1. In 2005, Chile, Singapore, New Zealand and Brunei created the Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership to facilitate trade. Of the countries mentioned, which is the least populous?
2. In 1616, Dutch sailors landed at present-day Shark Bay, marking the first European contact in the western part of what present-day country?
3. The Serengeti is an example of what kind of tropical, sparsely wooded grassland?
4. The Volga-Don Canal is a vital link that allows cargo and tourist transportation from the Volga watershed to which shallow arm of the Black Sea?
5. Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River from 1534 to 1535 in search of what shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
6. What country, in which the majority of the population depends economically on growing crops and raising livestock, is located just north of the Senegal River?
7. Mining makes up nearly a fifth of the gross domestic product but employs about 3 percent of the population in a country formerly known as South-West Africa. Give the present-day name of this country.
8. The Windward Passage, known as a choke point because of its strategic value, separates the island of Hispaniola from which country?
9. Subic Bay, the site of a former U.S. naval base on the South China Sea, is now being developed as a free port and economic enterprise area in what country formerly controlled by the United States?
10. Which landlocked country that includes part of the Bessarabia plains is surrounded by Romania and Ukraine?
ANSWERS: 1. Brunei 2. Australia 3. savanna 4. Sea of Azov 5. Northwest Passage 6. Mauritania 7. Namibia 8. Cuba 9. Philippines 10. Moldova
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
