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Big round (ages 12 and up): 🦕 Dinosaurs · 🌦️ Weather · 🌊 The ocean. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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- 1.What is the most common way a dinosaur bone turns into a fossil?
- A evaporation
- B petrification
- C erosion
- 2.Winds blowing in different directions or speeds at different heights are called what?
- A wind shear
- B trade winds
- C the jet stream
- 3.What is the deepest known part of the ocean called?
- A the Puerto Rico Trench
- B the Java Trench
- C the Challenger Deep
- 4.Which paleontologist found the Carnegie Quarry in Utah in 1909?
- A Barnum Brown
- B Richard Owen
- C Earl Douglass
- 5.When water vapor changes straight into ice without becoming liquid, what is it called?
- A condensation
- B sublimation
- C deposition
- 6.In most sea turtles, what decides whether a hatchling is male or female?
- A the phase of the moon
- B the temperature of the eggs
- C the size of the eggs
- 7.Birds have bird-like hips, but scientists group them with which dinosaurs?
- A the bird-hipped ornithischians
- B the flying pterosaurs
- C the lizard-hipped saurischians
- 8.Officially, a blizzard has winds faster than what speed?
- A 15 miles per hour
- B 35 miles per hour
- C 75 miles per hour
- 9.Stony coral polyps build reefs from skeletons made of what?
- A calcium carbonate
- B keratin
- C silica
- 10.I have a mane and I roar. What am I?
- A 🐻 A bear
- B 🦁 A lion
- C 🐴 A horse
🔑 Show the answers
- B: petrification. Water seeps into buried bone and leaves minerals behind, turning it to stone. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- A: wind shear. Wind shear helps set up the spinning air inside storms that can form tornadoes. Source: NOAA NESDIS (SciJinks)
- C: the Challenger Deep. It lies at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- C: Earl Douglass. His first find there was eight connected tailbones of an Apatosaurus. Source: National Park Service
- C: deposition. Sublimation is the opposite, when ice turns straight into vapor. Source: NASA Science for Kids
- B: the temperature of the eggs. Scientists call this temperature-dependent sex determination, or TSD. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- C: the lizard-hipped saurischians. The hip names were chosen before scientists knew birds are dinosaurs. Source: National Park Service
- B: 35 miles per hour. The snow must also cut how far you can see to under a quarter mile, for more than 3 hours. Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center
- A: calcium carbonate. Most stony coral polyps are only one to three millimeters across. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- B: 🦁 A lion. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle
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