Continent, Country, City Clues
for March 18, 2019
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Mystery Class #1

"The water on our continent makes quite a splash. In addition to having one of the longest rivers on the planet, this continent also has what many consider to be one of the highest waterfalls."


Mystery Class #2

"How on Earth did the first people on our continent possibly walk here from a neighboring continent, when there's a sea between us? Scientists believe some sort of bridge existed, thousands of years ago."


Mystery Class #3

"Our continent? That's a good question -- some say we're part of one, others say we're part of another."


Mystery Class #4

"Does this picture remind you of autumn leaves? That's what Astronaut Scott Kelly thought when he snapped this photo of Earth from space and tweeted 'Happy #FirstDayofFall' -- a perfect seasonal description for part of our continent in just a few days. You can dip your toes in two oceans from our continent, but the Pacific isn't among them."

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NASA

Image from space
Mystery Class #5

"Follow the money! On this continent, many separate countries use the same currency."


Mystery Class #6

"Say what? There are so many different languages spoken on our continent, that it has one of the highest number of languages of all the continents."

 

Mystery Class #7

"No matter how you measure it -- people, miles, or kilometers --  there are no continents larger than the one we are part of."

Mystery Class #8

"Did you feel that? In our ring of the world, shaky places are all around."


Mystery Class #9

"I like to think I know the shape of this continent like the shape of the back of my hand."

 

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Hand
Mystery Class #10

"My name was changed, but my elevation wasn't -- I'm still the highest on this continent."

 

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Nic McPhee/ CC BY-SA 2.0

Mountain