Travel Q&A

1. Andorra is located in what mountain range? a) Pyrenees b) Carpathians c) Alps

2. Bayous, which provide habitat for a variety of fish and game animals, play an important economic role in states that have coastlines along which body of water? a) Puget Sound b) Gulf of Mexico c) Chesapeake Bay

3. Which country does not border India? a) Nepal b) Pakistan c) Japan

4. Cape Breton Highlands National Park is the site of an annual festival that celebrates the Scottish heritage of people living in an eastern Canadian province. Name this Maritime province. a) Yukon Territory b) Nova Scotia c) Newfoundland

5. Which city was named after the founder of a famous stagecoach line that once crisscrossed the West? a) Topeka b) Fargo c) Boston

6. Name the portion of Earth’s stratosphere that is being diminished by chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCS. a) ozone layer b) lithosphere c) hydrosphere

7. Three volcanoes — Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira — make up what mountain about 140 miles south of Nairobi? a) Kilimanjaro b) Atlas c) Ahaggar

8. Worldwide, languages that belong to which language family are spoken over the widest geographical area? a) Sino-tibetan b) Indo-european c) Austro-asiatic

9. What river forms part of the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua? a) San Juan River b) Rio Grande c) Rio Negro

10. To learn what the symbols on a map represent, which map element would you look at? a) map scale b) map projection c) map key

Questions provided by the National Geographic Bee. Visit nationalgeographic.org/education /student-experiences/geobee/study/quiz/