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Big round (ages 12 and up): Space · 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. Why do we always see the same side of the Moon from Earth?
- A. it spins once per trip around Earth
- B. it does not spin at all
- C. Earth's shadow hides the other side
2. The Challenger Deep, the deepest known part of the ocean, lies in which trench?
- A. the Aleutian Trench
- B. the Puerto Rico Trench
- C. the Mariana Trench
3. What does a light-year measure?
- A. a distance
- B. a length of time
- C. a brightness
4. Which earthquake waves usually arrive first at a faraway place?
- A. S waves
- B. surface waves
- C. P waves
5. Which planet was the first found by math predictions instead of by watching the sky?
- A. Saturn
- B. Uranus
- C. Neptune
6. Which planet has the shortest day in the solar system?
- A. Jupiter
- B. Mercury
- C. Saturn
7. What was the name of the Apollo 11 lunar module that landed on the Moon?
- A. Columbia
- B. Eagle
- C. Falcon
8. About how hot is the core of the Sun?
- A. about 27 million °F
- B. about 27 thousand °F
- C. about 2,700 °F
9. What is the name of Pluto's largest moon?
- A. Charon
- B. Triton
- C. Titan
10. Which part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft was the only one to return to Earth?
- A. the command module
- B. the lunar module
- C. the service module
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- A: it spins once per trip around Earth. Scientists say Earth and the Moon are tidally locked.
- C: the Mariana Trench. It is about 10,935 meters deep, in the western Pacific Ocean.
- A: a distance. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles, how far light goes in a year.
- C: P waves. P stands for primary; the slower S, or secondary, waves arrive later.
- C: Neptune. Astronomers spotted it in 1846 on their first night of searching.
- A: Jupiter. Jupiter spins around once in only about 9.9 hours.
- B: Eagle. It set down in a flat, dark plain called the Sea of Tranquility.
- A: about 27 million °F. That heat is enough to power nuclear fusion.
- A: Charon. Charon is about half the size of Pluto, so the pair is often called a double planet.
- A: the command module. That command module, Columbia, has been at the Smithsonian since 1971.
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