Comparatives

Brazil is smaller than the US.

(Brazil is 3.3 million square miles and the US is 3.79 million square miles.)

• True

• False

The Amazon River is longer than the Nile River.

(The Amazon is about 4,000 miles long and the Nile is about 4,130 miles long.)

• True

• False

Oxford University is older than Cambridge University. (Oxford University was founded in 1167 and Cambridge 43 years later.)

• True

• False

The English alphabet is shorter than the Arabic alphabet. (There are 26 letters in the English alphabet and 28 in the Arabic alphabet.)

• True

• False

K2 is more dangerous to climb than Mount Everest.

(25% of climbers who get to the top of K2 die, but only 9% of climbers of Everest die.)

• True

• False

A gigabyte is larger than a megabyte.

(A megabyte is 1,000 bytes, but a gifjabyte is 1,000 megabytes.)

• True

• False

The Sahara Desert is drier than the Atacama Desert. (Sahara Desert average rainfall = 0.79 inches; Atacama Desert average rainfall= 0.004 inches.)

• True

• False

New Zealand is farther south than Australia.

(It's about 1,242 miles southeast of Australia.)

• True

• False

The pyramids in Egypt are older than the Parthenon in Greece.

(The pyramids are about 4,500 years old and the Parthenon is about 2,500 years old.)

• True

• False

World War I was shorter than World War II.

(World War I lasted four years (1914- 1918), but World War II lasted six years (1939-1945).)

• True

• False