Geography Online Scavenger Hunt

 

Questions:

 

1. The Aral Sea is shrinking rapidly and may someday disappear completely.

The sea crosses the borders of two countries. One of them is:

A. Ghana

B. Venezuela

C. Kazakhstan

 

2. Match the following countries with their capital cities:

Country Capital City

____ Norway

____ Eritrea

____ Bangladesh

____ Canada

____ Ghana

A. Dhaka (Dacca)

B. Ottawa

C. Accra

D. Asmera

E. Oslo

 

3. The colors of the Honduras flag are ___________________________.

 

4. The African city with the largest population is

_______________________ .

 

5. Rank the following countries in order of population numbers:

Brazil    Indonesia    India    China    United States

Most populated _________________________

2nd _________________________

3rd _________________________

4th _________________________

5th _________________________

 

6. What is the only Caribbean island with large oil reserves?

___________________

 

7. An archipelago is

A. a narrow strip of land joining two larger bodies of land.

B. a chain of islands.

C. a pipe or channel used to carry water from a distant source to dry

    areas.

 

8. Which country has the most time zones?

_______________________

 

9. What country was Pakistan a part of before it became independent?

_______________________

 

10. What is the latitude of Madrid, Spain? ____________ the longitude?

____________.

 

Geography Help

Web sites that can help:

The CIA’s World Fact book at

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html has profiles of all

the countries of the world plus more.

 

Atlapedia Online at http://www.atlapedia.com/ is an encyclopedia designed

to provide geographic information.

 

Information Please at http://www.infoplease.com has atlases, almanacs, and a lot

more to help you research.