1. Around ninety percent of Earth’s population lives in the northern hemisphere....
QUIZ WHIZ
1. Around ninety percent of Earth’s population lives in the northern hemisphere.
2. The Arctic is home to the largest ice sheet on Earth.
3. Sahara is the world's largest desert.
4. The Moon is drifting away from Earth.
5. Earth’s magnetic pole is creeping eastward.
6. Continents can shift at about the same rate your fingernails grow.
7. Russia has the world’s longest coastline.
8. There are more ancient pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.
9. Mariana Trench (the deepest part of the ocean) is deeper than
Mount Everest (the world’s tallest mountain) is tall.
10. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
1. True. This is primarily because the larger proportion of habitable land is in the north.
2. False. Antarctica is, with the ice sheet containing about 70 percent of the world's fresh water.
3. False. Antarctica is. Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert but third largest overall, behind Antarctica and the Arctic.
4. True, at a rate of approximately 4 centimetres per year.
5. False. It is drifting westwards at a rate of 50 to 60 kilometres a year.
6. True. They typically shift about 1 inch per year but can move much faster when the tectonic plates are under stress.
7. False. Canada does, with around 243,000 km (151,019 miles) of shoreline.
8. True. Sudan has between 200 and 255 known pyramids, while Egypt has 138.
9. True, by over 2,000 metres.
10. True. It stretches 2,000 kilometres and contains many organisms of various species.
