Chapts 13-14

Question 1

Ice covers approximately what percentage of the Earth?

Answer 1

10%

Question 2

Is there land beneath Antarctica?

Answer 2

Yes – it is one of the 7 continents.

Question 3

Antarctica’s ice cap is almost ___ _______square miles. It is around ____ miles thick, but up to 3.1 in some parts.

Answer 3

5 million, 1.5

Question 4

Where can you find the purest form of water there is?

Answer 4

on a Glacier

Question 5

Why do glaciers have the purest form of water?

Answer 5

Because there is no industry, no air pollution, nothing that is in the air that can rain down its chemicals upon the glaciers.

Question 6

What do melted glaciers create?

Answer 6

Glacial water, which can sometimes collect and form a glacial lake.

Question 7

What does frost mean?

Answer 7

crystal or clear

Question 8

Who saw and understood frost?

Answer 8

the Ancient Greeks

Question 9

True or false:

A glacier is not a permanent body of frozen water.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Can glaciers move?

Answer 10

Yes they can

Question 11

About ____ of the world’s total glacial ice sits

on Greenland.

Answer 11

10%

Question 12

About how many people live in the artic?

Answer 12

4 million

Question 13

Who was the first person to explore glaciers and live to tell about it?

Answer 13

Louis Agassiz

Question 14

Who was a French scientist, who found a lot of fossils in Switzerland? who also worked with Louis Agassiz.

Answer 14

Georges Cuvier

Question 15

Who went on to earn a medical degree, but moved to Neuchâtel, Switzerland to be near glaciers he could study?

Answer 15

Agassiz

Question 16

One year Agassiz made an expedition to study the

glaciers up close, noting huge, ______ ________ (striations) in the valley walls.

Answer 16

Deep Groves

Question 17

_______ ________ is one place formed by a glacier –
the valley is u-shaped, not V-shaped like you would
find in a canyon carved by a river. This valley is in the
state of New York and is sandwiched between two
mountain ranges.

Answer 17

Mohawk Valley

Question 18

what was left after the North American Glacier came through and melted?

Answer 18

The Great Lakes

Question 19

who presented a strong stance on evolution,
which said that complex lifeforms grew
from nonliving matter – that nothing
created something and that eventually
that created everything.

Answer 19

Charles Darwin

Question 20

The world’s longest rivers are the ___ of ____, the ______ of ____ ____, the _________ _________ of _____ _____, and the _______ of Asia.

Answer 20

the Nile of Africa, the Amazon of South America, the Missouri -Mississippi of North America, Yangtze of Asia

Question 21

about how long is the Nile?

Answer 21

4258 miles

Question 22

What are some of the things that happened at the shores of the Nile?

Answer 22

The Egyptians gave us Papyrus, sailing vessels, a
baby in a basket, clay vases, tombs, temples,
the Sphinx, the pyramids.

Question 23

What is the biggest river in the world?

Answer 23

the Amazon

Question 24

About how long is the Amazon?

Answer 24

4000 miles

Question 25

How did the Amazon get its name?

Answer 25

In Greek mythology, the Amazons were
a race of women warriors who fought
with the Trojans against the Greeks in
the Trojan Wars. Orellana named this
river the Amazon after the Greek myth

Question 26

What are some of the things you can find in the Amazon?

Answer 26

piranha, electric eels, water-loving snakes, black caimans, bull sharks, giant otters, vampire fish, anacondas, manatees.

Question 27

What is the name of the longest river in Asia?

Answer 27

The Yangtze

Question 28

Do you remember what Marco Polo said about the

The Yangtze?

Answer 28

Marco Polo once remarked that he estimated around a

million boats passed by the city where he was living in a year’s time. The Yangtze is a very busy river!

Question 29

True or False:

The Yangtze is not as dangerous as the Amazon.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

How long is the Jordan river?

Answer 30

200 miles

Question 31

What are some of the things that happened in and around the Jordan river?

Answer 31

Joshua led the children of the slaves of Egypt into the promised land. Naaman washed his leprosy clean. John the Baptist preached on the shores. Jesus was baptized.