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50 QUESTIONS
Geography Terms and World Facts

  1. What is the origin of the word “geography”?
  2. What is a cartographer?
  3. Why is a book of maps called an atlas?
  4. The lines of longitude run in what direction?
  5. How wide is a degree of longitude?
  6. What is the range of longitudinal degrees?
  7. The lines of latitude run in what direction?
  8. How wide is a degree of latitude?
  9. What is the range of latitudinal degrees?
  10. What is the Prime Meridian and what is its degree?
  11. What is the International Dateline and what is its longitudinal degree?
  12. What happens when you cross the International Dateline?
  13. What are the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn?
  14. What are the solstices?
  15. What are the equinoxes?
  16. What are the Arctic and Antarctic Circles?
  17. What is the name for the pattern created by lines of latitude and longitude?
  18. How thick is the earth’s crust?
  19. What is a renewable resource?
  20. What is a rain forest?
  21. What is a tropical rain forest?
  22. What is a tree line?
  23. What is the difference between a bay and a gulf?
  24. What is the difference between climate and weather?
  25. What are the three main forms of clouds?
  26. What is the main difference between a hurricane and a tornado?
  27. What is a tsunami?
  28. What is the difference between a State and a state?
  29. What time is it at 12:00 a.m.?
  30. What do “a.m.” and p.m.” mean?
  1. What is military time?
  2. What is the approximate weight of the earth?
  3. What is the circumference of the earth at the equator?
  4. List the continents of the world by size (area sq. miles) from largest to smallest.
  1. List of the continents of the world by population from biggest to smallest.
  1. List the continents of the world by number of countries from most to least.
  1. List the oceans of the world by size (area, sq.miles).
  1. What is the Mariana Trench?
  2. What is the largest sea?
  3. What is the largest (area, sq. miles) country in the world?
  4. What is the smallest (area, sq miles) country in the world?
  5. What is the longest river in the world?
  6. What country borders the most other countries?
  7. What is the biggest (area, sq. miles) lake in the world?
  8. What is the deepest lake in the world?
  9. What country has the highest population density?
  10. What country has the lowest population density?
  11. What is the highest point in the world?
  12. What is the lowest surface point in the world?
  13. What are the hottest, coldest, driest and wettest places in the world?