Monday, April 6, 2009

Map Quiz and Daily Geo Questions Week 11 4/6 - 4/9

Caribbean Map Quiz http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/Caribbean.html

Daily Geo Questions

1) Which of the following is not a country in Eastern Europe - Albania, Mauritania, Romania?
2) In February 2004, scientists began a tiger census in which country bordering India? Bangladesh
3) Which state has a mountain range along its coast – Massachusetts or Oregon?
4) Which state does not have a coastline – Georgia, Kentucky, or New York?
5) Loam, a kind of soil valued by farmers, is a mixture of sand, silt, and what other material?
6) Pineapples and which other crop are Hawaii’s chief plantation crop – Bananas, Rice, or Sugarcane?
7) Luanda is a major port in which African country?
8) Although Sierra Leone’s language has Portuguese origins, what is its official language?
9) What country, where Toros coleados is practiced, borders Guyana?
10) The hajj is- the pilgrimage made by followers of what religion that began in the Middle East?
11) What two Caribbean countries were the last two Spanish colonies in the Americas?
12) What country was the center for the Dutch East India and West India Companies?
13) Which TWO tectonic plates meet to form the San Andreas fault?
14) Yellowstone National Park touches what other national park?
15) The second largest desert in the world lies to the east of the Sahara Desert. Name it.

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