In physical geography, candidates should be familiar with the relief of the earth’s surface; the principal mountain systems, the river systems and watersheds; the coastal and lake plains; and the influence of climate, soil, mineral deposits, and other physical features on the resources, industries, commercial relations, and development of a country and its people, especially of the United States. The following questions indicate the character of the examination: 1. Define. (_a_) Geography, (_b_) Physical Geography, (_c_) strait, (_d_) isthmus, (_e_) isotherm. 2. In respect of climate, into what zones is the earth’s surface divided? Name the circles separating these zones from one another. In what zone are the Philippines? 3. (_a_) What and where is the International Date Line? (_b_) In going from San Francisco to Manila is a day lost or gained? Give reasons for answer. 4. How many “times” has the United States! What are they? 5. What waters surround the United States? 6. Is it possible to go from Duluth to Detroit by water? If so, what bodies of water would be passed through? 7. Name the larger islands of the Philippines, and of the Hawaiian Group, respectively. On what island is Manila? Honolulu? Iloilo? 8. Name two great coal regions of the United States. 9. What is (_a_) the most northern State of the United States? (_b_) the most southern? (_c_) the most eastern? (_d_) the most western? 10. Which of the United States has the longest coast line? 11. Where is the Mohawk Valley? 12. Bound--Michigan, Kentucky, Connecticut. 13. Locate accurately the following cities--El Paso, Albany, Zamboanga, Panama, San Antonio, Kalamazoo. 14. Name the transcontinental railways west of the Mississippi in order from north to south. 15. Name the countries of Central America. Which one of these borders on Mexico? 16. Name in order, beginning at the Isthmus of Panama, the countries of South America that touch on the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. 17. The meridian through Atlanta, Georgia, intersects what South American Republics? Is the continent of South America, as a whole, east or west of the United States? 18. What two countries of South America have no sea coast? 19. A vessel goes from London, England, to San Francisco by the Suez Canal. Through what waters does it pass? 20. What waters connect the Black Sea with the Mediterranean? The Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea? 21. Where does the Danube rise? through what countries does it flow? and where does it empty? 22. What three rivers flow north into the Arctic from Siberia? 23. What mountains lie between France and Spain? Between Tibet and India? 24. Name in order in a clockwise direction the countries bordering on the Mediterranean.