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Quiz Questions
- If we were to list Solar System objects by size, largest to smallest including the Sun, would the Earth be 4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th in that list?
- What is the world's largest structure composed of living entities?
- The earth orbits around the sun at what sort of speed: (a) 670 miles per hour, (b) 6,700 miles per hour, or (c) 67,000 miles per hour?
- Which is warmer: the north or south pole?
- Is sandstone and limestone types of igneous, sedimentery or metamorphic rock?
- Scientists discovered the first hole in the ozone layer in 1985 above which continent?
- The top of Chimborazo is the farthest point on the Earth’s surface from the Earth’s centre - in which country is this mountain?
- How old is the earth: (a) 1.5 billion, (b) 3.5 billion, or (c) 4.5 billion years?
- The lowest exposed land on Earth is at the shores of which body of water?
- Can you name the world's longest above-water mountain range?
- What name is given to the layer inside the Earth bounded below by the core and above by the crust?
- The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen, but can you name the third-most abundant gas?
- Can you name the world's smallest ocean?
- In miles, what is the Moon's average distance from the Earth: (a) 239,000 miles, (b) 1,239,000 miles, or (c) 2,239,000 miles?
- Does the Earth take exactly 24 hours to rotate on its axis, or less than 24 hours, or more?
- Asia constitutes roughly 60% of the world's population but how much of the Earth's total land area: (a) 30%, (b) 40%, or (c) 50%?
- The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located in the southern end of which trench?
- By weight, the Earth's crust is composed of 47% Oxygen, 28% Silicon and 5% Iron - however, which element makes 8% of the crust by weight?
- What name is often given to the discontinuity which is the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle: (a) Moho, (b) Morris, (c) Zaragoza?
- From the Earth to the sun is one AU, what does AU stand for?
- Which region of the Atlantic Ocean is called a sea although unlike any other sea it has no land boundaries?
- What percentage of Earth's surface is land consisting of continents and islands: (a) 29%, (b) 34%, or (c) 39%?
- True or false? The Moon orbits the Earth roughly as fast as a rifle bullet?
- True or false? Around thirteen thousand Earth’s could fit into the Sun?
- If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole, at the equator would you weigh the same, heavier, or lighter?
Answers:
- 6th (in order, the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all larger)
- The Great Barrier Reef
- (c) 67,000 miles per hour
- North pole is warmer
- Sedimentary
- Antarctica
- Ecuador
- (c) 4.5 billion years
- Dead Sea
- The Andes
- Mantle
- Argon (0.93%)
- The Arctic Ocean
- (a) 239,000 miles
- Less (It’s actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds.)
- (a) 30%
- The Mariana Trench
- Aluminium (8%)
- Moho
- Astronomical Unit
- Sargasso sea
- (a) 29%
- True
- False (1.3 million Earth's can fit inside the Sun)
- Lighter (you would weigh 99.65 pounds, or 5.5 ounces less)