Animals and dinosaurs quiz
Test your knowledge on animals and dinosaurs and find
out even more fun facts! Circle the correct answer.
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1
The golden poison dart
frog is the most poisonous
animal alive.
Snakes smell with their tongues.
True / False
3
True / False
Which group of animals
don’t have a backbone?
Vertebrates / Invertebrates
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5
Which animal sleeps
the most?
Herbivores eat meat.
Koala / Sloth
True / False
6
"Stegosaur" means "roof lizard".
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True / False
7
What does a
palaeontologist study?
Animals / Fossils
Which modern animals are
most closely related to dinosaurs?
Birds / Lizards
9
In which continent
would you find T. rex fossils?
10
Coprolites are fossilized
dinosaur dung!
True / False
North America / Europe
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Roman buildings today
There are still plenty of Roman buildings to be found in the lands where the Romans
once ruled. These include palaces, temples, amphitheatres, aqueducts, great walls,
and even whole towns.
Can you match up the Roman site with the country it can be found in?
Walls of
Constantinople
Forum of Jerash
(town centre)
1st century ce
408–413ce
Italy
Turkey
Morocco
M e d i te r r a n e a n S e a
Jordan
Arch of Caracalla
Colosseum
(monument)
217ce
(amphitheatre)
70–80ce
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Roman soldiers
Roman foot-soldiers, called legionaries, had full-time jobs in the army. Legionaries all wore
the same clothing and had the same equipment. This helped them fight together as a group.
Complete the names of the pieces of equipment and match them
to the soldier. Then draw your own Roman soldier.
H-l--t
A-m--r
These overlapping
metal strips allowed
the legionary to move
and bend freely.
S-n-a-s
Made of leather, this
footwear had soles
lined with iron studs,
to stop them wearing
out on long marches.
This covered most
of the soldier’s head,
but let the soldier
see and hear clearly.
Is your soldier
ready for battle?
Does he have all
five things he
needs?
S---d
This weapon is
also called a gladius
and was kept in a
scabbard, or cover,
on the right hip.
S-i--d
A long, curved piece
of wood used to
protect most of the
legionary’s body.
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Space ages
Did you know that you are a different age on each planet? This is because a year is the
time it takes an object in the Solar System to orbit the sun. The further away from
the Sun a planet is, the longer it takes to orbit.
Can you match up the number of Earth days or years to the correct planet?
225 Earth days
687 Earth days
29 Earth years
84 Earth years
248 Earth years
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Jupit
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If you are 10 on Earth, you
are 41 on Mercury!
A ye
A ye
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Mercury
on Plut
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12
Pluto
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A ye
Ay
A day on Venus is longer
than a year on Venus!
Neptune
It is impossible to turn
one on Neptune in a
human lifetime.
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Earth
years
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Venus
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Saturn
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A yea
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365
Earth
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The Sun
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Ay
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Earth
days
It would take 2,480
Earth years to turn 10!
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Icelandic ash
!
• In 2010, a volcano in Iceland called Eyjafjallajökull belched
thousands of tonnes of ash into the sky.
• When magma rose up Eyjafjallajökull’s vent and reached
its summit it mixed with the snow and ice covering the
volcano. This mixture made the eruption very explosive.
W O W!
Eyjafjallajökull
is pronounced
“ay-uh-fyat-luhyo-kuutl”!
• The thick clouds of ash rose in a plume, or column,
up to 9 km (6 miles) high.
• Part of the ash cloud drifted across the Atlantic Ocean towards
North America.
• Thousands of aeroplane flights were cancelled, with
many companies losing millions of pounds. Imagine you are a journalist reporting on the volcanic eruption.
If you need more room for your article then you can continue on another sheet. Remember to let your readers know that the story continues on page 2!
THE DAILY NEWS
Headline here
Write your article here
Draw a picture of the volcano here
Continue your article here
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