This quiz has a leafy theme. Can you get the high score, or will it leave you heartbroken?
Plants need oxygen to keep their cells alive. At night, plants can’t produce any oxygen, so they absorb it from the air.
The chemical chlorophyll absorbs energy from light, and plants use this energy to make their own food. But chlorophyll doesn’t absorb green light, which is why leaves are typically green!
Deciduous trees lose their leaves every year.
Scientists at the University of Leeds made self-supporting gold sheets that were only 2 atoms thick!
Alexei Leonov was the first person to leave their spacecraft while in space, completing the first spacewalk in 1965.
Congratulations! You are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
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