Module 8

1.Which is the smallest country (by territory) in the world and how small (or big) is it? Which one is the largest country (by territory) and how big is it?
Answer:

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares and a population of just over 800.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It is 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi) big and population 142 million people.
2.What caused the Dead Sea to form? What country (counrties) does the Dead Sea reside in?
Answer:

There are two contending hypotheses about the origin of the low elevation of the Dead Sea. The older hypothesis is that it lies in a true rift zone, an extension of the Red Sea Rift, or even of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa. A more recent hypothesis is that the Dead Sea basin is a consequence of a "step-over" discontinuity along the Dead Sea Transform, creating extension of the crust with consequent subsidence. Dead Sea resist in Jordan to the east and Israel to the west.
3.Which highest peak of a continent is also known as the Carstensz Pyramid ?
Answer:

Carstensz Pyramid is also known as Puncak Jaya and is the highest point of Indonesia.
4.Which is the third longest river in the world?
Answer:

The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang is the longest river in China and Asia, and the third-longest in the world.
5.Which is the deepest ocean trench in the world?
Answer:

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres . It reaches a maximum depth of about 11,033 metres.
6.Why was the famous explorer Sir Walter Raleigh placed in the Tower of London ?
Answer:

Sir Walter Raleigh was placed in the Tower of London because he had discovered Guiana and established Virginia colony of Roanoke Island in 1584.


7. What is the biggest body of water in the world?Illustrate.
Answer:

The biggest body of water in the world is Pacific Ocean 60,060,893 sq mi.
8.What is the largest desert of the world? Give a short overview of its inhabitants in the history.
Answer:

The Sahara is biggest desert in the world. It is more than 9,000,000 square kilometres. It covers most of Nothern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe.
Berbers are one of the oldest known inhabitants of the Sahara Desert.They are the people that occupied more than two thirds of the Sahara's total surface.The Garamantes Berbers built a prosperous empire in the heart of the desert.The Tuareg nomads continue, to present day, to inhabit and move across wide Sahara surfaces in Algeria, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, and Libya. Some of the oldest Berber Tifinagh inscriptions are found in Southern Algeria, Northern Mali and Niger.
9.By whose name was America named? When?
Answer:

America was named by Amerigo Vespucci. He was first to say that continent that Christopher Columbus have found is not India.
The anniversary of Columbus's 1492 landing in the Americas is usually observed as Columbus Day on October 12 in Spain and throughout the Americas, except Canada. In the United States it is observed annually on the second Monday in October.
10.Who was the famous explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru and when?
Answer:

Francisco Pizarro is famous for conquering the Incas of Peru. By AD 1533.