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 The highest point of land on our planet is Mt. Everest at 29,028 feet. |
 The lowest point (that is not ice) is the Dead Sea in Israel/Jordan at –1312 feet. |
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What is the difference between the highest and the lowest point? |
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At the southern tip of South America is Cape Horn. At the cape, a sign points to the south pole. If you rotated this continent 180°, what direction would the sign at Cape Horn face?
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The four largest islands in the world are Greenland: 840,000 square miles, New Guinea: 306,000 square miles, Borneo: 280,100 square miles, and Madagascar: 226,658 square miles. Approximately what is the mean average in square miles of these four largest islands? |
| The mean average of the world's four longest rivers is 3901.25 miles. If the Amazon River is 4000, the Nile is 4145, and the Yangtze is 3720, how long is the Mississippi/Missouri River in the U.S.? |  |
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The U.S. has about 85,200 square miles in large deserts. If the U.S. has a total area of 1,937,726 square miles, what percent of the U.S. land is desert?
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This page was last updated on 04/13/06 .
Problems and exercises compiled by Math Curriculum Specialist
Tanya Ghattas and Burt
Kanner.
Web pages composed by Jim
Saffeels, SK Online.
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