If We Scaled Up a Grasshopper by 50 Times in All

question 19

Multiple Choice

If we scaled up a grasshopper by 50 times in all dimensions, which of the following would be true of this giant grasshopper?

• A) it could leap the length of a football field in one jump
• B) it could fly up more than 100 miles into the atmosphere
• C) it could fly faster than any other organism
• D) it could not stand up

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