Continents and Oceans Jeopardy

Seven continents and five oceans in one friendly review game for young geographers. The board is free to copy, and students buzz in from phones or tablets.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Name That Continent

$200
The United States, Canada and Mexico are all on this continent.
What is North America?
$400
Kangaroos and koalas live on this continent, which is also a country.
What is Australia?
$600
Brazil and Argentina are on this continent.
What is South America?
$800
This biggest continent, with the most people, includes China and India.
What is Asia?
$1,000
Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria are all on this continent.
What is Africa?

The Five Oceans

$200
This ocean lies between the Americas on one side and Europe and Africa on the other.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
$400
Ocean water is this kind of water, which people cannot drink.
What is salt water?
$600
This smallest ocean surrounds the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
$800
This ocean lies between Africa and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
$1,000
This ocean circles all the way around Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?

Animals Around the World

$200
These black-and-white birds that cannot fly live in Antarctica.
What are penguins?
$400
This big striped cat lives in the forests of Asia.
What is a tiger?
$600
The world's tallest animal, this African grassland animal eats leaves from the tops of trees.
What is a giraffe?
$800
This black-and-white bear lives in China and eats mostly bamboo.
What is a giant panda?
$1,000
This tall bird with a long neck cannot fly, lives in Australia and appears on its coat of arms.
What is an emu?

Famous Landmarks

$200
This huge copper lady holding a torch welcomes ships to New York Harbor.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
$400
This tall iron landmark in Paris, France, was built for a world's fair in 1889.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
$600
Kings of ancient Egypt were buried in these giant stone buildings with pointed tops.
What are the pyramids?
$800
This very long barrier was built across northern China to keep out invaders.
What is the Great Wall?
$1,000
This, the world's largest coral reef system and home to colorful fish, lies off the northeast coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?

Biggest, Coldest, Hottest

$200
This is the coldest continent, and it is almost all covered in ice.
What is Antarctica?
$400
This is the largest hot desert in the world, in northern Africa.
What is the Sahara?
$600
This is the tallest mountain in the world, measured from sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
$800
This long river in Africa flows north into the Mediterranean Sea and is often called the longest in the world.
What is the Nile?
$1,000
This river flows through the rain forest of South America and carries more water than any other river.
What is the Amazon River?

Map Detective

$200
This round model of Earth often spins on a stand.
What is a globe?
$400
This drawing on a map shows north, south, east and west.
What is a compass rose?
$600
This imaginary line circles the middle of Earth, halfway between the North and South Poles.
What is the equator?
$800
This box on a map tells you what each symbol means.
What is the map key (or legend)?
$1,000
On a map, this continent sits just north of Africa, across the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Europe?

Final Jeopardy — Ocean Giant

This ocean, the largest and deepest on Earth, covers more area than all of the planet's land put together.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

How to run this board

This board walks young students around the globe: naming the seven continents, finding the five oceans, matching famous animals and landmarks to the places they belong, and spotting which continent is biggest, coldest, or home to the most people.

Keep a large world map or globe beside the screen while you play. When a team answers, ask one student to walk up and point to the place before you award the points; it turns a name they heard into a location they can find again.

For younger grades, read each clue aloud twice and give teams a slow count of five before anyone buzzes, so the quick readers do not answer every question.

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