Big Questions... Flashcards
Where would be the best place to try and find an unknown animal?
The deep sea where only a submarine could traverse.
Is the Earth hurtling around the moon, or is the moon hurtling around the Earth?
The Moon is hurtling around the Earth at more than a Kilometer per second.
Are there any undiscovered animals?
Yes.
Tropical rainforest
butterfly net
hundreds of insects.
What are atoms?
The building blocks out if which everything is made
How small are atoms?
It would take ten million laid end to end to stretch across the dot of an exclamation mark.
What gives blood it’s red color?
A chemical in the blood called haemoglobin which carries the oxygen from your lungs all around your body.
When there is a lot of oxygen in your blood what happens to the color?
Your haemoglobin makes your blood a nice bright red color.
What happens to your blood when you run or play?
Body uses up more oxygen and your blood becomes darker red.
Which animals have blue blood?
Octopuses, squid, lobster, cuttlefish and horseshoe crabs.
Why are your veins blue?
Because your veins are close to the surface of your skin,
The skin only lets certain colors of light through it
So blood appears blue from the outside.
Where does wind come from?
When warm air rises, cooler air moves in to take its place. This is wind!
Dialect
Different words
Different ways of making sentences.
How exactly did the meteor hitting Earth result in dinosaur extinction?
- Dust and poison in sky blots out the sun.
- Plants needing sunlight died
- Vegetarian Dino’s died than carnivores.
Why do monkeys love bananas?
Consider it a sweet treat
Soft and squashy allowing them to eat it quickly before it is stolen by others.
Fructose in bananas gives them energy.
Why do we get the hiccups?
Eating too fast
Drink cold or fizzy
Shock causes diaphragm muscle to jerk sharply.
