This fun
Christmas-themed Science Quiz makes a great end of term activity, but is also good for a bit of fun to test your own knowledge... Answers are provided at the bottom of the post... No cheating!!
The End of Term is Nigh!
As the end of another year draws near children across the country will be expecting to do less and less work, and have more and more fun, while at school. Several years ago, in an effort to appease my students with a fun activity but without resorting to doing something totally non-educational, I produced the following Christmas Science Quiz.
Questions
1 to 15 are based on topics covered in Year 7 (B1, C1, P1) so offer a good
re-cap of the basics for Secondary school students, and may also be suitable
for Key Stage 2 Primary school pupils.
Questions 16 to 19 are aimed at GCSE students, and are
based on the content of OCR 21st Century Science units B1, C1, P1.
Question 20 is just there for fun!
Feel free to use these questions as you like, and share with others, however it would be lovely if you could acknowledge me as the source!
Christmas Science Quiz Questions
1. Which of Santa’s reindeer is named
after an object in space?
2. One of Santa’s reindeer is called
Vixen. What animal is a vixen the female of?
3. Which metal with the symbol Au did
one of the wise men give?
4. Some people put a star on the top
of their Christmas tree. Put these objects into size order (Big – small): Comet, Galaxy, Star.
5. Why is Santa’s sleigh
environmentally friendly?
6. One of the properties of metals is
that they are sonorous. Which sonorous metal objects often appear on Christmas
cards?
7. Why would you never see penguins
and polar bears together in the wild?
8. Baby reindeer drink milk from their
mothers. Which group of animals do reindeer belong to?
9. The three wise men had to cross a
desert. Which of these animals would they have been most likely to see: Cow,
Elephant, Camel?
10. Santa’s fed up with drinking
sherry, and fancies a glass of water. He tests his water with litmus paper and
it turns red. Why can’t Santa drink this water?
11. Santa’s elves often have to
muck out the reindeer stables because of all the reindeer poo. Which life
process does this show?
12. Which group of plants do
Christmas trees (Scots pines) belong to?
13. What item of clothing does
Santa wear that stops 50% of the heat loss from his body?
14. Santa drinks a lot of sherry.
Which organ of his body might be damaged by this?
15. Baubles that are put on
Christmas trees are shiny. What do they do to the light?
16. The gene for having a shiny
nose is dominant, and Rudolph is double dominant (homozygous). What percentage
of Rudolph’s offspring would have shiny noses?
17. Santa has to cross the Atlantic
to deliver presents to the children in America
18. Reindeer have 48 chromosomes.
How many chromosomes would there be in a reindeer sperm cell?
19. Santa lives at the North pole. What
effect will global warming have on the amount of space that his reindeer have
to exercise in?
20. A bear walks 1 mile South, 1
mile East, then 1 mile North, and ends up exactly where it started. What colour
is the bear?
Christmas Science Quiz Answers
No cheating...
Answers below...
1. Comet
2. Fox
3. Gold
4. Galaxy - Star - Comet
5. Doesn’t use fossil fuels / no pollution
6. Bells
7. They live on different poles
8. Mammal
9. Camel
10. It’s acidic
11. Excretion
12. Conifers
13. Hat
14. Liver
15. Reflect
16. 100%
17. Continental drift
18. 24
19. Reduced / Less space
20. White (must be a polar bear staring out at the N pole!)
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Have a very merry and science-y Christmas!!
