The first part of your homework is to cover your book with a geographical theme.
The second part of your homework is to leave a comment on the blog, with an interesting geographical fact. Do your best to tell me something I don't know already... There might be a prize for the most interesting fact!
To leave a comment, you need to click on the "Comments" button at the bottom of this post. Type your comment, and then enter the "captcha". You should not need to have a Google account to leave a comment (although it is useful to have one anyway). Your comment will not appear straightaway, as they come to me to be moderated first, but I will make sure I check regularly and publish them as soon as I can. Please make sure that you are writing in "proper" English (ie nt txt spk), and also, put your FIRST NAME (not your surname, although if there are two people in your group with the same name, the initial of your surname as well would be helpful), and if you are in my group VEl and for Miss Bradford's group LBa in your comment.
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first fact is, About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere. second fact is Florida and Hudson Bay in Canada are getting about 1 inch closer every 36 years
The longest placename in the world is a hill on the North Island of New Zealand which is called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
My Fact.
The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
Charlotte LBa
First fact
In 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes measuring around 8 on the richter scale, caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Second fact
The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles).
Jake LBa
Ooh, some nice facts so far!!! V impressed with those! Grace - I will be wanting to know on Wednesday how you pronounce that...
Keep them coming...
the earths lower mantle is in a soild state.
The depth is 2,990km (1,860 miles) below the surface.
The temperature is 1,000-3,500'C
The shoreline of the Dead Sea, on the border of Israel and Jordan, is the lowest land area on Earth. The altitude of the Dead Sea shoreline is approximately 1,300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.In xmas 2007 i was privallged enough to visit the dead sea were no creature or plant can survive in the water due to the vast amount of salt in the sea, but the salt water is good for skin conditions such as excma and Psoriasis.
The longest river is the Nile in Africa. It is 4,237 miles long.
The great wall of china is so long it is visible from space.
Fact
About 90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
Wendy LBa
Brazil takes up 47.8% of South America
According to our guide the Samaria Gorge in southern Crete is the longest in europe at 16km.
Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth, with 3.7 metres of rain a year. Richard VEL
The Vatican city is the smallest country in the world at only .2 square miles, which is smaller than the average city.
Earthquakes are caused by movements of the giant tectonic plates that form Earth’s crust.
The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
Emily VEl.
If you combine England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, then together they are a bit smaller than the large state of Michigan USA.
Liam LBa
These are excellent!!! Not sure who is winning so far...
Don't forget to put your name (first name only) and the initials of your teacher to show which group you're in.
Ryan VEl
(The deepest lake) Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake and is located in Siberia, Russia, north of the Mongolian border. It is 5,369 ft (1,637 m) deep, more than one mile straight down.
San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia are both known for mild and fast-changing climates, and they are identical distances from the Equator.
MEGAN Vel
The lowest layer in the atmosphere is the troposphere, where air moves vertically and horizontally, and is thoroughly mixed.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the Longest mountain chain on earth at 40 thousand kilometers.
San Marinos is the oldest country in the world, first fomed in 301 AD.
gemma, LBa.
Chinese Mandarin is the most common spoke in the world.
My Fact
Rome, which is the capital city of Italy, is located at the exact same latitude as Chicago.
Rebecca LBa
the great wall of china is 50,000 kilometers and the chinese only finished building it 200 years ago.
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
Robert LBa
The world's largest island is Greenland (2,131,600 km²). It is almost three times as large as the world's second-largest island, New Guinea (790,000 km²).
by danny alton
The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls, in Venezuela which is 979m tall
Jess VEl
More than two fifths of all living things on earth are found in the rainforests
Ben lba
The Shortest place name is ‘Å’ it is located in both Sweden and Norway. In Scandinavian languages, ‘Å’ means “river”.
Abbie H, Lba
In 2008 japan had 75 active volcanoes which amounts for 1 in 5 of all the actine volcanoes in the world
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