GeoQuiz Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

PREVIEW:

• Take Note: One Month from First Quarter...
• United States Geography: Grand Manan Island...
• World Geography: Great Dividing Range...
• Interesting Article: Woman Sues Wal-Mart...

TAKE NOTE: Ever since the founding of this blog, we are already almost one quarter of a year past its founding. We are one month from March 1st, the beginning of the second quarter (February 28th is the end of the first quarter.) We will be having a quarter test on that date. Be ready! The test will be on all topics that we have covered. It will only be 20 questions.

FACT: Did you know that, contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years?

UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHY: The correct answer to yesterday's question is b. The upper part of the Bay of Fundy is divided into the Minas Basin and Chignecto Bay.

Today's question: Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, is the largest island in the Grand Manan Archipelago, and also the largest in the Bay of Fundy. It is probably the largest Canadian island closest to the US on the Atlantic coast, about 510 square miles in area. It is on the boundary of the Bay of Fundy and which other body of water?

• a. Atlantic Ocean
• b. Gulf of Maine
• c. Chignecto Bay
• d. Minas Basin

WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The correct answer to yesterday's question is d. Great Barrier Reef is a system of over 3,000 coral reefs.

Today's question: The Great Dividing Range's highest mountains are located in the southeastern portion of the country in southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria. Derived from one of Eurasia's highest mountains, what is the name of this section of the Great Dividing Range?

• a. Highland Himalayas
• b. Australian Alps
• c. Plains Pyrenees
• d. Queensland Qunluns

WORD OF THE DAY: kismet - destiny; fate; future

INTERESTING ARTICLE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_contraception