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#1. Which of the following is a dinosaur?

Brontosaurus was a gigantic, plant-eating dinosaur. Scientists thought it might actually be the same genus as Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study says that the two are different.

#2. Which of these is a chemical found in paper?

Paper is made from cellulose, a chemical that comes from wood, rags, plants and algae.

#3. True or false? Most of your blood cells are made inside your bones.

True. The marrow inside your bones is the main site where your body makes blood cells.

#4. Vermicomposting uses what animal to break down food scraps and other organic waste?

Vermicomposting is also called ‘worm farming’ and it uses lots of worms to speed up composting.

#5. What’s the name of the line running across Australia that separates the tropics from the temperate zone?

The Tropic of Capricorn is the southernmost place where the Sun passes directly overhead. South of that, the Sun is always in the north.

#6. Hitting it feels strange, but what is a funny bone really?

What is commonly called the funny bone is actually the ulnar nerve, one of the biggest nerves in the arm.

#7. 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.

#8. What shape is Pluto’s orbit around the Sun?

Pluto’s orbit is highly elliptical, so this dwarf planet’s orbit looks quite ‘squashed’ compared to many planets with more circular orbits.

#9. Which of the following comes from a plant?

Linen is made from the fibres of the flax plant. Cashmere and mohair are both goat hair, and angora comes from rabbits!

#10. Which Tasmanian animal is under threat from an infectious cancer?

Since 1996, devil facial tumour disease may have killed up to 80% of Tasmanian devils.

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