Acronyms
PIESS stands for _______.
This yellow dwarf is the brightest star in our sky.
What is Sol, our sun?
One of these is not the name of a Salish Class ferry: Raven, Orca, Heron, Falcon.
What is Falcon?
A TV show that features a cast of undersea creatures and a squirrel.
What is Spongebob Squarepants?
These animals subsist on both animal and plant life.
What are omnivores?
USB stands for ______.
What is Universal Serial Bus?
This planet is sometimes called the morning or evening star, due to its proximity to the Sun.
What is Venus?
On March 22nd, 2006, this ferry sank while on its route between Prince Rupert and Port Hardy.
What is the Queen of the North?
This show features personified trains, such as Molly and Stepney, and a few humans too.
What is Thomas and Friends?
This is the largest living animal on our planet.
What is a blue whale?
PVC stands for ________.
What is Polyvinyl Chloride?
This unit of measurement is used by astronomers and is derived from the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
Most direct sailings between pender and vancouver island use the Salish Raven, but the 7:40 am sailing uses this vessel instead.
What is the Queen of Cumberland?
In this movie, Earth is uninhabitable because of all the garbage which a loveable robot is left to clean up.
What is WALL-E?
Our local group of these animals is known as the J-Pod.
What are orcas?
DNA stands for _______.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
This cluster of stars is only 4.2 light years away from our solar system, making it our closest interstellar neighbour.
What is Alpha Centauri?
In this year, BC Ferries began its operation.
What is 1960?
In this TV show, Steve went away to university leaving his dog (and us) in the care of his brother Joe.
What is Blues Clues?
This group of herbivorous animals has 4 stomachs.
What are ruminants?
LASER stands for ______.
What is Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
This major galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way, expected to arrive in 2.5 to 4 billion years.
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
After being sold, the Queen of Nanaimo ended up in this island nation in the South Pacific.
What is Fiji?
This series of films revolves around a cheese-loving Brit and his highly intelligent floppy-eared friend.
What is Wallace and Gromit?
This monkey species has a diet that consists of fruits, grass, seeds, roots, birds, rodents, antelopes, and smaller monkeys.
What are baboons?