Rivers and Mountains

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1. The Amazon River drains an enormous basin on which continent?

   • Africa
   • South America
   • Asia
   • North America

2. The Danube flows through or borders more countries than any other river and empties into which sea?

   • Baltic Sea
   • North Sea
   • Adriatic Sea
   • Black Sea

3. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, is in which country?

   • Tanzania
   • Kenya
   • Ethiopia
   • Uganda

4. The Himalayas form a high mountain arc along the southern edge of which plateau?

   • Deccan Plateau
   • Colorado Plateau
   • Tibetan Plateau
   • Patagonian Plateau

5. The Mississippi River system drains much of the central United States into which gulf?

   • Gulf of Mexico
   • Gulf of California
   • Gulf of Alaska
   • Gulf of St. Lawrence

6. The Andes extend for thousands of kilometers along which side of South America?

   • Northern
   • Eastern
   • Southern only
   • Western

7. Mont Blanc lies in the Alps near the border of France and which country?

   • Austria
   • Italy
   • Germany
   • Slovenia

8. Australia’s Murray River ultimately reaches the sea in which state?

   • Queensland
   • Victoria
   • South Australia
   • Western Australia

9. The Atlas Mountains stretch across Morocco, Algeria, and which third country?

   • Tunisia
   • Libya
   • Egypt
   • Mauritania

10. What major geographic division do the Transantarctic Mountains create?

    • They divide Greenland from Canada
    • They separate two islands of New Zealand
    • They mark the Arctic Circle
    • They separate East Antarctica from West Antarctica