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?
32. _What is a Cape?_ 33. Which are the principal capes of New Zealand?
34. Where is the Cape of Good Hope? 35. Cape Horn? 36. Which is further
south?
37. _What is a Plain?_ 38. _A Prairie?_ 39. _A Desert?_ 40. _A
Mountain?_ 41. _A Hill?_ 42. _A Volcano?_ 43. _A Crater?_ 44. In which
Grand Division is the Great Desert?
45. _What is a Valley?_ 46. _A Shore or coast?_ 47. What part of the
coast of North America approaches nearest to Asia? 48. What ocean
washes the eastern coast of America? 49. The western? 50. What sea
forms the northern boundary of Africa?
51. _What does Water comprise?_ 52. _What is an Ocean?_ 53. Name the
oceans. 54. Which is the largest? 55. _What is a Sea?_ 56. Where is the
Caspian sea? 57. Yellow sea? 58. Chinese sea? 59. The Sea of Ochotsk?
60. The Mediterranean sea? 61. The Black sea? 62. The Red Sea? 63. The
Caribbean sea? 64. The Aral sea? 65. The Arctic sea, or ocean? 66. The
Antarctic?
67. _What is a Lake?_ 68. Which contains the largest lakes, the western
or eastern hemisphere? 69. Which is the largest lake in the world? 70.
Where is it situated? 71. Which is the largest lake on the eastern
hemisphere? 72. In which of the Grand Divisions is it?
73. _What is a Gulf or bay?_ 74. Where is Hudson’s bay? 75. Baffin’s
bay? 76. Gulf of Mexico?
77. _What is a Haven or harbour?_ 78. _A Strait?_ 79. Where are
Hudson’s straits? 80. Davis’ straits? 81. Straits of Gibraltar?
82. _What is a River?_ 83. Where is Mackenzie’s river? 84. The Amazon
river? 85. The Senegal river? 86. _What is meant by the rise, course,
and mouth of a river?_ 87. _If the mouth of a river be wide, and is
affected by tides, what is it called?_