RAINFOREST
What is the largest rainforest in the world?
The Amazon
What are the the solid pieces of rock called that come out of a volcano during an eruption?
volcanic bomb
How many people do avalanches kill each year?
100, 150, 200, 250?
150
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile
What country is Canberra the capital?
Australia
What is the indigenous group that we learned about in the Amazon rainforest?
The Yanomami
What is the volcano that erupted and destroyed Pompeii in 79AD?
Mt Vesuvius
What are the 2 types of avalanche?
Sluff and Slab
What country's native dance is called the Haka?
New Zealand
What is the 3rd largest country (population).
USA
Name the chemical that miners use to extract gold from the rainforest.
Mercury
What country would you find the volcano Eyjafjallajokull which grounded all air travel in North West Europe in April 2010.
Iceland
What name do they call the weak powdery layer of snow?
Sugar Snow
What city would you find Brandenburg Gate in?
Berlin
What is the largest state in the USA (area)?
Alaska
What is seconds largest rainforest in the world?
The Congo
What do you call a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of 62 mph.
A pyroclastic flow
What angle does the slope need to be for an avalanche to happen?
Between 30 and 40 degrees.
What city does the river Seine run through?
Paris
What mountain range can be found in France?
The Alps
Name 3 of the impacts that illegal miners/loggers have had on tribes in the Brazillian rainforest.
disease, burn their houses down, killed them, poisoned them
What is the boundary called where one plate is forced under another?
Destructive
What are the 3 common causes of death from avalanches?
suffocation, wounds and hypothermia
What country has won the most olympic medals?
USA
K2 can be found in 2 countries can you name 1?
Pakistan and China