BRAINS
Geography 1998
Questions

 

 

 

1.   What's the limit, in sea miles, of the Brazilian territorial waters?

   

 

2.   What is the river is on the border of Amapá and French Guiana?

    

3.   The Amazon region spreads through 9 countries of South America, including Brazil. How  

      much per cent of the forest is in Brazilian territory?

    

       4.   Bananal Island (Ilha do Bananal) is the largest fluvial island in the world (a fluvial island is in       a river,        not in the sea). The question is: In what Brazilian state is it located?

      

5.   Suez Canal, in Egypt, built between 1859/69, connects two seas. What are they?

    

 

6.  In 1883, two thirds of an island in Indonesia were destroyed by the eruption of a volcano. 

     More than 34,000 people were killed in an explosion 7,000 times more powerful than the   
     atomic bomb of Hiroshima. The question is: What volcano is that?

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