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Astronomy Lesson of Records #2 Due to the outstanding success of the first Lesson of Records, we are going to have another one! The first was based on space and the universe, so this one is all about the earth. The questions are formatted like "What is the biggest..." or "what is the smallest", and each will be a known World record. There are 20 questions, 10 points a question (though I do raise it if noone guesses) so this lesson will provide a MINIMUM of 200 points! The first to guess correctly gets the points, and there will be no arguing over answers, as they come from a very reliable source. So yeah, get in and have some fun earning big points for your house! |
Okay, question 1... What is the largest active volcano on earth? |
Mauna Loa? |
Roma raised her hand. "Is it the Muana Loa in Hawaii?" |
Jamie raised her hand and said, "Mauna Loa (Hawaii) is the world's largest active volcano." |
Leah raised her hand and said, "The largest active Volcano is Muana Loa located in Hawaii." |
Lauren raised her hand, "The Mauna Loa?" |
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2. Highest natural arch? |
World's Highest Natural Arch The New Mexico Convention |
Nope... |
The Rainbow Bridge |
Tushuk Tash ("Shipton's Arch") |
Leah began to raise her hand, but Jamie beat her with the answer. "oh well, I'll try again" she thought to herself. |
Rainbow Bridge found in Lake Powell National Monument, Utah, USA. |
"Is it Kolob Arch?" |
(ooc: man, I was late...) Tushuk Tash (Shipton's Arch) in China, measured at 1200 feet high, making it the tallest natural arch in the world. |
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3. The worlds highest mountain? |
Harmony raised her hand reluctanly "Is it mount Everest?" she said, and blushed, coz she thought she got the answer wrong (which she will). |
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4. Deepest valley? |
Selena raised her hand "is it Arun Valley?" |
Laura puts up her hand, and "Uh.. the Arun valley?" |
Nope, thats not it... |
Uhhh "owens valley?" |
"i was also sure it was Aurn Valley" Lee blurted out "however it could be the colca valley, is that correct professor?" Lee asked slightly confused. |
"Hmm, I could have sworn it was Arun" She thought to herself, Then raising her hand again, Lauren said "Yarlung Zangbo Valley in Tibet" She wasnt sure if she got it right at all. |
Cherry put up her hand as well. "The Kali Gandaki Valley perhaps?" She wasn't sure if it was right or not, but there was nothing wrong with trying. |
Colca Canyon |
Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet? |
Jenna raised her hand reluctantly. "I thought it was Arun as well...how about Death Valley then?" She had been sure it was Arun but she thought she might as well give this other answer a try. |
Jen raised her hand. "The Yarlung Zangbo Valley in Tibet?" |
Pokhara valley? |
"Death Valley?" Xavier asks. |
"The Great Rift Valley runs north to south for some 5,000 km, from northern Syria to central Mozambique. The valley varies in width from 30-100 km and in depth from a few hundred to several thousand metres. "If not, my second option is the Copper Canyon, a canyon system in the Sierra Tarahumara in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. This canyon system is larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon." |
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5. Deepest canyon on earth? |
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"Colca Canyon?" |
Lee raised his hand for the next question "grand canyon?" |
Nope, not right yet... |
Lee raised his hand once again "well if its not the grand canyon is it the fish river Canyon?" |
Lol, no, it's not. The grand canyon is the worlds largest land gorge, not the deepest canyon... |
Lee raise dhis hand eager to get this question right " how about the Yarlung Zangbo valley?" |
Jenna raised her hand eagerly. "Vicos Gorge in northern Greece?" She asked. She knew she should try, although she probably was wrong again. |
Lauren raised her hand quickly, She had seen that Selena had gotten to it first, But she still wanted to try. "The Colca Canyon?" |
Jamie raised her hand and said, " Cotahuasi Canyon is believed to be the deepest of any continental surface on Earth." |
OOC: Wow, er, thanks Dainsie. Having thought the answer was the Colca Canyon as well, she decides to try. "The Copper Canyon perhaps?" |
Yarlung Zangbo Canyon? |
Tori raised her hand and anwer the question "Cotahuasi Canyon?" |
*sighing, Nadia raised her hand though both her options had already been said, so just to be original she said* "I believe it could be the Brahmaputra, in China." |
Casey raised her hand, "I think its Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge," She paused "I think?" |
(ooc: Actually I'm going to make a second guess because the ones I thought were guessing the same as my charry have another pronounciation of the place/spelling/or just have difference so...) Nadia raised her hand, "My sencond guess is the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon." |
There was an American expedition that has documented the Namche Barwa Gorge in eastern Tibet as the world's largest and deepest canyon in October 1993. Although Peru's Colca Canyon was officially declared the earth's deepest at 10,500 feet in 1981, the Namche Barwa Gorge in eastern Tibet has been rumored to exceed this for quite some time. |
Tania's raised her hand. She hoped it wasn't too late having just remembered the answer to the question. "I believe the world's deepest canyon is the Yarlung Tsang Po in Tibet," she answered. |
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6. Largest sandstone monolith? |
"Uluru" She sa after she raised her hand. |
