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Quiz about What on Earth
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What on Earth? Trivia Quiz


All the answers contain the word "earth". Can you unearth the right one from the questions?

A matching quiz by davejacobs. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
davejacobs
Time
3 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
390,490
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
754
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 31 (10/10), polly656 (8/10), Guest 136 (10/10).
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
QuestionsChoices
1. With this, you can "fly anywhere", using zoomable maps  
  Fuller's earth
2. Illuminates the dark part of the new moon  
  Earthworks
3. Ancient underground Scottish dwellings - and a modern fashion  
  Earthshine
4. Entrenchments  
  Earth-Houses
5. Burrowing annelid  
  Rare earth metals
6. Palygorskite or bentonite  
  Earth Pig
7. Gaia  
  Earth Goddess
8. Set of seventeen elements  
  Earth sciences
9. Geography, Geology, etc  
  Google Earth
10. Translated name of an African ant eater  
  Earthworm





Select each answer

1. With this, you can "fly anywhere", using zoomable maps
2. Illuminates the dark part of the new moon
3. Ancient underground Scottish dwellings - and a modern fashion
4. Entrenchments
5. Burrowing annelid
6. Palygorskite or bentonite
7. Gaia
8. Set of seventeen elements
9. Geography, Geology, etc
10. Translated name of an African ant eater

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. With this, you can "fly anywhere", using zoomable maps

Answer: Google Earth

First released in 2001, Google Earth is a powerful computer program that maps the world in 3D, based on satellite images. It was initially known as Keyhole EarthViewer, but Google who took it over in 2004 renamed it Google Earth.
2. Illuminates the dark part of the new moon

Answer: Earthshine

Around the time of the new moon when the sun shines brightly on the side of the earth that faces the moon, and there is little illumination by the sun of the moon itself, the large dark part of the moon is faintly illuminated by reflected light from the earth.
3. Ancient underground Scottish dwellings - and a modern fashion

Answer: Earth-Houses

Several partially underground buildings were discovered in the 20th century mainly in Scotland where they are now tourist attractions. They were given the name "earth-houses" or souterrains. They seem not to have been dwelling places, but were cellars or underground passages lined with stone.
The term Earth-Houses has been used in recent times to describe an architectural style where buildings are built partly underground, or into hillsides.
4. Entrenchments

Answer: Earthworks

An economical method of forming a military defence was to dig trenches and use the excavated earth to form walls. This could be done quickly using unskilled labour.
5. Burrowing annelid

Answer: Earthworm

There are around 6,000 different species of earthworm worldwide, with segmented bodies that produce a fluid that helps them burrow through the earth. Each worm is both male and female, and they lay eggs that hatch into fully formed baby worms.
6. Palygorskite or bentonite

Answer: Fuller's earth

A material like clay that can absorb oil and grease, Fuller's earth has been used for centuries for cleaning (or fulling) wool. It mainly consists of aluminium silicates, but the actual constituents can vary. It still has many modern industrial uses, and sometimes it is called bleaching clay, or when used in cosmetics, whitening clay.
The names Palygorskite and bentonite are two of many kinds of absorbent aluminium silicates that may be called Fuller's earth.
7. Gaia

Answer: Earth Goddess

Also spelled Gaea, Gaia in Greek myth was the personification of the Earth as a Goddess. Her complicated relationships include being both the mother and wife of Uranus, and mother of the Titans, the Cyclops, the Giants and the Erinyes.
The concept of Gaia was used by James Lovelock on 1979 to describe his hypothesis of the earth's biosphere being a single self-regulatory organism.
8. Set of seventeen elements

Answer: Rare earth metals

The fifteen lanthanides (elements named after one of them, lanthanum, which all have similar properties) together with the elements scandium and yttrium make up the group of metals called the "rare earths". In fact they are not particularly rare in nature (except for the radioactive promethium), but they are thinly distributed. Often several of them occur in the same mineral which makes it difficult to separate them out.

Many of them have important industrial uses.
9. Geography, Geology, etc

Answer: Earth sciences

There are many branches of science that deal with the study of the world. These subjects that cover the whole earth and its atmosphere include hydrology, climatology, meteorology, tectonics, seismology and many, many more.
10. Translated name of an African ant eater

Answer: Earth Pig

Aardvark is the Afrikaans name for the burrowing mammal that pokes its snout into ant and termite nests. It translates literally into earth pig.
Source: Author davejacobs

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