Quiz
1. A group of explorers recently found something in Tibet that searchers had been seeking for more than 100 years. What was it?
2. Archeologists recently discovered traces of the oldest human-made shelter ever found in southern Africa. About how long ago was this structure built?
3. Astronomers are psyched--they just discovered two new extrasolar planets! But wait, what the heck is an extrasolar planet?
4. Scientists recently found evidence that our human ancestors from three million years ago may have had something on their menu we hadn't expected. They might have been eating:
5. 16-year-old Irish schoolgirl Sarah Flannery is getting a lot of attention for a project that won a student science contest. What was her bright idea?
1. A group of explorers recently found something in Tibet that searchers had been seeking for more than 100 years. What was it?
A waterfall.
2. Archeologists recently discovered traces of the oldest human-made shelter ever found in southern Africa. About how long ago was this structure built?
10,000 years.
3. Astronomers are psyched--they just discovered two new extrasolar planets! But wait, what the heck is an extrasolar planet?
A planet that orbits a star outside our solar system.
4. Scientists recently found evidence that our human ancestors from three million years ago may have had something on their menu we hadn't expected. They might have been eating:
Meat.
5. 16-year-old Irish schoolgirl Sarah Flannery is getting a lot of attention for a project that won a student science contest. What was her bright idea?
A computer code that sends secure files over the Internet.
You might want to head back to the lab.
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