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World Record Word Problems
Double super tricky
Double super tricky
The smallest reptile measured was a male
dwarf chameleon, at just 21.9 mm from snout to
tail. The Malagasy giant chameleon averages 27
inches long. What is the difference in length, in
millimetres?
The polar bear is the world’s largest land
carnivore. It measures about 8 feet in length.
What is this in metres?
1 inch = 2.54 cm
1 foot = 0.3048 m
Tricky
Tricky
The colossal squid’s eye measures 38 cm in
diameter – the largest eyes of any animal. The
largest eyes of any land animal belong to the
ostrich. Their eyes are 5 cm in diameter (larger
than their brains!).
An ostrich egg is the world’s largest, at 150
mm. The bee hummingbird’s egg is the smallest,
at just 1 cm.
How much larger are the squid’s eyes?
What’s the difference between the two, in
millimetres?
Tricky
Super tricky
Reticulated pythons are the world’s longest
species of snake. On average, they measure
6.25 m from head to tail.
The tallest living giraffe in captivity is Forest
at Australia Zoo, who stands 5.7 m. The average
adult man is 1.8 m tall.
How long would six of these snakes measure if
they were placed end-to-end?
How much taller was Forest than the average
man in cm?
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