Homework:
Complete the geography assignment from today, if not done. It's posted to the right.
Return the math test from today, signed.
Thursday we're going to stuff scarecrows. Please sign the permission form.
There is a Geography test tomorrow.
(Completing today's assignment will prepare you pretty well for the test)
The test will ask students about their knowledge of the following:
Height/Depth and Location of:
Depth of the Marianas Trench (deepest point in the oceans) - 10,994 meters
Average depth of the Atlantic Ocean - 3,339 metres
Average depth of the Pacific Ocean - 3657 meters
Average depth of the Indian Ocean - 3960 meters
Average depth of the Arctic Ocean - 3406 meters
Deepest point of Lake Ontario - 244 meters
Deepest point of Lake Erie - 64 meters
Deepest point of Lake Superior - 406 meters
Deepest point of Lake Michigan - 281 meters
Deepest point of Huron - 229 meters
Deepest point of Lake Baikal (deepest lake in the world) - 1642 meters
Height of Mount Everest (tallest mountain in the world) - 8,848 meters
Height of Mount Logan (tallest mountain in Canada) - 5959 meters
Average height of the Rockies - 4401 meters
Average height of the Andes - 6962 meters
Average height of the Alps - 4801 meters
Average height of the Himalayas - 8000 meters
Height of Blue Mountain - 452 meters
Area and Location of:
Amazon Rainforest 5 500 000 km2
Congo Rainforest - 3 700 000 km2
Valdivian Rainforest - 248 000km2
Daintree Rainforest - 1200 km2
Southeast Asian Rainforest - 2 880 000km2
Great Bear Rainforest - 64 000km2
Russian Taiga - 2 156 900km2
Canadian Boreal Forest - 3 000 000km2
Area and Location of:
Sahara desert - 9 400 000km2
Arabian desert - 3 700 000km2
Kalahari desert - 248 000km2
Gobi desert - 1 295 000km2
Great Victoria desert - 348 750km2
Great Basin Desert desert - 190 000km2
