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represent the relative land- and water-areas of the earth?
What are the actual areas in square miles?

How would you draw a circle around the earth which
will divide it into land and water hemispheres?

Do the continents extend farther to the north pole or to
the south pole?

What do you understand by lines of trend?

Which have the more diversified coast lines, the north-
ern or the southern continents?

Define continental and oceanic islands, and give exam-
ples of each. Why are continental islands to be regarded
as detached portions of the neighboring mainland ?

Name the American island chains. The Asiatic chains.
“Describe the Australasian island chain. The Polynesian
chain.

Which are the ieher volcanic islands or coral islands?
Why? i ;

Name the four principal steps or stages in the progress
of formation of a coral island.

Is the coral island built by the coral animalcule or by
the waves? Explain your answer.

What is Darwin’s theory for the presence of a lagoon

within the reef? 5

What is the difference between a plain and a plateau?
A mountain and a hill? :

Define mountain-system. A chain. A knot.

What is the name of the highest plateau in the world?
Of the largest plain ?

In what different ways were plains formed ?

Distinguish between a longitudinal and a transverse
valley. Explain the manner in which mountains were
formed.

eo“ Give-a short account of the surface structure, or the
arrangement of the high and low lands, of North America.-
Of Asia. Of Africa, and -

Of South America. Of Europe.
of Australia. Which of these resemble each other? In
what respect do they all resemble one another?

Name the culminating points of each of the continents.

Name the predominant and secondary mountain-systems
of each of the continents.

How many times larger is Asia uaa Than
Europe? oo NY North America? South America?

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Name the principal mountains of the Pacific mountain-
system. Which contains the culminating point of the
continent?

Where is the Great Basin? By what mountains is it
surrounded ?

Name the principal mountains of the Appalachian sys-
tem.

Is the greater portion of the area of North America
above or below 1000 feet?

What rivers drain the great low plain of North Amer-
ica?

South America.

Name the principal plateaus of the Andes. Through
which does the equator pass? Which contains Lake Titi-
caca? ‘

. Where is the plateau of Guiana? Of Brazil?

What three large river-systems drain the great low plain
of South America? What resemblances can you find be-
tween the directions of these rivers and those which drain
North America ? :

Europe.

Describe the chain of the Alps.

What river-systems divide its northern slope into three
divisions? Name the principal mountains of each division.

What three peninsulas project southward from the south
ern slopes of the predominant mountain-system?

Name the principal mountains of each peninsula.

Name the great low plains of Europe.

Asia.

What mountains form the northern boundary of the
plateau of Thibet? The southern boundary? The north-
ern boundary of the plateau of Mongolia? The eastern
boundary? What mountains extend through China?

What mountains form the boundaries of the plateau of
Iran? Is Arabia a plateau or a plain?

Is the land north of the Sea of Aral high or low?

In which line of trend do the mountainous elevations

of Asia extend?
Africa.

What portions of Africa are high? What portions are
low?

Where is the predominant system? Where is the cul-
minating point? What part of the interior is low?

Where are the Mocambe Mountains? The Crystal Moun-
tains, the Cameroons, the Atlas, the Kong, the eae and

the Dragon?
Australia.

Where is the predominant mountain-system? The sec-

‘ ondary system ?

Where is Mount Kosciusko? The Murray River?