Geo Quiz

1. Name the smallest island country in the Mediterranean Sea. a) Malta b) Ibiza c) Cyprus

2. Which continent was divided into colonies by European countries at the Berlin Conference of 1884 and 1885? a) North

America b) Antarctica c) Africa

3. The now- extinct dodo bird was found on the island of Mauritius, located in which ocean? a) Arctic Ocean b) Indian Ocean c) Pacific Ocean

4. Which island country is not part of the Greater Antilles? a) Barbados b) Jamaica c) Cuba

5. Asian long- horned beetles, which probably arrived in wooden pallets shipped from China, have infested many trees in the most populous Midwestern city. This infestation continues to destroy many trees in which city? a) Topeka b) Chicago c) St. Louis

6. Which city, sometimes called the Gateway to the West, is near the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers? a) St. Louis b) New Orleans c) Baltimore

7. The Java Trench is the deepest point in which ocean? a) Pacific Ocean b) Indian Ocean c) Atlantic Ocean

8. Which state is bordered on the southwest by the Savannah River? a) South Carolina b) Florida c) Indiana

9. Which river has its source in Germany’s Black Forest? a) Oder b) Elbe c) Danube

10. In the early 1990s, a separatist movement in the Caucasus region led to the creation of the Ingush Republic and which other republic to the east? a) Chechnya b) Circassia c) Dagestan

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GEO QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Malta 2. Africa 3. Indian Ocean 4. Barbados 5. Chicago 6. St. Louis 7. Indian Ocean 8. South Carolina 9. Danube 10. Chechnya