Geography warm-up · 8 April 2026
Which country is it?
Put this on the big screen. Show one clue at a time and let the class guess out loud. Every class in the world gets the same country today.
- It covers about 9,373,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 2 countries.
- People there speak English.
- The money is the dollar.
- On the map it lies above the equator and west of the prime meridian.
- Its capital starts with "W" and has 12 letters.
United States
Question of the day
New Zealand
The Waitangi Treaty Grounds, where the Treaty was first signed, are in which region?
- AThe Bay of Islands
- BThe Bay of Plenty
- CHawke's Bay
- DGolden Bay
The Bay of Islands in Northland, next to the town of Paihia. Golden Bay is where Abel Tasman's ships anchored in 1642.