Mount Augustus in Australia |
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7. Oldest confirmed impact on Earth? |
The Barringer Crater is the first crater to be proven the result of an impact |
Tori rised her hand and said "South Africa`s Barberton greenstone belt and Australia`s Pilbara block." |
"I don't have a place, but it was said a rock hit the earth 3.5 billion years ago, with pieces found in Africa and Austalia" Zekk said with very little confidence. |
Zekk was closer... Hint: It is somewhere in canada... just a date of how old they are will be enough... |
Mistastin Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
"On August 23, 2002, two scientists announced their discovery of a 3.47 billion year old meteorite that struck earth. The diameter is around 12 miles wide. All traces of a crater have been eroded away." |
Raising her hand, "I will guess it's the Sudbury Impact, in Ontario, Canada. It had a diameter of 250.00 km and fell some time 1850 ± 3 *Ma (1.85 billion years ago)." |
The Sudbury Basin - 1.8 billion years ago |
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Someone already had it... ^^ Ok this question that has something to do with Canada. 8. Oldest volcanic rocks on earth? |
"In Quebec, Canada, it is said that they found rocks that are 3.825 billion years old," Roma replied. |
Jamie said, "Canadian geologists say they've found Earth's oldest volcanic and sedimentary rocks in northern Quebec. The estimated 3.825-billion-year-old rocks could help scientists to understand the first quarter of the planet's history." |
Kali raised her hand and said full of uncertainty, "The oldest volcanic rocks on Eath are about 3.825 billion years old. They're found in the Inukjuak area in Quebec, Canada." |
Bailey raised her hand. "I believe they are the rocks found in Quebec that date back approximately four billion years." |
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Anila tapped her finger to her chin, thinking. It came to her, at the same time as Roma, so she kept quiet. |
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9. Largest geological feature discovered from space? |
The Richat Structure in the Sahara Desert? |
The geological features in the Cydonia Region are quite interesting. |
I'm not sure what you mean by geological feature >_< so... *raise hand* "The maximum deviations in the shape of the earth is the highest point on it, Mount Everest." |
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10. Largest liquid body on earth? |
The largest liquid body on Earth is it's outer core. ooc: Just added "Earth", didn't sound right. |
That's right! 11. Greatest submarine mountain range? |
the Milwaukee Deep? |
"I believe it's the mid-ocean ridge, at about 56 000 kilometers long." |
Mid-Atlantic Ridge [explanation: it is a mostly underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean that runs from 87°N (about 333 km South of the North Pole) to subantarctic Bouvet Island, where it turns into Atlantic-Indian-Ridge and continues further East through Crozet Plateau to the Southwest Indian Ridge, while in the West it is followed by Scotia Ridge.] |
The islands are the highest summits of great submarine mountain ranges that include the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the world's longest mountain range |
The Mid-Oceanic Ridge (in the Indian Ocean), along with other submarine ridges, encloses a series of deep-sea basins (abyssal plains). The greatest depth (25,344 ft/7,725 m) is in the Java Trench, S of Java, Indonesia. |
Tori didn't know the answer did she mean liquid like water or liquid like lava? |
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12. Weakest region in the Earth's magnetic field? |
It's weakest near the equator? |
Dru nodded to the Ravenclaws answer, wishing that she had gotton there first. |
No, there's an actual named point on the earth where it is by far the weakest... |
Dru raised her hand "The Southern Magnetic Anomaly found off the coast of Brazil" |
I'm not sure so I'm going to guess..True North? ooc:lol...that was the only thing I could find..They're reall all that great with using names I suppose.. |
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13. Deepest point in the ocean? |
the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean |
"The greatest known depth is located in the Mindanao Trench (West Pacific) where the British ship Cook (1962) found 11,516 meters in depth exceeding Mount Everest's height by 2,660 meters," says Drusilla. |
Jamie raised her hand and said, "The greatest known depth is located in the Mindanao Trench (West Pacific) where the British ship Cook (1962) found 11,516 meters in depth exceeding Mount Everest's height by 2,660 meters." |
Marianas Trench near Guam at 10,924 meters (35,839 feet). |
Jen raised her hand. "The Marina's Trench off the coast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean." |
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The deepest point in the Mariana Trench and in the oceans is Challenger Deep which is three hundred and forty kilometers off the coast of Guam. |
Ya huh! 14. Largest iceberg recorded? |
Cristy raises her hand. "The largest iceberg ever recored was Iceberg B15, which calved from the Ross Ice Shelf". |
Martha raises her hand and says, "The largest icebergs (also referred to as ice islands) originate from the vast ice shelves surrounding Antarctica. The largest-known iceberg was from this region. It was roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island. The tallest known iceberg in the North Atlantic was 550 feet high. Extending out of the water to almost the height of the Washington Monument, it is the tallest iceberg recorded to date." |
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