Geography warm-up · 6 June 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 447,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 3 countries.
- People there speak Arabic, Berber.
- The money is the dirham.
- It is in Northern Africa.
- Its capital starts with "R" and has 5 letters.
Question of the day
Kazakhstan
Charyn Canyon, east of Almaty, is carved mainly into which rock?
- ARed sandstone
- BWhite marble
- CBlack basalt
- DChalk
Charyn Canyon is carved into red sandstone by wind and water. Its best-known stretch is the Valley of Castles.