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Little round (ages 6–8): Weather · Planet Earth. 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. Can it ever be too cold to snow?
- A. yes, below zero
- B. no
- C. yes, at night
2. What do we call a hot spring that shoots water up into the air?
- A. a geyser
- B. a glacier
- C. a waterfall
3. Sleet is rain that turns into what before it reaches the ground?
- A. fog
- B. snowflakes
- C. ice pellets
4. What is the hot, melted rock under a volcano called?
- A. clay
- B. magma
- C. sand
5. After fresh snow falls, how does it sound outside?
- A. quieter
- B. full of echoes
- C. louder
6. What makes the sound of thunder?
- A. strong wind
- B. lightning
- C. clouds bumping together
7. What are clouds made of?
- A. bits of cotton
- B. tiny water drops or ice
- C. puffs of smoke
8. To see a rainbow, what needs to be behind you?
- A. the Moon
- B. the Sun
- C. a dark cloud
9. What are hailstones made of?
- A. ice
- B. tiny rocks
- C. salt
10. When water drops in a cloud get too heavy, what happens?
- A. they fall as rain
- B. they float into space
- C. they turn into wind
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- B: no. It can be too warm to snow, but it can never be too cold.
- A: a geyser. Old Faithful in Yellowstone is one of the most famous geysers in the world.
- C: ice pellets. That is how the National Weather Service describes sleet.
- B: magma. When magma comes out onto the ground, we call it lava.
- A: quieter. Fresh snow soaks up sound waves, so the world goes hushed.
- B: lightning. Lightning heats the air so fast that the air bursts outward with a boom.
- B: tiny water drops or ice. Each cloud holds billions of drops so small that they float in the air.
- B: the Sun. Rainbows show up when sunlight shines into drops of water floating in the air.
- A: ice. Hail forms high up inside big thunderstorm clouds where it is very cold.
- A: they fall as rain. Inside a cloud, tiny drops join together and grow bigger and bigger.
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