Homeschooling Challenge

I am giving my homeschoolers the day off for President's Day tomorrow.  And it might be a snow day for the public schools which always makes them mad when they still have school - though it's not like snow causes them any trouble to actually GET to school considering most days they stumble down the stairs still in their pajamas to do school.  If I were a really prepared kind of homeschooling mom, I'd have a President's Day themed challenge but I don't.  Instead, it's on The Alps.  The kids took this quiz on Friday and both got 90%.  Without looking up answers, can you get at least 50%???


1.  How many countries do the Alps span?

• 3
• 9 
• 7

 2. What did DaVinci find in the rocks that made him think the mountains had come from the sea?  ____________________________ 

 3. Where did the rocks at the top of the Matterhorn mountain come from?  ____________________________

 4. The Tehys Ocean was between which two continents millions of years ago?

________________________________________

 5. The Molass Basin was created from the tectonic shift of what?  ______________________________

 6. What filled in the Molass Basin north of the Alps?

_________________________________________

 7. How do glaciers turn the very bumpy rocks of the Alps into smooth rock?

___________________________________________________________________

 8. During the last ice age, what covered the Alps leaving only the tips exposed?  ________________________________

 9. Global warming is melting the ice faster which will do what to the mountains?    ________________________________________

 10. In 200 Million years the Alps will be:

• 1/4 as tall as now
• 1/8 as tall as now
• 1/2 as tall as now
• 3/4 as tall as now

Being a homeschooler in MY homeschool isn't so easy!