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Middle round (ages 9–11): 🦕 Dinosaurs · 🌦️ Weather · 🌊 The ocean. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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The ten, for a host reading aloud
- 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
🔑 Show the answers
- A: trace fossils. Body fossils are the actual remains, like bones, teeth and shells. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- A: ice crystals. Cirrus clouds float very high up, where the air is freezing cold. Source: NOAA NESDIS (SciJinks)
- C: the Bay of Fundy in Canada. In the United States, the highest tides are near Anchorage, Alaska. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- C: Richard Owen. He used three British fossils, including Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, to name the group. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- C: condensation. You can see condensation when drops form on the outside of a cold glass. Source: NASA Science for Kids
- A: about 5,000 miles. Humpbacks have one of the longest migrations of any mammal. Source: NOAA Fisheries
- A: theropods. Theropods walked on two legs, like T. rex and Velociraptor. Source: National Park Service
- C: half an inch. Half an inch is about 1.3 centimeters. Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center
- B: an animal. Corals stay fixed to the sea floor, which is why many people think they are plants. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- C: 👣 Footsteps. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle
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