Q 01/05
A) Violet
B) Blue
C) Green
D) Red
Answer · why
The full order is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, remembered as Roy G. Biv.
Q 02/05
A) Behind you
B) Directly overhead
C) In front of you
D) Below the horizon
Answer · why
Rainbows always appear in the part of the sky opposite the Sun, and from an aeroplane you can sometimes see the whole circle.
Q 03/05
A) Smoke from fires
B) Fibres like cotton wool
C) Steam from hot volcanoes
D) Tiny water droplets and ice
Answer · why
The droplets are so small that they float on rising air, which is why a cloud can hold tonnes of water and still hang in the sky.
Q 04/05
A) Fog
B) Frost
C) Haze
D) Smog
Answer · why
By definition it cuts visibility to under one kilometre; anything lighter is called mist.
Q 05/05
A) Cirrus
B) Cumulonimbus
C) Stratus
D) Altocumulus
Answer · why
These giants can tower 12 kilometres high, and the flat anvil forms when the rising air hits the top of the troposphere and spreads out.
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