The Amazing Colossal Science Quiz -- Starring You!

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1. Just a few minutes later, you've grown until you are more than twenty feet tall. You're taller than the tallest living animal on Earth. What animal is it? African Elephant Giraffe Indian Elephant Okapi

2. Height isn't everything. You put on a lot of weight as you keep growing. Soon you weigh more than fifteen tons. You are now the heaviest living land animal. What animal is it? Indian Elephant Rhinoceros Hippopotamus African Elephant

3. Forget about animals! Now you're more than five hundred feet tall. You're taller than the tallest tree in recorded history. What kind of tree was it? Australian Eucalyptus Douglas Fir Bristlecone Pine Coast Redwood

4. You continue to grow until your head reaches the lower part of the stratosphere, at the level of the highest clouds in the atmosphere. Which one of the following cloud types is found at such a high altitude? Stratus Nimbostratus Cumulus Cirrus

5. You're so big now that you're able to jump right off the Earth. (Fortunately, the mysterious ray gave you the ability to survive in space.) As you head off into the void, you get a good look at all sides of the Moon. What is the name of the largest impact crater you see? Tycho Oceanus Procellarum South Pole-Aitken Basin Copernicus

6. Off you go into the asteroid belt. Which one of these asteroids is the largest? Eros Pallas Ceres Vesta

7. Growing even larger, you begin to head out of the solar system. You find yourself in a region full of thousands of small objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. Astronomers believe this region is the source of short-period comets. Where are you? The Van Allen Belt The Trojan Point The Oort Cloud The Kuiper Belt

8. Off you go into interstellar space, getting bigger all the time. Directly ahead of you is the brightest star (other than the sun) visible from Earth. What star are you looking at? Sirius Arcturus Vega Capella

9. Now you're really getting gigantic. You're starting to head towards the galaxy that's nearest to our own Milky Way. What is it called? The Andromeda Galaxy The Small Magellanic Cloud The Sagittarius Dwarf The Large Magellanic Cloud

10. One last jump in size before you return to normal. You are so big now that you can observe the patterns of galaxies in the universe. You can see the largest known structure in the universe, a sheet of galaxies 500 million light-years long, 200 million light-years wide, and 15 million light-years thick. It was first observed by astronomers Margaret Geller and John Huchra in 1989. What nickname did they give this immense structure? The Great Wall Leviathan The Big Belt Colossus