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National Geographic 101

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are baby koalas called?

a)

Joeys

b)

Pups

c)

Koala Bears

d)

Kitten

2.

How many opposable ‘thumbs’ do koalas have?

a)

5

b)

6

c)

4

d)

3

3.

How long does it take for a koala to develop?

a)

1 year

b)

2 weeks

c)

6 months

d)

3 months

4.

Koalas eat leaves that are poisonous to other animals?

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Is gravity the strongest force?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Maybe

6.

Select all that apply

which of these are fundamental forces?

a)

Gravitational

b)

Electromagnetic

c)

Weak nuclear

d)

Strong nuclear

7.

How long do koalas roughly sleep for?

a)

3 hours

b)

22 hours

c)

20 hours

d)

17 hours

8.

What does electromagnetism generate?

a)

Gas and diesel

b)

Nuclear and solar energy

c)

Light and energy

d)

Magnetic pull and magnetic repulse

9.

What is the field that covers the earth called?

a)

Reverse flow

b)

Geo dynamo

c)

Magnetic flow

d)

Pyroclastic flow

10.

What is the biggest shark that ever lived?

a)

Tiger shark

b)

Whale shark

c)

Megalodon

d)

Mosasaurus

11.

What is the biggest shark alive today?

a)

Great white

b)

Whale shark

c)

Tiger shark

d)

Lemon shark

12.

What is the fastest shark alive today?

a)

Mosasaurus

b)

Hammerhead shark

c)

Shortfin mako

d)

Great white

13.

True or False? Microwaves have lower electromagnetic frequencies then radios?

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Which of these help with medication?

a)

Ultraviolet ray

b)

X-ray

c)

Gramma ray

d)

All

15.

Shark skeletons are made of cartilage instead of bone.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Most sharks give birth to live young.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

What are fossils also called?

a)

Fossilosis

b)

Treasures

c)

Chips

d)

Altered

18.

What are per-mineralisation?

a)

Process of turning fossils into another shape

b)

Minerals from the ground

c)

Shape of the main body

d)

What animals eat

19.

How many different fossil types are there?

a)

200

b)

50

c)

78

d)

100

20.

What are the 2 main type of categories that the fossils are grouped into?

a)

Body Fossils

b)

Trace Fossils

c)

Altered fossils

d)

Unaltered

21.

What are fossils?

a)

Buried treasure that has degraded over time

b)

Imprints left on Earth, made by dinosaurs.

c)

Impressions of organisms that are naturally preserved in stone.

d)

Animal bones

22.

When does physics never apply?

a)

Outside a black hole

b)

Inside a black hole

c)

Next to a black hole

d)

On a different planet

23.

What are stars made up of?

a)

gas and dust

b)

hydrogen gas and dust clouds

c)

burgers and chips

d)

plastic and straws

24.

Sound travels faster in space

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Space is completely silent.

a)

true

b)

false

26.

What happens when Hydrogen Nuclear is fused with Hydrogen Nuclear?

a)

Air

b)

clouds

c)

helium

d)

blue sky

27.

Neutron stars can spin 600 times per...

a)

minute

b)

second

c)

hour

d)

day

28.

How old are the stars?

a)

10 million

b)

3 billion

c)

millions and billions

d)

no one knows

29.

A full NASA spacesuit costs

a)

$12.1 million

b)

$20 million

c)

$12 million

d)

Free because they are NASA

30.

What do stars begin their life as?

a)

potato stars

b)

proto stars

c)

a smaller sun

d)

nano stars

31.

What makes a star shine?

a)

a very large torch

b)

the sun reflects off them as they don't generate their own light

c)

thermonuclear fusion

d)

atomic fusion

32.

How many bear species are there?

a)

8

b)

4

c)

6

d)

7

33.

What types of black holes are there?

a)

Big one, burning giant, red dwarf

b)

Stellar, supermassive, intermediate, miniature

c)

White dark, huge giant, king hole

34.

At what time did one of the first computer networks become available to those who had computers?

a)

The 21st century

b)

Around the 1950s / 1960s

c)

1910s

d)

21 May 1940

35.

A mother bear often gives birth to what

a)

Twins

b)

puppies

c)

5 bears per litter

d)

kittens

36.

When did humans first find out about black holes?

a)

1964

b)

1869

c)

1917

d)

1916

37.

What is the smallest bear?

a)

Panda

b)

Sun Bear

c)

Koala

d)

Brown Bear

38.

Name the largest bear

a)

Black Bear

b)

Brown Bear

c)

Polar Bear

d)

Sun Bear

39.

At what stage was the internet at in the late 1990’s?

a)

They have invented the very first Xbox

b)

The internet was accessible but only for scientists who needed to get research

c)

Everyone in the world could now access it.

d)

They invented the iPad Pro,

40.

What does omnivorous mean?

a)

Meat lover

b)

Hunter

c)

Vegetarian

d)

Lover of honey

41.

When the centre of a massive star collapses in upon itself it causes a stellar black hole.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

When you take a video/ audio message and send it to someone it is given an IP address. What is it used for?

a)

So you can tell your messages apart

b)

So that it can come back to you if something glitches and it doesn’t get sent

c)

Each message has a code so that if you type in that code you’ll get a notification telling you what that message you sent was.

d)

Directing it to its correct destination

43.

Approximately how many people have access to the internet?

a)

4.2 billion

b)

9 trillion

c)

9 million

d)

6.9 billion

44.

In the 3rd step of sending someone a message, what devices will send your message?

a)

internet

b)

phone

c)

Satellites and finer optic cables

d)

all of the above

45.

What gases is Jupiter held by?

a)

Hydrogen & helium

b)

oxygen and nitrogen

c)

fluorine and chlorine

d)

neon and oxygen

46.

How far is Jupiter from the Sun?

a)

the 4th planet

b)

the 5th planet

c)

the 6th planet

d)

the 7th planet

47.

How long has the crimson storm been going for?

a)

159 years

b)

320 years

c)

400 years

d)

300 years

48.

How many moons does Jupiter have?

a)

79

b)

60

c)

20

d)

80

49.

What was the crimson storm nicknamed?

a)

The planet's gold

b)

Stormy red weather

c)

Red spot of Jupiter

d)

The great red spot