WONDER #2503: What is the Continental Divide?

Question 1 of 3

The world’s longest continental divide is called the Continental Divide of the Americas or...

1. the European Watershed
2. the Great Divide
3. the Congo-Nile Divide
4. the Great Dividing Range

Question 2 of 3

The Great Divide aligns with which major mountain ranges?

1. The Andes Mountains and Rocky Mountains
2. The Swiss Alps and the Himalayas
3. The Appalachian Mountains and Alaska Range
4. The Jura Mountains and Japanese Alps

Question 3 of 3

This Wonder was mostly about...

1. how difficult it is to hike the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail.
2. why Antarctica doesn’t have a continental divide.
3. what a continental divide is and examples of different continental divides.
4. which continent has the most continental divides.

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