Answers To: Significant Sites

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
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  1. A, 4; B, 3; C, 1; D, 2

  2. True. Aconcagua is in the Andes, shared by Argentina and Chile, and reaches 22,834 feet.

  3. A, 3; B, 4; C, 5; D, 1; E, 2

  4. True. It's the 600-mile-long Atacama Desert. Valuable for its nitrate deposits, Chile annexed it from Peru in the War of the Pacific (1879 to 1883).

  5. A, 4; B, 5; C, 6; D, 3; E, 1; F, 2

  6. False. Tugela Falls is in South Africa.

  7. B. Unfortunately, many of New Zealand's geysers have been destroyed by recent geothermal-energy development.

  8. True. Dedicated in 1954, it is a major tourist attraction.

  9. False. Australia is the only continent without glaciers. (Based upon the seven accepted continental divisions of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.)

  10. True. Mt. Waialeale feeds seven rivers on Kauai.