Northern Mariana Islands: Divulged Quiz

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1. What does the terrain of the southern islands in the Northern Mariana Islands consist of?

Answer: Limestone

Those islands have level terraces with coral reefs. Limestone is a sedimentary rock.

2. What is the terrain of the northern part of the Northern Mariana Islands?

Answer: Volcanic

Active volcanoes exist on the islands of Anatahan, Pagan and Agrihan. The first ever eruption on Anatahan occurred in May 2003, which formed a crater in the eastern caldera.

3. What word best describes the Northern Mariana Islands' climate?

Answer: Tropical

Its climate is a tropical marine one. It's moderated by trade winds that come seasonally and/or from the northwest.

4. What explorer first explored the area?

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan landed on nearby Guam in 1521. He left three days after he landed on Guam.

5. In the northern part of the Northern Mariana Islands, there is a group of islands called the Maug Islands. During World War II, what did the Japanese use the islands for?

Answer: A manned weather station

The Maug Islands are made up of three islands: North, East, and West Island. I don't believe Emperor Hirohito had a beach house. However, an army base did exist on Tinian during World War II.

6. What is the largest ethnic group in the Northern Mariana Islands?

Answer: Filipino

In 2009, Filipinos made up over 29% of the population. Chinese people made up about 22.1% of the population. The indigenous Chamorros made up around 21.3% of the population. Asian people, as a whole, made up approximately 56.3% of the population. Pacific Islanders, as a whole, made up over 36.3% of the population. Only 1.8% of the population is Caucasian.

7. Which of these countries have the Northern Mariana Islands NOT belonged to?

Answer: China

The Northern Mariana Islands are a commonwealth of the United States. After World War II, the United States administered the islands under the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. During World War II, when Japan declared war on Germany, they invaded the Northern Mariana Islands and would hold them until the end of World War II.

After the Spanish-American War, Spain gave neighboring Guam to the United States and sold the Northern Mariana Islands to Germany, as well as the Marshall Islands and the Caroline Islands. China has never owned the Northern Mariana Islands.

8. Which of these industries is the largest on the islands?

Answer: Tourism

Most tourists in the NMI are Korean or Japanese. Tourism employs about half the work force. Agriculture production is a very minor in the islands, the chief crops are coconuts, breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons. Electrical production is very insignificant, 100% of the electricity comes from fossil fuels.

9. What is the northernmost island in the Northern Mariana Islands?

Answer: Farallon de Pajaros

Its coordinates are approximately 20�N and 144�E. Farallon de Pajaros is a stratovolcano that has a land area of 0.985 square miles. Saipan and Tinian are both inhabited islands in the southern part of the Northern Mariana Islands. The nearest Northern Mariana Islands are the Maug Islands.

10. What is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands?

Answer: Saipan

Saipan is also the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. It has traditionally been the most populated of the islands. Saipan's area is 44.55 square miles.

11. How many municipalities do the Northern Mariana Islands have?

Answer: 4

The municipalities are the Northern Islands Municipality, which has an extremely low population, all of them live on Alamagan. The land area of the Tinian municipality is 41.738 square miles. The Saipan municipality consists of only Saipan and the Rota municipality consists only of the island of Rota, the southernmost island of the Northern Mariana Islands and the second southernmost of the Mariana Islands chain, only Guam is more southern.

The Rota municipality has an area of 32.97 square miles.

12. The mining of what substance was a small industry on Pagan after the eruption in 1981?

Answer: Pozzolan

Pozzolan is commonly used in cement, and can also reduce the cost. Silicon is an element that is sometimes used in computer chips. Phosphate is an inorganic chemical that is used in fertilizer. Guano is basically the urine of seabirds, bats, and seals, it is often used in fertilizer and is a very good gunpowder ingredient.

13. During World War II, the American atomic bomb attack on Japan was launched from what island?

Answer: Tinian

During the Battle of Tinian, American forces successfully captured Tinian. After the battle, two airfields were built.

14. Out of the southern Northern Mariana Islands, what is the smallest?

Answer: Aguijan

Aguijan's total area is 2.738 square miles and it is uninhabited. It is part of the Tinian municipality.

15. What is the highest point in the Northern Mariana Islands?

Answer: Mount Agrihan

Mount Agrihan rises 3,166 above the surface of the ocean. Agrihan is the second largest island in the northern islands of the NMI. Mount Agrihan is the highest point in Micronesia. Agrihan's total area is 16.80 square miles. Mount Tapochau is 1,560 feet high and is the highest point on Saipan. Mount Alamagan is 2,441 feet high. Mount Pagan is located on Pagan island and is a stratovolcano 1,870 feet above sea level.

Source: Author Pejikr

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The Northern Mariana Islands are a Commonwealth of the United States of America. They occupy a strategic region of the Western Pacific. I hope you have fun taking the quiz! Good luck!

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