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| Which continents have coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean? | North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Antarctica |
| Which has more water, the Northern or Southern Hemisphere? | Southern |
| Which of the following is not a peninsula: Baja (Lower) California, Panama, Yucatan? | Panama |
| What is the capital of Ohio? | Columbus |
| Is the Tropic of Cancer a parallel or meridian? | Parallel |
| What items do most maps include? | Key, or legend; scale; and title. |
| What is the capital of South Carolina? | Columbia |
| Which Scandinavian country has the highest overall elevation? | Norway |
| Which of the following cities is found on the Great Lakes: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; Salt Lake City, Utah; Great Falls Montana? | Chicago |
| Lake Michigan is in what direction from Lansing, Michigan? | West |
| In what direction does the Missouri River flow: west to east and north to south or east to west and south to north? | West to east and north to south |
| What line of latitude divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | Equator(0 degrees) |
| What two states are not part of the contiguous United States? | Alaska and Hawaii |
| The following are the four longest rivers in the world: (1)Nile (2)Amazon (3)Ob-Irtysh (4)Chang Jiang (Yangtze). On what continent is each found? | Nile-Africa;Amazon-South America; Ob-Irtysh-Asia; Chang Jiang-Asia |
| A state is to the United States as a __ is to Canda? | Province |
| What three countries in South America are in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia |
| On what continent are the Great Lakes? | North America |
| What is the name of the third largest ocean in the world? | Indian |
| Through which African countries does the equator pass? | Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo(formerly Zaire), Uganda, Kenya, Somalia. |
| What is the capital of Yemen? | Sanaa |
| Why is the equator called the great circle? | It divides Earth into northern and southern halves. |
| What is the capital of the only state that shares part of its borders with Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota? | Pierre |
| How does the continent North America rank in land area when compared to all the other continents? | North America is the third largest continent after Asia and Africa. |
| Port-au-Prince is the capital of what country in the Caribbean Sea? | Haiti |
| In what hemispheres is Africa lacated? | Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern. |
| What is the easternmost state in the forty-eight contiguous states? | Maine |
| Gibraltar is a British colony. Where is it located? | At the southern tip of Spain. |
| How many degrees is it from the North to South Pole? | 180 degrees |
| Which continents are not crossed by the equator? | North America, Antarctica, Australia, Europe. |
| A haboob is a violent sandstorm. Where would you be most likely to find one: a rain forest in Belize, the Great Plains, the Himalayas, or the Sahara Desert? | The Sahara Desert |
| Which two parallels form the boundries of the Tropics, also called the low latitudes? | Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. |
| Which has sunrise first, eastern or western Africa? | Eastern |
