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ANSWERS TO exQUIZite GEOGRAPHY QUIZ

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Just Deserts

1. Honeypot ant or honey ant

2. Uluru

3. Mojave/Sonoran

4. Atacama Desert (Chile)

5. The Arctic

How Dishy

1. Iceland

2. Poland

3. India

4. Tanzania

5. Brazil

Scenic Superlatives

1. Rocky Mountains (North America)

2. Venezuela (Angel Falls)

3. Russia (Lake Baikal)

4. Lebanon (Jeita Grotto)

5. North Sentinal Island

That’s so Vexing

1. Bulgaria

2. Cuba

3. Djibouti

4. Malta

5. Fiji

It's a Numbers Game

1. 6 (Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France)

2. 5%

3. 10 minutes

4. USA, Canada, Russia

5. Papua New Guinea

Capital, Old Chum

1. Bratislava

2. Sofia

3. Islamabad

4. Ulan Bator

5. Phnom Penh

6. Addis Ababa

7. Lusaka

8. Ottawa

9. Kingston

10. Apia


Image credits

Image 1: Photo by Greg Hume CC-BY-2.5. Wikipedia

All other images from Pixabay

Sources (all available from Dunedin Public Libraries)

· Atlas of the world’s deserts – Nathaniel Harris

· Totally amazing facts about geography – Cari Meister

· Maps – Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel Mizieliński

Atlas Obscura – Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras