Not enough time, I didnt even get around to reading the last couple of questions. Only enough time if all your first guesses are correct without having to think about them and without a single spelling mistake.
People like to debate this but 1) there are very few encyclopaedias, geography textbooks etc that count it as an island, 2) you are GIVEN Greenland as #1
Due to Australia's largely accepted status as a continent, it generally is considered to be too large to be an island like the Americas and Eurasia. It's an island, but it's not an island, if you catch my drift.
Well the difference is Eurasia as well as the Americas are filled with numerous countries while Australia is just one country. I totally agree that is an island by definition, I don't understand how anyone can argue against that.
Saying it is "too big to be an island" is pure BS to be honest. There is no set size that determines what is and isn't an island.
How about this for an argument? Every other continent consist of the main landmass and adjacent islands. For example mainland Europe and British Isles, mainland Asia and Japan, Phillipines, etc.
Now, is it more logical to say that Oceania consist of the mainland (Australia) and adjacent islands (NZ, Tasmania, New Guinea, etc.)? Or is it more logical to say that the "continent" of Oceania only consist of islands without any continental mainland?
I'm not saying which one is correct, but I would really like to hear your reasoning, if you think the latter.
With a 3 minute clock, I had 30 seconds left with one misspelling, five incorrect initial guesses and one question that I needed more than 2 guesses and I am the epitome of the average typist. 3 seems fair to me. BTW really liked the quiz. Hard to believe that Haiti isn't the worst in some economic statistic in the Western Hemisphere considering the disparity between it and the other country 25-30 years ago.
Generally seemed pretty easy. I think I would've had a harder time guessing some of the #1's actually. I would never have guessed University of Bologna, and I would've probably guessed Venezuela after Haiti, El Salvador, and a few other Central American countries.
I used to argue with teachers that Australia was in island, because of it being completely surrounded by water, as was North+South America an island, and also Africa+Eurasia...but I was wrong to do that. I am now aware that the surface of the earth is 1 single land mass and none of it is *surrounded* by water... part of it is *covered* in water and part of it is not.
Urban areas are, by definition, more densely populated than suburban or rural areas, and city-states like Monaco and Singapore are almost entirely urban areas. In order for Bangladesh to have the same population density of Monaco, it would have to have a population of nearly 3 billion people.
"Darn Mercator!"
- it is fully surrounded with water.
- unlike Eurasia, it is part of a continent.
- actually unlike New Guinea, it's part of one country (and not even the entire country due to Tasmania)
Saying it is "too big to be an island" is pure BS to be honest. There is no set size that determines what is and isn't an island.
bah-dum chhhh
Now, is it more logical to say that Oceania consist of the mainland (Australia) and adjacent islands (NZ, Tasmania, New Guinea, etc.)? Or is it more logical to say that the "continent" of Oceania only consist of islands without any continental mainland?
I'm not saying which one is correct, but I would really like to hear your reasoning, if you think the latter.
come on... :(
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Source: https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population-dashboard