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Summer Science!

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

About ____________ out of every 10 tsunamis happen in the Pacific ocean.

a)

6

b)

7

c)

8

d)

9

2.

What is the biggest volcano called?

a)

Mount Saint Helens

b)

Mauna Loa

c)

Mont Sante Elena

d)

Moana Lua

3.

How do you say 'terremoto' in English

a)

temblores

b)

eathquake

c)

tremors

d)

earthquake

4.

People use a seisometer to measure how strong the _____________ is.

a)

tsunami

b)

earthquake

c)

fever

d)

hurricane

5.

How many earthquakes have there been in Asia since 2000?

a)

5

b)

7

c)

11

d)

6

6.

How tall was the highest tsunami in the world?

a)

100 meters tall

b)

200 meters tall

c)

500 meters tall

d)

1000 meters tall

7.

Tornadoes form from which?

a)

sand

b)

wind

c)

snow

d)

rain

8.

How many volcanoes were there in Uruguay?

a)

4

b)

2

c)

7

d)

9

9.

How do you say 'de repente' in English?

a)

suddenly

b)

sudenly

c)

suddlenly

d)

suddenli

10.

What are the two worst natural disasters?

a)

hurricanes and earthquakes

b)

earthquakes and tsunamis

c)

tsunamis and hurricanes

d)

tornadoes and hurricanes

11.

What is a tsunami?

a)

a series of enormous waves

b)

sand storms

c)

A surfer's dream

d)

scientists don't have the answer

12.

What do we use the Richter Scale for?

a)

to measure hurricanes

b)

to measure tsunamis

c)

to measure earthquakes

d)

to measure tornadoes

13.

Why do earthquakes happen?

a)

because a giant is walking on the earth

b)

because of strong winds

c)

because of tsunamis

d)

because the plates under the earth move suddenly

14.

What was the name of the volcano with the worst eruption in the USA?

a)

Sierra Saint Helens

b)

Mount Saint Helens

c)

Mount Tambora

d)

Sierra Tambora

15.

How far did Mount Saint Helen's ash cloud go into the sky?

a)

8

b)

9

c)

18

d)

19

16.

How long ago did dinosaurs become extinct?

a)

56 million years ago

b)

65 million years ago

c)

75 million years ago

d)

87 million years ago

17.

Why did big animals disappear?

a)

because of a giant hurricane

b)

because of an asteroid hit the earth

c)

because of a big tsunami

d)

because of a big earthquake

18.

The offspring of oviparous animals come from

a)

eggs

b)

the father

c)

the grandparents

d)

the mother

19.

How do you say 'desforestación' in English?

a)

deforestasion

b)

defoorestation

c)

deforestetion

d)

deforestation

20.

What are fossils made of?

a)

animal skin

b)

animal bones

c)

animal eyes

d)

animal stomachs

21.

Dinosaur fossils can be found in...

a)

sand

b)

snow

c)

underground

d)

the sea

22.

What did the big asteroid cause?

a)

a lot of fires, earthquakes and storms

b)

a lot of hurricanes, earthquakes and storms

c)

a lot of tsunamis and earthquakes

d)

a lot of tornadoes and hurricanes

23.

After the asteroid hit the Earth, what happened to the weather?

a)

the weather didn't change

b)

the weather got very cold

c)

the weather got very hot

d)

the scientists don't know

24.

How do you say 'huesos' in English?

a)

sprints

b)

skin

c)

bones

d)

footprints

25.

What can fossilized teeth tell us about the dinosaurs?

a)

how old they were

b)

how clean they wereq

c)

how big they were

d)

what they ate

26.

When was the first dinosaur bone found?

a)

1816

b)

1817

c)

1818

d)

1819

27.

What fossils are most important?

a)

skin and teeth

b)

teeth and footprints

c)

footprints and parts of the body

d)

eggs and parts of the body