Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Climate IQ

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Take a brain break and answer these questions:
  1. What is the world's largest desert
  2. How many square miles is this desert
  3. What is the highest temperature recorded in this desert
If you answered:
  1. The Sahara
  2. 3.5 million square miles [approximately the same size as the United States - extra credit]
  3. 136°F [recorded September 1922... before global warming - extra credit]
You are absolutely incorrect!



The answers are:
  1. Antarctica
  2. 7°F
  3. 5.5 million square miles
Although it is covered in frozen water, it is the driest place on earth with less than 2" of precipitation annually [source].


Not everything about climate is obvious.

2012 IS GETTING CLOSER

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