MMA Question of the Day: 02/03/99

MATH: Cadets use sun lines to assist them in navigation. cadet Crocker said that the sun is 1,392,000 kilometers (km) in diameter. Express this value in scientific notation.

SCIENCE: When people swim and snorkel they are mostly submerged in water and they often cool off. They loose body heat three methods, conduction, convection, and radiation. By which method is the most body heat lost?

GEOGRAPHY: Name the Capital of the US virgin Islands. Where is it located?

HISTORY: Name the frontier general who battled the Seminole Indians in Florida. He later became the seventh President of the United States.

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