LESSON 24. QUESTIONS ON THE MAP. STRAITS.-What is a Strait? What strait leads into the Mediterranean Sea? G-r. What strait between the island of Sumatra and the GRAND DIVISIONS.-What are the grand divisions of mainland of Asia? M-a. the Eastern Hemisphere? E-e, A-a, A-ca. Which of these divisions extends into the Western Hemisphere? A-a. What connects Asia and Africa? I-s of S-z. What division, composed of islands, is partly in the ISLANDS.-What is an Island? What islands east of Asia? J-n. What islands east of the China Sea? P-e. What three islands are crossed by the Equator? S-a, C-s, B-0. What long, narrow island southeast of Sumatra' J--a. What island, the largest in the world, east of the Indian Ocean? A-a. What island north of Australia? N. G-a. What island south of Australia? Van D-n's L-d. What island in the southwestern part of the Bay of Bengal? C-n. What island east of the south part of Africa? M-r. What, between Australia and New Guinea? T-s. Between Australia and Van Diemen's Land? B-s. What channel between the Island of Madagascar and Africa? M-e. RIVERS.-What is a River? What is the course of a river? The direction in which it flows. What is the course of the rivers in northern Asia? N. Into what ocean do the Obi, Yenesei, and Lena flow? A-c Into what ocean do the Amoor', Hoang' Ho, and Yang-tse Kiang' flow? P-c. Into what bay do the Bramahpoo'tra and Gan'ges flow? B-1 (ben-gaul'). Into what sea does the Indus flow? A-n. What river in Europe flows into the Caspian Sea? V-a. N-e. What river flows into the Gulf of Guinea? N-r. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.-What circle crosses the OCEANS.-What is the Ocean? What are its northern part of Europe and Asia? Ar-c. divisions? What ocean north of Europe and Asia? Ar-c. What ocean east of Asia? P-c. What ocean south of Asia? I-n. What ocean west of Europe and Africa? A-c. What ocean south of the Indian Ocean? S-n. What tropic crosses the northern part of Africa and the southern part of Asia? C-r. What tropic crosses the southern part of Africa and the Island of Australia? C-n. What grand divisions of the Eastern Hemisphere are situated wholly north of the Equator? E-e, A-ia. Does the greater portion of Africa lie north or SEAS, GULFS, BAYS.—What is a Sea,Gulf, or Bay? | south of the Equator ? North. What large sea southeast of Asia? C-a. What sea south of Asia? A-n. What sea between Asia and Africa? R-d. What gulf south of the western part of Africa? G-a. In what zone is the greater part of Africa? T-d. What cape on the west coast of Africa? V-e. What continent near the south pole? Ar-c. On what ocean would you sail in going from America to Europe. At-c. In which hemisphere is it, and where situated? EXAMPLE.-North America?-Is situated in the SEAS, GULFS, AND BAYS. northern part of the Western Hemisphere; it is north- larger body of water is it connected? CAPES. BEHRINGS (bee-rings)? MOZAMBIQUE' (mo-zam BASS? TOR'RES? beek)? GIBRALTAR? RIVERS. Where is it; what is its course; and Where is it situated? Into what waters where does it empty? does it extend? EXAMPLE.-Mackenzie ?-It is in North America, flows north, and empties into the Arctic Ocean. EASTERN AND WESTERN CONTINENTS. LESSON 26. EASTERN AND WESTERN CON TINENTS. What name is given to the continent which is situated in the Eastern Hemisphere? Eastern Continent, or Old World. Why is it named the Old World? Because it has been the longest inhabited by man. What are we taught about the Eastern Continent? That some of the most important events in the world's history took place there. In what parts did some of the most remarkable of these events occur? In those parts bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. What name is given to the continent situated in the Western Hemisphere? LESSON 27. 25 In what direction is the Eastern Continent the longest ? From northeast to southwest. In what direction is the Western Continent the longest? From north to south. Will you look on the maps of the Hemispheres, and Western Continent, or New World. say in what direction most of the peninsulas point? Why is it named the New World? Because, compared with the Eastern Continent, it has been but a little while known. How long has it been known? Nearly all point toward the south. What large island, in the Eastern Hemisphere, sometimes called a continent? Australia. What ocean washes the western part of the Eastern Continent and the eastern part of the Western Conti About three hundred and fifty nent? years. Who discovered it? Christopher Columbus. What part did he first see? One of the West India Islands. After whom was America named? Americus Vespucius, who visited it soon after its discovery by Columbus. When and where was the first permanent settlements made in the United States? In 1563, at St. Augustine'. The Atlantic. What large ocean extends west from America? Which of these oceans is the widest? The Pacific is more than six times as wide as the Atlantic. How wide is the Pacific? It extends nearly half around the globe. What ocean between Africa and Australia ? LESSON 28. QUESTIONS ON THE MAP. DIVISIONS.-What division is in the central part of North America? United States. What country north of the United States? B-h. What, in the northwest part of North America? R-n. What division on the northeast, separated from the British Possessions by Baffin's Bay? G-d. What division south of the United States? M-o. Which is the most southern division of North America? C-1 A-a. ISLANDS.-What island east of Greenland? I-d. Is Greenland itself an island? It is. What islands north of the British Possessions? P-y. What island east of the British Possessions? N-d. What islands east of the United States? B-a. What islands southeast of the United States? W. I-s. What group east of Florida? B-a. What island south of Florida? C-a. What island south of Cuba? J-a. Southeast of Cuba? H-i. East of Hayti? P-0 R-0. What chain of islands east of the Caribbean Sea? C-e. What islands on the west coast belong to Great Britain? Vancouver and Queen Charlotte's. What island farther north contains the capital of the Russian Possessions? S-a. PENINSULAS.-What is a Peninsula ? What peninsula in the northeastern part of the British Possessions? M-e. What peninsula north of Cuba? F-a. What peninsula southwest of Cuba? Y-n. What, west of the Gulf of California? C-a. What peninsula in the southwestern part of the Russian Possessions? A-a. CAPES.-What cape west of Davis' Strait? W-m. At the southern extremity of Greenland? F-1. At the southeastern extremity of Newfoundland? R-e. What capes on the eastern coast of the United States? C-d, H-s. At the southern extremity of Florida? S-e. On the eastern coast of Central America? G-s. In the south part of California peninsula? St. L-s. On the western coast of the United States? At the western extremity of the Russian Possessions? Pr. of W-s. M-o. MOUNTAINS.-What is a Mountain? What range of mountains extend through the British Possessions and the United States? R-y. What name does this range take in Mexico? S-a M-e (se-er'rah mah-dra'). What range near the Pacific Coast? C-t. What, in the eastern part of the United States? A-y. SEAS, GULFS, BAYS, AND STRAITS.-What bay east of Greenland? B-n's. What strait connects it with the Atlantic? D-s. What strait connects the Pacific Ocean with the Arctic? B-g. Northeast into the Gulf of St. Lawrence? St. L-e. What large river flows south through the United States into the Gulf of Mexico? M-i. Name its principal tributary from the east. 0-0. Name the three tributaries of the Mississippi from the west. M-i, A-s, R-d. In what mountains do these rivers rise? R-y. What river forms a part of the boundary between the United States and Mexico? G-e (reo gran'de). What river flows into the Gulf of California? C-0. What river flows into the Pacific? C-a. |