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See how many of the questions you can answer. You can look anywhere on the World-Wide Web, but we've given you some starting places here:

• Mineral Galleries (lots of mineral information)
• Gems and Minerals at the Smithsonian
• Mineralogy Database

• Dinosaur Newsletter
• Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• Field Museum of Natural History
• Natural History Museum, London, England

You can search for all kinds of things on these pages.

• Yahoo
• Google
• AltaVista
• Lycos

Here are some questions to answer! Good luck!

1. Find a picture of a quartz crystal and then draw one for yourself.

2. Find a picture of a tyrannosaurus rex and then draw one for yourself.

3. What is the hardest mineral of all?

4. What color is malachite, usually?

5. What is the highest spot on Earth, and how high is it?

6. How big are foraminifera?

   1. the size of cows

   2. the size of matchboxes

   3. the size of sand grains

7. Did people ever live at the same time as dinosaurs?

8. Find a picture of a plateosaurid and then draw one for yourself.

9. What was Pangea?

10. What is the current price of gold?

11. How long ago did the Earth form?

12. What is the deepest spot in the ocean, and how deep is it?

13. How big are:

1. The Earth ______________

2. The Sun ______________

3. The Moon ______________

14. What is a coccolith?

15. What probably caused the dinosaurs to go extinct?

16. How long ago did woolly mammoths live?

17. How long does El Niño usually last?

18. How long ago did the very first animals with shells live?

19. How thick is Earth’s atmosphere?

20. What is the chemical formula for stilpnomelane?