World Facts – The answers to the questions in the DO IT Diary 3rd Edition
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DO IT Diary General Facts (3rd edition)
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Week 1: What colour do you get when you combine an equal amount of red paint with an equal amount of yellow paint?
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Week 2: What planet is closest to the sun?
A – Mercury
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Week 3: The decimal equivalent of ¾ is?
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Week 4: What is the longest river in the world?
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Week 5: How much of Australia is classified as desert?
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Week 6: Which country has the second largest population in the world?
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Week 7: Which mammal is the swiftest runner over short distances?
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Week 8: The ears of the African elephant can be over 1m wide. Apart from improving the elephant’s hearing, what other purpose do they serve?FAQ : Question
A – They cool the elephant’s blood
http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Anatomy/The_Ears/the_ears.html
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Week 9: Which animal, found throughout Africa, Asia, parts of Europe and South America, is covered with protective quills?
A – The porcupine
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Week 10: Which flightless bird lives on the open plains of Africa and can lay up to eight 1.1kg eggs?
A – An ostrich
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Week 11: In winter, animals such as bears and squirrels slow down their bodies to a permanent state of drowsiness. What is this condition called?
B – Hibernation
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Week 12: Which bird has eyesight 100 times more acute than that of a human being and has the ability to turn its head through 270 degrees?
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Week 13: What is the only type of bird that can fly backwards?
D – Hummingbird
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Week 14: What is the most common gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
B – Nitrogen
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Week 15: Sodium chloride is commonly known as?
B – Common salt
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Week 16: The first human being to land on the moon was?
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Week 17: The instrument that records the intensity of earthquakes is?
C – A Seismograph
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Week 18: The intersecting lines drawn on maps and globes are?
C – Geographic grids http://web.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/geog140/lectures/geographicgrid.html
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Week 19: The landmass of which of the following continents is the least?
D – Australia
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Week 20: The humidity of the air depends upon?
D – All of the above
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Week 21: The largest glaciers are?
C – Continental glaciers
http://www.onegeology.org/extra/kids/earthprocesses/continentalGlaciers.html
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Week 22: The last letter of the Greek alphabet is?
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Week 23: Mount Kilimanjaro is situated in?
C – Tanzania
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Week 24: A ______ is worth a thousand words?
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Week 25: There are many paths to the top of the mountain but the ______ is always the same?
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Week 26: What is the main green vegetable in guacamole?
C – Avocado
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Week 27: Who defeated the Minotaur?
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Week 28: Which country won the most gold medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games?
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Week 29: What is the capital of the Philippines?
C – Manila
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Week 30: What is a group of crows called?
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Week 31: Originally, how long was the Great Wall of China?
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Week 32: Mount Everest is located in which country?
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Week 33: For seeing objects at the surface of water from an underwater submarine, the instrument used is?
B – A periscope
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Week 34: How many red blood cells does bone marrow produce every second?
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Week 35: In which year did Sir Edmund Hillary reach the summit of Mount Everest?
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Week 36: In which of the following organs of the human body does maximum absorption of food take place?
C – The small intestine
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?id=2727&np=152&p=335#small
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Week 37: A Joule is the unit of?
C – Energy
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Week 38: Of the following foods, which one is the best source of protein?
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C – Distance
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Week 40: Penicillin is widely used as?
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Week 41: The longest rail line of the world, the Trans-Siberian line, is located in?
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Week 42: The normal threshold of hearing is around?
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Week 43: When water changes from a liquid state to a gaseous state, this process is called?
C – Evaporation
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0102-evaporation.php
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Week 44: What is the biggest bone in our body?
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Week 45: In which atmospheric layer do we live?
D – Troposphere
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Week 46: How many minutes does it take sunlight to reach Earth?
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Week 47: What type of animal is a Samoyed?
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Week 48: What is a Rhino’s horn made of?