GeoQuiz Saturday, December 31st, 2005

PREVIEW:

• United States Geography: Presidents' Day
• World Geography: Aconcagua's Beginnings of Orogeny...
• Interesting Article: Pennsylvania - A Political Drama...

As we wrap up 2005 and being 2006, I'd like to recount so amazing and devestating events all around the world. Let us begin with a list of these events:

• Hurricane Katrina
• War in Iraq
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
• President Bush's 2nd Term
• Etc.

What else can you think of?

FACT: Did you know that, at Disneyland, they have hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park to catch mice during night?

UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHY: The correct answer to yesterday's question is a. Martin Luther King Day was first observed as a federal holiday on January 15, 1986.

Today's question: Presidents' Day is the popular name of a holiday celebrated in February. M any people have come to also celebrate it as what president's birthday?

• a. Theodore Roosevelt
• b. Franklin Roosevelt
• c. Ulysses S. Grant
• d. Abraham Lincoln

WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The correct answer to yesterday's question is d. The Aconcagua River empties into the Pacific Ocean in Chile.

Today's question: In the recent Andean orogeny, Aconcagua was built by the subduction of the __ Plate under the __ Plate.

• a. South American/North American
• b. South American/Pacific
• c. South American/Nazca
• d. Nazca/South American

WORD OF THE DAY: parley - a conference or discussion

INTERESTING ARTICLE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051230/ap_on_el_gu/senate2006