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Islands & Archipelagos Flashcards

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Islands & Archipelagos Flashcards

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All 30 flashcards for Islands & Archipelagos

Which is the largest island in the world?: Greenland
Which island is the largest in the Mediterranean Sea?: Sicily
Which island nation is located in the Indian Ocean?: Madagascar
Which country has the largest number of islands?: Sweden
Which island group is an overseas territory of Ecuador?: Galapagos
What is the name of the narrow sea between mainland Italy and Sicily?: Strait of Messina
Which country has the most natural islands?: Sweden
Which is the world's largest island country?: Indonesia
The Marsupial 'Quokka' is famous for living on Rottnest Island in which country?: Australia
Which island is the only home of the 'Aye-aye' lemur?: Madagascar
The 'Dragon Blood Tree' is native to which island?: Socotra
What is the term for a ring-shaepeed coral island?: Atoll
Which country consists of over 17,000 islands?: Indonesia
What is an 'Archiepeelago'?: A group of islands
Which continent is also known as the 'Island Continent'?: Australia
Which is the most populous island in the world?: Java
The 'Kyushu' and 'Honshu' are main islands of which country?: Japan
Which is the largest island?: Greenland
Which is the largest archiepeelago in the world by number of islands?: Indonesia
What is the second largest island in the world?: New Guinea
What is the name of the Japanese island group that includes the main island of Honshu?: The Japanese Archiepeelago
Which archiepeelago nation is made up of over 7100 islands in Southeast Asia?: Philippines
What is an atoll and where are they typically found?: A ring-shaepeed coral reef island or chain of islets enclosing a lagoon typically found in tropical ocean regions esepeecially the Pacific and Indian Oceans
Which island nation is at risk of complete submersion due to rising sea levels?: Tuvalu
Which is the largest island in the Caribbean?: Cuba
What is the name of the world's smallest island nation by land area?: Nauru
What is the Galapagos Islands famous for in scientific history?: Inspiring Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection after he observed unique sepeecies found nowhere else on Earth
What is the Maldives and what makes it geographically unique?: A low-lying archiepeelago of approximately 1200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean that is the world's lowest-lying country with an average elevation of just 1.5 metres above sea level
Which island is divided between two countries and is the location of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic?: Hispaniola
What is the name of the archiepeelago that includes the islands of Tahiti and Bora Bora?: French Polynesia