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Earth and Beyond

Gondwana

April 9, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Quick quiz – do you think Australia’s jungles are more like the jungles of Indonesia (directly north) or the jungles of India (several islands away)? Seeing as there’s no point in asking a question with an obvious answer, you probably got it right by saying India, even if you have no idea why or how. The [...]

Easter Answers

April 6, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Happy Easter, or whatever flavour of holiday you are enjoying today. At least, in Australia everyone is enjoying a holiday, plus lots of chocolate. Here are this week’s answers, questions here. 1. Full Moons are the moon’s daytime facing towards us. The moon rotates and has a day just like ours, but it is [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Any geologists around?

March 28, 2012 Earth and Beyond

The girls found this rock on our walk. Usually I put strict limits on what I’m willing to drag back to the house, but I found this one intriguing as well. I did some geology but that was 20 years ago so I’m asking for a little help on this one The white layers are [...]

Movie Answers

March 27, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Sorry about the delay, we were without power for a couple of days last week, apparently a bird took out a whole transformer. The girls enjoyed the extra excuse to have takeaway While I catch up and rearrange, here are last week’s answers in place of this week’s quiz. 1. The Kessel Run is right [...]

It’s not the Snowy River Scheme

March 22, 2012 Activities

When we were in Perth we spent time at the newest nature playground in Kings Park, seeing ‘children in their natural habitat.’ One of the things I loved were the groups of kids, who had never met and didn’t introduce themselves, working together to dam the creek, then undam it, then dam it at another [...]

Quiz – The Movie Edition

March 20, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Some of these are old, because I haven’t watched a new movie in about 6 years. Having kids in a remote town will do that to you. And you may just find some other reasons I don’t do well with movies. If the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less that 12 parsecs, what [...]

Quiz – The Dinosaur Edition

March 13, 2012 Earth and Beyond

After teasing you yesterday with mentions of dinosaurs I thought I’d better do something on them. But what interesting questions to write? Not the usual lists of names! What were the continents like when dinosaurs first developed? What did early dinosaurs eat? The two main types of dinosaurs are grouped according to their hip shape. [...]

Solar System’s Biggest Volcano

March 12, 2012 Earth and Beyond

It’s been said that the reason dinosaurs are fascinating is because they’re ‘big, fierce and extinct.’ Olympus Mons, or Mount Olympus, on Mars almost fulfills those criteria – it’s the solar system’s biggest volcano, it’s a volcano, and seeing it’s on another planet it’s as inaccessible as dinosaurs. Firstly the stats – Olympus Mons is [...]

Star Answers Again

March 9, 2012 Earth and Beyond

How did you do? If you haven’t seen the quiz yet, shut your eyes and click back here. 1. Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. It was actually very important in setting the Egyptian calendar because it is prominent and easily spotted. It is so bright because of a combination of [...]

Quiz – The Star Edition II

March 6, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Star light, Star bright, First star I see tonight I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight. We go outside most evenings after dinner and my girls love spotting the stars as they appear. And yes, there was a star quiz not long ago, but I got a bit confused [...]