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Geography Jeopardy
Test your knowledge and review for the test!
Geography Jeopardy
Latitude &
Longitude
Map skills Hemis-pheres
Contin-ents
Bodies of Water
Wild Card!
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This line runs along 0˚ latitude.
What is the Equator?
• This is known as 0˚ longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This line is located at approximately 23.5 ˚ N.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This line is not straight and runs near 180 ˚ E and W.
What is the International Dateline?
This continent is found at the following coordinates:
10˚ S, 50˚ W
What is South America?
This feature indicates distance on a map.
What is the scale?
This shows the four cardinal directions and intermediate directions.
What is the compass rose?
Examples of this might include population density, climate, or average temperature.
What is the theme of the map?
This country has the highest life expectancy in Asia, according to page 44 in your atlas.
What is Japan?
According to page 166 in your atlas, Australia is __?__ miles wide from East to West.
What is 2,400 miles?
These are all four hemispheres by name.
What are the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western hemispheres.
This imaginary line divides the Northern hemisphere from the Southern.
What is the Equator?
This imaginary line divides the Eastern from the Western hemisphere.
What is the Prime Meridian?
North America can be found in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western hemispheres?
The continent of Africa is located in these hemispheres.
What are all four hemispheres (Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western)?
This is the smallest of the seven continents.
What is Australia?
This continent is the largest of the seven.
What is Asia?
This is the only continent completely covered in ice.
What is Antarctica?
This continent has more countries than any other.
What is Africa?
These are the seven continents of the world.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, and Australia.
These two oceans surround South America.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
This ocean can be found to the north of Europe.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This gulf connects to the Arabian Sea.
What would you like to wager?
What is the Persian Gulf?
This ocean borders Africa, Asia, and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This sea is bordered by Europe to the north and Africa to the south.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This body of water is found between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Red Sea?
The ______ of a map helps you “read” a map for information.
What is the key?
This gulf is located at 58˚N, 140˚W.
What is the Gulf of Alaska?
According to page 50 in your atlas, this religion is the most popular in South America.
What is Roman Catholic?
This line divides today from tomorrow and can be found at roughly 180˚E and W.
What is the International Dateline?
Double Jeopardy
Oceans, Gulfs, Seas, Oh My!
Coordinates Where in the World?
Atlas Attack Water Water Everywhere
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This sea is bordered by Korea to the West and Japan to the East.
What is the Sea of Japan?
Madagascar is found in this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This sea lies between Russia and Alaska.
What is the Bering Sea?
Cuba is located at the entrance to this gulf.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This sea is located at approximately 40˚N, 50˚E
What is the Caspian Sea?
Continent at 20 ˚S, 140 ˚E
What is Australia?
Coordinates of Seattle, Washington.
What is 47˚ N, 122˚ W?
This is always expressed in degrees North or South (˚N or S).
What is latitude?
The coordinates of where the Equator intersects the Prime Meridian.
What is 0 ˚, 0 ˚?
These lines are found at approximately 23.5 degrees North and South of the Equator.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
This continent has the greatest population density.
What is Asia?
This continent is found at the South Pole.
What is Antarctica?
This capital city lies along the Tropic of Cancer bordering the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Havana, Cuba?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This Tropic intersects South America, Africa, and Australia.
What would you like to wager?
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
This imaginary line divides the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
London, England is approximately this distance (in miles) from Paris, France.
What is 200 miles?
• Refer to page 74 in your atlas:
New Orleans is located in this type of climate?
What is the subtropical rain climate?
• Refer to page 51 in your atlas:
This continent has the most countries and regions with severe ethnic conflicts.
What is Africa?
• Refer to page 38 in your atlas:
When it is 4:00am in San Francisco, it is this time in Moscow, Russia.
What is 3:00pm?
• Refer to page 152 in your atlas:
This capital city can be found in square 2B on your map.
What is Beirut, Lebanon?
This ocean borders the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The Mississippi River empties into this gulf.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Greece, Spain, and Italy all have coastlines on this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This ocean can be found at the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
These are the four oceans on Earth.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans.
FINAL JEOPARDY!
Category: General Geography
Teams: make your wagers.
You may wager from anything between 0 and your total current points.
Final Jeopardy
• As a group, write a list naming and spelling correctly all of the following:
• All seven continents• All four oceans• All seven seas• The names of 0 ˚ latitude and 0 ˚ longitude• All four hemispheres• The three gulfs you had to include on your map
• Continents: Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Antarctica
• Oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian• Seas: Mediterranean, North, Bering, Arabian, Red,
Caribbean, Sea of Japan• Gulfs: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Alaska• 0˚ latitude = Equator• 0˚ longitude = Prime Meridian• Four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern,
Western
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