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#1. When a river goes around a bend, where does it erode fastest?
Rivers erode fastest on the outside of a bend. Over time, this makes bendy rivers even bendier.
#2. In the human stomach, is the fluid:
Gastric juice in the stomach is acidic to help break down food for digestion.
#3. In 2019, scientists made the thinnest gold foil ever, but how thin was it?
Scientists at the University of Leeds made self-supporting gold sheets that were only 2 atoms thick!
#4. If you’re on the west coast of Tasmania, you might get hit by the ‘Roaring Forties’, but what are they?
The Roaring Forties are fast winds that circle the globe, around 40 degrees south of the equator.
#5. Which of the following birds is native to Australia, not introduced?
Commonly called seagulls, silver gulls are native to Australia.
#6. What element is coal mostly made of?
Coal is mostly made of carbon, which is why it releases lots of carbon dioxide when it’s burned.
#7. Which of these is NOT a type of cloud?
Magnus is not a type of cloud.
#8. What’s the coldest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica?
The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica was −89.2° C at Vostok station in 1983.
#9. True or false? The Sun is slowly growing larger but it’s losing mass.
True. While the Sun is losing almost 6 million tons of material every second, its radius is slowly getting bigger.
#10. Which of the following plastics is the best at breaking down?
Compostable plastics are the only plastics that will break down properly in a home compost heap.
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