Did You Know? GHA Science Trivia Quiz

"There are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy."

Is it true or false?

• True

• False

Answer explanation

NASA experts believe there could be anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. However, a 2015 paper published in the journal Nature estimated that the number of trees around the world is much higher: 3.04 trillion.

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What is the Universe's average color?

• Cafe latte

• Cosmic latte

• Galaxy latte

Answer explanation

In a 2002 study, astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige color that’s close to white.

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What is the tallest mountain on Earth?

• Mount Mauna Loa

• Mount Everest

• Mount Mauna Kea

• Mount Mayon

Answer explanation

The twin volcanoes, are taller than Mount Everest due to 4.2km of their heights being submerged underwater. The twin volcanoes measure a staggering 10.2km in total, compared to Everest’s paltry 4.6km.

Animals can be allergic to humans. They can be allergic, particularly to our?

• Hair

• Touch

• Dead skin cells

What does the rainbow on Venus called?

• Glory

• Diamonds

• Mercy

Babies have around how many bones at birth?

Answer explanation

This extra flexibility means they pass through the birth canal and enable rapid growth. With age, many of the bones fuse. Most adults have 206 bones in their skeleton.

The Eiffel Tower's Seasonal Secret: It gets ____ in the summer!

• Smaller

• Taller

• Wider

Answer explanation

The Eiffel Tower grows in summer.

As substances are heated up, particles move more and take up a larger volume. This effect is most dramatic in gases but it also affects liquids and solids too. It is the reason see bridges built with expansion points.

Your brain is constantly eating itself!

What is the process where our "cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system"?

• Metamorphosis

• Endocytosis

• Phagocytosis

Answer explanation

Phagocytosis isn’t harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter.

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Which planets have such extreme pressure that they can crystallize carbon atoms and turn them into diamonds? Basically, on these planets, it can rain diamonds!

• Neptune, Mars, and Saturn

• Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn

• Earth, Uranus, Neptune

Answer explanation

How do we know this science fact? Researchers were able to create the correct conditions in a lab to prove this occurs on Neptune and Uranus. Separately, other researchers speculate that it may rain as much as 2.2 million pounds of diamonds on parts of Saturn every year

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