, 23 October 2019
Are you at the top of your game? We’ll put you to the test looking at extreme heights and depths, plus sizes, shapes and speeds in this week’s quiz.
Congratulations! You are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
Due to the low air pressure, water boils at around 71 degrees at the summit of Mount Everest, which is 8848 metres above sea level.
Heat and pressure deep underground turns limestone into marble.
Saturn’s largest moon, and the second largest moon in our solar system, is Titan.
Water crystals, including snowflakes, are often hexagonal.
The Saharan silver ant, with the scientific name Cataglyphis bombycine, can run at 855 millimetres per second. That’s about three kilometres per hour!
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Activity: Glow germs
Power pole problems brainteaser
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