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#1. Which of the following correctly describes a sea pig?
Sea pigs are deep-sea sea cucumbers and are often found in large groups, gathered around a food source on the ocean floor. They have been found as deep as 6000 metres!
#2. Which of the following animals have green blood?
Prehensile Green Tree Skinks have green blood. This is caused by a green pigment called biliverdin (bil-uh-VER-din).
#3. Which pie filling is a member of the rose family?
All of these fruits are members of the Rosaceae family.
#4. Which of the following animals can live forever?
Unless eaten by predators or killed by other things, the immortal jellyfish can infinitely return to an earlier stage of their life cycle and live forever!
#5. Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter π its current mathematical definition?
British mathematician William Jones used the symbol π to represent the number 3.14159… in 1706. It was later popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.
#6. Which country has the most forests in the world?
Russia is home to the world’s largest area of forests at 815 million hectares. That’s about 20% of the world’s forests!
#7. Before the 1300s, which of the following archaeological sites was the tallest human-made structure?
The Great Pyramid of Egypt was the tallest human-made structure from its construction in 2570 BCE (4,593 years ago) until the Lincoln Cathedral was completed in England in 1311 CE.
#8. Which of the following animals eats large amounts of coral polyps, damaging the Reef?
The crown-of-thorns starfish kills and eats coral polyps, and they’re one of the biggest threats to the reef. Scientists keep inventing new ways to fight them, including AI controlled anti-starfish submarines!
#9. Which of the following is the science of measuring time?
Chronometry is the science of timekeeping. The name comes from the ancient Greek words chronos (time) and metron (measurement).
#10. Which of the following science-y books is a work of fiction?
Andy Weir’s The Martian is about an astronaut stranded on Mars. In reality, no human has made it to Mars yet.
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