GEOGRAPHY QUIZ

Question #1: In what state is Three Mile Island and what is its importance? #1

 A). State of New York. Site of New York's largest island
 B). State of Pennsylvania - Site of the first US nuclear accident.
C). State of Massachusetts - Site of the first man-made island .

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Question #2: What are the French speaking Acadians of Louisiana called? #2

A).Cajuns
B).Frenchmen
C).Parisians

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Question #3:In seeking longitude, which direction are you traveling? #3,

A).East or West
B).North or South
C).North or West

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Question #4: What are the cardinal points on a map? #4

A).N, E,S, and W
B).N and S
C).E and W

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Question #5: If you lived in North America, in which ocean would you find lobsters? #5,

A).Atlantic Ocean
B).Canadian Ocean
C).Pacific Ocean

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Question #6: What popular vacation spot was once called the Sandwich Islands? #6

A).The Hawaiian Islands
B).The Bahamas
C).Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

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Question #7: If you were standing on the "Four Corners",what state would you enter if you go northeast? #7

A).Arizona
B).Colorado
C).Utah

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Question #8: When is "Hail to the Chief", a musical composition,often played? #8,

A).When a business executive enters the office
B). When the Vice President enters the oval office
C). When the US President enters a meeting.

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Question #9: Which is the only Great Lake completely within the United States? #9

A).Lake Michigan
B).Lake Erie
C).Lake Huron

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Question #10: In which state is the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states? #10

A).Arkansas
B).Kansas
C).Missouri

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Question #11: Name the 33rd US President.#11

A). Roosevelt
B). Cleveland
C). Truman

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Question #12: The Appalachian Trail is the longest continuous trail in the world! In which two states does it begin and end? #12

A).Maine and Georgia
B).Massachusetts and Alabama
C).California and Colorado

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Question #13: Which state was the first to give women equal status to vote. #13

A).Pennsylvania
B).Delaware
C).Wyoming

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Question #14: Where part of the US is most famous for finding fossils of prehistoric animals?#14

A).Hills of West Virginia
B).Arizona
C).Badlands of South Dakota

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Question #15: The roadrunner is the state bird of which state of the US? #15

A).Utah
B).Kansas
C).New Mexico

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Question #16: Which state contains the geographic center of NORTH AMERICA?#16

A).Minnesota
B).South Dakota
C).North Dakota

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Question #17: Where is the United States' only diamond mine? #17

A).Alaska
B).Arkansas
C).Texas

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Question #18: During a presidential election, how many electoral votes does the state of Iowa get?#18

A).Six
B).Seven
C).Five

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Question #19: This body of water is one of the largest freshwater lakes within the US. It sits surrounded by a large swampy area called the Everglades. Name this body of water. #19

A).Lake Kissimmee
B).Lake Florida
C).Lake Okeechobee

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Question #20: This state has the most caves of any state in addition to the most undergound streams and rivers. Name the state. #20

A).Tennessee
B).Kentucky
C).Pennsylvania

GEOGRAPHY RIDDLES

#1: I am tall and I often wear a snow cap. Who Am I?

#2: I stand with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. I wear a crown with seven rays to stand for the seven seas and seven continents. I am located in the United States. Who Am I?

#3: The first design of this symbol had a circle of thirteen stars on a blue background

and thirteen red and white strips. Today I have one start for each state and thirteen red

and white stripes for each of the thirteen original colonies? Who Am I?

#4: I am a farmer’s dream. Very flat forever it seems. Who Am I?

#5: I run but have no legs. Who Am I?

#6: In 1776, some people in Philadelphia rang me for several hours to announce the

Declaration of Independence had been signed. John Marshall, Chief of Justice of the

Supreme Court of the US cracked me while ringing me. Who Am I?

#7: I am big and powerful and Salty too. Who Am I?

#8: I can fly. I live only in North America. I am the national symbol of the US. Who Am I?

Amazing facts of Universe

Even When You’re Standing Still, You’re Still Moving

A human body, or any object on the Earth, is never at rest. Even when you’re asleep in bed, you’re moving pretty fast. Our Milky Way Galaxy is rotating at 225 kilometers per second, and hurling through the cosmos at an estimated 305 kilometers per second. Add those figures together, and we’re racing through space at around 530 kilometers, or 330 miles per second. So in one minute’s time, you’ve  traveled almost 20,000 kilometers, or more than 12,000 miles. And your friends always complain that you never go anywhere.


       There Are at Least 10 Billion Trillion Stars in the Universe

That’s a very big number. When you really think about it, 10 billion trillion stars makes the cult of sun worship seem a little obsolete, although our star, the sun, is very important to us. Without it, life on earth wouldn’t be possible.

Let’s put 10 billion trillion stars into perspective, shall we? For those of you who know a bit of math, that would be 10 to the power of 22 stars, or written out, it would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. There are probably more stars in existence than grains of sand on all of the world’s beaches. If only 1% of those stars had Earth-like planets, the universe would literally be teeming with life.

The Biggest Mountain in Our Solar System Is on Mars

Sorry Mount Everest — you’re not the king of the solar system. That honor belongs to Olympus Mons, a massive mountain on our planetary neighbor, Mars. Olympus Mons is a giant mound of red dirt and rock. This volcanic behemoth is 2,400 meters, or 80,000 feet tall, which makes it almost 15 miles high. Everest is a mere dwarf in comparison. This giant Martian volcano is either a mountain climber’s wildest dream, or worst nightmare.

Our Galaxy Is on a Collision Course with the Andromeda Galaxy

The Milky Way Galaxy, which is to say our very own galaxy, is on a collision course with our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Even though these two conglomerations of stars are destined to smash together, you shouldn’t lose any sleep over the incident. The impending impact won’t happen for another 3 billion years. The chances of you being around for that galactic “fender bender” are pretty slim, unless you’re planning to cryogenically freeze yourself or something

                                           

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