Have you seen the TV show - Are You Smarter than a 5th grader? It's one of my favorites! I feel dumb when I can't answer the 3rd grade geography question. I kick myself when I don't know the answer to a 5th grade science question!
This was my 3rd year writing the astronomy tests for Middle and High school age kids at this weekend's Northeast Kansas Regional Competition of the Science Olympiad:
National website - http://www.soinc.org/
Ks website - http://webs.wichita.edu/scienceolympiad/
These kids are the future of America. Some of the best and brightest. At this year's event there were 22 categories ranging from Ecology to Disease Detection to Mousetrap Powered Vehicles. Winners go to the State Championships in Wichita. The National Championships are held in Madison, Wisconsin.
I've taken 3 questions from the Middle School test - not too easy/not too hard to see if you're smarter than a Middle Schooler.
Here goes:
1) Earth rotates...
A) Clockwise
B) Counter-clockwise
2) All the planets in the solar system orbit the sun in the same direction.
A) True
B) False
3) Which planet in our solar system has the most moons discovered so far?
A) Uranus
B) Neptune
C) Saturn
D) Jupiter
Answers - next couple of days.
Also, the NE KS Middle and High School winners.
On your first question: What direction does the Earth rotate? Doesn't this depend on your viewpoint? If I'm looking to the north, the Earth rotates clockwise. If I look south, it rotates counter-clockwise. Or is my understanding of this question wrong?
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