Group members provided answers and explanations to 20 questions testing factual knowledge. For each question, they indicated whether the statement was true or false and provided a short justification. The document covered topics including planets, countries, human anatomy, chemistry, and more. The group aimed to concisely explain their reasoning for whether each statement was factual or not.
Group members provided answers and explanations to 20 questions testing factual knowledge. For each question, they indicated whether the statement was true or false and provided a short justification. The document covered topics including planets, countries, human anatomy, chemistry, and more. The group aimed to concisely explain their reasoning for whether each statement was factual or not.
Group members provided answers and explanations to 20 questions testing factual knowledge. For each question, they indicated whether the statement was true or false and provided a short justification. The document covered topics including planets, countries, human anatomy, chemistry, and more. The group aimed to concisely explain their reasoning for whether each statement was factual or not.
Answers and explanations of questions true or false
• 1. On which continent is the Sahara desert?(Africa) -True (largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles)
2. Mars is the smallest planet
-False (Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system—only slightly larger than Earth's Moon)
3. How many zeroes are there in ten million?(8)
-False(In base ten, “ten million” has 7 zeros.) • 4. The statue of liberty was a gift from which country?(France) -True ("The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States)
5. What type of animal is the biggest in the
world?(Blue Whale) -True(The Antarctic blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.) • 6. What chemical elements are diamonds made from?(coal) -False(Diamond is composed of the single element carbon, and it is the arrangement of the Carbon atoms in the lattice that give diamond its amazing properties. Compare the structure of diamond and graphite, both composed of just carbon. )
7. How many minutes are there in a days?(1440 minutes)
-True(Minutes in a day calculation. One day has 24 hours, one hour has 60 minutes, so: 1 day = (24 hours/day) × (60 minutes/hour) = 1440 minutes/day)
8. What is the capital of Germany?(Frankfurt)
-False(The capital of Germany is the city state of Berlin. It is the seat of the President of Germany, whose official residence is Schloss Bellevue.) • 9. What is the body largest organ?(Lungs) -False(The skin is the body's largest organ.)
10. Vitamin B is the vitamin you will not find in an egg.
-False(Eggs are rich sources of selenium, vitamin D, B6, B12 and minerals such as zinc, iron and copper. )
11. Electromagnetic wave vary in wavelength and frequency.
-True(Electromagnetic Waves have different wavelengths. They only differ from each other in wavelength. Wavelength is the distance between one wave crest to the next. ... The electromagnetic spectrum includes, from longest wavelength to shortest: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma-rays.) • 12. Gravity is the force that keeps you up. -False(Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. The force of gravity keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun. So it is not a force that keeps you up.)
13. What can we learn from fossils?(How Earth’s environment
has changed) -True(By studying the fossil record we can tell how long life has existed on Earth, and how different plants and animals are related to each other. Often we can work out how and where they lived, and use this information to find out about ancient environments. Fossils can tell us a lot about the past.)
14. Where did the Corono Virus begin?(Vietnam)
-False(The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its plan to investigate the origins of the COVID pandemic. The search will start in Wuhan — the Chinese city where the new coronavirus SARS- CoV-2 was first identified — and expand across China and beyond. ) • 15. The chemical formula of water is H2O. -True( The molecular formula for water is H2O. One molecule of water consists of one oxygen atom covalently bonded to two hydrogen atoms. )
16. How many straight edges does a cube have?(16)
-False(The cube is the only regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It has 6 faces, 12 edges, and 8 vertices.)
17. Volleyball originates from USA.
-True(Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts,USA.) • 18. Zumba is the brazillian footballer. -False(Wilmer Zumba is the footballer of Ecuador)
19. Who hunts most?-the male or the female lion(male)
-False(The main role of Lion is to protect the pride and its territory. They mostly do not go hunting out until it is a real necessity. The main role of Lioness is to go out and hunt, get food
for its pride and serve the first meat to the Lion from freshly killed prey. )
20. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world.
-True(Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.) THE END!!! THANK YOU!!!
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