Q. What is a Valley? A. A tract of land lying between two hills. A. A level tract of land. Q. What are large plains called in the United States.? Q. What in South America? A. Pampas. Q. What in Europe and Asia? A. Steppes. Q. What is a Desert? A. A barren tract of country, generally sandy.] Q. What is a Wilderness? A. An uninhabited and uncultivated region. Q. How is Water naturally divided? A. Into Oceans, Seas, Archipelagoes, Gulfs or Bays, Lakes, Straits, Rivers, &c. Q. What is an Ocean? A. A vast collection of salt water. Q. What is a Sea? A. A smaller division of salt water than an ocean. Q. What is an Archipelago? (Ar-ke-pel-a-go.) A. A sea containing many islands. Q. What is a Gulf or Bay? A. A body of water extending into the land. Q. What is a Lake? A. A body of fresh water surrounded by land. A. A small lake. Q. What is a Strait? A. A narrow passage of water connecting two bodies of water. Q. What is a Sound? A. A passage of water so shallow that its depth may be measured with a lead and line. Q. What is a Channel? A. A passage of water wider than a strait. Q. What is a River? A. A large stream of water running from the land to some larger body of water. Q. What are small streams called? A. Brooks, creeks, rivulets and rills. Q. What is the Head or Source of a River? Q. What is its Mouth? A. The place where it ends or empties. Q. What is a Cataract? A. Water flowing over a precipice. Q. What is a Canal? A. A wide ditch filled with water, for the use of boats. Q. What is a Port or Harbor? A. A small bay where ships can anchor safely. What is the difference between a Continent and an Ocean? What is the difference between an Island and a Lake? What is the difference between a Peninsula and a Sea? What is the difference between an Isthmus and a Strait ? What is the difference between a Desert and a Wilderness? Q. What is a Hemisphere ? A. Half a Globe. Q. How many hemispheres are there? A. Two: Eastern and Western. Q. How does the equator divide the earth? A. Into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Q. How many oceans are there? A. Five: the Northern, Southern, Atlantic, Pacific, MAP OF THE WORLD. Q. What does the Map of the World represent? A. The whole surface of the earth. Q. What is the northern part of the Western Continent called? N. A. Q. What is the southern part called? S. A. In what part of the Eastern Continent is Europe? N. W. What is New-Holland or Australia? An island. Q. Is it ever called by any other name? A. It is sometimes called a Continent on account of its size. Q. What large body of land in the Southern ocean? A. The Antarctic Continent. Q. When was it discovered? 1840. Q. By whom? A. The United States Exploring Expedition. Which extends farther north, Africa or South America? Q. What part of the map is North-East? A. The right-hand corner between north and east. Q. What part is South-East? A. The right-hand corner between south and east. What parts South-west and North-west? Which way from Europe to South America? Which way from North America to New-Holland ? Which way from the Indian Ocean to North America? Does the equator cross North or South America? Which hemisphere contains the greater portion of land? Which is the largest island in the world? What two islands next in size? B. and N. G. What is an island? Which contains more land, the northern or southern hemisphere ? What large island south-east of Africa? What cape at the southern extremity of Africa? e? What is a cape' What is the difference between a cape and a gulf or bay? What cape at the eastern extremity of South America? What cape at the southern extremity of Madagascar ? What cape in the southern part of Greenland? What cape in the northern part of Madagascar ? Q. What islands between North and South America? A. West Indies. Q. What islands between Asia and Australia? A. East Indies. What sea between Europe and Africa? What sea between Africa and Asia? What is a sea? What sea between North and South America? What sea between Europe and Asia? B. What gulf south of the United States? What is a gulf? What gulf south of Guinea? What gulf between Canada and Newfoundland? St. L. What bay north of North America? What bay south of Baffin's Bay? What bay east of Hindostan? What strait between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean? What strait between Patagonia and Terra del Fuego? What is a strait? What strait between Asia and North America? What strait between Newfoundland and Labrador? What large River in South America flows into the Atlantic just south of the equator? What is a river? What river in Africa flows into the Mediterranean? In what latitude is North America? North. Q. Why? A. Because it is north of the Equator. In what latitude is Australia? Why? In what latitude is Africa? Why? In sailing from Newfoundland to Australia, what two oceans would you cross? In sailing from Europe to Asia by the way of Cape Horn, what two oceans would you cross? What ocean is nearest us?! What is an ocean? What peninsula in the southern part of Asia? H. Q. Which are the largest two peninsulas on the globe? Q. What is it to bound a country? A. To mention what is on the North, East, South, and West. What bounds Asia on the east? How do you bound Europe? Q. What prevents Africa from being an island? A. The Isthmus of Suez. What is an isthmus ? What isthmus connects North and South America? Where is Brazil ? Where is Ethiopia? Where is Greenland? To whom does Greenland belong? Denmark. Where is Mexico? Where is China? In what country do we live? |