1) What does the word Dinosauria mean?
2) Why does poo smell?
3) The harlequin filefish looks like coral, but how else does it deceive predators?
4) What’s the name of the comet passing the Earth just over 70 million kilometres away that will be in the sky until 24 January?
5) What common cooking ingredient consists mainly of water and acetic acid?
6) True or false? Many neurosurgeons learn their craft by operating on longfin squid.
7) Can hairspray preserve a cut Christmas tree?
8) When do you experience rapid eye movement?
9) How does a platypus’ bill help it sense underwater?
10) Where would you find a Goldilocks zone?
11) What is a young lion called?
12)Which planet has the highest known volcano in the solar system?
13)What is the world’s tallest flowering plant?
14) Is the kookaburra native to Perth?
15)What metal has the symbol Pb, after the Latin word for plumber?
16) Many species of gecko cannot blink, so how do they clean their eyeballs?
17) What type of natural event is a lahar?
18) Where did the extinct bird, the dodo, live?
19) How many centimetres are in a kilometre?
20) What does a spider use the hairs on its legs for?
the answers are in black below.
1)Dinosauria means terrible lizard.
2) Poo smells because of the by-products of bacteria that are eating what you don’t.
3) The harlequin filefish also smells like coral.
4) Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy should be visible for the next week.
5) Vinegar consists mainly of water and acetic acid.
6) True. Neurosurgeons do surgery on the human nervous system. They first learn their techniques on squid because they have much larger nerves than humans.
7) Yes, hairspray can help preserve Christmas trees.
8) Rapid eye movement is a stage of sleep.
9) A platypus’ bill senses electrical signals from other animals.
10) The Goldilocks zone is the habitable zone around a star where planets with enough atmospheric pressure could support liquid water.
11) A young lion is called a cub.
12) Mars has the highest volcano in the solar system.
13) Mountain ash is the world’s tallest flowering plant. It grows in Tasmania and Victoria.
14) No, kookaburras are not native to Perth, they have been introduced to the south-west of Western Australia.
15) Lead has the symbol Pb.
16) Geckos use their tongue to clean their eyes.
17) A lahar is volcanic mudflow.
18) The dodo lived on Mauritius.
19) There are 100 000 centimetres in a kilometre.
20) Spiders use the hairs on their legs to sense their surroundings.