18. In what is it rich?

19. Who inhabit it?

What animals are found?
What is their character?

20. What did Asia formerly contain? P. 132.

P. 132.

P. 132.

21. What is said of agriculture and the arts? Religion? P.

132.

22. What has transpired here? P. 132.

23. What can you say of the great Chinese wall? P. 132. 24. Where and how high are the Himalaya mountains? P.

141.

25. Where is Mount Sinai? Ararat? P. 141.

26. What is the latitude of Calcutta? Pekin? Mecca? 27. How is Singapore situated? Describe it. P. 141. 28. What remarkable tree is found in Hindostan? P. 141. 29. In what have the Hindoos excelled? P. 141.

30. How would you sail from New York to Singapore? P

141.

31. From Calcutta to Constantinople? P. 141.

32. What is the most noted product of China?. P. 141. 33. Draw a full Map of Asia.

AFRICA.

1. Bound Africa. In what zones is it situated?

P. 145.

2. Point out the principal divisions on the map. P. 145. 3. What states border on the Mediterranean Sea?

4. On the Indian Ocean? Atlantic? P. 145.

Red?

5. What states have no sea coast? What are crossed by the equator?

6. What by the Tropic of Cancer? Tropic of Capricorn? P. 145.

7. What ocean east of Africa? West? P. 145.

What sea north?

8. What ocean between Africa and Asia? P. 145.

9. Name and locate the principal Seas, Gulf and Bays? P.

145.

10. What strait at the entrance of the Mediterranean Sea? P. 145.

11. What channel between Mozambique and Madagascar? P.

12. Name and tell how situated, the Islands, Isthmus and Capes. P. 145.

13. Describe the Mountains, Deserts and Oases.

14. Name the lakes, and give the source, course and mouths of the chief rivers of Africa. P. 145.

15. What is the position of Africa? What is said of its coast?

P. 147.

16. What is the size of Africa? Climate? Minerals? P. 147. 17. What is said of its mountains and deserts? P. 147. 18. Of its soil and productions? Animals? Birds? P. 147. 19. By whom is Africa inhabited? What did Africa formerly contain? P. 147.

Climate?
Cairo? P. 149.

20. Name the Barbary States. How situated? P. 148.
21. What is said of the valley of the Nile?
22. What was Egypt anciently? Thebes?
23. Describe the pyramid near Cairo. P. 149.
24. Where are the Snow mountains?

P. 155.

25. With what other grand division is Africa connected? P.

155.

Describe it. P. 155.

26. What great desert in Africa?
27. What rivers in Africa? P. 155.
28. What is the government of Egypt? P. 155.
29. What states in the south temperate zone?
30. Draw a complete map of Africa. P. 155.
31. For what is St. Helena noted? P. 155.

P. 155.

MAP OF OCEANICA.

1. In what two oceans are the Islands of Oceanica situated? P. 159.

2. Which are the three great divisions of Oceanica? P. 159. 3. What part of Oceanica constitute Malaysia?

4. What part Australasia? Polynesia? P. 159.

5. Name and locate the principal Islands. P. 159.

6. Give the Seas, Gulfs, Bays and Straits.

P. 159.

7. Mention the Capes, Mountains and Rivers. P. 159.
8. Which is the largest of the Sandwich Islands?
9. Mention the principal towns.

10. Which is the largest town on the map of Oceanica? P. 159. 11. What division of Oceanica is nearest America? P. 102. 12. On what island is Mount Ophir? Where is Botany Bay? P. 163.

13. What islands are crossed by the equator? P. 163.

14. What is the latitude of the Sandwich Islands? P. 103. 15. What is the longitude of the Sandwich Islands? P. 163.

CHAPTER IV.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

1. Of what does Physical Geography treat? P. 167. (Camp's High School Geography.)

2. What has Descriptive Geography taught of the surface of the earth? P. 167.

3. What is said of the Heat of the earth? (Geology) P. 167. 4. In what state is the interior of the earth supposed to be? P. 167.

