North America, Cultural, Physical

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1997 Geography Bee

North America, Cultural, Physical,

Plants and Animals, Economic and Bonus

North America

1. The Miskito Coast is the name of a region along the Caribbean coast of which two countries?

2. The Straits of Florida separate Florida from which island?

3. What island is home to the capital cities of Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince?

4. In what part of Canada did the 1890s Klondike gold rush take place?

5. In which U.S. possession is Spanish the official language?

6. Where would you go to climb the highest peak in North America?

7. On average, in which U.S. state do the largest number of tornadoes occur?

8. In which direction from the 100-degree meridian is most corn in the United States grown?

9. On what peninsula do you find Mayan ruins?

10. What river forms most of the boundary between Ontario and Quebec?

Cultural Geography

11. Pagodas are often the temples for what religion?

12. Where is Gaelic spoken?

13. What is the name of the flightless bird found in New Zealand?

14. To what religion is the cow sacred?

15. New Archangel, now Sitka, Alaska, was formerly the capital of what country’s colony?

16. Lipizzaner stallions are originally from what country?

17. The Grand Prix auto race takes place in which city?

18. Masa is made from the flour of what grain?

19. Ramadan is a month of fasting for followers of what religion?

20. Mandarin is a dialect of what language?

Physical Geography

21. What is the name for a group of islands, such as Japan?

22. What is the name for the belt of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean?

23. What season begins in North America when the noonday sun is at a 90-degree angle at the Tropic of Cancer?

24. What is the term for the area of calm at the center of a hurricane?

25. What is the term for the side of a mountain that faces away from the wind?

26. What is the term for the upper limit of tree growth on a mountain slope?

27. What is the term for a body of water created by damming a river?

28. Santa Ana and Chinook are names for what natural meteorological activity?

29. What is the term for a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses?

30. What is the term for a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water?

Plants and Animals

31. On which large island country is most of the world’s cinnamon produced?

32. What is the name of the plant from which ancient paper was made?

33. What is the name of the woody grass essential to the diet of the Giant Panda?

34. The vicuña and chinchilla, hunted almost to extinction, are native to what mountain region?

35. The Okapi, an animal related to the giraffe, is native to the equatorial forests along what river?

36. The tsetse fly is responsible for sickness, death and a lack of economic development on which continent?

37. What is the name of the island that is home to most of the orangutans still living in the wild?

38. Guernsey and Jersey are breeds of dairy cows that are named for the islands where they originated. These islands are dependencies of which European country?

Economic Geography

39. Montevideo is the chief port for which country?

40. Genoa is the chief port for which country?

41. OPEC is an international organization founded by countries that are among the world’s leading exporters of what resource?

42. A 1991 international agreement prohibits mining for at least the next 50 years on which continent?

43. All of Canada’s major ports on the St. Lawrence River are in which province?

44. Bananas grown on coastal lowlands north of Tegucigalpa are a major export of which Central American country?

45. The Grand Coulee Dam, the greatest single source of hydroelectric power in the United States, is on which river?

GeoBee Challenge Questions

46. What name is used for the treeless biome in high latitudes that has permafrost and vegetation such as lichen and moss?

47. Which African city was established near the head of the Nile Delta nearly 1,000 years ago?

48. To visit massive rice terraces on Luzon and to walk through massive rice terraces in Manila, you would visit what country?

49 Which Midwestern city on the Great Lakes has the largest population?

50. The most populous city on the Tigris River is the setting for many of the stories from the Arabian nights. Name this city.

Bonus

1. An Afrikaans word meaning separateness is used to refer to South Africa’s former policy of racial segregation. Name this term

2. The hijab is a headscarf worn by many women following which major world religion?