Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Funny science test answers.

Thunder is a rich source of loudness
Most every teacher I know keeps a collection of little jewels that appear on test papers.  These are from 5th and 6th grade science exams.
  • One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

  • You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.

  • Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

  • The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.

  • When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms, But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

  • When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

  • Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

  • While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.

  • Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.

  • South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.

  • Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

  • Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.

  • A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go.

  • There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.

  • There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.  (The Paul  Ehrlich Theory -ED.).

  • Lime is a green-tasting rock.

  • Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.

  • Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.

  • Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.

  • Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.

  • Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

  • We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

  • To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

  • In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.

  • Clouds are high flying fogs.

  • I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

  • Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.

  • Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.

  • Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe.

  • Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.

  • Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

  • In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.

  • Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man.

  • A blizzard is when it snows sideways.

  • A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.

  • A monsoon is a French gentleman.

  • Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

  • Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

  • It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.

  • The wind is like the air, only pushier.

4 comments:

MCPO Airdale said...

These had me and the Missus laughing out loud!

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Me & mine too

Anonymous said...

These same students (in college) will someday quote, "How I learned to bullshit them w/words." Smarter than the average bears. Very sweet, Juice

Anonymous said...

I'm STILL laughing. Thanks, Rodg.

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