Planets
Natural satellites that orbit planets.
What are moons?
Earth has just one natural satellite, but some planets have many. Jupiter currently has the most confirmed moons in the Solar System.
This Canadian province is home to the cities of Toronto and Ottawa.
What is Ontario?
Ontario is Canada’s most populous province. Ottawa, the national capital, is located in its southeastern part.
This vitamin is produced by the human body when skin is exposed to sunlight.
What is vitamin D?
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and maintain strong bones. In Canada, where winter sunlight is limited, dietary sources and supplements can be important sources.
Kids rode these for hours without helmets.
What are bicycles?
The first practical bicycle appeared in Europe in the early 1800s. Early models had no pedals and were propelled by pushing your feet against the ground.
In a standard game of Monopoly, there are 32 green houses and 12 of these larger buildings.
What are hotels?
In Monopoly, you must first build four houses on a property before upgrading it to a hotel.
The “Blue Planet.”
What is Earth?
About 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, and NASA images of Earth are mostly blue because of that.
This is the largest ocean on Earth, stretching from Asia and Australia to North and South America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The Pacific covers more area than all of Earth’s land combined. Its name comes from a Latin word meaning “peaceful.”
First awarded in 1901, this international prize is named after the Swedish inventor of dynamite.
What is the Nobel Prize?
Alfred Nobel established the prizes in his will. Nobel Prizes are awarded in areas including physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
Kids drank water outside from this all summer without a second thought.
What is garden hose?
Drinking water from a garden hose today isn’t recommended because many hoses can leech chemicals like lead into the water.
In this classic mystery board game, a case-file envelope is placed in the centre of the board which features nine rooms.
What is Clue?
In the original British version, the game is called Cluedo. Players try to determine the murderer, the weapon, and the room by collecting clues and eliminating possibilities.
Our solar system’s largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
Jupiter is so large that more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it by volume. It is also famous for the Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm that has been observed for centuries.
This Canadian territory is the country’s largest and is famous for its vast Arctic landscape.
What is Nunavut?
Nunavut was created in 1999 and makes up about one-fifth of Canada’s total land area.
This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.
What is a bat?
Unlike flying squirrels and other gliding mammals, bats actually fly using powered wingbeats. There are more than 1,400 known bat species.
This restful piece of household furniture wasn’t so relaxing anymore when kids used it as a trampoline.
What is a bed?
Experts debate the risks and rewards of jumping on the bed. It can be good for the child’s mental and physical health, yet we all know a list of reasons mothers of an earlier era would never have allowed such antics.
This Hasbro strategy game features infantry, cavalry, and artillery pieces in different colours as players battle to conquer territories.
What is Risk?
Risk was originally created in France in 1957 under the name La Conquête du Monde, meaning “The Conquest of the World.”
The fourth planet from the sun.
What is Mars?
Mars is often called the Red Planet because iron minerals in its soil give it a rusty colour.
This famous river flows through Egypt and is one of the world’s longest rivers.
What is the Nile?
The Nile has supported communities and agriculture in northeastern Africa for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptian civilization developed largely along its banks.
This common sleep disorder, in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep, is commonly treated with a CPAP machine.
What is sleep apnea?
CPAP stands for continuous positive airway pressure. The machine gently pushes air through a mask to help keep the airway open during sleep.
In the 1960s, many parents shoved their kids out the door to play and told them to come home by the time these came on.
What are streetlights?
Others marked the end of play with dinner bells that rang up and down the neighborhood.
In this classic word game, the coveted letters Q and Z are each worth 10 points, while most vowels are worth just 1 point.
What is Scrabble?
The letter values in English-language Scrabble reflect how frequently letters appear in English. That’s why common letters are worth less than rare ones.
The number of planets in our solar system that have rings.
What is four?
All four giant planets in our solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, have ring systems. Saturn’s rings are by far the most visible.
This mountain range forms much of the natural boundary between Alberta and British Columbia.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The Canadian Rockies are home to spectacular national parks, including Banff and Jasper.
This fruit wears its seeds on the outside.
What is strawberry?
What look like strawberry “seeds” are actually tiny fruits called achenes (uh-KEENZ), each containing a seed. A single strawberry can have roughly 200 achenes on its surface.
This playground fixture lets two children ride up and down, but many have disappeared from playgrounds over safety concerns.
What is a seesaw?
Often made from old wooden planks that hit the concrete or gravel directly, the seesaw was an excellent source of splinters, tailbone and spinal injuries, and the fear of your partner suddenly exiting, sending you crashing to the ground.
Combining elements of shuffleboard and curling on a tabletop, this Canadian game is played by flicking wooden discs toward the centre of a round board.
What is crokinole?
Crokinole is believed to have originated in Canada in the 19th century, although its exact origins are uncertain. The centre hole is worth 20 points, making an accurate flick especially valuable.