Science Christmas Quiz

Who comes down the chimney?

• a squirrel

• your parents

• no one

• Santa Clause

What do you leave out for Santa to eat?

• candy

• presents

• nothing

• cookies and milk

Another name for a reindeer is

• Hart

• Pudu

• Caribou

• Muntjac

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

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

A star is NOT

• a massive, luminous ball of plasma

• another planet far away

• a celestial body of hot gases

• a thermonuclear reactor

Snowflakes are formed when:

• Angel tears freeze on the way down from Heaven

• Space dust freezes upon entering out atmosphere

• Cloud temperatures reach freezing point allowing ice crystals to form around dust particles

• The wind blows sea salt into the upper atmosphere

What is "Snowball Earth"?

• A type of frost in Alaska

• A frozen chocolate pudding

• A dirty lump of snow

• A period in Earth's history when the entire planet was frozen over

As Grandma sits next to the fireplace she notices she can feel the heat from all sides of the fire. What type of heat transfer does she experience?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

During Christmas, you may hear people talk about "kissing under the mistletoe," a plant decoration. While mistletoe is a plant, it takes a lot of its water and nutrients from trees that it lives on. What is the best word to describe mistletoe?

• host

• parasite

• autotroph