True or False. The Sahara Desert has an impressive width and length. It spans 10 countries.
True. The enormous desert spans 10 countries (Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia)
*What is the language most spoken in the world (incl second/third/etc languages)?
Hindi
Spanish
English
Mandarin
What is the longest river in the world? (6,650 kilometers in length)
Amazon
Yellow
Nile
Yangtze
The United Kingdom is made up which 4 countries?
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
What is the highest mountain in the world when measured from sea level? (8,849 meters in height)
Mount Kilimanjaro
Nanga Parbat
Mount Everest
Mount Fuji
This is the flag of which country?
Croatia
Georgia
Ukraine
Albania
This is the flag of which country?
Switzerland
This is the flag of which country?
Ireland
*One subspecies of a popular African animal died out in the early 2000's. What type of animal was it?
(Western black) rhino
*In Normandy France there is a small, beautiful town built on an island. When the tide goes out, you can walk to the island. What is its name?
Mont-Saint-Michel
*In the past 100 years, how many degrees Celsius have the oceans heated up?
about 1 degree Celsius
Choose the odd one out and explain why. (Africa China Europe)
China-- it's a country not a continent
True or False? The sea is blue because it reflects the colour of the sky.
False-- water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. This leaves behind the blue for us to see.
