This week’s questions are the winning questions from the national Bee, starting with the winning question from 1989.
1. Name the flat intermontane area located at an elevation of about 10,000 feet in the central Andes.
2. Mount Erebus is a volcano on which continent?
3. What type of landform is commonly associated with orographic precipitation?
4. Many coastal countries have established so-called EEZs — areas extending 200 nautical miles from shore over which countries have sovereign rights for resource exploration. What do the initials EEZ stand for?
5. Tagalog is one of the three main native languages of which island country in Asia?
6. The Tagus River roughly divides which European country into two agricultural regions?
7. Pashtu and Dari are the official languages of which mountainous, landlocked country in central Asia?
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GEO QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Altiplano 2. Antarctica 3. Mountain (Also acceptable: hill, any term which implies an elevated barrier) 4. Exclusive Economic Zone 5. Philippines 6. Portugal 7. Afghanistan
