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World Physical Features Locations Review
World Physical Features Locations Review
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What is the name of this mountain range known by many as the highest elevated in the entire world?
Arabian Mountains
Himalaya Mountains
Tibetan Mountains
Zagros Mountains
2
What is the name of this body of water that is actually considered the largest lake in the world?
Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Black Sea
3
And what country occupies the
western
half of this 2nd largest island in the world?
Brunei
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Malaysia
4
What is the name of the largest all-sand desert in the world represented by the shading on this map?
Sahara Desert
Rub Al Khali
Gobi Desert
Atacama Desert
5
What is the name of this physical feature located in the northern region of Europe?
Appennine Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Jutland Peninsula
6
What feature located off Australia's NE coast is known as the largest collection of living organisms in the world?
Great Barrier Reef
Oceania
Uluru
Great Victoria Reef
7
And just north of this body of water in Southwest Asia is a waterway built for shipping called...?
Strait of Gibraltar
Suez Canal
Panamal Canal
Mediterranean Sea
8
What 2 rivers located in Iraq are said to be the origin of the oldest civilization in the world?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
The Indus and Ganges Rivers
The Blue and White Nile Rivers
The Yangtze and Huang He Rivers
9
What is the name of this mountain range that creates a natural boundary between Europe and Asia?
Ural Mountains
Alps Mountains
Caucasus Mountains
Himalaya Mountains
10
What body of water pictured here is the deepest and oldest lake in the entire world?
Lake Baikal
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Volga
Caspian Sea
11
This is the largest of all of "Africa's Great Lakes."
Lake Tana
Lake Malawi
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Victoria
12
What landform pictured here was named because of its location and the countries that influenced it throughout history?
Arabian Peninsula
Indian Subcontinent
Plateau of Tibet
Indochina Peninsula
13
Which of Africa's 4 major lakes begins in Lake Victoria and flows
NORTH,
not up?
Congo River
Niger River
Nile River
Zambezi River
14
What area of Russia outlined on this map consists of harshly cold weather and permanently frozenn land?
Taiga
Siberia
The Kremlin
Scandinavia
15
What is the name of this physical feature?
Baffin Island
Honshu Island
Sumatra Island
New Guinea
16
Which of the "Big 4" rivers is located in West Africa?
Niger River
Zambezi River
Orange River
Congo River
17
What once 4th largest lake in the world located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is not almost dried up?
Aral Sea
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Red Sea
18
Now, which of Africa's Great Lakes is considered the longest and 2nd deepest lake in the world?
Lake Victoria
Lake Malawi
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Turkana
19
What major river flows almost right down the middle of mainland Southeast Asia?
The Indus River
The Ganges River
The Yangtze River
The Mekong River
20
Which other of the "Big 4" rivers follows a path that travels both North and South on its journey?
Nile River
Senegal River
Congo River
Zambezi River
21
This body of water separates the continent of Asia from Africa?
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Persian Guilf
Red Sea
22
This is really the only river we studied in India. There isn't much you can't do in this thing...
Mekong River
Ganges River
Yellow River
Indus River
23
What 2 European countries occupy the Scandinavian Peninsula?
Northern Ireland and Ireland
Norway and Sweden
Sweden and Finland
Spain and Portugal
24
We actually learned that there are 2 peninsulas that are a part of the country of Mexico. What is the name of this one?
Sierra Madre Peninsula
Guatemalan Peninsula
Yucatan Peninsula
Baja California Peninsula
25
This is the longest river in all of Asia.
Mekong River
Ganges River
Indus River
Yangtze River
26
What is the name of this largest peninsula in the entire world?
Balkan Peninsula
Indochina Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
Arabian Peninsula
27
The Niger River Delta is located in what most populated country in all of Africa?
The DRC
Egypt
Nigeria
Ethiopia
28
Know your oceans! The oceans numbered on this map 1-4 are...
1. Indian 2. Pacific 3. Atlantic 4. Arctic
1. Indian 2. Arctic 3. Pacific 4. Atlantic
1. Arctic 2. Atlantic 3. Indian. 4. Blue
1. Pacific 2. Atlantic 3. Indian 4. Arctic
29
What name has been given to this easternmost point in all of mainland Africa?
Cape of Good Hope
Ethiopian Highlands
Horn of Africa
Great Rift Valley
30
These 2 rivers drain into what body of water that is considered one of the most oil-rich resources in the entire world?
The East China Sea
The Bay of Bengal
The Mediterranean Sea
The Persian Gulf
31
Okay, so if the Caspian Sea is the biggest lake in the world, what is the 2nd biggest lake in the world?
Lake Victoria
The Aral Sea
Lake Superior
Lake Baikal
32
What is the name of this 2nd largest island in the entire world?
Hispaniola
Borneo
Sumatra
New Guinea
33
What country occupies this easternmost point in all of mainland Africa?
Sudan
Ethiopia
Egypt
Somalia
34
We learned that about how many people from South Asia interact with the Ganges River on an almost daily basis?
400,000
4 Million
40 Million
400 Million
35
The Indus (and Ganges) River are said to begin...
In the Himalayan Mountains
In the Caspian Sea
In the Caucasus Mountains
At the Gobi Desert
36
The most densely populated regions of all of Europe are near or border this body of water.
Baltic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Bay of Biscay
North Sea
37
What is the name of this geographic feature found at the very southern tip of Africa?
Cape of Good Hope
Horn of Africa
eSwatini Peninsula
Cape Horn
38
The Himalayas comes together with other mountain ranges and elevated features to form something called....
A Subcontinent
The Roof of the World
The Deccan Plateau
Siberia
39
What river located just above this river in China is actually the 2nd longest river in all of Asia?
Volga River
Yellow River
Euphrates River
Tigris River
40
What region of Europe that borders the North Sea is said to be the most arable and densely populated on the continent?
The Jutland Peninsula
The North European Plain
The Alps Mountains
The Baltic States
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What is the name of this important river?
Mackenzie River
Volga River
Danube River
Yangtze River
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What river in South Asia flows through the middle of Pakistan before emptying into the Arabian Sea?
Indus River
Brahmaputra River
Mekong River
Yellow River