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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Sahara Desert

What is the lowest point in the Sahara Desert?

Answer

Qattara Depression

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Sahara Desert

What is the name of the African initiative to create a restored belt of vegetation across the Sahara’s southern edge?

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Great Green Wall

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Sahara Desert

What is the famous archaeological plateau in Algeria known for its prehistoric rock art?

Answer

Tassili n’Ajjer

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Sahara Desert

Which major river flows through the Sahara Desert and reaches the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer

Nile

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Sahara Desert

What is the highest mountain in the Sahara Desert?

Answer

Emi Koussi

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Sahara Desert

Approximately how large is the Sahara Desert, the world’s largest hot desert?

Answer

9.2 million square kilometres

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Amazon Rainforest

Which large cat is the top land predator of the Amazon Rainforest?

Answer

Jaguar

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Amazon Rainforest

Which tree native to the Amazon produces the edible nuts called Brazil nuts?

Answer

Brazil nut tree

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Amazon Rainforest

Which country contains the largest area of the Amazon Rainforest’s protected Tumucumaque Mountains National Park?

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Brazil

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Amazon Rainforest

Which Amazonian river is famous for its clear, turquoise water and forms part of Brazil’s major river system?

Answer

Tapajós River

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• The Amazon Rainforest

Which 1964 book by Rachel Carson helped inspire modern environmental awareness relevant to rainforest conservation?

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Silent Spring

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• The Amazon Rainforest

Which water type usually carries the nutrient-rich floodwaters of Amazonian várzea forests?

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Whitewater

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