footprints: answers

geography

1. Mt Everest
2. dominant westerly winds at latitude 40ºS
3. the South Pole
4. famous whitewater rapids
5. famous climbs

entertainment

1. Meryl Streep
2. An inconvenient truth
3. Kilimanjaro
4. Homer Simpson
5. Steve Irwin

history

1. She was the 1st woman to ascend Everest.
2. The South Pole (*See below for full quote.)
3. Sydney-Hobart yacht race
4. Sir Edmund Hillary
5. 8

music

1. Andy: “Andy sang, Andy watched, Andy waited till his billy boiled …”
2. Jack Johnson
3. Aint no river wide enough
4. Deliverance
5. Kum ba yah

science & nature

1. self contained underwater breathing apparatus
2. Their pouches face backwards.
3. zero – only peahens lay eggs.
4. The South Pole
5. seahorse