YLP12 04-09-20 Morning | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What is special about the 21st December in the Northern hemisphere?

It is the winter solstice. The Shortest day of the year. In some places, the sun does not come up at all.

What do we call the moon when no shadow is being cast on it?

A full moon.

What is the main diet of a polar bear?

Seals

Which country were the people from who first went to the South Pole?

Norway.

What is a crater?

A hole made by asteroids and meteors hitting the moon (there are some on earth too)

What is another name for the Northern Lights?

The Aurora Borealis

If we say the moon is waxing, is it getting bigger every night or smaller?

Bigger

What is climate change and what causes it?

Climate change is the world getting hotter. It is caused by the gasses humans put into the air when we make energy. The gasses act like a blanket.

What did the first man on the moon say as he put his foot on it for the first time?

"That's one small step for a man... One giant leap for mankind".

What was the name of the British explorer who tried to be the first to get to the South pole?

Captain Scott.

What was the name of the rocket that took men to the moon?

Saturn 5

What is the difference between mittens and gloves?

Gloves have places to put your fingers. Mittens just cover the whole hand.

How many earths could you fit between the earth and the moon?

30

What is the name of the people who live in the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska?

Inuits. (Not eskimos)

What causes the northern lights?

Charged particles from the sun hitting the earths atmosphere.

What is the name of the subject where we learn about the earth, the poles, continents and countries?

Geography

Which pole is the arctic?

The North Pole

What is the name of the first man on the moon?

Neil Armstrong

Where do penguins live? Arctic or Antarctic?

Antarctic. (South pole)