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DG WKS 10-17 NAME ___________________________

DATE ____________________________

PERIOD __________________________

DG WK 10

1. What is the country with the second largest land area in South America?

2. What ocean contains the North Pole?

3. Which country is farther north, Zaire or Paraguay?

4. How are the Amazon, Nile, and Mississippi Rivers alike?

5. In what state are the Aleutian Islands located?

6. If you were in Madison, Wisconsin, would it be closer to go to the North Pole or the equator?

7. You reside in what two hemispheres?

8. What gulf is located between Saudi Arabia and Iran?

DG WK 11

1. How many states in the United States are north of the Tropic of Capricorn?

2. Which is more mountainous, eastern or western North America?

3. What are the two longest countries in South America?

4. Which country is farther south, Portugal or Spain?

5. Name the seven continents.

6. How are Paraguay and Zambia similar?

7. Which city is farthest north: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco?

8. Which of the following sports teams play home games in cities located in Ohio: Cleveland Indians, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Cincinnati Bengals?

DG WK 12

1. Which hemisphere is larger, the Eastern or Western?

2. What country would you have to travel through when driving from Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska?

3. Which is farther north, North Carolina or South Dakota?

4. Name the gulf located between the countries of Sweden and Finland?

5. Whose border is closer to the Pacific Ocean, Nevada or Idaho?

6. What four large islands make up the Greater Antilles in the West Indies?

7. Which of the forty-eight contiguous states has the largest land area?

8. What is the name of the large mountain range in South America?

DG WK 13

1. What direction is Miami, Florida, from San Francisco, California?

2. Libya is to Africa as Venezuela is to ____________.

3. Which of the fifty states is farthest west?

4. What country has a land border with Denmark?

5. Through which continents does the Tropic of Cancer pass?

6. What large island nation is located off the southeast coast of Africa?

7. Who owns Baja (or Lower) California?

8. What is the state with the smallest land area?

DG WK 14

1. What mountain range is located between the Black and Caspian Seas?

2. Paraguay is to Bolivia as _____ is to Honduras.

3. What large river in Brazil has its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean?

4. Which are closer to the equator, the nomads of the Sahara or coffee growers of Colombia?

5. What river in part forms the southern border of the United States?

6. Which continent is closer to the South Pole, Africa or Australia?

7. What five continents touch the Pacific Ocean?

8. Which state is due south of New Hampshire and Vermont?

DG WK 15

1. Which lake does the equator pass through: Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi, Lake Chad?

2. What is the city, located on the Congaree River, which is the capital of South Carolina?

3. Which hemisphere has more land, the Eastern or Western?

4. You leave the Miami port in your new yacht to travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico. In what direction should you be heading?

5. What is the only Central American country that doesn’t touch the Pacific Ocean?

6. Which country would generally have higher temperatures year round, Laos or Switzerland? Why?

7. What is the capital of New Jersey, the third state to ratify the Constitution?

8. What countries border Iraq?

DG WK 16

1. Arrange the seven countries of Central America in alphabetical order.

2. Find the name of the large desert that runs along Africa’s southwestern coast/

3. Madrid is to Spain as ________ is to France.

4. Name the river that forms a border between Slovakia and Hungary.

5. What Middle Eastern country, which lies between Iraq and Afghanistan, used to be called Persia?

6. The Tropic of Cancer is to the Tropic of Capricorn as the Arctic Circle is to the _______ ________.

7. The city of Shanghai in China is near the mouth of what river?

8. Does the Prime Meridian touch the North or South Pole?

DG WK 17

1. A map key should tell what the symbols on a map mean. What does a small black dot usually represent?

2. Which state in the United States contains the name of a country bordering the United States?

3. What is the name given to the half of Earth that includes Asia, Australia, most of Africa, Europe, and Antarctica, and their waters?

4. Which distance is shorter, Africa to South America or Africa to Australia?

5. Which circle passes through more continents, Antarctica or Arctic?

6. Which state has no border on the Atlantic Ocean: New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont?

7. Which Great Lake is the only one that does not also belong to Canada?

8. How many continents are almost totally within the Western Hemisphere?

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