1. On a clear day you can see Mount Rainier, Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula from which city? a) Seattle b) Chicago c)Albuquerque

2. Which state has a larger desert region? a) West Virginia b) Arizona c) Oklahoma

3. If you took a raft trip through the Grand Canyon, which river would you be navigating? a) Rio Grande b) Platte c) Colorado

4. Name the only Asian country through which the Equator passes. a) Vietnam b) Japan c) Indonesia

5. Four African countries — Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon — border which lake located south of the Sahara? a) Lake Victoria b) Lake Chad c) Aral Sea

6. Which lake is located farther west? a) Great Salt Lake b) Lake Michigan c) Lake of the Ozarks

7. The Torres del Paine National Park is located along the fjord-marked Pacific coastline of which country in the Western Hemisphere? a) Peru b) Chile c) Canada

8. Which country does not include a portion of the Andes Mountains? a) Brazil b) Chile c) Peru

9. Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park, which is located northwest of the city of Hobart, is on an island that is part of what country? a) United Kingdom b) New Zealand c) Australia

10. What was the name of the short-lived island republic that united with Tanganyika to form the country of Tanzania in 1964? a) Zanzibar b) Madagascar c) Oman

Answers

1. Seattle, 2. Arizona, 3. Colorado, 4. Indonesia, 5. Lake Chad, 6. Great Salt Lake, 7. Chile, 8. Brazil, 9. Australia, 10. Zanzibar

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