This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 41 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 41 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In E=mc2, C represents the A) Speed of light. B) Speed of air. C) Speed of energy. D) Speed of mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speed of light. 2. Diamond is a ..... type of element A) Charcoal. B) Coal. C) Carbon. D) Non of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon. 3. The spot in an object where the mass is balanced. A) Center of pressure. B) Center of density. C) Center of mass. D) Center of weight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Center of mass. 4. Upward moving air mass that plays a part in forming tornadoes. A) Coriolis effect. B) Air pressure. C) Updraft. D) Downdraft. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Updraft. 5. What is the base unit for volume? A) Liters. B) Meters. C) Centimeters. D) Grams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liters. 6. Believe that there few fossils below the Great Unconformity because organisms were just beginning to multiply and fill the Earth. A) Catastrophism. B) Uniformitarian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catastrophism. 7. What is definition to "explain" ? A) Interpret or tell answer to something. B) Make a meaning out of word, phrase, etc. C) Shows something. D) Make up of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interpret or tell answer to something. 8. What is potential energy? A) Moving energy. B) Non renewable energy. C) Renewable energy. D) Stored energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stored energy. 9. Acceleration:is the rate of change in..... A) Speed. B) Displacement. C) Distance. D) Velocity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Velocity. 10. The perioed of one rotation of earth is known as A) Sun day. B) Earth day. C) Moon day. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth day. 11. The precision of a graph may be lost when the information is transferred from a table? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. Where is the Central Paddy Research Center in India A) Cuttack (Orissa). B) Bengaluru (Karnataka). C) Durgapur (Orissa). D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cuttack (Orissa). 13. Which is an example of an adaptation? A) A group of rabbits have thick fur to stay warm in the winter. B) A group of moths have darker wing colors to blend in to the trees. C) A bird has a long thin beak to eat insects on cacti. D) All of these are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are correct. 14. Choose the correct answer. Which skin layer has blood vessels? A) Epidermis. B) Dermis. C) Hypodemis. D) Fatty tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dermis. 15. The planet comes from the word "Plantain, "-which means.....in ancient Greek A) Rambler. B) Wanderer. C) Sparkling start. D) A natural satellite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wanderer. 16. Process of splitting an atomic nucleus into two or more nuclei with smaller masses, releasing large amounts of energy A) Nuclear reactor. B) Fission. C) Nuclear waste. D) Fusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fission. 17. A possible answer to a question or problem. Also called an educated guess. A) Observation. B) Hypothesis. C) Question. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 18. ..... is the end of a magnet A) Pole. B) Photon. C) Laser. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pole. 19. Is the geological column a real thing? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 20. Modern science cannot tell us the original source of energy? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. This scientist laid down the laws of motion, developed the law on universal gravitation and invented calculus. A) Galileo. B) Albert Einstein. C) Robert Boyle. D) Sir Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Isaac Newton. 22. Clouds are grouped by their height above the ground. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 23. Light behaves as a wave. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Which soil horizon can have humus and topsoil in it? A) Horizon D. B) Horizon B. C) Horizon C. D) Horizon A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horizon A. 25. An idea that proposes an answer to a question A) Constant. B) Independent variable. C) Validity. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypothesis. 26. Where is the new moon always located? A) The day time sky. B) The night time sky. C) The midday sky. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The day time sky. 27. Which celestial body is the Earth closest to? A) The Sun. B) Venus. C) Mars. D) The Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Moon. 28. Name the national flower of india A) Lotus. B) Rose. C) Tulip. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lotus. 29. The mass of a very large boulder should be expressed in A) Grams. B) Kilograms. C) Milligrams. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kilograms. 30. The grouping of tubes that carry water and food to all parts of the plant are called..... A) Fibrous roots. B) Vascular bundles. C) Phloem. D) Xylem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vascular bundles. 31. Which base pair is correctly matched? A) AT. B) GU. C) AC. D) GT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AT. 32. A pitcher throws a 0.145 kg baseball at a velocity of 30.0m/s. How much kinetic energy does the ball have? A) 87.25 J. B) 65.35 J. C) 23.45 J. D) 65.25 J. