Why do balloons make a loud noise when they pop? Try our kids’ quiz

1.Max, 4, asks: why do balloons (just like the one pictured above) make a loud noise once they pop?

As a result of the air molecules contained in the balloon explode

It’s the sound made by the rubber popping

The pop is a strain wave of air dashing out

To let they’ve popped so you possibly can tidy up

2.Poppy, 7, asks: why will we develop hair in our armpits?

To maintain us heat

To cease our pores and skin rubbing and getting sore

It helps to draw a mate

So we now have one thing further to brush every morning

3.Monty, 6, asks: when did Gigantopithecus reside?

The Cretaceous interval, which was 145m years in the past and ended 66m years in the past

The Pleistocene epoch, 2.6m to 11,700 years in the past

The Jurassic interval, 201.3m to 145m years in the past

The Tertiary interval, 66m to 2.6m years in the past

4.Wolfie, 9, asks: why are ginger cats usually male?

Male cats eat orange meals that turns their fur ginger

As a result of the ginger gene is on the X chromosome

Ginger cats are extra enticing to females

There are extra male cats on the earth total, together with extra ginger cats

5.Ivo, 9, asks: why does the world spin?

As a result of the Earth was hit by an asteroid

As a result of it’s heavier on one facet than the opposite

As a result of the solar pulls it alongside and the solar spins

It has spun because it shaped out of a cloud of mud and fuel

Molly Oldfield hosts All the pieces Below the Solar, a weekly podcast answering kids’s questions, out now as a guide.

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