You begin with two Europe countries/US states shown in the grid. Upon starting, your job is to sort the countries/states in order from largest to smallest by max elevation (so countries/states with the highest max elevation first). The order is represented by the '1st' thru '16th' in each box. You can click on a country/state to move it to a higher position in the list - simply click once and it will turn red, then clicked another higher-ranked country/state to position the first country/state before it. Click submit to check your answers...if they are in order you will get a new country/state added to the end which needs to be positioned correctly, and so on until you either get one wrong or complete all 15 levels.
PLEASE NOTE: Only the portions of each country geographically in Europe are counted to determine the highest points. So no Asian portion of Turkey/Russia, African portion of Spain/Portugal, Greenland, etc.
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This quiz doesn’t make much sense. “Combined statistical areas” based on what criteria? These are clearly not based on metropolitan areas. Just speaking of the western US: There’s nothing for San Diego/Carlsbad CA, Bakersfield/Visalia, CA, Santa Rosa/Napa, CA, Flagstaff, AZ, St George, UT, and whatever that thing is on the map in western Colorado is mostly rural and ski resorts, and doesn’t include Grand Junction. And there’s all kinds of cities in Texas missing from the list. It seems like a five year old decided what should be included here, and not.
CSA based on the OMB’s definition which the census uses (see directions).
Why isn’t Phoenix on this quiz?
Well, I think it’s basically because Phoenix isn’t a CSA. As to why, I think it all bows down to the criteria used by the guys who think this stuff up. San Antonio and Austin for instance aren’t there either.
Yeah. Five major metropolitan areas aren’t considered CSAs: San Antonio, Austin, Anchorage, Honolulu and Phoenix.
I see two cities of over 1,000,000 people, three state capitals and three largest cities in their states in those five.
And that doesn’t take Laredo, Billings and Sioux Falls into account!
You can add San Diego and Tampa-St Petersburg to that list.
Louisville now added to this list that makes no sense whatsoever