NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 27, 2015

Q: Weekend earthquakes in Nepal killed more than 11,000, injured thousands more and destroyed about 70,000 houses. Where is Nepal?

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Q: A devastating earthquake was followed by very powerful aftershocks that kept tens of thousands of people camped out on the streets of the nation's capital . . .

A. Delhi

B. Kathmandu

C. Lhasa

D. Thimphu

B. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has about 1.2 million residents. The epicenter of Saturday's 7.8 magnitude quake was about 50 miles northwest of the capital city. It was followed by a series of aftershocks as strong as 6.7 magnitude.

Q: The shaking also triggered huge avalanches on Mount Everest where many climbers were killed. Nepal is located in which mountain range?

A. Andes

B. Alps

C. Caucasus

D. Himalayas

D. The mountainous north of Nepal has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest point on Earth on Mount Everest. Helicopters were trying to airlift the Mount Everest injured to Kathmandu where other helicopters were bringing emergency aid to the capital.

Q: What force created both the earthquakes and the Himalaya Mountains?

A. Glacial

B. Subsidence

C. Tectonic

D. Stratification

C. The collision of the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasion plate lifted the world's highest mountain range and makes Nepal one of the most seismically active regions in the world. The two great slabs of the Earth's crust are converging at a relative rate of about two inches a year.

Q: Many nations are rushing aid to Nepal, and rescue teams were sent by its neighbors . . .

A. India and China

B. India and Tibet

C. China and Bangladesh

D. China and Bhutan

A. Nepal is bordered to the north by China and to the south, east and west by India.