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WELL DONE !
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Science Quiz
Prepared by Naci Urkmez
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CHEMISTRY
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What is Na Cl (Sodium Choloride )?
a. Chalk
b. Sugar
c. Coal
d. Salt
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Which is the most abundant element on Earth?
a. Oxygen
b. Iron
c. Nitrogen
d. Carbon
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What is the chemical symbol for silver ?
a. Au
b. Ag
c. S
d. Si
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Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?
a. ozone
b. carbon dioxide
c. hydrogen
d. methane
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BIOLOGY
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When was Darwin’s The Origin of Species published?
a. 1809
b. 1859
c. 1909
d. 1959
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Which type of insect has the largest number of
different species?
a. Flies
b. ants
c. beetles
d. moths
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How long is an elephant pregnancy?
a. 10 months
b. 16 months
c. 22 months
d. 28 months
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How old is the oldest tree in the world?
a. 90 years
b. 900 years
c. 9,000 years
d. 90,000 years
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PHYSICS
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Which is the best conductor of electricity?
a. Wood
b. air
c. water
d. rubber
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How far does sound travel through air in one second?
a. 340 metres
b. 1,340 metres
c. 2,340 metres
d. 3,340 metres
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What’s the boiling point of water at 5,000 metres above sea level?
a. 100°C
b. 95°C
c. 90°C
d. 85°C
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In which year did Einstein win the Nobel Prize for Physics?
a. 1821
b. 1871
c. 1921
d. 1971
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GENETICS
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What was the first mammal to be cloned?
a. a sheep
b. a rabbit
c. a dog
d. a monkey
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How much working DNA do humans and mice share?
a. 5%
b. 35%
c. 65%
d. 95%
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• What plant did Gregor Mendel use in his experiments on inheritance?
a. carrots
b. tomatoes
c. peas
d. potatoes
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How many genes does a person have?
a. 46
b. 21,000
c. 100,000
d. 31,000,000,000
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GEOLOGY
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Which country has the most volcanoes?
a. Russia
b. Ecuador
c. Italy
d. Indonesia
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When did India collide with Asia?
a. 50,000 years ago
b. 500,000 years ago
c. 5,000,000 years ago
d. 50,000,000 years ago
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Which country has most of the world’s uranium reserves?
a. The USA
b. Australia
c. Nigeria
d. China
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How much did the largest ever gold nugget weigh?
a. 65 g
b. 65 kg
c. 650 kg
d. 6.5 tonnes
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Answers1 salt2 oxygen3 hydrogen4 Ag (Au is gold, S is sulphur, Si is silicon)5 18596 beetles (more than 300,000 species)7 22 months8 9,000 years (a spruce tree in Sweden)9 water10 340 metres11 85°C12 192113 a sheep14 95%15 peas16 21,00017 Indonesia (150 volcanoes)18 50,000,000 years ago (the impact formed the Himalayas) 19 Australia20 65 kg