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What is the world's highest waterfall?
What is the world's highest waterfall?
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Angel Falls in Venezuela is considered the highest waterfall in the world, featuring a plunge of more than 800 meters. This epic waterfall was found in 1933 when aviator James Angel was flying over the Venezuelan jungle. From that moment on, it went from being a secret of the Pemón indigenous people to an authentic icon of the country.
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What is the longest river in the US?
What is the longest river in the US?
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The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of the Eastern Centennial Mountains of Southwestern Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of more than 500,000 square miles, which includes parts of ten U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. Although nominally considered a tributary of the Mississippi, the Missouri River above the confluence is much longer than the Mississippi above the confluence and carries a comparable volume of water. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the world's fourth-longest river system.
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Which layer of Earth do we live on?
Which layer of Earth do we live on?
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The Earth is composed of four different layers. Many geologists believe that as the Earth cooled, the heavier, denser materials sank to the center and the lighter materials rose to the top. Because of this, the crust is made of the lightest materials (rock- basalts and granites) and the core consists of heavy metals (nickel and iron). The crust is the layer that you live on, and it is the most widely studied and understood. The mantle is much hotter and can flow. The Outer and Inner Cores are hotter still, with pressures so great that you would be squeezed into a ball smaller than a marble if you were able to go to the center of the Earth.
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What's the largest continent?
What's the largest continent?
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Asia, the largest continent, stretches from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the western Pacific Ocean. There are more than 40 countries in Asia. Some are among the most populated countries in the world, including China, India, and Indonesia. Sixty percent of Earth’s population lives in Asia. More than a third of the world’s people live in China and India alone.
Source: National Geographic
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system with abundant what?
Earth is the only planet in our solar system with abundant what?
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Evidence points to oceans on other planets and moons, even within our own solar system. But Earth is the only known planet (or moon) to have consistent, stable bodies of liquid water on its surface. In our solar system, Earth orbits around the sun in an area called the habitable zone. The temperature within this zone, along with an ample amount of atmospheric pressure, allows water to be liquid for long periods of time.
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Which of these continents is divided between North and South?
Which of these continents is divided between North and South?
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A continent is any of several large geographical regions. In order from largest to smallest in area, these seven regions are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Different variations with fewer continents merge some of these regions; examples of this are merging North America and South America into America, Asia, and Europe into Eurasia, and Africa, Asia, and Europe into Afro-Eurasia.
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Which is the largest of the 7 continents?
Which is the largest of the 7 continents?
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Asia, the largest continent, stretches from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the western Pacific Ocean. There are more than 40 countries in Asia. Some are among the most-populated countries in the world, including China, India, and Indonesia. Sixty percent of Earth’s population lives in Asia. More than a third of the world’s people live in China and India alone.
Source: National Geographic
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Mount Everest is in which mountain range?
Mount Everest is in which mountain range?
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Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalayas. It is located between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China. At 8,849 meters (29,032 feet), it is considered the tallest point on Earth. In the nineteenth century, the mountain was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India. The Tibetan name is Chomolungma, which means “Mother Goddess of the World.”
Source: National Geographic
9/20
What is the world's largest hot desert?
What is the world's largest hot desert?
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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, behind the cold deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic. The Sahara is one of the harshest environments on Earth, covering 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), an area about the size of the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and spanning nearly a third of the African continent.
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10/20
Which ocean is the deepest?
Which ocean is the deepest?
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The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean in the world, with an average depth of 14,020 ft. Other than being the deepest ocean overall in the world, the Pacific Ocean has the deepest point in the world. The deepest point on the planet, found in the Mariana Trench, is nearly 35,797 ft. It is also the largest ocean by surface area. It covers a total surface area of approximately 63,800,000 square miles, translating to a total of 46% of the earth’s water surfaces. The area is larger than all of earth’s land combined. The name Pacific was coined from the Portuguese word “Pacifico,” which means peaceful. It was named “Mar Pacifico” by Ferdinand Magellan because during his circumnavigation trip in 1521 he found the ocean to be very peaceful.
Source: WorldAtlas
11/20
What continent contains most of the world's fresh water?
What continent contains most of the world's fresh water?
