Geography Awareness Week Posted on November 17th, 2011 by Anna Versluis

Geography Prof. Bob Douglas (in black) and band, The Floodplain Four, play some awesome Dixieland jazz in honor of Geography Awareness Week.

Matt Bye and Carl Cronin are the friendly faces at the Geography Awareness Week table.

Congratulations to Amy Hughes for winning the raffle-trivia contest on Tuesday!

Trivia questions and answers:

1. Which US state has the biggest dairy industry? (California)

2. The Earth is closest to the Sun in what month? (January)

3. The peak global population growth ever reached occurred during which decade? (1960s)

4. Turfgrass can be considered our largest “crop” in the US; lawns cover an area almost as large as what state? (Florida)