Homework Answers

Here are the answers to this week’s Record Breakers geography homework. When you have marked the ten questions, choose one of the locations and research some information and record it neatly in your homework book:

Answers:

  1. China has more people than any other country, over one billion. India has almost as many. The United States has 301 million, and Indonesia has 234 million people.
  2. Monaco is the country with the densest population. There are 16.2 people per square mile in this tiny country of only 0.75 square miles (1.95 square kilometers). Singapore and Bahrain are also densely populated, but China is not.
  3. All these countries are sparse in population. Namibia and Mongolia are the sparsest, with only 2 people per square mile. Australia and Botswana are more crowded — they have 3 people per square mile!
  4. Russia has an area of about six and a half million square miles (17 million square kilometers), larger than Canada, China, or the United States.
  5. Canada’s coastline, with all its bays, islands, and inlets, is the longest: 151,485 miles (243,792 kilometers).
  6. Antarctica has the world’s largest desert. It is immense. It is even larger than the Sahara in Africa.
  7. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is located partly in Tibet and partly in Nepal.
  8. The lowest point of land on the planet is at the bottom of the Dead Sea, which lies between Jordan and Israel. It’s 1342 feet (409 meters) below sea level from its shores. But it is not as deep as Lake Baikal in Russia, in the mountains; Lake Baikal has a depth of 5,315 feet (1620 meters).
  9. The capital city which lies furthest north is Reykjavik, in Iceland. Its latitude is 65 degrees north, which is very near the Arctic Circle
  10. La Paz, Bolivia at 11,811 feet (3600 meters) is much higher than Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia at 4363 feet (1330 meters), and Katmandu, Nepal at 4384 feet (1337 meters). Bern, Switzerland is much lower; it’s only 1772 feet (540 meters) high.