This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 102 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 102 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The layer of the atmosphere that contains a layer of gases that absorbs about 95% of ultraviolet light? A) Thermosphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Stratus layer. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratosphere. 2. Which of the following is equal to 1 meter? A) 1, 000 centimeters. B) 10 centimeters. C) 100 centimeters. D) 10, 000 centimeters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100 centimeters. 3. Which organ purifies our blood? A) Lungs. B) Kidneys. C) Heart. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kidneys. 4. What can only be found in plant cells? A) Cell membrane. B) Mitochondria. C) Chloroplast. D) Vacuole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chloroplast. 5. Sand and water is a soluble solution. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 6. The process by which rock and soil are broken down and transported away A) Erosion. B) Minerals. C) Humus. D) Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Erosion. 7. The study of structure of tissues of plant and animals is called ..... A) Cytology. B) Histology. C) Morphology. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Histology. 8. T or F:An ostrich can fly. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. When reading a blueprint, a dimension is given as 4.387 inches +.005-.002. What is the minimum acceptable size? A) 4.39. B) 4.385. C) 4.392. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4.385. 10. Conclusions in science are always tentative. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. ..... is used in hair dyes, refrigerators, perfumes and air conditioners. A) Carbon di oxide. B) Chlorofluorocarbons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chlorofluorocarbons. 12. Where are earthquakes most likely to occur? A) Along plate boundaries. B) In the middle of oceans. C) On mountaintops. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. All of the following are steps of the scientific method except..... A) Write your conclusion. B) Record results. C) Research the question. D) Prove the hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prove the hypothesis. 14. The sum total of all processes in an organism that convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism's life functions (OR what do we call it when we use food for energy?) is called..... A) Metabolism. B) DNA. C) Photosynthesis. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metabolism. 15. The number of electrons in the outer energy level is called A) Electrons. B) Valance Electrons. C) Electron Cloud. D) Ion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valance Electrons. 16. Which pair of terms best describes volume of sound? A) High and low. B) Loud and soft. C) Loud and high. D) Soft and low. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loud and soft. 17. ..... charges attract A) Like. B) Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite. 18. Which term means to move backwards or in the opposite direction? A) Retrograde. B) Periodically. C) Geocentric. D) Apparent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Retrograde. 19. On which plant did Gregor Mendel research genetic theory A) Pea plants. B) Papaya. C) Mango plant. D) Wheat plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pea plants. 20. What is a horizontal row on the periodic table? A) Atom. B) Nucleus. C) Period. D) Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Period. 21. Where do most new plants come from? A) Flowers. B) Leaves. C) Roots. D) Seed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seed. 22. What is the process by which plants make their food called? A) Photosynthesis. B) Chlorophyll. C) Respiration. D) Germination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis. 23. A tool that is used to measure force or weight (NOT mass). A) Balance Scale NGSS.5-PS2-1. B) Microscope. C) Spring Scale. D) Graduated Cylinder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spring Scale. 24. Choose the appropriate past of the verb buy A) Buyed. B) Buying. C) Bought. D) Buied. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bought. 25. If Earth's mass was cut in half, what would happen to your weight? A) Nothing, weight is not affected by gravitational force. B) Decrease because gravitational force decreases. C) Decrease because gravitational force increases. D) Increase because gravitational force increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decrease because gravitational force decreases. 26. What is the force that resists the motion between two surfaces that are in contact? A) Magnetism. B) Gravity. C) Inertia. D) Friction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friction. 27. If the focus of an earthquake occurs beneath the sea floor, as the seismic waves travel through the ocean, they create a massive and destructive A) Focus. B) Epicenter. C) Mountain. D) Tsunami. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tsunami. 28. Which of the following is the general formula for a Single replacement reaction? A) AB + CD $\rightarrow$ AC + BD. B) AB + C $\rightarrow$ AC + B. C) A + B $\rightarrow$ AB. D) AB $\rightarrow$ A + B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AB + C $\rightarrow$ AC + B. 29. Chlorophyll is a naturally occurring chelate compound in which central metal is.....(Chelate is a compound containing a ligand bonded to a central metal atom at two or more points.) A) Calcium. B) Magnesium. C) Copper. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Magnesium. 30. Sometimes called the "powerhouse" of the cell, this organelle is where respiration takes place. A) Mitochondria. B) Nucleus. C) Vacuole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mitochondria. 31. Solids have a definite..... A) Smell. B) Picture. C) Shape. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shape. 