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#1. What environmental conditions are needed for you to see a rainbow?
To see a normal rainbow, you need water droplets in the sky opposite to a sun that is close to the horizon. This way, the water acts like a prism and splits sunlight into all its colours.
#2. What’s the highest mountain on Earth?
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth and it’s currently 8,849m tall. Because of continental plates moving, Mount Everest is still growing taller!
#3. About 250 million years ago, Earth’s continents were all joined together into one supercontinent. What do we call that supercontinent?
Pangaea is the name for our most recent supercontinent, which broke up into 2 parts – Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
#4. 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!
#5. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest continuous living structure. About how long does the Great Barrier Reef stretch?
Located in the Coral Sea just off the coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef stretches over 2,300 kilometres and takes up an area of about 344,400 square kilometres.
#6. True or false? Humans domesticated cats before we domesticated dogs.
False. Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated, probably sometime between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago. Cats were domesticated much later, sometime between 7,000-8,000 years ago.
#7. True or false? Proposed in 1985, the Turing Test tests whether an AI can beat humans at a collection of games and puzzles.
False. Also called the Imitation Game, the Turing Test assesses AI intelligence by the way it carries on a conversation over text. If a human cannot tell that they are talking to a machine, then the AI passes the Turing Test.
#8. True or false? The World Wide Web and the internet are the same thing.
False. The World Wide Web is a name for all the websites on the internet, but there are plenty of other things on the internet too, like messaging apps and online games, that do not use the World Wide Web.
#9. Which of the following animals has blue blood?
Crabs have copper pigment in their blood, which turns blue when exposed to air!
#10. Which of the following is NOT a famous AI platform?
ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E are all examples of generative AI models that can create content, like text or images, in a human-like manner. Pink Floyd is a rock band!
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