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  "id": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
  "categoryID": "category-science",
  "title": "Truth or False: All About the Earth",
  "subtitle": "When did people really start believing that the Earth is round?",
  "description": "Test your knowledge of true or false of the Earth.",
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  "difficulty": "medium",
  "version": 1,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08",
  "shuffleChoices": false,
  "questionTimeLimitSeconds": 15,
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-01",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Earth’s continents are surrounded by four major bodies of water.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-a",
      "explanation": "Earth’s continents are surrounded by four major bodies of water: the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-02",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Earth is the fourth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-b",
      "explanation": "Earth is the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-03",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Earth orbits the Sun in a path that is presently more nearly a circle than the orbit of any other planet.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
          "imagePath": null
        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-b",
      "explanation": "Earth orbits the Sun in a path that is presently more nearly a circle (less eccentric) than are the orbits of all but two of the other planets, Venus and Neptune."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-04",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "The mean distance of Earth from Sun is about 8,046,700 km (5,000,000 miles).",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-b",
      "explanation": "The mean distance of Earth from the Sun  is about 149,600,000 km (92,960,000 miles). "
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-05",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Viewed from another planet in the solar system, Earth would appear to be a bright blue in colour.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
          "imagePath": null
        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-a",
      "explanation": "Viewed from another planet in the solar system, Earth would appear bright and bluish in colour. Easiest to see through a large telescope would be its atmospheric features like swirling white cloud patterns and tropical storms."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-06",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Earth’s surface is traditionally subdivided into seven continental masses.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-a",
      "explanation": "Earth’s surface is traditionally subdivided into seven continental masses: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-07",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "“Earth” is only name for a planet of the solar system that does not come from Grego-Roman mythology.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-a",
      "explanation": "Mars, Venus, Mercury, and more…all planets in the solar system other than “Earth” derive their names from Greco-Roman mythology."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-08",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Even enlightened thinkers didn’t regard Earth as a planet like the others in the solar system until the 18th century.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-b",
      "explanation": "Since the Copernican revolution of the 16th century, enlightened thinkers have regarded Earth as a planet like the others of the solar system; concurrent sea voyages provided practical proof that Earth is a globe like the other planets."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-09",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Since German is the international language of astronomy, Earth’s name in English derives from Germanic words for ground and earth.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-b",
      "explanation": " Earth’s name in English, the international language of astronomy, derives from Old English and Germanic words for ground and earth."
    },
    {
      "id": "question-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth-10",
      "quizID": "quiz-science-true-or-false-all-about-the-earth",
      "type": "trueFalse",
      "text": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun.",
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      "choices": [
        {
          "id": "choice-a",
          "text": "True",
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        },
        {
          "id": "choice-b",
          "text": "False",
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        }
      ],
      "correctChoiceID": "choice-a",
      "explanation": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only planet in the universe known to harbour life."
    }
  ]
}