Geography Final Study Deck

What is the world’s second largest country?

What is the longest inland waterway?

What canal provides navigation for vessels between Lake Erie to the south and Lake Ontario Welland Canal in southern Ontario to the north and forms an important link in the St. Lawrence Seaway?

What major landmark is between Lakes Erie and Ontario?

What country was named after Queen Victoria’s father of England?

What three provinces take up 3/4 of Canada’s farmland?

What organization was established to patrol Canada’s Northwest Territory?

Name one major native Canadian group.

What is Canada’s largest province, second in population, and contains the majority of French-speaking Canadians?

What Canadian province has the highest population?

What’s the largest lake in Canada (up in the Northwest Territories)?

Where are the U.S. coastal plains?

What forms the Continental Divide in the U.S.?

Name the five Great Lakes.

Which of the Great Lakes is the largest freshwater?

Which of the Great Lakes is the only that lies wholly within the United States (as opposed to being in Canada)?

What is the largest peninsula in America?

What’s the most prominent landform that extends over 1,500 miles from Canada to Alabama?

What are the lakes in America’s largest desert area, is second to the Dead Sea in salt content, and has five times the salt density of the oceans?

What is the name of the deepest canyon in the U.S. that averages about a mile deep?

What’s the largest Canyon in the world?

What’s the highest peak of America?

What’s the name of the strait located between Russia and Alaska?

What is America’s largest river?

What’s the capital of Mexico?

What are the natives of Mexico?

What were the Mestizos?

What’s the second-largest reef in the world?

Where is the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System?

What’s the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere that isn’t an island?

What country is Guantanamo in?

What does the name Jamaica mean?

Name the country that had a negative impact on Haiti.

What lake contains the lowest point in the West Indies?

What country serves as a center for international banking?

What did the Carib Indians name their islands?

What does Costa Rica mean?

How did Costa Rica get its name?

What country has the highest murder rate in the world but bans abortion?

What’s another name for Middle America?

What country is the gulf of Mexico a part of?

Name the country with one of the thinnest populations on the planet, with sixteen people per square mile?

How many highways does Belize have?

What was the former capital of Brazil?

What’s the southernmost part of South America?

Which country has a reputation for exporting illegal drugs, as well as coffee?

Who colonized South America?

What’s the official language of many countries (except Brazil) where Portuguese is the commonly spoken language?

What river pours out tons of fresh water into the ocean?

What’s the longest mountain range in the world?

What country has one of the largest petroleum deposits (outside of the Middle East)?

What’s the longest river in the world?

What’s the second longest river in the world?

What’s the third-largest continent?

What’s the world’s largest city?

What’s the second largest city in the world?

What is the highest waterfall?

Name the largest inland body of water (saltwater lake). This lies between Europe and Asia.