Some people refer to the 3 Pathways to Happiness, can you name any of these pathways
Pleasures, Flow, Helping Others
What is flow and how do you find what provides flow for you?
What is happening in this video?
What is this plane called?
Antonov 225
Where does our tap water come from?
What stages does water go through before getting to your house?
screening, clarification, filtration, chlorine and fluoride added.
Can you name all the American states?
How have spaceship changed in the last 50 years?
Where is the safest place to swim in this picture?
What is a rip current?
Why is it dangerous to swim in quarries and some lakes?
How does a waterfall form?
What is the tallest waterfall in the world, where is it and how tall is it?
Angel Falls (Venezuela 979m)
Which of these animals is a cow and which is a bull?
None of these cows are seen putting food in their mouths yet they are all chewing. How is this so?
A cow has one stomach but how many compartments does their stomach have?
Name some items made of rubber and where does rubber come from?
Who is this amazing woman and what did she succeed in doing on this day in 1932?
Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
I found these stones in my back garden when digging up soil last week. Where did they come from?
What is coastal erosion?
What are these called and what do they do?
What do both these cars have in common?
The Shamrock and the DeLorean. They were both manufactured in Ireland by Irish companies.
What are these and what are they used for?
TV, Weather, Navigation, Cominations(Remote areas)
How do satellites get into space?
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Why don’t satellites fall back down to Earth or fly off into space?
What is space junk?
What was New York originally known as?
What are the names of the streets highlighted?
What are the names of the 2 rivers at either side of Manhattan?
What major crisis did New York face in the 1890’s
What was D Day?
Name this Irish couple who were one of the main reasons that D Day was such a success? Where were they from?
Ted and Maureen Sweeney Blacksod Mayo.
What is this called?
What does the phrase we have ‘white smoke’ mean?
It means a group has reached an agreement.
Where does the pope live?
Who are these people?
What is the main difference in how wasps and bees look?
Name some common bees and wasps?
What do wasps and bees eat?
What is the largest wasp in the world called and where would you find it?
When did the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland form?
At the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
What were the Troubles?
A conflict in Northern Ireland that began in 1968 and finished with the Good Friday agreement in 1998
What day is regarded as the worst day in ‘The Troubles’?
Bloody Sunday (Jan 3oth 1972), The march began as a result of internment
What is the National Electric Grid?
What is the East West Interconnector?
Does Ireland produce enough electricity for itself?
How can Ireland produce more electricity?
What trees do these leaves and fruit belong to?
Why do these trees affect people with hay fever?
What is the method of measuring the age of trees called?
dendrochronology
Forests are like a library. Why are trees a really good way of telling what the weather was like over hundreds of years?
What is the dawn chorus?
Why do birds sing?
Name these Irish birds?
If you enjoy listening to bird songs and would have an interest in identifying birds by listening to their songs, here is a video to use as a reference point.
What is the smallest bird on Earth?
Bee Humming Bird
What is this country above the Black Sea, it’s capital city (red dot) and the town that suffered a horrific incident in 1986 (blue dot) ?
What types of Power Station are these?
Explain how nuclear power works using these pictures and words.
Video – How nuclear power plants work.
Who were the first to realise there was an issue at Chernobyl Power station?
What happened to the town of Pripyat (3km from Chernobyl) 2 days after the explosion?
Do we have Nuclear Power in Ireland?
What is a lumberjack?
Lumberjacks are mostly North American workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era when hand tools were used in harvesting trees
What is lumber?
What are the largest trees in the world and where are they found?
Redwood trees – California
What is the tallest mountain in Greece and what is this mountain known for?
Mount Olympus, home of the Greek Gods
Name this Greek God?
There was 12 Greek Gods, Zeus was the King of the Gods
What is this symbol and what do the rings represent?
When were the first Olympic Games held and where?
776BC ended in 394AD, new Christian emperor and didn’t want his people honoring Zeus. Modern Olympic Games began again in 1896
Name this Irish athlete?
What is Earth Day?
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
In what year did Earth Day start?
Who began the first Earth Day in 1970?
What is oil that comes out of the ground known as?
Crude Oil
What is happening in these pictures?
Where does crude oil go after it is pumped out of the ground?
An Oil refinery
What happens in an oil refinery?
How is oil sold ?
By the barrel (159 litres)
The Middle East and Venezuela were the leading producers of oil until America began a new scientific way of taking the oil out of the ground, what is this method called?
Who are the biggest oil producers in the world currently?
What is a futurologist?
A person who studies the future and makes predictions about it based on current trends.
Some people say this pandemic fast forwarded our future? Discuss Education, Work, Traffic and Shopping?
What is happening in this photo?
What happened the Aral Sea between 1960 and 1994?
The Soviet Union pumped water from it to irrigate their crops.
What is a prototype?
It’s the first version of a device or vehicle from which other forms are developed
Sound waves need to travel through a medium such as solids, liquids and gases.
What is the meaning of Clon in names like Clondalkin, Clonmel and Clonmacnoise
Clon = Meadow / What is the Irish for honey? mil
What is Clonmel famous for today?
27,500 miles but a bee will not travel that far in its lifetime. In its lifetime, it will make 1/12 of a teaspoon
What is a Social Entrepreneur?
Where does all the oxygen we breathe come from?
How do plants survive?
Photosynthesis is a reaction that takes place inside a plant, producing food for the plant to survive. Carbon dioxide, water and light are all needed for photosynthesis to take place. Photosynthesis happens in the leaves of a plant.
What is a food chain
It’s a series of organisms that depend on the next as a source of food
What is a food web?
What was this used for and what is it called?
