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Comparing information about different countries - answers
A. Put the countries in order of population.
B. Put the countries in order of size of area.
The order is:
The order is:
Name
China
Nigeria
Iran
United Kingdom
Burma
Morocco
Canada
Kenya
Uzbekistan
Netherlands
Chile
Guatemala
Zambia
Dominican Republic
Finland
New Zealand
Albania
Suriname
Population
1,298,847,624
131,859,731
69,018,924
60,609,153
42,720,196
33,241,259
32,507,874
32,021,856
26,410,416
16,318,199
15,823,957
14,280,596
10,462,436
8,833,634
5,214,512
3,993,817
3,544,808
436,935
Name
Canada
China
Iran
Nigeria
Chile
Zambia
Burma
Kenya
Uzbekistan
Morocco
Finland
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Suriname
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
Netherlands
Albania
Area
9,984,670
9,596,960
1,648,000
923,768
756,950
752,614
678,500
582,650
447,400
446,550
338,145
268,680
244,820
163,270
108,890
48,730
41,526
28,748
C. What can you say about the countries comparing these two lists?
Many countries stay in a similar position (eg China only moves from first to second place),
which shows that - for most countries - the larger the area, the greater the population. There
are exceptions, such as Canada and the United Kingdom.
D. Sort the cards by continent - use Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and South
America.
You need to make choices: for example, the Dominican Republic has been placed with South
America and Iran with Asia.
The cards sort as:
Africa
Nigeria
Zambia
Kenya
Morocco
Asia
China
Burma
Uzbekistan
Iran
Europe
Finland
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Albania
Oceania
New Zealand
N America
Canada
S America
Chile
Suriname
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
E. What other ways could you arrange and sort the cards?
Ordering by birth rates would show a different type of information.
You could sort by the largest religion for most countries (except Guatemala).
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