Big Board Game questions

Dig Science

QUESTIONS

  1. What do you call a scientist that specializes in studying fossils (such as a dinosaur bones)?
  2. A dinosorologist
  3. A palaeontologist
  4. A fossiloligist
  1. What do you call a scientist that specializes in studying the matter that makes up the Earth, such as its rocks, its mineral, and elements, to understand how the Earth came to be and what is happening to it?
  2. A rocker
  3. A miner
  4. A geologist
  1. What to you call a person who does geological exploration (looks for specific mineral evidences) to know if it is a good place to mine?
  2. A prospector
  3. A pirate
  4. A magician
  1. What do you call a person who studies past cultures by looking for objects and other evidences in the ground?
  2. A treasure hunter
  3. An archaeologist
  4. A thief
  1. To learn about what people ate in ancient time, archaeologists study garbage pits and cesspits. What is a cesspit?
  2. A pit filled with toilet waste
  3. A pit filled with bones
  4. A pit filled with banana peel
  1. Which item of the following list is so hard is can cut glass?
  2. Iron
  3. Plastic
  4. Diamond
  1. What is a mine?
  2. A place where a valuable ore is extracted from the ground
  3. A performer who doesn’t make a sound and only uses gestures.
  4. Something that belongs to me.
  1. Which of the following can NOT be mined?
  2. Gold
  3. Coins
  4. Salt
  1. The oldest archaeological mine in the world is 43 000 years old. Men mined hematite, which contains iron. What did they use it for?
  2. To create a red paint pigment (made from rust)
  3. To create iron swords

[Info: The mine is called the Lion Cavern and is located in the country Swaziland, in Africa]

  1. Which of these metals is not safe to touch with your bare hands?
  2. Silver
  3. Iron
  4. Mercury
  1. How are diamond created?
  2. When tiny crystals are formed in freezing temperature, then they pool together.
  3. When rocks full of carbon, like coal, are in a high pressure and heat environment for billions of years in the deep of the Earth.
  4. When pieces of Quartz are glued together.
  1. Before starting to dig, archaeologists have to do this step to ensure they are digging at a good spot. Name this step.
  2. A survey— a small hole in the ground to found evidence of what they are looking for. (ex. artefacts).
  3. An exam— to make sure they know how to use their equipment.
  1. Which of the following method is not used to find an archaeological site or a mineral deposit (ore)?
  2. Aerial pictures (pictures taken from airplane of the land)
  3. Sniffing dogs
  4. Research in libraries and archive
  1. How to call an object found on an archaeological site?
  2. A gizmo
  3. An artefact
  4. A treasure
  1. What happen to the ore extracted from mines?
  2. It is refined to remove all the impurities.
  3. It is transformed in a variety of items, such as jets, watched, and computer components.
  4. All of the above.

CHANCE

[1]You arrived at your archaeological site, pretend to use your trowel (it’s a small shovel) and dig up to the next spot.

[2]You arrived at a very tight spot in your mine tunnel, crawl your way to the next spot.

[3]You are doing a geological survey, do you best investigative look and move up one spot.

[4]You are holding a very precious artifact in your hand. Don’t drop it; carefully and slowly move up one spot.

[5]A thief just stole your artifact, move back one spot to get it back!

[6]There is a strong gold vein where you are standing, follow it and move two spots.