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12 What and where are the two principal peninsulas of the western continent?

13 What isthmus connects North and South America?

14 Locate the following islands: Terra del Fuego, Cape Verd, West Indies, Greenland, South Orkney, Galapagos, Sandwich, South Shetland, Aleutian, Azores, New Zealand.

15 Locate the following straits: Davis, Hudson's, Magellan, and Behring's.

16 Describe the following rivers: Missouri, Mississippi, Madeira, Amazon, Rio de la Plata, McKenzie's, Orinoco, Parana.

17 Locate the following lakes: Superior, Great Bear.

18 What division composed of islands, partly in the eastern and partly in the western hemisphere ?

19 Is any part of Asia in the western hemisphere?

20 What lands near the south pole?

21 Into what hemispheres does the equator divide the earth?

22 Which of these contains the most land?

23 Which of these contains the most water? 24 What great divisions wholly in the northern hemisphere ?

25 What great divisions partly in the northern hemisphere?

26 What is the length of the American continent?

27 What island partly in eastern and partly in western hemisphere?

28 In what zones does North America lie?

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32 How many degrees from the north to the south pole?

33 Why do we reckon latitude and longitude by degrees instead of miles? Ans. Because the length of the mile is not the same in all countries.

34 Name the six grand divisions of the earth, in order of size; in order of population. (See Table No. 1).

35 What is the entire population of the earth? 36 How many square miles on the earth's surface?

37 What is the metropolis of the western continent?

38 How wide is the Pacific Ocean?

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42 How many sq. miles in the Arctic Ocean?

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44 Which is the longest range of mountains in the world?

+45 How wide is the isthmus of Panama?

46 Which is the largest gulf in the world?

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48 In what latitude is the mouth of the Mississippi River?

49 In what latitude is the mouth of the Amazon River?

50 Which is the largest fresh water lake in the world?

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EASTERN HEMISPHERE.

1 Bound Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceanica. P.

2 Where is the Indian Ocean?

3 How many sq. miles in the Indian Ocean? 4 Locate the following seas: Okhotsk, Arabian, Eastern or Blue, Mediterranean, Yellow, Japan, China, Red.

5 Locate and describe the following: Bay of Biscay, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Guinea, Ural Mountains, Altai Mountains, Himalaya Mountains, and Mountains of the Moon, Capes Cormorin, Guardafui, North, Good Hope, North-east, and Verd.

6 Describe the following peninsulas: Africa, Hindoostan, Farther India.

7 What lands does the Isthmus of Suez join, and what waters does it separate?

8 Describe the following islands: New Guinea, Nova Zembla, Van Dieman's Land, Japan Isles, British Isles, Madagascar, Celebes, Australia, Spitzbergen, Philippine, Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java.

9 Describe the following straits: Gibraltar, Sunda, Mozambique, Bab el Mendab, Torres. 10 Describe the following rivers: Niger, Nile, Amoor, Danube, Obi, Indus, Ganges, Yemsei, Lena, Yang-tse-Kiang, Cambodia, Ho-ang-Ho, Volga.

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11 Locate the Sea of Aral, Caspian Sea, Lake Tchad.

12 Locate the Deserts of Sahara and Cobi?

13 Which is the largest grand division of the eastern continent?

14 Which is the smallest grand division of the eastern continent?

15 Which hemisphere contains the largest islands?

16 What point on the earth's surface has neither latitude nor longitude?

17 How wide is the Indian Ocean?

18 What four seas on the east of Asia?

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29 Which are the highest mountains in the 30 What capes in the northern part of Europe?

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36 What three peninsulas in the South of Asia? 37 Which is the largest peninsula in the world? 38 How wide is the Isthmus of Suez?

39 Which is the largest African island?

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41 Give the four largest cities in the world in the order of their population.

42 Which is the first city in commerce?

NORTH AMERICA.

1 Name the divisions of North America, and bound each division. P. 12.

2 Where is each of the following Mountains? Brown Hooker? Sierra Madre? Cascade Range? St. Elias Mountain? Fairweather? Ilaman Volcano? Hecla Volcano?

3 Describe the six principal peninsulas of North America.

4 Where is each of the following Islands?

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