GEOGRAPHY KNOWLEDGE - PAGE TWO - ANSWERS

1. The point on the opposite side of the earth from the geographic center of the United States is in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Australia.

2. antipodes

3. NO

4. Yes, one species, the Galapagos, live on the equator due to the cold waters in the region from the humboldt Current.

5. It is not wood that has somehow turned into stone. It is a fossil formed by mineral replacement of the natural wood.

6. Although the Egyptian pyramids are tall, the pre-Columbian pyramids in Mexico rival and in some cases, exceed in size and splendor those found in Egypt.

7. Rabbits are somewhat smaller than hares and are usually burrowing animals. They are born helpless, furless and become highly gregarious. Hares are somewhat larger, can hop around minutes after birth, and have black-tipped ears. Hares are generally solitary animals.

8. Hare

9. Rabbit

10. Liberty Enlightening the World

11. Frederic Bartholdi

12. 1886

13. The statue was originally not in New York as most people think. Bedloe Island, now Liberty Island and the site of the statue, was in New Jersey until the island was ceded to the state of New York. new Jersey later appealed New York's claim to the island, but after it came under the jurisdiction of the United States as a national monument in 1924, the dispute ended.

14. The statue is also a miniature Eiffel tower because its inner supporting structure was designed by Gustave Eiffel and is very similar in construction to the famous Paris tower which he later built.

15. one and one half inches by three and one half inches

16. Chimborazo, in the Ecuadorian Andes of South America OR Mauna Kea.

Measured from the center of the earth, Chimborazo is the point of the earth's surface that sticks out farthest into the atmosphere. As measured from sea level, Mount Everest is higher compared to Chimborazo - 29,028 feet to 20,561 feet. However, because the earth is not a perfect sphere, but bulges at the equator by several miles, sea level at the equator is actually about fourteen miles farther away from the center of the earth than at the north or south poles.

Because Chimborazo is located less the two degrees or ninety-eight miles, from the equator, compared to about twenty-eight degrees, or more than fifteen hundred miles, from the equator for Everest, Chaimborazo is actually 7,057 feet father from the center of the earth than is the summit of Mount Everest.

From base to peak, Mauna Kea, a peak in the Hawaiian Trough of the Pacific Ocean and part of the hawaiian Islands, has a height of 33,476 feet, of which 13,796 feet are above water.