1. The Kuril Trench is an ocean depression that reaches a depth of about 34,000 feet. This trench extends northeast from Hokkaido and follows the east coast of which peninsula?
2. Most of the Caroline Islands make up a country that became independent in 1986. Give the full name of the country.
3. What large freshwater lake east of the Gulf of Finland is drained by the Neva River?
4. The Tynwald, one of the world’s oldest continuously working legislative bodies, is located on which island in the Irish Sea?
5. A country in East Africa that has experienced ethnic strife in recent decades has its capital at the north end of Lake Tanganyika. Name this capital city.
6. Majestic views of Mount Everest can be seen from a town in northeast India that is the capital of a district of the same name. Name this town.
7. The sparsely populated Belcher Islands are nesting grounds for migrating birds. The Belcher Islands are in which large bay?
8. The Kikuyu, the people who led the Mau Mau uprising against the British during the 1950s, are the largest ethnic group in which country in East Africa?
9. Tsunami-generating earthquakes can happen where tectonic plates converge, and a denser oceanic plate slides or dives beneath a less dense continental plate. What is the term for this particular tectonic process?
10. Name the last remaining independent Polynesian kingdom.
Answers
1. Kamchatka 2. Federated States of Micronesia 3. Lake Ladoga 4. Isle of Man 5. Bujumbura 6. Darjiling (Also acceptable: Darjeeling) 7. Hudson Bay 8. Kenya 9. subduction 10. Tonga
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