Daily Geography 1
1. What are the names of the Earth’s oceans?
2. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth in half horizontally?
3. What is the northernmost point in the world called?
4. What part of a map contains the information on what the map’s symbols mean?
5. What term is used to describe an area of land that is completely surrounded by water. Give an example.
Island
6. All lines of longitude are measured east and west of what imaginary line? Prime Meridian
7. What does a star on a map usually mean? Capital
8. Which of the following is not a state: Idaho, Houston, New Mexico, Colorado? Houston
Daily Geography 2
1. What are the names of the four hemispheres of the Earth? In which two do you live?
2. Is the Arctic Circle north or south of the Tropic of Capricorn?
3. What term is used to describe land that is surrounded on three sides by water?
4. What lines measure distances east and west of the Prime Meridian?
5. Which of the following is not a city: Dallas, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Delaware?
6. Locate the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada. Define gulf.
7. Latitude is measured north and south of what imaginary line?
8. Which European capital city is located on the Prime Meridian?
Daily Geography 3
1. Is the Tropic of Capricorn north or south of the equator?
2. Name the seven continents of the earth?
3. What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
4. French Guiana and Guyana are countries on what continent?
5. Which oceans does the equator cross?
6. What line of longitude forms the other half of the Prime Meridian?
7. What is the capital of the only state bordered on the south by Arkansas and through which the 40 N
line of latitude passes?
8. What is the capital of the Central American country that has a major canal running through it?
Daily Geography 4
1. What is the capital of the South American country of Brazil?
2. What country has the largest land area in the Western Hemisphere?
3. What is the city located on the Chesapeake Bay that is the capital of Maryland?
4. Through which four South American countries does the 20 degrees S line of latitude pass?
5. The following are the four longest rivers in the world: (1.) Nile, (2.) Amazon, (3.) Yangtze,
(4.) Mississippi. On what continents can they be found?
6. Is Lima, the capital of Peru, east or west of the 80 degrees W line of longitude?
7. What are the three continents with the largest land areas in the world?
8. How many degrees south of the equator is the South Pole?
Daily Geography 5
1. What is the capital of the country whose neighbors are Colombia, Brazil, and Guyana?
2. If you are a resident of Canberra, Australia, are you a resident of an island or a continent?
3. Is the Tropic of Cancer north or south of the equator?
4. Name the seven countries that are part of Central America.
5. Which continent is smaller in area than Europe?
6. What is the capital of the country through which the 40 degrees N line of latitude and 20 degrees E line
of longitude pass?
7. Into how many degrees of longitude is the Earth divided?
8. If it is dawn in the eastern U.S., what is it in the western U.S.? Why?
Daily Geography 6
1. Which one country has the largest land area in both Europe and Asia?
2. Which nation is farther north, Egypt or Greece?
3. Bogota: Colombia :: _________________ : India
4. What two continents are similar in physical shape?
5. Is the Arctic Circle north or south of the Tropic of Cancer?
6. Kabul is the capital of what country that borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Pakistan?
7. Does a line of latitude or longitude divide the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
8. Tunis is the capital of what country?
Daily Geography 7
1. Which hemisphere, the Eastern or Western, has the most land area?
2. What lines make up the Earth’s “grid” system?
3. What is the capital of the country with the largest land area in the Eastern Hemisphere?
4. How many degrees are there between the equator and the southern tip of Greenland?
5. Name five countries in Africa that have coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and lie on or between
20 degrees N and 10 degrees N.
6. The second largest sea in the world is south of Cuba. What is its name?
7. What country in southern Africa, with Mozambique and South Africa on its eastern and southern borders
respectively, used to be called Rhodesia?
