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WG Continents and Regions
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Name the seven continents in alphabetical order.
Africa Antarctica Asia Australia Europe North America South America
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Name the four oceans in alphabetical order.
Arctic Atlantic Indian Pacific
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What continent includes Quebec, a land divided by language?
North America
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What continent is home to the following cities…Canberra,A. C. T
What continent is home to the following cities…Canberra,A.C.T., Sydney, Melbourne? Australia
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Which continent has low per capita GDP, low life expectancy,low literacy rates, high infant mortality, high population growth rate,and large percentage of population under age 15? Africa
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What continent includes air and water travel that bring goods and services to remote areas?
Australia
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Which continent has natural hazards-monsoons, typhoons, volcanoes,and earthquakes?
Asia
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What continent has the Great Dividing Ranges?
Australia
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Which continent has silks, batiks, woods and ivory carving, ideograms, unique alphabets, and jewels?
Asia
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What region includes a vast land area, two continents, and covers 11 time zones?
Russia
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What two continents are divided by the Strait of Gibraltar?
Europe Africa
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What two continents are divided by the Straits of Bosporus?
Europe Asia
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Which continent includes Fjords?
Europe
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Which continent’s lifestyles range from subsistence farming to modern city living?
Australia
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Which two continents are part of a large landmass called Eurasia?
Europe Asia
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Which continent is a major exporter of technology?
North America
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Which continent includes Spanish and Portuguese languages?
South America
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Which continent includes ranching and mining as its primary activities?
Australia
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Which continent is the home of Machu Picchu ?
South America
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What continent is home to the Kurds who live in parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria?
Asia
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What region of the world is now called North Africa and Southwest Asia?
Middle East
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Which two continents includes NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
Europe North America
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What continent includes the continental divide?
North America
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What continent is home to the Yangtze River of China?
Asia
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Which continent sports highly developed infrastructures and economies?
North America
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Which continent includes the Black Forest, Venice, Rhine, Danube, and Seine?
Europe
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What region of the world is the cross roads of Europe, Africa, and Asia?
Middle East
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What region of the world has water features such as Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Black Sea, and Arabian Sea? Middle East
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What continent has the most advanced road system or infrastructure?
North America
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What region of the world is the birthplace of three major monotheistic religions?
Middle East
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What continent is home to the Suez Canal which connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
Africa
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Which continent has oil reserves in the North Sea?
Europe
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What continent is home to the Andes Mountains?
South America
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What region of the world depends on oil drilling, agriculture, and pastoralism?
Middle East
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Which continent includes Pampas and Llanos?
South America
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Which continent is part of NAFTA?
North America
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Which continent includes many rainforests?
South America
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What region of the world has been the crossroads of many world-wide shipping routes?
Middle East
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Which continent includes calypso, steel drum bands, and reggae?
South America
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What region of the world is home OPEC?
Middle East
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Which continent has Tierra Caliente, Tierra Templada, and Tierra Fria?
South America
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Which continent is the center of the world’s financial markets?
North America
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Which continent includes Haciendas, Ejidos (communal land)?
South America
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Which continent has The Chunnel?
Europe
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What region of the world has water features such as Volga River, Ob River, Amur River, and Lake Baikal? Russia
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What region of the world has diverse ethnic groups, and cultural heritages such as Ballet and Faberge eggs? Russia
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Which continent has exported McDonald’s, Coca Cola and blue jeans?
North America
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What region of the world has rich chernozem soil?
Russia
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What region is home to the Caucasus Mountains?
Russia
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Which continent has the biggest variety of ethnic groups, languages and customs?
Africa
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Which continent includes cities such as Toronto, Quebec, Chicago and Los Angeles?
North America
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Which continent has the Himalayas?
Asia
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What region of the world divides Europe from Asia?
Russia
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Which continent has few cities with population over 1 million?
Africa
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What region of the world is called the sleeping land, and located east of the Urals?
Russia
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Which continent includes the Columbia and St. Lawrence Rivers?
North America
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What region of the world has Matrioshka dolls, Oriental Carpets, and Samovars?
Russia
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What continent’s population lives near the coast?
Australia
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Which continent includes the cities of Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Athens, and Warsaw?
Europe
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What region of the world has cultural landscapes such as St. Basils?
Russia
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What region of the world includes Red Square?
Russia
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What region of the world has Kremlin, Mosques, minarets, Siberian villages, and Soviet-style apartment blocks? Russia
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Which continent includes the Aleutian Islands, the Great Plains and the Hudson Bay?
North America
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What region of the world has center of culture and trade such as St
What region of the world has center of culture and trade such as St. Petersburg, and Novosibirk? Russia
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What continent includes the center of world financial markets, New York Stock Exchange?
North America
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Which continent is the birthplace of Industrial Revolution?
Europe
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What continent includes the widening gap between rich and poor?
North America
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Which continent has a Caste system in India?
Asia
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Which continent hosts the world’s longest unfortified border?
North America
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On which continent is Japan the economic leader?
Asia
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Which continent has crop yields, fertile soils, black earth (chernozem), and farming techniques?
Europe
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Which continent has names related to historical empires?
Africa
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What continent enjoys the highest standard of living?
North America
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Which continent did the “Green Revolution” in food production begin?
Asia
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What continent is home to the following cities
What continent is home to the following cities . . Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Vancouver, Chicago? North America
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Which continent has masks, sculpture, dance, music, colorful dress, jewelry?
Africa
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Which continent includes cities such as Tokyo, Beijing, and New Delhi?
Asia
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What continent is mostly dessert?
Australia
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Which continent includes the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges River, the Indes River, the Brahmaputra River, the Pacific Ocean,Yangtze River, the Mekong River, and the Yellow River? Asia
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What continent has the Great Barrier Reef ?
Australia
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Which continent is Kalahari and Namib Deserts placed on?
Africa
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What continent has cattle and sheep stations?
Australia
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Which continent includes the cities of Lagos, Darkar, Johannesburg?
Africa
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What continent has European and indigenous cultures?
Australia
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Which continent has the Andes Mountains and Sahara Madres?
South America
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What two continents include parts of what are known as Latin America?
North America South America
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What continent reflects the mix of European and indigenous cultures such as the Maori and the aborigines? Australia
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Which continent is the birthplace of western democracy?
Europe
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What continent has the Sydney Opera House?
Australia
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Which continent has knowledge of history through oral tradition?
Africa
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What region is home to the Suez Canal which connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
Middle East
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Which continent’s population predominantly lives along the coast?
Australia
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Which continent is home to the Atacama?
South America
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What continent is the home of research station outposts but no permanent inhabitants?
Antarctica
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Which continent is mostly desert?
Australia
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On what continent will you pass the World Geography SOL test?
North America
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