QUESTIONS ON THE MAP OF THE WORLD.
N. B. The Questions in Italics are to be answered by referring to the preceding elementary principles.
1. Of what two elements is the surface of the earth composed? 2. Of which is there the greater part?
3. How is land divided? 4. What is a Continent, and how many are there? 5. Which contains the more land? 6. By what is the surface of the land diversified? 7. Asia, Europe, Africa, and America, are called the Grand Divisions of the earth;—which of them is largest? 8. Which is smallest? 9. How is North America bounded? 10. South America? 11. Europe? 12. Asia? 13. Africa? 14. Which way is South America from Africa? 15. Europe from North America?
16. What is an Island? 17. What large island lies south from Asia? 18. Where is New Zealand? 19. Which are the principal of the East India Islands? 20. Of the West India Islands? 21. Of Australasia? 22. Of Polynesia? 23. Australasia, Polynesia, and the East India Islands, are sometimes embraced under the general name Oceanica;—which of these groups contains the largest islands? 24. Where is Owhyhee, where Capt. Cook was slain? 25. St. Helena, where Bonaparte ended his life?
26. What is a Peninsula? 27. Which of the divisions of the Eastern continent is a peninsula? 28. Is South America properly a peninsula or an island?
29. What is an Isthmus? 30. What isthmus connects Asia with Africa? 31. North with South America?