SPACE
What is the name of Earth’s natural satellite?
The moon
What animal is the biggest on Earth?
Answer: The blue whale
Who was the famous woman scientist who discovered radium?
Answer: Marie Curie
(Interesting fact! She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize—and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes!)
True or False?
There is no sound in space.
True!
(Surprising fact! Space is silent because there is no air.)
True or False?
Bats are blind.
Answer: False
(They can see, and they also use sound to move.)
What did Alexander Fleming discover?
a) Electricity
b) Penicillin
c) The telephone
Answer: Penicillin
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
Which animal can sleep standing up: a horse or a monkey?
Answer: A horse
True or False?
The first telephone was invented before the first airplane.
Answer: True
The first telephone was invented in 1876, before the first airplane flew in 1903.
Which planet is famous for its beautiful rings?
Saturn
Where do penguins live: the North Pole or the South Pole?
Answer: The South Pole (Antarctica)
What sweet discovery was made by accident when a scientist forgot to wash his hands after working in a lab?
a) Chocolate
b) Artificial sweetener (saccharin)
c) Ice cream
Answer: b) Artificial sweetener (saccharin)
True or False?
A day on Venus is shorter than a day on Earth.
It's false!
A day on Venus is about 243 Earth days.
True or False?
Octopuses have three hearts.
Answer: True
(Interesting fact!)
What was discovered by accident when Percy Spencer was working with radar?
a) The television
b) The microwave oven
c) The calculator
Answer: b) The microwave oven