, 25 April 2018
Think you’re scientifically savvy? Give this week’s quick quiz a try! Test yourself on tectonics and trilobites, work out how many legs a dragonfly has to stand on, and reveal what’s detected by The Dish.
Congratulations! You’re a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
Trilobites were animals that lived in the ocean and looked a bit like slaters or woodlice. They went extinct about 250 million years ago.
Dragonflies are insects, so they have six legs.
Australia is drifting north at about seven centimetres per year.
The Parkes Radio Telescope has a 64-metre dish designed to pick up radio waves from space.
Glenn Seaborg (one of the discoverers of plutonium) used the symbol Pu rather than Pl because, when said out loud, it sounds like “PEE-YEW”, which is what a child might say when something smells bad!
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