GeoQuiz Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

PREVIEW:

• United States Geography: Bay of Fundy's Basins...
• World Geography: Great Barrier Reef...
• Interesting Article: Activist Sheehan Arrested at the Capitol...

FACT: Did you know that the leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter?

UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHY: The correct answer to yesterday's question is d. The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world.

Today's question: The lower part of the Bay of Fundy is split into four sub-basins: Passamaquoddy Bay and Back Bay on the New Brunswick shore, Cobscook Bay on the Maine shore, and the Annapolis Basin on the Nova Scotia shore. The the upper part is divided into the main basins of Chignecto Bay and which basin?

• a. Fundy Basin
• b. Minas Basin
• c. Scotia Basin de Nova
• d. Brunswick Basin

WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The correct answer to yesterday's question is a. Mount Kosciusko is the highest mountain in Australia.

Today's question: The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, is the largest coral reef in the world, consisting of over 900 islands. It stretches over 2,000 kilometers and can be seen from space. While it is called the Great Barrier Reef (notice it is singular), it is acutally a system of over about how many coral reefs?

• a. 100
• b. 750
• c. 1500
• d. 3000

WORD OF THE DAY: intrepid - fearless, bold

INTERESTING ARTICLE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_go_pr_wh/state_of_the_union_sheehan