Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Extreme heat shuts schools in Bangladesh
How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
In a throwback to college activism of the past, large antiwar demonstrations affect dozens of campuses across America for a second week. University students have set up tent camps from Boston to California to protest how Israel is retaliating in...
How sun storms can affect electronics on Earth
To most people, the sun is a steady, never-changing source of heat and light. But to scientists, it’s a dynamic star, constantly in flux, sending energy out into space. Experts say the sun is now in its most active period in two decades. And, its sol...
This week's word in the news: BARRICADE
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Demonstrators supporting and opposing Israel over the war in Gaza clashed in a large and noisy but mostly peaceful assembly at UCLA on Sunday, shouting slogans and pulling at police barricades not far from where pro-Palestinian students have maintained a tent encampment for days.
The Los Angeles Times -- 04/29/2024
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