The Earth Quiz - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 58 times
The average score is 15 of 20

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Largest of Earth's 7 continents	Asia	96%
Massive reptiles that went extinct around 65 million years ago	Dinosaurs	91%
Gas that makes up roughly 78% of the air in Earth's atmosphere	Nitrogen	91%
Earth's nickname that refers to its oceans	The {Blue} Planet	91%
English scientist who discovered the three laws of motion	Isaac Newton	89%
Deepest part of the Pacific Ocean	{Mariana} Trench	89%
Mountain range where the above is located	Himalayas	87%
Highest point above sea level (not overall, as the Earth bulges at its equator)	Mount Everest	85%
Term for a long period of cooler global temperatures	Ice age	83%
Process in which plants use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose and the oxygen that makes up 21% of the atmosphere	Photosynthesis	83%
Class of warm-blooded animals that includes humans, dogs, lions, elephants, and more	Mammals	81%
Multinational space laboratory launched in 1998 that orbits 400 kilometers above Earth	International Space Station	77%
Latin name for the Earth	Terra	74%
Type of molecule that protects Earth's surface from most UV rays	Ozone	68%
Soviet cosmonaut on Vostok 1 who was the first person to leave Earth's atmosphere	Yuri Gagarin	66%
Narrator of "Planet Earth" on the BBC	David Attenborough	55%
The above is created in this layer of the atmosphere	{Strato}sphere	55%
During the above, these massive compacted snow piles are created near the poles	Glaciers	47%
It is believed that this protoplanet crashed into Earth long ago, causing its 23.5° tilt and forming the Moon	Theia	23%
Geological epoch that we are currently living in	Holocene	21%

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