Christmas science

How many children does Father Christmas have to deliver presents to?

• 378 million children

• 3 billion children

• 6 million

• 3 children (all the rest haven't been good)

If each present on Father Christmas's sleigh has a mass of 1kg, how much does he have to carry?

• 350 tones (58 elephants)

• 1000 tones (15 Abrams Battle tanks)

• 350,000 tones (4QE2s)

• 5.97x10²¹ (1 Earth)

How fast would Father Christmas have to go in order to deliver all the presents in one night

• 90 miles per hour

• 60 metres a second

• 1000 miles per hour

• 650 miles per second

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

Another name for a reindeer is

• Hart

• Pudu

• Caribou

• Muntjac

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

How far do reindeer migrate every year?

• 500 km

• 5000 km

• 100,000 km

• They don't migrate

A large male reindeer has a mass of 300kg, what size force is this?

• 30 Newtons

• 150 Newtons

• 300 Newtons

• 3000 Newtons

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Which of the following statements is NOT true

• A reindeer grows a new set of antlers every year

• Reindeers have a poisonous spine on their back legs

• The reindeers is the only species where the males and females grown antlers

• A reindeer's antlers can grown up to 1.3m long

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A star is NOT

• a massive, luminous ball of plasma

• another planet far away

• a celestial body of hot gases

• a thermonuclear reactor

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A comet is:

• a ball of ice, dust and rock particles that glows

• a ball of rock from space that enters a planet's atmosphere

• a ball of rock from space that hits a planet's surface

• a large mass of rock with a high metal content

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

How much mass is added to the Earth every year from meteorites?

• 100 kg

• 2000 kg

• 50, 000 kg

• 10 billion (10,000,000,000) kg

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3