32. Which of these uses friction? A) A parachute. B) A ball falling through the sky. C) Brakes on a bike. D) A wind turbine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brakes on a bike. 33. How do ozone molecules form in the stratosphere? A) A single atom of oxygen and an oxygen molecule collide. B) Through a process known as nuclear fusion. C) Through a process known as nuclear fission. D) They are created by ultraviolet light from the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A single atom of oxygen and an oxygen molecule collide. 34. Is used as a convenient way to help identify minerals. A) Minerals. B) Mohs scale of hardness. C) Rocks. D) BEC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohs scale of hardness. 35. In what type of reaction does one reactant form two or more products? A) Synthesis. B) Single replacement. C) Decomposition. D) Double replacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decomposition. 36. True or False:Sodium and Chloride ions have equal but opposite charges A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 37. What characters do it warm up the slopet spot? A) White. B) Broken. C) Red. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White. 38. The point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the earth. A) APELION. B) Apogee. C) Perihelion. D) Perigee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perigee. 39. In 1905, Percival Lowell predicted where.....would be found. A) Saturn. B) Neptune. C) Pluto. D) Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pluto. 40. Is water availability an abiotic factor or biotic factor? A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 41. Dissolving salt in water is what kind of change? A) Physical change. B) Chemical change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical change. 42. What creates our seasons? A) The ;moon's orbit around the Earth. B) Earth's rotation. C) Earth's tilt on its axis. D) Earth's revolution around the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth's tilt on its axis. 43. A method of measuring a star's movement against the background of stars father away, using trigonometry and geometry. A) Stellar parallax. B) Binary star. C) Light year. D) Pulsar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stellar parallax. 44. The boiling point of a liquid is dependent on atmospheric pressure A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. All non-metals have a low melting point and poor conductivity except A) Graphite. B) Arsenic. C) Selenium. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graphite. 46. ..... is a tiny particle of an atom that moves around the nucleus. A) Model. B) Electron. C) Nucleus. D) Proton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Electron. 47. Which is NOT a fact according to Newton's law of Gravitation? A) If the mass of the earth were doubled, the gravitational force earth would double. B) The force exerted on the earth by the sun is equal and opposite to the force exerted on the sun by the earth. C) If the mass of the earth were would doubled, the gravitational force on the earth would quadruple. D) If the mass of the sun were doubled, the force it exerts on the earth would double. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) If the mass of the earth were would doubled, the gravitational force on the earth would quadruple. 48. Students of different grades were given the same jigsaw puzzle to assemble. The time they took to assemble it was measured. What is the dependent variable? A) The time it took to assemble the puzzle. B) Same jigsaw puzzle. C) The temperature of the room. D) Students of different grade levels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The time it took to assemble the puzzle. 49. Which of the following is a property of a monocot? A) Has two cotyledons. B) It is an animal with plantlike features. C) Has one cotyledon. D) Has networked veined leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has one cotyledon. 50. Which of the following materials is suitable to make raincoats? A) Cotton. B) Silk. C) Paper. D) Plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plastic. 51. Which is true regarding an invasive species? A) It will likely have no effect on the ecosystem. B) It will compete with local organisms for food and resources. C) It has natural predators in its new environment. D) It will make the ecosystem more stable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will compete with local organisms for food and resources. 52. Which of the two is considered to be the best dating method to get an assigned act for an artifact? A) Dedrochronoly. B) Carbon-14 Dating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dedrochronoly. 53. ..... is a matter that has only one kind of atom. A) Element. B) Natural element. C) Neutron. D) Atomic number. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Element. 54. Whish viewpoint (uniformitarianism or catastrophism) requires the existence of paraconformities? A) Neither. B) Both. C) Uniformitarianism. D) Catastrophism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uniformitarianism. 55. An atom of an element contains 20 protons. What is the identity of the element? (NOTE:you will need to use your Periodic Table) A) Neon. B) Calcium. C) Potassium. D) Argon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium. 56. What is the Atomic Number of Neon, Ne? A) 10.1798. B) 7. C) 10. D) 20.1798. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 57. Name the following molecule:Cl2 A) Dichloride. B) Dichlorine. C) Chloride. D) Chlorine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chlorine. 58. Which process refers to DNA being duplicated (copied)? A) Translation. B) Ribosome. C) DNA replication. D) DNA duplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DNA replication. 59. The..... is the line of latitude halfway between the North and South Poles A) Equator. B) Axis. C) Hemisphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equator. 60. S, P, D, and G are the four shapes for electrons A) False. B) True. 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