8. Draw a compass rose and label the eight cardinal and intermediate directions.
Daily Geography 8
1. Name the peninsula that consists of Spain and Portugal.
2. Name 3 seas that surround the Philippines.
3. The Tropic of Cancer cuts through what large North American country?
4. What state is west of New Hampshire and east of New York?
5. What oceans border Australia?
6. What landform separates Europe from Asia? What is its name?
7. What continent is south of the 4 major oceans of the world?
8. What capital city is near the equator and 80 degrees W line of longitude?
Daily Geography 9
1. Which country has the largest land area in Africa?
2. What lines of latitude determine the "tropics"?
3. Which ocean is larger, the Arctic or Indian?
4. Name at least 2 items a map's key should include.
5. Washington, D.C. : United States : : ____________________ : China
6. What is the longest river in North America?
7. What is the easternmost state in the United States?
8. What mountain range runs along the border of Spain and France?
Daily Geography 10
1. Which state usually has the coldest weather year round and why: Oregon, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia?
2. What is the largest gulf in the world?
3. What term do geographers use when they refer to the land masses of Europe and Asia as one?
4. The 48 states that touch one another are called contiguous. Name the states that are not part of the
contiguous United States.
5. Every 15 degrees of longitude on the Earth marks another time zone. Into how many time zones is the
Earth divided?
6. Through what two straits would you pass to sail from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea?
7. What is the largest mountain range in North America?
8. Name the 4 oceans in order of size, largest to smallest.
Daily Geography 11
1. What are the names of the 5 Great Lakes?
2. What is the longest mountain range in South America?
3. What is the name of the largest lake in Central America?
4. How many independent countries are there in South America?
5. A country in southeast Asia between Myanmar and Laos used to be called Siam. What is it called today?
6. How many countries does the Antarctic Circle pass through?
7. Name the strait that runs between Spain and North Africa.
8. What is the name of the cape at the southern tip of Africa?
Daily Geography 12
1. What is the name of the country completely surrounded by South Africa?
2. What 2 oceans touch Russia?
3. What river flows through the capital of France?
4. What mountain range runs between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?
5. Seoul is the capital of which east Asian nation?
6. Which is closer to the South Pole, the southern tip of Africa or the most southern edge of mainland
Australia?
7. What is the name of the Spanish islands off the northwest coast of Africa?
8. What continents does the Arctic Circle pass through?
Daily Geography 13
1. Which is larger, the Red Sea or the Mediterranean Sea?
2. What countries make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
3. What is the capital of Turkey, a country which occupies land known as Asia Minor?
4. What continents do not have any land in the Southern Hemisphere?
5. Name the states of the U.S. that border the Great Lakes.
6. How many states are on or above the 60 degrees N line of latitude?
7. What is the longest mountain range in the United States east of the Mississippi River?
8. What is the largest lake in Africa?
Daily Geography 14
1. What two North American countries border the Beaufort Sea?
2. What two countries in the Caribbean share the same island?
3. What is the only country on the Iberian Peninsula that borders the Mediterranean Sea?
4. What body of water is connected to the Labrador Sea by the Hudson Strait?
5. What body of water separates Iran from Saudi Arabia?
6. What mountain range runs along the border between Italy and France, Switzerland, & Austria?
7. What body of water separates France from Great Britain?
8. What bay borders both France and Spain?
Daily Geography 15
1. Name the body of water between Sweden and Finland?
2. Name the body of water that lies between the east coast of India and the Malay Peninsula?
3. Which country is the smallest in land area in Central America?
4. Name the largest desert in Africa.
5. What river runs thru the capital of France?
6. What mountain range runs along Iran’s western border?
7. Name the largest desert in Asia.
8. What French island lies off the west coast of Italy?
Daily Geography 16
1. Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point on what continent?
