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Antarctica

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1. Is the continent of Antarctica larger or smaller than the United States?

 

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2. The world's coldest temperature ever recorded was at an Antarctic research station. Would you guess that frigid thermometer reading to be (in degrees Fahrenheit):

  • -85 °
  • -129 °
  • -210 °
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3. In what year did the Norwegian Roald Amundsen become the first to reach the South Pole :

  • 1951
  • 1911
  • 1856

 

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    1. larger . . . approximately 1.5 times the size of the United States

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    2. 129 (128.6) degrees below zero was recorded in 1983

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    3. 14 December 1911

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