Mission #7: the debrief

1. 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

2. Name a city that has hosted the Summer Olympics.

Edge of Space (1000 m): St. Louis

Jet Stream (850 m): Helsinki, Melbourne, Antwerp

Updraft (600 m): Montreal, Munich, Mexico City, Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm

Drifter (300 m): Los Angeles, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Barcelona, Atlanta, Seoul, Moscow

Ballast (100 m): London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo

3. Name a US state that borders Canada (land or lake).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pennsylvania

Jet Stream (850 m): Ohio

Updraft (600 m): Idaho, New Hampshire

Drifter (300 m): Montana, Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Vermont

Ballast (100 m): Alaska, Washington, New York

4. Name a country with a double letter in its name (like Greece).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Guinea-Bissau, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone

Updraft (600 m): Andorra, Seychelles

Drifter (300 m): Russia, Cameroon

Decoy (150 m): Morocco

Ballast (100 m): Greece, Philippines

5. Name an island nation (any ocean, no continents).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Micronesia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Kiribati, Palau, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Marshall Islands, Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe, Cabo Verde, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Brunei

Updraft (600 m): Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Bahamas, Barbados, Taiwan, Bahrain, Singapore, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Papua New Guinea

Drifter (300 m): New Zealand, Philippines, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Fiji, Indonesia

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Japan, Madagascar, Iceland

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 a country whose name starts with two consonants (like France; Y doesn't count).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Brunei

Jet Stream (850 m): Djibouti, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Rwanda

Updraft (600 m): Grenada, Slovakia, Slovenia, Chad, Chile, China, Ghana, Philippines

Drifter (300 m): Croatia, Czechia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Sri Lanka

Decoy (150 m): Bhutan

Ballast (100 m): France, Brazil, Greece