Can you name the following geographical terms in Spanish?

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English	Spanish
lake
mountain
river
sea
island
continent
country
state
hill

English	Spanish
volcano
valley
shore
beach
desert
forest
jungle
plateau
world

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Spanish: Geography Quiz

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Created by: rca -
Contributed: October 2nd, 2009
Published: December 9th, 2009
Category: Language
Plays: 45,579

Tags: Spanish Quizzes, english, term

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	erikjc:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	5 points
	Don't accept la selva for forest if you're going to have forest and jungle on there. That makes no sense.

	Kelsey:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT	3 points
	I only know estado because of USA's name.

	shawnoc:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 23:29 GMT	-1 points
	Can a spanish speaker let me know the difference between mundo and mundial? I know that the Copa Mundial is coming up...

	thegrimreaper:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 23:40 GMT	9 points
	el mundo is a noun...mundial is an adjective describing, in your example, the cup.

	RS89:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 23:51 GMT	8 points
	I thought mesa was plateau.

	expat:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 00:18 GMT	16 points
	I think "mesa" should be accepted also and here in Argentina a hill is "una loma".

	IsThisIt:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT	4 points
	Vamos a la playa...

	performax:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	8 points
	Cinco estrellas! Would like to see more language geography quizzes.

	titaniferous:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 00:38 GMT	6 points
	Please consider accepting "nación" for country and "costa" or maybe "litoral" for shore. I don't know if I would ever have come up with "orilla"; the image it conjures in my head is more like the English "riverbank".

	onemorething81:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 01:25 GMT	6 points
	Loma should be accepted for hill. I've never called a hill a cerro, always loma.

	Wes_Mantooth:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 01:47 GMT	8 points
	mesa for plateau please

	nearlyextinct:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 04:00 GMT	1 point
	Lol. I can't believe that this quiz came out right after I took my Spanish final.

	hubbjm:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 04:24 GMT	2 points
	I agree with accepting loma for hill and costa for shore. But nacion seems quite different from pais. The difference parallels the english nation/country in denotation and connotation.

	RebeccaAMax:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 04:37 GMT	-2 points
	Got 13 out of 18 without speaking Spanish, woo.

	vanjo:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 05:02 GMT	-1 points
	shawnoc, mundo is world and mundial is worldwide.

	kingstony:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 11:36 GMT	4 points
	Always willing to learn.

	FishyInSpain:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT	2 points
	fun quiz, I would recommend that cuesta also be included for hill as that is the word we use most in Andalucía, and I second that mesa could be translated as plateau

	mike5816:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 03:37 GMT	2 points
	I, a non-native speaker, caused a heated argument between a mexicana and a puertorriqueña when I used the word "cerro" for "hill" and not "cuesta". Apparently, Spanish has as many regional terms as does English, (hood/bonnet; cookie/biscuit, napkin/servillete, etc) and they're willing to fight about which one is correct. I just walked away and left them there like the Zax on the Prairie of Prax.

	figols:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 21:10 GMT	0 points
	beer:pola, birra, birria, cerveza, biela, chela, helada, polarizada mira si tiene traducciones

	felipetecha:	Dec 15th, 2009 at 23:42 GMT	-1 points
	"la orilla" is not shore at all. "Costa" is a lot more like shore. "Orilla" means edge.

	lifesgood122:	Dec 20th, 2009 at 22:13 GMT	1 point
	haha my computer does this thing where when I put my mouse over an english word it give me the spanish translation, i knew most but it helped me with a bunch too.

	cynicallynaive:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 03:35 GMT	2 points
	+1 for costa = shore. In my non-native view orilla is ok as an alternate, because it literally could be the shore, but costa is much more natural in most contexts.

	cynicallynaive:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 03:37 GMT	4 points
	@shawnoc, @thegrimreaper: To confuse things a bit, though, el Mundial is often used as a sort of proper noun for the World Cup as a whole, right? That's the only exception I know of, though -- otherwise mundial is always an adjective.

	andresgmejiar:	Jan 18th, 2010 at 19:20 GMT	2 points
	Costa should be accepted for shore. As a native Spanish speaker, Orilla either the "edge" or "Riverbank" Also, Mesa, should be acceptable for "Plateau"

	SporcleAdmin:	Jan 29th, 2010 at 17:23 GMT	4 points
	Hola! Thanks for the comments, we have made a few tweaks to this quiz to make it more accurate.

	rca:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 13:15 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for the comments! Author

	Javad:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 14:15 GMT	0 points
	Sierra should also be accepted for Hill. Is commonly used in Argentina and in some regions of Spain.

	M R:	Jun 5th, 2010 at 20:47 GMT	2 points
	I thought sierra was more like a mountain range... Also, I've never heard anyone say mesa for plateau since a plateau and table are different things...

	sobdennis:	Jun 21st, 2010 at 06:35 GMT	2 points
	Living near La Mesa, CA, I knew Mesa was the word for plateau.

	rets_kcin:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 18:37 GMT	3 points
	Loma should be good for hill.

	marsviking:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 15:55 GMT	1 point
	what about puna for plateau? it's in peru/bolivia and is a huge tableland

	Azazello:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 15:43 GMT	1 point
	I only just took this quiz, so it seems to have been amended since many of the above comments were posted, but out of curiosity, could somebody please tell me what the original accepted answer was for "plateau" if it wasn't "mesa"?

	TheLoir:	Aug 28th, 2010 at 23:26 GMT	1 point
	nice quiz!!! I was happy that you accepted colina for hill

	Osthato:	Nov 27th, 2010 at 03:34 GMT	3 points
	Azazello: I'm not sure, but it was probably "meseta"

	deren:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 21:35 GMT	3 points
	Plateau = meseta in Spanish from Spain.

	budgie91:	Jan 24th, 2011 at 05:19 GMT	2 points
	accepting 'litoral' for coast would be nice. other than that, great quiz :)

	Jeep1964:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 22:14 GMT	1 point
	How about monte for hill?

	Alfo11490:	Nov 20th, 2011 at 02:51 GMT	1 point
	plateau = mesa? Since when? I know both spanish and english and all my life I was taught that the english word for "mesa" was "table", not "plateau". Besides, "mesa" is the place where you eat, it's not a geographic element at all! What does that have to do with this quiz?

	migueldh:	Dec 18th, 2011 at 17:00 GMT	1 point
	As I know, the word for plateau is meseta, as Meseta Central, in Spain. I think that you sould correct it 'cause that will make people confund "plateau" with "table".