LANDSCAPES

What is the largest volcano on Earth?

• Mauna Loa,

  in Argentina.

• Mount Etna, in Italy.

• Osorno, in Patagonia.

Answer explanation

Well done!

Did you know that...

Below the surface, Earth is always moving and changing.

What is the driest desert in the world?

• The Sahara Desert

• The Gobi Desert

• The Atacama Desert

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

The Atacama Desert is in Chile and it's the driest desert in the world.

What are these pictures?

• Lake and valley

• Waterfall and rainforest

• Lake and deep valley

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

Angel Falls is a waterfall in Venezuela. It is the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, with a height of 979 metres.

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What are these pictures?

• Mountain range

  and

  canyon

• Mountains

  and

  rocks

• Rocky Mountain Range

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

The world's longest above-water mountain range is the Andes, about 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long.

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The Arctic and the Antarctic have got the most glacial climate on Earth.

• True

• False

• I don't know

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

There are often violent snowstorms and glacial winds. But climate change is affectinf the landscape here: temperatures are rising more quicky than in other part of the world and this is causingsea ice and glaciers to melt.

Read the riddle and guess the landscape feature.

This is made of frozen water. It's constantly changing.

You can find it especially in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Many of them are getting smaller. It's a..........

• glacial

• gracier

• sloth

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight.

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Where can you see the Northern Lights from?

• South Africa

• Northern Canada

• The Basque Country

• Patagonia

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

These lights usually appear green, but can be pink, purple, and sometimes even red.

Complete the sentences. Use the words in blackets.

Last year hurricane was ____ (bad) disaster in the last 20 years?

Jeanne's car is ___ (good) car in the neighbourhood.

• the baddest

  the godest

• the worse

  the goodest

• worst

  best

• the worst

  the best

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

Hurricanes rotate around a circular centre called the “eye“, where it is generally calm with no clouds.

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Complete the sentences. Use the words in blackets.

 The Antarctic is ____ (windy) place in the world. 

Mount Fuji is ___ (famous) volcano in Japan. 

The Lambert Glacier is ___ (big) in the world.

• windiest

  the most famous

  biggest

• the windyest

  the most famous

  the bigest

• the windiest

  the most famous

  the biggest

• the windyest

  the famousest

  the biiggest

Answer explanation

Did you know that...

Fuji-san means "wealth" and "man of status".

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How do you say these words in your language? 

Are any of them similar?

• elur-ekaitza

  uholdeak

  urakana

  lehortea

  glaziarra

  idor

• elurtea

  uholdeak

  haize bortitza

  bustia

  glaziala

  hezea

• elurra

  huoldeak

  haize gogorra

  bustia

  glaziala

  hezea

• elurtea

  uholdeak

  haize bortitza

  hezeagoa

  glaziala

  lehorrena

Answer explanation

Help our planet!

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