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 65.25 J. 33. A scalar is a magnitude..... A) With direction. B) Without direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Without direction. 34. Receives no sunlightvery, very cold that almost reach water's freezing pointmuch of the ocean's floor is located here A) Trench. B) Midnight. C) Abyss. D) Twilight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abyss. 35. Lightning is a form of precipitation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. What is the outer most main layer of Earth's atmosphere? A) Stratosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thermosphere. 37. The sum of the plus and minus allowance figures is called A) Allowances. B) Total results. C) Tolerances. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tolerances. 38. Which is not a type of simple machine? A) Pulley. B) Screw. C) Wedge. D) Spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring. 39. How many seconds are in half a minute? A) 30. B) 60. C) 15. D) 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 30. 40. There are..... Number of muscles in human? A) 639. B) 637. C) 638. D) 640. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 639. 41. What we call the "Big Dipper" is actually part of what constellation? A) Ursa Major. B) Ursus. C) Orion. D) Andromeda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ursa Major. 42. Who is the gas used to blow balloons A) Helium. B) Nitrogen. C) Both. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helium. 43. What characteristics impact resistance of a material? A) Thickness. B) Temperature. C) Length. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 44. Name the Largest tree of the world.? A) Eucalyptus. B) Neem. C) Red Wood Tree. D) Pinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Wood Tree. 45. The force that attracts the Moon and Earth is the: A) Weak force. B) Strong force. C) Electromagnetic Force. D) Gravitational Force. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gravitational Force. 46. What kind of bond forms between two nonmetals? A) Ionic. B) Covalent. C) Metallic. D) Fake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Covalent. 47. Group 1 elements are also called..... A) Halogens. B) Alkali metals. C) Noble gases. D) Metalloids. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alkali metals. 48. In a chemical reaction the substances you start with are called..... A) Reactants. B) Compoids. C) Twin components. D) Products. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reactants. 49. P-type material acts as: A) Cathode. B) Electrons. C) Anode. D) Neutrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anode. 50. The causes of global warming includes all of these EXCEPT..... A) Cutting down too many trees without replanting. B) Managing the weather. C) Burning fossil fuel like coal. D) Burying of waste In large dump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Managing the weather. 51. What is true about the neutron's electrical charge? A) The neutron has no electrical charge. B) The neutron has a positive electrical charge. C) The neutron has a negative electrical charge. D) The neutron has an unknown electrical charge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The neutron has no electrical charge. 52. The distance between a rarefaction and compression is A) Comfort zone. B) Ultimate zone. C) Ossilation. D) Wavelength. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wavelength. 53. Ions caused when the baso4 salts were merged with water, A) Ba-2 & SO4+2. B) BaO+ & S2-2. C) Ba+2 and so4-2. D) Bus+ & O4-2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ba+2 and so4-2. 54. What is the function of the cell wall in plant cells? A) The cell wall is responsible for storing genetic information and controlling the cell's activities. B) The cell wall is responsible for producing energy for the cell. C) The cell wall is responsible for providing structural support to the cell. D) The cell wall is responsible for controlling the movement of substances in and out of the cell. NGSS.MS-LS1-2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cell wall is responsible for providing structural support to the cell. 55. The fact that a cannon always moves in a backward motion after shooting a cannonball is an example of: A) Newton's First Law of Motion. B) Newton's Second Law of Motion. C) Newton's Third Law of Motion. D) Newton's Law of Cannonballs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Newton's Third Law of Motion. 56. Which material would have the greatest viscosity at normal temperatures? A) Peanut Butter. B) Jelly. C) Milk. D) Marshmallow Fluff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milk. 57. What is a cyclone? A) A low-pressure weather system with strong winds rotating around it. B) A high-pressure weather system with strong winds rotating around it. C) A frontal system with strong winds and heavy precipitation. D) A thunderstorm with strong winds and lightning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A low-pressure weather system with strong winds rotating around it. 58. An example of a natural fertilizer is A) NPK. B) Manure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manure. 59. Which Law? An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. A) Newton's First Law. B) Newton's Second Law. C) Newton's Third Law. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Newton's First Law. 60. What is the greatest five-digit number that is completely divisible by 8, 15, 16, 21 and 5? 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