By David, 22 September 2021
This quiz is all about preserving things. From sugar to space archaeology, can you save the day by getting these questions right?
The Australian National Herbarium has more than a million plant specimens, as well as lichens, fungi, slime moulds and algae.
Cyanobacteria colonies make strange, lumpy rocks called stromatolites.
Vanguard 1 was launched on 17 March 1958, meaning it has been in orbit for more than 63 years!
Sugar, like salt, can pull water out of living cells in a process called osmosis.
Some tardigrades can survive at temperatures of 150° C, but lava is much hotter, around 700° C–1,200° C.
Congratulations! you are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! better brush up before the next quiz!
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