This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 101 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 101 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Hemoglobin is a protein that binds to oxygen and helps carry it in the blood and deliver it to other parts of the body. This is an example of what type of protein? A) Storage. B) Contractile. C) Transport. D) Signaling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transport. 2. Which rock is formed when sea water evaporates? A) Rock Gypsum. B) Limestons. C) Dolostone. D) Rock Salt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rock Salt. 3. What are the levels of organization from largest to smallest in an ecosystem? A) Ecosystem, community, population, individual. B) Individual, population, community, ecosystem. C) Biosphere, community, individual. D) Cells, tissue, organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem, community, population, individual. 4. Which is the semiconductor material? A) Ebonite. B) Mannan. C) Germanium. D) Eureka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germanium. 5. Which best describes an ionic bond? A) The sharing of electrons between two nonmetals. B) The mutual attraction between two metals. C) The attraction between oppositely charged particles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The attraction between oppositely charged particles. 6. Which pair of elements would be likely to form an ionic compound? A) C and N. B) Mg and Ca. C) Na and O. D) Ne and S. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Na and O. 7. Which Amatal of food in the stomy hazies? A) Hydrocculary. B) Surezu Asks. C) Assintant Army. D) Vine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrocculary. 8. Many food chains are A) Producer. B) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 9. Which branch of chemistry deals with the production of energy? A) Organic Chemistry. B) Analytical Chemistry. C) Electrochemistry. D) Inorganic Chemistry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Electrochemistry. 10. Which of the following can influence wind currents? A) Temperature difference between air over land and air over the ocean. B) Temperature difference between air in the tropical zone and air in the polar zones. C) Temperature difference between air close to the ground and air high up in the atmosphere. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. The "normal" group in your experiment; you can compare your results to this group.Example:If we tested how the amount of sunlight affects plant growth, the plant that was given a normal amount of sunlight would be the control group. A) Independent Variable. B) Control Group. C) Dependent Variable. D) Experimental Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Control Group. 12. Which foods are the best source of Vitamin C: A) Fresh fruits and vegetables. B) Cooked fruits and vegetables. C) Animal foods. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fresh fruits and vegetables. 13. Living things need air, water, and..... to survive. A) School NGSS.K-LS1-1. B) Computers. C) Animals. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food. 14. The circle that devides the globe into day and night is called A) Circle of darkness. B) Circle of day and night. C) Circle of illumination. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circle of illumination. 15. Water is a universal solvent A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. The building blocks of all proteins are? A) Molecules. B) Enzymes. C) Hormones. D) Amino acids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amino acids. 17. ..... is found in deserts. A) Lotus. B) Jasmine. C) Rose. D) Cacti. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cacti. 18. Sharing of electrons of two or more non-metals A) Homogenous Mixture. B) Heterogenous Mixture. C) Covalent Bond. D) Ionic Bond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Covalent Bond. 19. In the core of the sun, hydrogen is converted into..... A) Carbon dioxide. B) Helium. C) Oxygen. D) Hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helium. 20. Days and night occure on earth due to A) Revolution. B) Rotation. C) Both a and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rotation. 21. Cotton fiber obtained from A) With seeds. B) With trees. C) With leaves. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With seeds. 22. How many Carbon atoms does hexane have? A) 4. B) 5. C) 6. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 23. The sun appears to move across the sky during the day. The best explanation for this apparent motion is that Earth is A) Rotating on its axis. B) Much smaller than the Sun. C) Revolving around the Sun. D) Tilted on its axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotating on its axis. 24. A state of matter that do not have definite volume and shape A) Plasma. B) Solid. C) Liquid. D) Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gas. 25. There are 6 quantities in the International System (SI) A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 26. As you travel higher in altitude, there is (a) pressure pushing down on you. A) More. B) Less. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less. 27. Dr Samar Mubarak is the chairman of A) NESCOM. B) Cisc. C) AEC. D) WTO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NESCOM. 28. ..... is an atom that has either a positive or a negative change. A) Physical change. B) Ion. C) Chemical bond. D) Chemical change. E) Energy level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ion. 29. Burning of meteors A) Mesosphere. B) Moon. C) New-wax-full wane. D) Shape and altitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mesosphere. 