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MOUNT EVEREST
ANTARCTICA
AUSTRALIA
GEOGRAPHY TERMS
MYSTERY
100
Mount Everest is part of this mountain range
What is Himalaya?
100
An increase in earth's temperature that causes changes in the climate
What is global warming?
100
This season is currently being experienced in Australia
What is winter?
100
A body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land
What is a lake?
100
This fish is the main food source for penguins in Antarctica
What is krill?
200
First person to reach the summit
Who is Hillary and Norgay?
200
A large ecosystem
What is a biome?
200
This has led to increased danger from the sun's rays
What is the ozone hole?
200
An extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly
What is a glacier?
200
The summit of Mount Everest is this tall
What is 29,029 feet?
300
Process of adjusting to lower levels of oxygen at high elevations
What is acclimatize?
300
The ice sheets that cover Antarctica average this thickness
What is 1 1/2 miles?
300
Location to these continents helped to increase immigration
What is Asia and Africa?
300
A large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea
What is an iceberg?
300
The boomerang was invented here
What is Australia?
400
Harmful effects of cold, wind, or other extreme weather conditions
What is exposure?
400
Antarctica's largest land predator
What is the mite?
400
Kangaroos, koalas, and crocodiles are examples of this type of species
What is native species?
400
A hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air
What is a geyser?
400
Hillary and Norgay reached the summit on May 29 of this year
What is 1953?
500
Major challenge of the Death Zone
What is lack of oxygen?
500
If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the world's oceans would rise by this much
What is 200 feet?
500
This theory explains how Australia was brought to its current location
What is continental drift theory?
500
A large group or chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
500
This man discovered Australia
Who is Captain James Cook?