Pages 2 & 3
To the Ends of the Earth
Pages 6 & 7
They Did it First!
This N That
100
This Power Word means exploratory; fact finding.
What is reconnaissance?
100
This Power Word means a trip taken for a purpose.
What is expedition?
100
This girl says she has invented a cure for hiccups.
Who is Mallory Kievman?
100
This is the name of the guide who helped Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole in 1909.
Who is Ootah?
100
This is what MRO stands for.
What is Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter?
200
This is the name of the Panda Mommy.
Who is Mei Xiang?
200
This man set out on a journey from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Who is Johan Ernst Nilson?
200
This is the second most common element in the universe.
What is helium?
200
This is where Roald Amundsen is from.
What is Norway?
200
This is the total time it took for the Pole2Pole expedition.
What is (about) 18 months?
300
This is a new species of monkey.
What is lesula?
300
This is the total number of countries Nilson has visited.
What is 100?
300
This is the name of the hiccup stopping lollipop.
What is hiccupop?
300
This is the date Edmund P. Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mt. Everest.
What is May 29, 1953?
300
This is the age of Mallory Kievman.
What is 13?
400
This Power Word means dying out.
What is extinction?
400
This was the start date of the Pole2Pole.
What is April 6, 2011?
400
This is the name of the convention where Mallory's lollipop won prizes.
What is the Connecticut Invention Convention?
400
This is the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
400
This is the country in which 1/3 of the world's supply of helium comes from.
What is the U.S.?
500
This endangered animal is found on the islands of the Seychelles.
What is sheath-tailed bat?
500
This ocean is east of North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
This is what helium is used for in hospitals.
What is cooling magnets found in MRI machines?
500
This is the name of the astronaut pictured on page 8.
Who is Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin?
500
Fewer than 300 of these endangered birds live in Ethiopia.
What is the Liben Lark?
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