Questions Kids Ask
In class we are going to Skype with a 5th year class in England.
5th year in England is the same as 4th grade here. This is because kindergarten counts as year 1.
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Why is Egg Rock called Egg Rock?
Someone in our class asked, “why is Egg Rock called Egg Rock?” The answer is because Egg Rock is shaped like an oval so it looks like an egg.
What is a technical name for one?
In math someone asked, “If one isn’t a composite, prime, or a square number, what is its technical name?” The answer is one is a unit.
What is Exabyte?
An exabyte is a unit of digital information storage and can store programs and other digital information equal to one quintillionbyte quintillion bytes or one billion Gigabytes. Exabyte is abbreviated EB and its multiples are powers of 1,000 like, 1 EB = 1,000,000,000,000000,000 B = 10 bytes.
Why is the sky blue?
On a clear sunny day the sky above us looks bright blue. In the evening the sunset puts on a brilliant show of reds, pinks, and oranges. Why is the sky blue what makes the sky blue what makes the sunset red
The atmosphere is the mixture of glass molecules and other materials surrounding the earth it is made mostly of the gases nitrogen (78) % and oxygen 21 % argon gas and water in also small amounts of other gases plus many small solid particles like dust soot and ashes pollen and salt from the oceans
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