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WorksheetsScience Week Brain Break Activity
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
A baby Koala is called a 'joey.' Which of the following Australian animals do NOT have babies called joeys?
Kangaroo
Wombat
Dingo
Tasmanian Devel
What causes the sound of your stomach rumbling when you are hungry?
Bubbles of stomach acid popping when they reach the food
Stomach muscles squeezing gas bubbles from air swallowed while eating
Eating lots of cabbage and broccoli
Gas moving from your bloodstream into your stomach
Which type of material makes up most of the rubbish found in Australia beaches?
Metal
Paper
Wood
Plastic
If you slip on ice or a banana peel, like in Mario Kart, what force do you NOT have enough of?
(a)
Indigenous rock art is made using colours from natural materials, including charcoal and ground up rocks. What is the name for the ground up rocks used in rock art?
(a)
What do whales feed their babies?
(a)
Which planet in the Solar System is closest in distance to Earth?
Mercury
Mars
Venus
It depends on when you look
Which of the following minerals from the game Minecraft also exists in real life?
Glowstone
Amethyst
Redstone
Netherite
Which of the following ancient devices used for telling the time does not work after the sun sets each night?
Sundial
Astrolabe
Water clock
Incense clock
Which continents have native marsupials?
Australia, North America and Asia
Australia, North America and Africa
Australia, North America and Europe
Australia, north America and South America
When did scientists discover that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to a warmer planet?
1850s
1910s
1950s
2010s
In April 2024, Katherine Bennell-Pegg became what?
The first Australian to win a Nobel prize
The first Australian to build a solar-powered car that could travel over 200km per hour
The first person to build a computer entirely from recycled materials
Teh first person qualified as an astronaut under the Australian flag
Which of the following unusual tests might a palaeontologist use to test if a rock is a fossil?
Lick it
Sniff it
Test if it floats in water
Test if it is flammable
What do humans, koalas and gorillas have in common that could be of interest to forensic scientists?
Unique fingerprints
Unique blood types
Unique DNA base codes
Unique protein markers
What force prevents Earth's atmosphere from drifting away in space?
(a)
What three-letter word is used for both the cutting part of a drill and for the smallest piece of information stored on a digital computer?
(a)
Each year approximately how many native mammals are killed by feral and pet cats in Australia?
100,000
1 million
100 million
1 billion
Billiard balls were originally made of ivory. In the early 1900s people started using an early plastic called 'celluloid.' What was one of the problems with playing billiards using these balls?
Celluloid balls were too expensive
The balls sometimes exploded when they hit each other
The balls were not perfectly round so they did not roll straight
The balls made the wrong sound when they hit each other
Hydrogen and helium roughly make up what percentage of ordinary matter in the universe (excluding dark matter)?
78%
88%
68%
98%
What type of mature human body cell does not have DNA?
White blood cells
Red blood cells
Nerve cells
Muscle cells
