What did Atlas carry on his shoulders ?
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okay- this MUST be a trick!
He carried the celestial spheres, NOT the world!
Yes, correct.
He carried the sky, if you like.
In Morocco we have the Atlas mountains, so called because they were supposed to support the sky like Atlas.
It was the Flemish cartographer Mercator who used an image of Atlas holding up the world on his books of maps known as Mercator's Atlas and the name and image stuck.
He carried the sky, if you like.
In Morocco we have the Atlas mountains, so called because they were supposed to support the sky like Atlas.
It was the Flemish cartographer Mercator who used an image of Atlas holding up the world on his books of maps known as Mercator's Atlas and the name and image stuck.
What provides more than 50% of the world's oxygen ?
Heavens above - what a question!
algae or is it Algeria I always get the 2 mixed up
The skies the limit in this quiz.
Easily done.
Algeria is our neighbouring country and I worked there for a bit.
Not too many algae, mainly desert so it doesn't produce much oxygen, I suppose.
Most people say trees or the rain forest, but most adult trees actually use more oxygen than they produce, it's young trees that make a lot of oxygen during growth.
Oceanic algae is the right answer, producing, some say, up to 90% of our oxygen.
10 pts.
I'm glad its not any higher
I went to a party on the moon once but I didn't stay long - there was no atmosphere
So, apart from the devastating damage to the environment, at least as far as oxygen levels go, we'd be better off chopping down the forests and planting new trees!
I made the mistake of saying trees in a quiz a while back, good job I remembered the answer,
I went to that same party.
All those ballunes.
Pretty much what they are doing in lots of managed forests now and replacing them with native species
Well the quiz book was made from trees, i guess, so it may have influenced your answer.
Full of lunatics too
Hi Gillian not right but a very good answer all the same!
Good answer, but no.
6 c's? I would be furious.
the answer was Antarctica.
Evening, Gillian, hope you and Oli are well.
Sometimes a good thing, sometimes not, i guess.
