Science Fun Facts

Fun Facts about Science

Multiple Choice

Which of the following produces the majority of the Oxygen we need?

• Tropical Rain Forest

• Oceans

• Lakes

• Woodlands

The first thought is usually Rainforest. Plant-based marine life is responsible for more than half of the world's oxygen

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Ocean produces Oxygen

Multiple Choice

How much does an average cumulus cloud weigh? (The white fluffy kind you see on sunny days)

• 1 hundred pounds

• 1 thousand pounds

• 10 thousand pounds

• 1 million pounds

​Clouds are made of tiny water droplets, which added together gives it a LOT of mass. However, the water droplets are so tiny that gravity barely affects it. This makes clouds less dense than air, keeping them afloat.

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Clouds can weigh a lot!

Multiple Choice

Which of the following fruits is radioactive?

• Apples

• Bananas

• Mangos

• Oranges

Bananas contain Potassium, which decays over time, making it radioactive. However, you would need to 10 Million bananas in one sitting to die of banana-induced radiation poisoning​

Bananas are radioactive!!

Poll

What can rain consist of in some planets?

• Gold

• Silver

• Diamond

• Platinum

Neptune and Saturn have extreme atmospheric pressures that cause Carbon atoms to crystallize and turn into diamonds. Scientists believe it can rain up to 2.2 million pounds of diamonds on Saturn every year!

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It can rain diamonds on other planets!

Multiple Choice

What can you not do in space?

• burp

• cough

• sneeze

• laugh

When you burp on Earth, gravity keeps down the food you just ate, and only the gas escapes from your mouth. However, in space with the absence of gravity, burping basically turns into puking.

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Impossible to burp in Space

Multiple Choice

Which animals don't get sick from most viruses?

• Cows

• Bats

• Dogs

• Chickens

Bats have plenty of genes responsible for anti-viral activity. However, they can contract and spread a lot of diseases, such as rabies. Bats usually don't die from rabies though

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Most viruses don't affect bats

Multiple Choice

Which of the following can humans potentially produce?

• Vitamin C

• Food

• Water

• Venom

Humans and all other mammals have the capability to produce venom. We make the protein, kallikreins, which is a key component of many venoms. We just don't do it due to evolution!

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Humans are capable of producing Venom!

Multiple Choice

Which are the only planets in our solar system that have no moons?

• Mercury and Venus

• Pluto and Mercury

• All planets have moons

• Venus and Uranus

​Mercury and Venus are the closest planets to the sun so the strong gravitational pull makes it difficult for a moon to orbit either planet.

​Mercery and Venus have no moons!

Multiple Choice

What is the strongest bone in the body?

• Jawbone

• Skull

• Femur

• Shoulder

​Femur is the longest, strongest bone in your body

​Your Femur supports lots of important muscles, tendons, ligaments and parts of your circulatory system. It holds the weights of your body when stand and move

Multiple Choice

Who has more bones in their body?

• Child

• Teen

• Adult

• Elder

​Babies have more bones than adults!

​Babies have almost 100 more bones than adults that fuse together as they grow older. Babies have 300 bones which, once hey fuse over time become 206 bones as an adult.

Multiple Choice

Which animal is able to create its own sunscreen?

• Cow

• Alligator

• Hippopotamus

• Giraffe

​Hippos can make their own sunscreen!

​Hippopotamuses produce "sweat" made of one red and one orange pigment. The red pigment contains an antibiotic, while the orange absorbs UV rays. So the two pigments work together to protect the African mammals from both bacterial infections and sun damage

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animals can have up to 20,000 teeth?

• Gecko

• Snail

• Shark

• Piranha

​Snails have thousands of teeth!

​Snails use thousands of teeth to scrape or cut food. The teeth are arranged in rows, and snails can have 100s of rows of teeth with 100s of teeth in each row.

Multiple Choice

How many Earths can fit inside the sun?

• Over 100

• Over 10,000

• Over 1 million

• Over 100 million

​The Sun is over 100x the size of Earth

​The Sun is massive compared to the Earth. It would take approximately 1.3 Million Earths to fill the volume of the Sun

Multiple Choice

What are the only birds that can fly backwards and upside down?

• Hummingbird

• Mockingbird

• Sparrow

• Finch

​Hummingbirds: The Aerial Acrobats

​Hummingbirds have the ability to rotate their wings 180 degrees. This allows them to generate lift on the upstroke, and fly both backwards and upside down

Multiple Choice

What percentage of the water on Earth is drinkable?

• 0.1%

• 1%

• 10%

• 15%

​Very little drinkable Water!

​Most of the water on the planet makes up the oceans. Only 2.5% of the available water is drinkable, and of that only 1% is accessible since the rest is frozen in glaciers

Multiple Choice

How do butterflies taste their food?

• Mouth

• Antennae

• Feet

• Wings

​Butterflies taste with their feet!

​Butterflies will step on its food to sense dissolving sugars. Even more importantly, female butterflies will stomp with their feet on plants to taste and decide whether to lay their eggs based on food availability