Geography Flashcards
Second highest mountain in the world and height
K2 (8,611 meters)
Highest mountain in world and height
Mount Everest (8,848 meters)
Third highest mountain and its height
Kangchenjunga (8,586 meters)
Fourth highest mountain in the world and height
Lhotse (8,516 meters)
Fifth highest mountain and height
Makalu (8463 meters)
Longest river in the world
The Nile River 4,132 miles (6,650km)
How long is the UK
838 miles (1,349 km)
How many counties in Africa
54
How many accents in the UK
56
Largest desert in the world
Largest is Antarctica at 14.2 million square kilometres. Largest hot desert is the Sahara 9.4 million square kilometres
What is the Richter scale
A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations. The more destructive earthquakes typically have magnitudes between about 5.5 and 8.9; it is a logarithmic scale and a difference of one represents an approximate thirtyfold difference in magnitude.
Largest earthquake ever recorded
The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) earthquake that occurred in Chile on May 22, 1960. This earthquake, also known as the Great Chilean earthquake or the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, happened at a subduction zone where the Pacific plate meets the South American plate. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused destruction along the coast of Chile and in Hawaii, Japan, and the Philippines.
Who invented Richter scale
Charles Richter in the 1930’s for measuring the size of earthquakes occurring in southern California using relatively high-frequency data from nearby seismograph stations.
