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Little round (ages 6–8): Planet Earth · Space · Plants and trees · Weather. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. What covers most of Earth's surface?
- A. thick ice
- B. desert sand
- C. ocean water
2. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
- A. Venus
- B. Earth
- C. Mercury
3. What powdery stuff do bees carry from one flower to the next?
- A. sugar
- B. sand
- C. pollen
4. Which clouds look like fluffy white cotton balls?
- A. stratus clouds
- B. cirrus clouds
- C. cumulus clouds
5. What do we call a hot spring that shoots water up into the air?
- A. a waterfall
- B. a geyser
- C. a glacier
6. Which planet is famous for its huge, bright rings?
- A. Saturn
- B. Mars
- C. Mercury
7. What do leaves use to make food for a plant?
- A. moonlight
- B. sunlight
- C. snow
8. Which mountain reaches the highest above sea level?
- A. Mount Rainier
- B. Mount Fuji
- C. Mount Everest
9. What is the name of the galaxy we live in?
- A. the Andromeda Galaxy
- B. the Big Dipper
- C. the Milky Way
10. A mushroom belongs to which group of living things?
- A. animals
- B. fungi
- C. plants
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- C: ocean water. The ocean covers about 71 percent of Earth and holds most of its water.
- C: Mercury. Mercury is also the smallest planet, only a bit bigger than our Moon.
- C: pollen. When pollen moves between flowers, the plant can make seeds.
- C: cumulus clouds. Cirrus clouds are thin and wispy, and stratus clouds spread out like a sheet.
- B: a geyser. Old Faithful in Yellowstone is one of the most famous geysers in the world.
- A: Saturn. Other planets have rings too, but none are as grand as Saturn's.
- B: sunlight. A green pigment in each leaf catches the sun's rays and turns them into food.
- C: Mount Everest. Its top is about 8,848 meters, or about 29,000 feet, above sea level.
- C: the Milky Way. A galaxy is a huge group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
- B: fungi. Mold and yeast are fungi too.
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