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Middle round (ages 9–11): Dinosaurs · Weather · The ocean. 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. Fossil footprints and fossil dinosaur poo are what kind of fossils?
- A. trace fossils
- B. body fossils
- C. living fossils
2. Thin, wispy cirrus clouds are made mostly of what?
- A. ice crystals
- B. raindrops
- C. dust
3. Where are the highest tides in the world?
- A. the Caribbean Sea
- B. the Red Sea
- C. the Bay of Fundy in Canada
4. Which scientist made up the name for dinosaurs in 1842?
- A. Charles Darwin
- B. Earl Douglass
- C. Richard Owen
5. Rising water vapor cools and turns into the droplets that make clouds. What is this called?
- A. transpiration
- B. evaporation
- C. condensation
6. Some humpback whales swim about how far between warm and cold waters?
- A. about 5,000 miles
- B. about 50 miles
- C. about 50,000 miles
7. Birds today come from which group of dinosaurs?
- A. theropods
- B. ceratopsians
- C. sauropods
8. Most snowflakes are less than how wide?
- A. six inches
- B. two inches
- C. half an inch
9. What kind of living thing is a coral?
- A. a plant
- B. an animal
- C. a mushroom
10. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
- A. 🪙 Coins
- B. 🍪 Cookies
- C. 👣 Footsteps
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- A: trace fossils. Body fossils are the actual remains, like bones, teeth and shells.
- A: ice crystals. Cirrus clouds float very high up, where the air is freezing cold.
- C: the Bay of Fundy in Canada. In the United States, the highest tides are near Anchorage, Alaska.
- C: Richard Owen. He used three British fossils, including Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, to name the group.
- C: condensation. You can see condensation when drops form on the outside of a cold glass.
- A: about 5,000 miles. Humpbacks have one of the longest migrations of any mammal.
- A: theropods. Theropods walked on two legs, like T. rex and Velociraptor.
- C: half an inch. Half an inch is about 1.3 centimeters.
- B: an animal. Corals stay fixed to the sea floor, which is why many people think they are plants.
- C: 👣 Footsteps. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three.
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