There are several pronunciations, depending on how posh the speaker is (or pretends to be) - the one that sounds the most odd to American ears is "GLASS-ee-ur."
Basically, either pronounce it with the first syllable to rhyme with 'mass', or with the first syllable to rhyme with 'place'. Some prefer the renegade 'glaysher' version...!
There are two ice caves in Slovakia (Dobsinska and Demanovska), same amount as in Romania, yet Slovakia is not on the list and Romania is. If it was up to me, I wouldn't count ice caves as glaciers. But it's up to Quizmaster to decide. ;-)
It definitely needs more time, on tablet I can only type in 35 countries and then time is up... So even while knowing the answers I wont ne able to finish this quiz. (I might not have thought of Indoesia, but if that is the only one left..)
Altitude is more of a predictor of glacier-having than latitude. A country with hot low-lying areas that has some tall mountains is more likely to have glaciers than a country with colder low-lying areas that has no tall mountains. The sky is always cold, bro.
This article suggests existence of glaciers within Uzbekistan (and not just 1 or 2 of them, but hundreds of them) in northeastern Tashkent viloyat. Thus I suggest adding Uzbekistan to this quiz. We'll have to remove countries from this quiz pretty soon, let us add some while we still can do so.
From Nat Geo: "Glaciers are massive bodies of slowly moving ice. Glaciers form on land, and they are made up of fallen snow that gets compressed into ice over many centuries. They move slowly downward from the pull of gravity.
Most of the world’s glaciers exist in the polar regions, in areas like Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and Antarctica. Glaciers also can be found closer to the Equator in some mountain regions. The Andes Mountain range in South America contains some of the world’s largest tropical glaciers. About 2 percent of all the water on Earth is frozen in glaciers.
Glaciers can range in age from a couple hundred to thousands of years old. Most glaciers today are remnants of the massive ice sheets that covered Earth during the Ice Age. The Ice Age ended more than 10,000 years ago. During Earth’s history, there have been colder periods—when glaciers formed—and warmer periods—when glaciers melted."
http://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Aragats
In fact the only named glacier in the Rwenzori Mountains on Google Maps, the Emin Glacier, is in the DR Congo
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Finland is surprisingly flat.
This article suggests existence of glaciers within Uzbekistan (and not just 1 or 2 of them, but hundreds of them) in northeastern Tashkent viloyat. Thus I suggest adding Uzbekistan to this quiz. We'll have to remove countries from this quiz pretty soon, let us add some while we still can do so.
(edit: but not, it seems, replies of replies of replies though :p )
Most of the world’s glaciers exist in the polar regions, in areas like Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and Antarctica. Glaciers also can be found closer to the Equator in some mountain regions. The Andes Mountain range in South America contains some of the world’s largest tropical glaciers. About 2 percent of all the water on Earth is frozen in glaciers.
Glaciers can range in age from a couple hundred to thousands of years old. Most glaciers today are remnants of the massive ice sheets that covered Earth during the Ice Age. The Ice Age ended more than 10,000 years ago. During Earth’s history, there have been colder periods—when glaciers formed—and warmer periods—when glaciers melted."