2. What capital city is near 20 degrees N latitude and 100 degrees W longitude?
3. Would you probably find a scale of 1 in. equals 1,500 mi. on a map of your city, state, or world?
4. Name at least four countries on the African continent that are landlocked?
5. In what island nation does the equator cross 120 degrees E longitude?
6. What isthmus connects North and South America?
7. In what country does 40 degrees N latitude cross 40 degrees E longitude?
8. What river starts near the Alps and flows east to the Black Sea?
Daily Geography 17
1. What mountain range runs the length of the Italian peninsula?
2. What is the capital of Germany?
3. What island group found northeast of Australia has a capital of Honiara?
4. What natural boundary separates Texas from Mexico?
5. What capital city is near 40 degrees N. latitude and 80 degrees W longitude?
6. Is most of Africa north or south of the equator?
7. What is the capital of Malawi?
8. What is the capital of the landlocked country that borders Russia to the north and China to the south?
Daily Geography 18
1. What bodies of water connect Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean?
2. Name the continents that border the Pacific Ocean.
3. What capital city is located near 36 degrees N latitude and 140 degrees E longitude?
4. If you were at 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude, would you be on land or in water?
5. What two countries share the island of Hispaniola?
6. On which continent and in which hemisphere do you reside?
7. What continents does the Arabian Sea border?
8. What is the name of the salt lake located on the border between Israel and Jordan?
Daily Geography 19
1. Which continent has the largest land area, North America or South America?
2. Kathmandu is the capital of which Asian nation?
3. What forms the natural boundary between Argentina and Uruguay?
4. What is the name of the country located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain?
5. What gulf is north of Somalia and south of Yemen?
6. What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?
7. What is the only colony on the South American continent?
8. What country administers the Falkland Islands off the coast of South America?
Daily Geography 20
1. What manmade waterway links the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
2. In what ocean do 20 degrees S latitude and 80 degrees E longitude intersect?
3. Name the three countries that border the Bay of Bengal.
4. What country is due south of Egypt?
5. What capital city is located near 34 degrees S latitude and 150 degrees E longitude?
6. Does Mexico have more coastline on the Gulf of Mexico or on the Pacific Ocean?
7. What European city is near the intersection of 60 degrees N latitude and 30 degrees E longitude?
8. What major river is found in northeast India?
Daily Geography 21
1. What large desert in Africa is almost as big as the forty-eight contiguous states in the United States?
2. What 2 major cities are located near the delta of the Nile River?
3. What mountain range separates India and Nepal from China?
4. What desert lies along the southwest coast of Africa?
5. What island nation is off the southeastern coast of India?
6. Name the four countries that border the Gulf of Thailand.
7. What major river flows through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea?
8. Name the two archipelagos in Southeast Asia.
Daily Geography 22
1. What major river flows from central Africa to the South Atlantic Ocean?
2. What peninsula is bordered by the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan?
3. What 2 mountain ranges run along the western and eastern coasts of India?
4. What Asian capital city is located near 22 degrees N latitude and 106 degrees E longitude?
5. The Bay of Bengal is part of what ocean?
6. What capital city in North Africa is located near 10 degrees E longitude?
7. What 4 capital cities are located on the Persian Gulf?
8. What 4 South American countries are located entirely above the equator?
Daily Geography 23
1. Name the river that starts in central China and flows east to the East China Sea.
2. What three seas border China?
3. Name the four main islands in the Japanese archipelago?
4. What island in the East China Sea has Taipei as its capital?
5. What two East Asian countries are separated near the 38 degrees north line of latitude?
6. Is Phnom Penh or Hanoi the capital of Vietnam?
7. What south Asian capital lies on the 80 degrees east line of longitude?
8. What is the region of China called that lies between the Korean peninsula and Russia?
Daily Geography 24
1. What is the capital of Indonesia? On which island is the capital located?
2. What 3 seas are located off the eastern coast of Russia?
3. What is the capital of the Philippines? On which island is the capital located?
4. What island chain separates the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean?
