GK VIII-E - Chapter 24 and 25

• General knowledge
• Secondary Education
• Age 13

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World's Best Shopping Streets

Identify.

1. Fifth Avenue, New York
2. Bond street, London

Where is Rodeo Drive located?

1. Italy
2. Australia
3. London
4. Los Angeles

Identify

1. Avenue Montaigne, Paris
2. Bond street, London
3. Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich

Where is Avenue Montaigne located?

1. Spain
2. Paris
3. Switzerland

Identify.

1. Ginza, Japan
2. Bond street, London
3. Calle Serrano, Madrid
4. Via Montenapoleone, Milan

Identify.

1. Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles
2. Khan market, Delhi
3. Bond Street, London
4. Stroget, Denmark

Strøget, Denmark

Ginza, Japan

PC Hooftstraat, Netherlands

Khan Market

Khan market in Delhi is rated as the world 21st most expensive shopping street. It is the most expensive shopping street in India.

Incredible Laboratories on the Earth

NOAA Aquarius Reef Base, Florida, USA

• It is an underwater laboratory.
• It is about 18 m below the water surface.
• It conducts a variety of experiments to study the ecology of the reef and prepare astronauts for the weightlessness and solitude of the outer space.

The Pyramid Laboratory, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

• It is the world's highest terrestrial laboratory.
• It is located 5079 m (approx) above sea level at the base of Mount Everest.
• It is a three-story high, pyramid-shaped laboratory and observatory made up of glass, steel, and aluminum.
• it conducts a variety of experiments across subjects like geography, climate, human physiology and environment.

SNOLAB, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

• It is the world's deepest underground laboratory.
• It is located inside a nickel mine which is 2 km deep. The laboratory has been built in 5000 sq m of space below the ground.
• A variety of experiments in the fields of geophysics and seismology are conducted here

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA

• It is the world's highest temperature-producing laboratory.
• In February 2010, this laboratory produced a temperature of 4 trillion degrees celcius (nearly 250,000 times greater than the heat at the Sun's centre).
• This temperature, the highest ever created by humans, was achieved by colliding gold ions at a very high speed (almost the speed of light).
• This laboratory conducts a variety of experiments to know how the Earth was formed.

International Space Station, Outer Space

• It is the world's highest altitude laboratory.
• It orbits the Earth at an orbital altitude, ranging from 330 km to 435 km, with an average speed of about 28,000 km/h.
•  It is 239 feet long and 356 feet wide.
• A variety of experiments in various fields like human Biology, Meteorology, Physics and Astronomy are conducted here.
• Astronauts from 15 different countries have visited this giant moving laboratory since November 2000.

Tongue Twister Time

Let's spin the wheel

Biosphere 2

Biosphere 2 is the World's Biggest Earth Science Lab located in Oracle, Arizona, United States. It is built to recreate the Earth's ecosystem artificially in a closed environment to help people to be able to live in space for an extended period of time.