Man Made Structures
This took 10 years to build and was opened in 1869
What is the Suez Canal
Subtropical, coastal, rain shadow, and interior are four of the five types of desert as defined by national geographic, this is the fifth
What is Polar
This city of 30,000 is at elevation 4553 mtr
What is La Rinconada
Underwater earth quakes or volcanoes are the root cause of these
What are Tsunami’s
The sand dunes south of Lima are used for this sport
What is sand sledding?
This thin skyscraper is located in New York City
What is the Steinway Tower
This is the largest desert in the world
What is the Sahara
This Amazonian city is accessible either by boat or plane
What is Iquitos
This country has an average elevation of 1 mtr would be severely effected by a 1 m rise in sea level
What is the Maldives
An MMI mission to this small amazonian town in Peru was held in Oct 2023
What is Caballacocho
Located amid the desert canyons this city thrived between 400 BC and 106 AD
What is Petra
This desert has the highest sand dunes on earth
What is the Namib Desert
The official elevation of this city of 57,000 (2017) is 4330 mtrs
What is Cerro de Pasco
This country would lose 2/3 of its land mass if the level of the Pacific rises 1 mtr
What is Kiribati
This national reserve which is basically a desert has fossils and red sandy beaches is located on the west coast of Peru
What is the Paracas National Reserve
The main span of this 1.7 mile long suspension bridge is 4200 ft
What is the Golden Gate Bridge
This desert stretches across Botswana, Namibia and South Africa
What is the Kalahari Desert
This former INCA stronghold city was once the geographic centre of the Inca Empire
What is Ayacucho
Mountain Climbers usually use extra oxygen at this elevation + - 500 ft
What is 26,200 ft or 8000 meters
196 of these are located in 25 of these in Peru
What are provinces in regions
Started in 1880 by the French it was finished in1914 by the US
What is the Panama Canal
This Asian desert is the sixth largest in the world
What is the Gobi
This town is known more for the train you can catch than for its Incan ruins
What is Ollantaytambo
When diving underwater the pressure on the body increases at this rate
What is an increase of one atmosphere every 33 ft (10.06 meters)
Peruvian rivers flow into these three basins
What are the Pacific, the Amazon and Lake Titicaca