Mission #11: the debrief

1. Name a lake in Africa.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Natron

Jet Stream (850 m): Edward, Kariba, Tana

Updraft (600 m): Turkana, Albert, Kivu, Volta, Nasser

Drifter (300 m): Tanganyika, Malawi, Chad

Ballast (100 m): Victoria

2. Name a country whose capital is not its largest city.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Liechtenstein (Capital: Vaduz)

Jet Stream (850 m): Belize (Capital: Belmopan), Malta (Capital: Valletta), Myanmar (Capital: Naypyidaw), Cameroon (Capital: Yaoundé)

Updraft (600 m): Morocco (Capital: Rabat), Vietnam (Capital: Hanoi), Tanzania (Capital: Dodoma), Ivory Coast (Capital: Yamoussoukro), Kazakhstan (Capital: Astana), South Africa (Capitals: Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town), Bolivia (Capitals: Sucre, La Paz), Ecuador (Capital: Quito)

Drifter (300 m): Turkey, India (Capital: New Delhi), Nigeria (Capital: Abuja), New Zealand (Capital: Wellington), Pakistan (Capital: Islamabad), China (Capital: Beijing)

Decoy (150 m): Switzerland (Capital: Bern)

Ballast (100 m): Australia (Capital: Canberra), United States (Capital: Washington D.C.), Canada (Capital: Ottawa), Brazil (Capital: Brasília)

3. Name a country that shares a land border with China.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Afghanistan

Updraft (600 m): Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Drifter (300 m): North Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal, Kazakhstan

Ballast (100 m): India, Russia, Mongolia

4. Name a country that uses the euro.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kosovo

Jet Stream (850 m): Andorra, Montenegro

Updraft (600 m): Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Finland

Decoy (150 m): Monaco, Vatican City, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Germany, France, Italy, Spain

5. Name a desert (not the Sahara).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Atacama Puna, Lut, Dasht-e Lut

Jet Stream (850 m): Karakum, Kyzylkum, Dasht-e Kavir, Patagonian, Danakil, Tanami, Gibson

Updraft (600 m): Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Taklamakan, Rub al Khali, Simpson, Negev, Syrian

Drifter (300 m): Mojave, Sonoran, Namib, Arabian, Thar, Great Victoria

Decoy (150 m): Antarctica, Antarctic, Arctic

Ballast (100 m): Gobi, Atacama, Kalahari

6. Name a country the equator passes through.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kiribati

Jet Stream (850 m): Maldives, Sao Tome and Principe

Updraft (600 m): Republic of the Congo, DR Congo, Somalia

Drifter (300 m): Colombia, Indonesia, Uganda, Gabon

Ballast (100 m): Brazil, Ecuador, Kenya

7. Name a landlocked country in Europe (like Switzerland).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Armenia

Jet Stream (850 m): North Macedonia, Kosovo

Updraft (600 m): Slovakia, Serbia, Moldova

Drifter (300 m): Hungary, Czechia, Luxembourg, Belarus

Decoy (150 m): Liechtenstein, Andorra, Vatican City, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Switzerland, Austria