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Antarctica is a continent capped by an inland ice sheet up to 4.8km thick, containing approximately 90% of the world’s total surface fresh water (and 60% of the world’s total fresh water). The ice sheet is so heavy that it has pushed the land below sea level in places. Because of the thickness of the ice sheet, Antarctica has the highest average altitude of all of the continents.
Source: British Antarctic Survey
12/20
What is the highest mountain in the Americas?
What is the highest mountain in the Americas?
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Aconcagua is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in the Southern Hemisphere, with a summit elevation of 22,838 ft. It lies 70 miles northwest of the provincial capital, the city of Mendoza, about three miles from San Juan Province, and 9 miles from Argentina's border with neighboring Chile. The mountain is one of the Seven Summits of the seven continents.
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Which of these continents has the most countries?
Which of these continents has the most countries?
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The continent with the most countries is Africa. Approximately 27% of the world's countries are located on just one continent: Africa. As of 2022, Africa has 54 U.N.-recognized countries on its 30.3 million km² (11.7 million mi²). The largest countries in Africa by area are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sudan. Algeria is also the tenth-largest globally.
Source: World Population Review
14/20
Approximately what percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water?
Approximately what percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water?
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Water covers about 71% of the Earth's surface, mostly in seas and oceans (about 96.5%). Small portions of water occur as groundwater (1.7%), in the glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland (1.7%), and in the air as vapor, clouds (consisting of ice and liquid water suspended in air), and precipitation (0.001%). Water moves continually through the water cycle of evaporation, transpiration (evapotranspiration), condensation, precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea.
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15/20
What is the longest river that flows into the Mediterranean?
What is the longest river that flows into the Mediterranean?
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The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. Of the world's major rivers, the Nile is one of the smallest, as measured by annual flow in cubic meters of water. About 4,130 miles long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt. In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan. Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.
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What primarily causes ocean waves to form?
What primarily causes ocean waves to form?
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Waves are most commonly caused by wind. Wind-driven waves, or surface waves, are created by the friction between wind and surface water. As the wind blows across the surface of the ocean or a lake, the continual disturbance creates a wave crest. These types of waves are found globally across the open ocean and along the coast. Waves transmit energy, not water, and are commonly caused by the wind as it blows across the ocean, lakes, and rivers. Waves caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun are called tides. The ebb and flow of waves and tides are the life force of our world ocean.
Source: NOAA
17/20
On which continent is India?
On which continent is India?
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India is a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. Its capital is New Delhi, built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India’s administrative center. Its government is a constitutional republic that represents a highly diverse population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups and likely hundreds of languages. With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most populous country, after China.
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Which was the name of the landmass before it broke into continents?
Which was the name of the landmass before it broke into continents?
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Pangea, also spelled Pangaea, in early geologic times, was a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth. Pangea was surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa, and it was fully assembled by the Early Permian Epoch (some 299 million to about 273 million years ago). The supercontinent began to break apart about 200 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic Epoch (201 million to 174 million years ago), eventually forming the modern continents and the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Pangea’s existence was first proposed in 1912 by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener as a part of his theory of continental drift. Its name is derived from the Greek pangaia, meaning “all the Earth.”
Source: Britannica
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During what part of the year is the Earth closest to the Sun?
During what part of the year is the Earth closest to the Sun?
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Though not responsible for the seasons, Earth’s closest and farthest points to the sun do affect seasonal lengths. When the Earth comes closest to the sun, as we do every year in early January, our world is moving fastest in orbit, about 0.6 miles per second faster than when Earth is farthest from the sun in early July. So the Northern Hemisphere winter and – simultaneously – the Southern Hemisphere summer are the shortest seasons, as Earth rushes from the solstice in December to the equinox in March.
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What is the consequence of the Earth's axis being tilted?
What is the consequence of the Earth's axis being tilted?
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Axial tilt, also called obliquity, refers to the angle a planet's rotation axis makes with the plane of its orbit. The Earth is currently tilted 23.5° from this plane, resulting in many remarkable effects, including the seasons around the planet. The tilt of the Earth can be attributed to the stabilizing effect of the Moon. The tilt of the Earth causes seasons to occur and produces effects such as the Midnight Sun, where the Sun never sets during some summer nights in very high-latitude regions.
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