Big bangs and mega-deaths quiz
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Question 1
What is a mass extinction?
A
What happens when people explode a nuclear bomb
B
When lots of animals and plants die out completely
C
What happens when humans fight wars
D
What happens when the hunting season starts
Question 2
What killed off the dinosaurs?
A
People
B
Volcanoes
C
They just got too big
D
An asteroid or comet
E
Mice (which ate all their food)
Question 3
How long ago was the worst mass extinction?
A
530 million years ago
B
It's happening now
C
66 million years ago: the K-T event
D
252 million years ago
Question 4
What is gas hydrate?
A
A special sort of fire extinguisher
B
Unlimited ice cream at the bottom of the sea
C
A funny sort of ice made of methane gas and water
D
The fizzy stuff which spurts out of a soda bottle you shake up too much
E
Oh dear. I seem to have missed that one!
Question 5
What sort of creatures survive mass extinctions?
A
People with lots of food stored away
B
Rich people
C
Penguins
D
Rats
E
Cockroaches