5. What is said of the crust? How far has it been penetrated? P. 167.

6. How much of its composition is supposed to be known? P. 167.

7. How many simple elements are there? P. 167.

8. How many species of minerals are known? P. 167.

9. Which are the most common`minerals?

P. 167.

10. How are they combined? What is meant by the term rock? P. 167.

11. How are rocks classified? What are stratified rocks? P. 167.

12. Unstratified rocks? Igneous rocks? Plutonic rocks? P. 167.

13. Volcanic rocks? Aqueous rocks? Metamorphic rocks? P. 168.

14. Fossiliferous rocks? Describe the Granite rocks. P. 168. 15. What are the lowest stratified rocks? P. 168.

16. Mention the succeeding series in their order. P. 168. 17. What other unstratified rocks occur? P. 168.

in?

18. What is said of the effect of certain rocks? P. 168.

19. Of changes now taking place? P. 168.

20. What are the Carboniferous rocks and what position found P. 168.

CONTINENTS AND ISLANDS.

1. What continent is the most simple in form? P. 169.

2. Is there any similarity in the two continents? What? P. 169.

3. Describe the characteristics of the Western Continent. Eastern. P. 169.

4. How are the islands divided?

5. What is said of the Continental islands? Volcanic? P. 169. 6. Of Coral islands? Coral Reefs? P. 170.

MOUNTAINS AND VOLCANOS.

1. How do Mountains occur? Volcanos? P. 170.

2. What is a Mountain system? To what do they correspond? 3. Describe the principal systems of the Western continent. 4. Of the Eastern continent. What is peculiar to each? P.

170.

5. What is meant by volcanic action?

6. How many volcanos are now active? P. 170.

7. Describe the chief volcanic regions.

P. 170.

8. For what is Stromboli noted? Hecla? Cotopaxi? P. 171. 9. Jorullo? What are earthquakes?

10. Mention some of the most destructive. P. 171.

PLATEAUS AND PLAINS.

1. What are Plateaus? Plains? P. 171.

2. Which continent is distinguished for its plains?

3. Its plateaus? Describe the Plateau of N. America. P. 172. 4. Of S. America. Asia. Describe the Plain of N. America. P. 172.

5. Of S. America. Of Europe. Asia. Africa. P. 172.

WATER.

1. How are the waters of the land found? P. 172.

2. Describe Springs: Hot and Boiling Springs. P. 172. 3. What is meant by the basin of a river?

P. 173.

4. Mention the principal basins on the land. 5. Upon what does the velocity of a river depend? P. 172. 6. In what direction do the largest rivers flow?

7. What are deltas?

How formed?

OCEAN.

P. 173.

1. What is meant by the basin of an ocean? P. 174.
2. Describe the Hydrographic system of the ocean.
3. Describe the Waves, Tides, Currents. P. 174.
4. What causes the Antarctic Current?

T. 174.

P. 174.

The Gulf Stream?

5. What causes the Equatorial Currcnt? P. 175.
6. Give the cause of the South Connecting Current.
7. Point the course of the Japan Current.

P. 175.

8. What is the cause of the Sargasso Sea? P. 175.

ATMOSPHERE AND MOISTURE.

P. 175. P. 176.

1. What is the Atmosphere? What is Temperature? P. 175. 2. Upon what does the Temperature of a place depend? 3. What causes wind? Hot winds? Hurricanes? 4. What causes the Trade Winds? Return Trades? P. 176. 5. What is the cause of the Monsoons? Water Spouts? P. 176.

6. What is Dew? Frost? Mists and Fogs? Rain? Hail and Snow? Give the cause of each. P. 177.

7. Where are rains periodical? Frequent? No rain? P. 177. 8. What is the annual fall of rain? What is meant by snow line?

9. What are Glaciers? Climate? Isothermal Lines? P. 177. 10. Where is there the most rain, and how much?

ANS.-Cherrafongi, Southern India, 610,3 inches.

11. Where is the least rain, and how much is there? ANS.-Fort Yuma, California, 173 inches.

12. By what is climate effected? P. 177.

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