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Exercises

37.1 Complete these sentences, as in the example.
Example: The Nile is ...4.10VeKr.......
OAmANNABWN The Sahara is ............000ccccccecceeeececee ens .
KH The Atlantic is 000.00 ccceeeeeeeeeseeeees .
The Alps are ....00...00ccccccceeccetec .
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GIECCE IS ooo es .
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The Amazon is ...........000cccceceecceeeeeeeeeeeeeenes .
The Mediterranean is ..........0.00.0000ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeees .
The Bahamas is ............0.0000cccecccceceeeceeeeees .
Africa 18 ooo. cccceceeceeeeeeeeeeeenes :
Crete and Corsica are 0.0.00... ccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeveeeeeees .
10 Everest is the highest .........0.000.0cccccccceteccee in the world.
11 Michigan and Eyrie are two of the Great... ccc .
12 The ‘Great Bear’ is a group Of 00.0.0... cece .

37.2 Fill the gaps in the text with the if necessary.

_ My journey took me across........ Atlantic Ocean from .,...... Europe to ........ South America.
I travelled through ........ Amazon rainforest and down through the interior of ........ Brazil as
faras........ Iguacu Falls. From there | headed north again, through Bolivia, round ......... Lake
Titikaka and up to Cuzco. Then I crossed ........ Andes and finally arrived in Lima. For the last
part of the journey | flew to........ Jamaicain........ West Indies.
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37.3 What disaster is being described in each of these sentences?
37.4
1 It lifted a car about ten feet off the ground, and then we saw it disappear down the street.
2 It was about two metres deep and we watched as most of our furniture just floated away.
3 The grass turned yellow and most of the crops died.
4 The walls began to move visibly, and large cracks opened up in the ground.
5 We could see the lava slowly advancing towards the town just ten miles away.

Can you name everything marked
on this map? Write your answers next
to the symbols.

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