Appendix B: Answers to Chapter 2 Quiz,

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Item	Answer
Surface temperature of the Sun	10,000°F/ 6,000°C
Latitude of Shanghai	31 degrees North
Area of the Asian continent	17,139,000 square miles 44,390,000 square kilometers
The year of Alexander the Great's birth	356 BC
Total value of U.S. currency in circulation in 2004	$719.9 billion [*]
Total volume of the Great Lakes	5,500 cubic miles 23,000 cubic kilometers 2.4 x 10^22 cubic feet 6.8 x 10^20 cubic meters 1.8 x 10^23 U.S. gallons 6.8 x 10^23 liters
Worldwide box office receipts for the movie Titanic	$1.835 billion[*]
Total length of the coastline of the Pacific Ocean	84,300 miles 135,663 kilometers
Number of book titles published in the U.S. since 1776	22 million
Heaviest blue whale ever recorded	380,000 pounds 190 English tons 170,000 kilograms 170 metric tons
[*]Billions are U.S. billions (that is, 10^9) rather than British billions (10^12)‥