Carthage, an ancient city famous for its archaeological wealth, is located on the Mediterranean coast of which African country?
2. Serengeti National Park, a vast grassland southeast of Lake Victoria, was established in 1951 in which country?
1. In 1979, Islamic radicals seized more than 50 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Tehran is the capital of what country?
2. Around 3000 b.c. the Sumerians built some of the world’s first known cities in southern Mesopotamia. This region is part of which present-day Persian Gulf country?
1. Women traditionally wear an abbaya, or dark garment, over modern clothes in Manama, the cosmopolitan capital city of which country?
2. The Shi’ite Muslims of Azerbaijan have much in common with their ethnic relatives in which neighboring country to the south?
1. What West African nation, east of Liberia, is the largest cocoa producer in the world?
2. The Dead Sea, which has about nine times the salinity of ocean water, lies between Israel and which country?
One easy and one hard:
1. The Great Circle, at zero degrees latitude, is known by what name?
2. What is the term for a cloud layer at ground level that reduces visibility to less than one kilometer?
Here’s a map of the region we are currently studying.
1. On which continent does country “Comoros” lie?
2. On which continent does city “Castries” lie closest to?
1. The world’s highest mountains are on which continent?
2. Tropical rain forests are found on every continent except Antarctica and which other continent?
1. Which continent has the most species of animals called marsupials?
2. Emperor penguins are found in their natural habitat on which continent?