Academic Listening and Speaking: English I/II
Spring 2007- J. E. Seibert
Tokyo International University of America

Communicating on Campus, Chapter 2, Activity 4
Geographic names needed for the exercise

Write "the" or X

1. _______ Pacific Ocean

2. _______ Greenland

3. _______ Caspian Sea

4. _______ Nile

5. _______ Amazon

6. _______ Mississippi River

7. _______ Baltic Sea

8. _______ New York, New York

9. _______ Aconcagua (the tallest mountain on the continent of South America)

10. ______ Mount McKinley

Other vocabulary

sq. mi. = square miles [1 sq. mi = 2.59 square kilometers]

mph = miles per hour [1.6 kilometers = 1 mile]

F = Fahrenheit [(Centigrade x 1.8) + 32]

foot/feet [1 foot = .3 meter]

diameter = the imaginary line that goes through the middle, from one side of a circle of a sphere to the other

equator = the imaginary line around the Earth that divides it into northern and southern halves (adjective = equatorial)

to orbit = to travel in space around a larger object ("The Earth orbits around the Sun.")

to revolve = to turn, spin, or orbit (to go around and around)