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Big round (ages 12 and up): 🫀 Your body · 🌋 Planet Earth · 🦁 Animals. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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The ten, for a host reading aloud
- 1.What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide swap?
- A villi
- B alveoli
- C bronchi
- 2.Which earthquake waves usually arrive first at a faraway place?
- A P waves
- B surface waves
- C S waves
- 3.Monarchs get protective toxins from the milkweed they eat. What are these toxins called?
- A cardenolides
- B enzymes
- C antibodies
- 4.What is the outer layer of your skin called?
- A the dermis
- B the epidermis
- C the cortex
- 5.Which mountain's peak is the farthest from the center of the Earth?
- A Mount Kilimanjaro
- B Mount Chimborazo
- C Mount Everest
- 6.What grows in grooves on a two-toed sloth's hairs and can turn its fur green?
- A moss
- B algae
- C mold
- 7.What tough cords hold skeletal muscles to bones?
- A tendons
- B ligaments
- C capillaries
- 8.The Challenger Deep, the deepest known part of the ocean, lies in which trench?
- A the Mariana Trench
- B the Aleutian Trench
- C the Puerto Rico Trench
- 9.How many alternating black and white bands are on a ring-tailed lemur's tail?
- A 13
- B 5
- C 30
- 10.I fly at night and hang upside down to sleep. What am I?
- A 🦋 A butterfly
- B 🦅 An eagle
- C 🦇 A bat
🔑 Show the answers
- B: alveoli. Each person has hundreds of millions of alveoli in their lungs. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- A: P waves. P stands for primary; the slower S, or secondary, waves arrive later. Source: U.S. Geological Survey
- A: cardenolides. These toxins help keep monarchs safe from animals that might eat them. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- B: the epidermis. Below it is the dermis, which holds nerve endings, blood vessels and sweat glands. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- B: Mount Chimborazo. Earth bulges at the equator, and Chimborazo sits just one degree south of it. Source: NOAA National Ocean Service
- B: algae. The grooves run from the top to the bottom of each brownish-gray hair. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- A: tendons. When a muscle pulls, its tendon and the bone move along with it. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- A: the Mariana Trench. It is about 10,935 meters deep, in the western Pacific Ocean. Source: NOAA National Ocean Service
- A: 13. Unlike most lemurs, ringtails spend about 40 percent of their time on the ground. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- C: 🦇 A bat. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle
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