Mission #4: the debrief

1. 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

2. Name a country with a coastline on the Red Sea.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti

Jet Stream (850 m): Jordan

Updraft (600 m): Eritrea, Israel

Drifter (300 m): Sudan, Yemen

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Saudi Arabia

3. Name a capital city that sits on the Danube.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bratislava

Updraft (600 m): Belgrade

Ballast (100 m): Vienna, Budapest

4. Name a country whose flag features at least one star.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Nauru

Jet Stream (850 m): Cabo Verde, Burkina Faso, Togo, Liberia, Djibouti, Tajikistan, Comoros, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Burundi, Slovenia, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Equatorial Guinea

Updraft (600 m): Ghana, Somalia, Cuba, Syria, Panama, Myanmar, Venezuela, Senegal, Singapore, Algeria, Tunisia, Malaysia, Jordan, North Korea, Philippines, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Libya, Mauritania, Honduras, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Samoa

Drifter (300 m): Turkey, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, Morocco, Pakistan

Ballast (100 m): United States, China, Vietnam

5. Name a city south of the equator with over 1 million people (metro).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mbuji-Mayi

Jet Stream (850 m): Lubumbashi, Antananarivo, Lusaka, Harare, Maputo, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Cordoba, Rosario, Bandung

Updraft (600 m): Montevideo, Luanda, Kinshasa, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Salvador, Brasilia, Adelaide, La Paz, Asuncion, Pretoria, Surabaya

Drifter (300 m): Lima, Santiago, Jakarta, Auckland, Brisbane, Perth, Durban

Decoy (150 m): Melbourne, Johannesburg, Cape Town

Ballast (100 m): Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires

6. Name a sea or ocean that touches Russia.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pechora Sea

Jet Stream (850 m): Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, White Sea, Chukchi Sea

Updraft (600 m): Sea of Okhotsk, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Sea of Azov

Drifter (300 m): Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea

Ballast (100 m): Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Black Sea

7. Name an African country whose name starts with M.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mauritius

Updraft (600 m): Mauritania, Malawi

Drifter (300 m): Mali, Mozambique

Ballast (100 m): Morocco, Madagascar