30. Relative humidity is the amount of vapor in the air divided by the air's vapor-holding capacity at that temperature A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 31. Which of these orbits the Earth? A) The Sun. B) The Moon. C) The Earth's Axis. D) The North and South Poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Moon. 32. Organelle that stores lipids and proteins and then altered to suite the needs of the cell A) Golgi Body. B) Ribosomes. C) Nucleus. D) Mitochondria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Golgi Body. 33. What causes the different phases of the moon? A) Alien interference. B) The moon's mood swings. C) The changing angles of the sun, moon, and Earth. D) The Earth's rotation speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The changing angles of the sun, moon, and Earth. 34. Water boils at what degrees celsius A) 20. B) 35. C) 0. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100. 35. Which of the following is a single replacement reaction? A) 2Na + Zn(NO3)2 $\rightarrow$ 2NaNO3 + Zn. B) 2C2H6 + 7O2 $\rightarrow$ 4CO2 + 6H2O. C) H2O + CO2 $\rightarrow$ H2CO3. D) KOH + HCl $\rightarrow$ KCl + H2O. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2Na + Zn(NO3)2 $\rightarrow$ 2NaNO3 + Zn. 36. An object will accelerate in the direction of the force applied to it. A) Newton's 2nd Law. B) Newton's 4th Law. C) Newton's 1st Law. D) Newton's 3rd Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Newton's 2nd Law. 37. The distance light travels in one year A) Light year. B) Pag. C) Comet. D) Tsunamis. E) Tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light year. 38. Minimum wind speed required for functioning of a windmill is about ..... A) 15 km/h. B) 10 km/h. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 15 km/h. 39. How many canine teeth are in a typical adult human mouth? A) 2. B) 4. C) 8. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 40. The Big Island of Hawaii and Surtsey Island are both great examples where communities of organism undergo changes, we call this ecological..... A) Succession. B) Pioneering. C) Biology. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Succession. 41. A force is a.....that cause an object to move. A) Push or pull. B) Twist or turn. C) Push or twist. D) Pull or turn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push or pull. 42. The Alaskan malamute is species of fish. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 43. Which two elements would NOT form an ionic bond? A) Calcium and lithium. B) Calcium and oxygen. C) Lithium and oxygen. D) Calcium and carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcium and lithium. 44. Tick the correct simile A) He is a lion. B) He fought as bravely as a lion. C) He fought bravely. D) The lion bravely fought. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He fought as bravely as a lion. 45. How does the temperature of the air affect the pressure it applies? A) The air pressure becomes unpredictable with increasing temperature. B) The air pressure increases with increasing temperature. C) The air pressure decreases with increasing temperature. D) The air pressure remains constant with increasing temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The air pressure increases with increasing temperature. 46. Used by plants to make food A) Cytokineses. B) Respiration. C) Photosynthesis. D) Fermentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 47. All crustal movements produced by endogenic Earth forces that produce ocean basins, continents, plateaus, and mountains. A) Endogenic processes. B) Diastrophism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diastrophism. 48. Genotype refers to the A) Gene combination of an organism. B) The physical characteristic. C) A genetic disease. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gene combination of an organism. 49. Roots of the plants absorb water from the soil through the process of A) Transpiration. B) Evaporation. C) Diffusion. D) Osmosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osmosis. 50. The brain is actually..... A) A computer. B) A massive nerve cell. C) A swelling at the end of the spinal cord. D) A tumulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A swelling at the end of the spinal cord. 51. Edited at a period of cells? A) 4. B) 5. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 52. How long is a day on Neptune? A) 24 hours. B) 14 hours. C) 26 hours. D) 16 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 16 hours. 53. In an endothermic reaction the system is releasing energy. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 54. Additional crust is produced in the oceans due to the earth's expansion A) Isostasy. B) Convection. C) Contraction. D) Continental drift. E) Expansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Expansion. 55. System of knowledge, and the methods you use to find that knowledge is A) Science. B) Technology. C) Chemistry. D) Physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Science. 56. When a substance changes from one state to another, such as solid to a liquid, this is said to be a A) Phase change. B) Problem. C) Mixture. D) Solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phase change. 57. The particles of solid have very strong forces of attraction between them and are arranged in fixed pattern A) Solid can flow. B) Solid cannot flow. C) Solid cannot flow or Can flow. D) Non of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solid cannot flow. 58. The study of the universe as a whole A) Ecology. B) Geography. C) Cosmology. D) Oceanography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cosmology. 59. Mario studied how far room temperature water would spurt out of a platic milk carton when 3mm holes were punched at different heights from the bottom of the container. Identify the dependent variable A) 3 mm holes. B) Distance water traveled out of carton. C) Different heights of holes in container. D) Ice water from Iceland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distance water traveled out of carton. 60. Which can be used as evidence for evolution (change over time)? A) Fossils. B) Homologous Structures. C) Embryo Similarities. D) Biochemical Analysis. E) All are examples of evidence of evolution. 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