5. What is the capital of the Scandinavian nation whose eastern border is Russia?
6. Thru which continents does the Tropic of Capricorn pass?
7. Name the strait that separates Russia from North America?
8. What country has the longest border on the Arabian Sea?
Daily Geography Week 25
1. Name the peninsula that is surrounded by the Adriatic, Aegean, and Black Seas.
2. What 3 countries border both France & Germany?
3. Of what country is Sarajevo the capital?
4. What 4 countries make up the United Kingdom?
5. What European capital is located near 50 degrees N latitude & 30 degrees E longitude?
6. Name the peninsula that extends into the Black Sea.
7. At 15,771 ft., it is the tallest mountain in the Alps.
8. Name the 2 straits that link the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea.
Daily Geography 26
1. What is the capital of Belgium?
2. What 3 seas surround the Italian peninsula?
3. What mountain range is located in south central France?
4. What is the capital of Austria?
5. Name the 5 European capital cities that border the Baltic Sea.
6. What sea lies between Britain and Norway?
7. What 5 countries are considered to be part of Scandinavia?
8. What sea separates the continents of Europe and Africa?
Daily Geography 27
1. What mountain range lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?
2. What is the capital of Russia?
3. On what sea is the Russian city of Archangel located?
4. On what peninsula is the largest part of Turkey located?
5. What is the capital of Bulgaria?
6. What sea lies between the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits?
7. What is the capital of Syria?
8. Is Iceland north or south of the Arctic Circle?
Daily Geography 28
1. What 3 states of the U.S. are peninsulas?
2. What African lake borders Niger, Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon?
3. What sea lies between Russia’s east coast and the Kamchatka Peninsula?
4. What channel lies between Madagascar and Mozambique?
5. Are the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer lines of latitude or longitude?
6. What is the name of the large lake in south central Australia?
7. Belmopan is the capital of what Central American country?
8. Is Baffin Bay north or south of Hudson Bay?
Daily Geography 29
1. What chain of islands off the Alaskan Peninsula is part of the United States?
2. What is the capital of the westernmost country on the Scandinavian Peninsula?
3. What is the capital of the island country just south of Cuba?
4. Which state would you most likely visit if you enjoyed mountain climbing: Florida, Washington, Indiana?
5. Which island group is closest to the South Pole: Falkland, Hawaiian, Solomon?
6. Into what bay does the Ganges River flow?
7. Name two capes at the southern tip of Africa.
8. The capital of Poland is Warsaw. Is this city east or west of the 20 degrees E line of longitude?
Daily Geography 30
1. Does the Prime Meridian pass through the Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle?
2. Find the Volga River in Russia. In what direction does it flow?
3. What bay borders both France and Spain?
4. Which North American country is narrow enough to be considered an isthmus?
5. What gulf is located to the east of the intersection of 100 degrees E longitude and 10 degrees N latitude?
6. What two Great Lakes border Wisconsin?
7. The Amazon River in South America flows in what direction?
8. What is the southernmost point in the world called?
Daily Geography Week 31
1. If it is twilight in the western United States, what is it in the eastern United State? Why?
2. What are the capitals of the two large countries that occupy the Iberian Peninsula in Europe?
3. What mountains run between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?
4. What is the small country in northeastern Italy near the Adriatic Sea?
5. Put the following states in order from the farthest south to the farthest north:
Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, Wyoming.
6. What is the capital of the Scandinavian country located between Norway and Finland?
7. What western state in the forty-eight contiguous states has the longest border with Canada?
8. In what part of Nevada is the city of Las Vegas located?
Daily Geography Week 32
1. Is the Kalahari Desert of Africa north or south of the equator?
2. What direction does the Chang Jian (Yangtze) River in China flow?
3. What is the capital of the nation whose northern border is Lebanon?
4. What four of the Great Lakes border Michigan?
5. What river in northern South America has its delta near the islands of Trinidad and Tobago?
6. Which capital city is farther east: Bern (Switzerland) or Paris (France)?
7. Which country claims Greenland?
8. What is the capital of the country on the Adriatic Sea that has France, Switzerland, and Austria on its
northern border?