GeoJeopardy! Fridays #59

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because it's a nice day outside, so some easy questions for ya.

- How Continental! -

July temperatures on this continent range from about -94 to a balmy high of around -40

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This continent covers only about 5% of the earth's land area; deserts cover about 1/3 of the continent

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 This continent has the longest freshwater lake, 420 miles, in the world

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Both the highest & lowest places on earth are on this continent

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A waterfall on this continent has the longest drop in the world, 3,212 feet

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Dinos in Pop Culture Thursday

Dinos in Pop Culture, where we highlight each week some of the more obscure instances of dinosaurs used in the pop culture realm to sell anything from slippers to wedding cakes.

This week it is the fourth in the series of posts from Spain. Right inside the main entrance to the El Museo Jurasico de Asturias (MUJA) is keeping with the theme of the last post, which is toys to ride on. This time a nice little riding toy, although I don't think it is going anywhere anytime soon.

"Rock Stars" Sunday Morning Video

As a little geological Sunday Morning treat, here is a video from this morning CBS Sunday Morning about "Rock Stars" AKA rock gardens.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7366896n&tag=mncol;lst;1

GeoJeopardy! Fridays #58

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because summer is winding down :-(.

- Volcanoes -

Magma that reaches the earth's surface is called this

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The word volcano comes from the name of this Roman god of fire

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 Of the world's active volcanoes, about 60% are along the perimeter of this ocean

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57 people died when this volcano in the Cascade range erupted in 1980

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This island nation has more than 100 active volcanoes including Krakatoa

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All the answers as well as any other previous GeoJeopardy! questions can be found over at my website by clicking the link.

And if you enjoy this post as well as others, please consider subscribing to my blog via Google Reader or some other RSS feed so that way I better know my readership. Thank you.

Questions, images, and videos courtesy of j-archive.com

Dinos in Pop Culture Thursday

Dinos in Pop Culture, where we highlight each week some of the more obscure instances of dinosaurs used in the pop culture realm to sell anything from slippers to wedding cakes.

This week it is the third in the series of posts from Spain. Outside the main entrance to the El Museo Jurasico de Asturias (MUJA) is a playground complete with, you guessed it, dino slides, and a huge dino jungle gym. Although I feel the dino look of the jungle gym thing may be stretching it a bit.