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QUESTION 1

Only in the tropics is the Sun ever directly overhead.

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Correct Answer: Fact

Only in the tropicsareas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorndoes the Sun ever appear directly overhead. Only
those areas ever receive the rays of the sun truly vertically.

QUESTION 2

There are no places on Earth that have not been surveyed.

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Earth has been thoroughly mapped, but portions, such as the highest mountains, have not been surveyed by traditional methods. Satellites
are able to make accurate measurements, however.

QUESTION 3

The location of the South Pole is constant.

Your Answer: Fact

Correct Answer: Fiction

The South Pole shifts in its location about 33 feet (10 meters) each year. This is because of changes in the size of the Antarctic ice cap.

QUESTION 4

Earths sea level is about 100 meters high.

Your Correct Answer: Fiction

Sea level is de ned as zero. It is the position of the air-sea interface, to which elevations and depths are referred. Mountains are well above
sea level, and submarine canyons are well below it.

QUESTION 5

Latitude and longitude can be used to describe any location on Earth.

Your Answer: Fiction

Correct Answer: Fact

Lines of latitude describe positions north or south of the equator. Lines of longitude describe positions east or west of the Greenwich, or
prime, meridian.

QUESTION 6

The North Pole is found over solid earth.

Your Correct Answer: Fiction

The North Pole is located on an ice-capped portion of the Arctic Sea.

QUESTION 7

In some places, the Sun never rises or sets at least once a year.

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Between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole and between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole, the Sun never sets on at least one
summer day and never rises on at least one winter day.

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NASA scientists identi ed the place that receives the greatest amount of sunlight as a point directly on the Equator, east of Kiribati, in the
Paci c Ocean.

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