This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 45 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 45 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that is composed entirely of oceanic crust and lies beneath the Pacific Ocean A) Pacific Plate. B) Atlantic Plate. C) Antarctic Plate. D) Indo-Australian Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific Plate. 2. When an animal blends in with its surroundings, it's using..... A) Camouflage. B) Mimicry. C) Compression. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Camouflage. 3. Weather is a state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. The examples DNA and RNA belong to which macromolecule? A) Proteins. B) Lipids. C) Nucleic Acid. D) Carbohydrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleic Acid. 5. A testable, possible explanation for a scientific question is called a(n)..... A) Theory. B) Random guess. C) Law. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypothesis. 6. In the Southern Hemisphere, the vernal equinox occurs in which month? A) March. B) May. C) October. D) September. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) September. 7. What kinds of food can you get protein from in your diet? A) Eggs. B) Meat and Fish. C) Nuts and Legumes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. How many chambers does the heart of a snake have? A) 3. B) 2. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 9. What is the SI standard for speed? A) Cent meter/ hour. B) Meter/Seaken. C) Millimeters/ second. D) Kilometers / hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter/Seaken. 10. When an object is acted upon by one or more outside forces, the total force is equal to the? of the object times the resulting acceleration. A) Mass. B) Speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mass. 11. To calculate how much work was done, you should A) Multiply force by distance. B) Divide force by distance. C) Divide resistance force by effort force. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multiply force by distance. 12. When do equinoxes occure on earth A) 21 February. B) 21 march. C) 22 December. D) 21 june. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 21 march. 13. The planet Earth is located in what galaxy? A) Mars. B) Milky Way. C) Orion. D) Snickers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Milky Way. 14. Experiments in which information about the test is kept from the participants to reduce bias. A) Blind experiments. B) Experimental variables. C) Subjective experiments. D) Double-blind experiments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blind experiments. 15. What is the energy that is stored in an object due to its position or condition? A) Thermal energy. B) Potential energy. C) Chemical energy. D) Kinetic energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Potential energy. 16. What unit of power is abbreviated by the letter W? A) Wing. B) Water. C) Wiff. D) Watt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Watt. 17. Occurs during full moon, when the Moon enters Earth's umbra and Earth casts a curved shadow on the Moon's surface A) Lunar eclipse. B) Solar eclipse. C) Regolith. D) Moon phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lunar eclipse. 18. An individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, maintain homeostasis A) Atom. B) Organism. C) Mass. D) Cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organism. 19. What do we call the energy of motion? A) Potential. B) Kinetic. C) Nuclear. D) Chemical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kinetic. 20. Shredding paper into smaller pieces is an example of a: A) Chemical change. B) Physical change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical change. 21. It takes more than one counter example to destroy a scientific law! A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 22. Why did Aristotle's geocentric theory fail to match the expected predictions? A) The sun's motion is erratic. B) All stars appear to move in different directions. C) A few celestial objects appear to have retrograde motion. D) All celestial objects periodically exhibit retrograde motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A few celestial objects appear to have retrograde motion. 23. Which of the following is not considered a characteristic or property of a gas? A) Mass. B) Volume. C) Particles. D) Pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mass. 24. Maximum number of Lunar eclipses that can happen in one calender year is..... A) 2. B) 3. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 25. What is the speed of sound in air?A. 232 m/sB. 332 m/sC. 320 m/sD. 432 m/s A) 432 m/s. B) 320 m/s. C) 332 m/s. D) 232 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 332 m/s. 26. ..... can change into liquid, water and then into water vapour. A) Ice. B) Liquid. C) Gas. D) Solid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ice. 27. Measures the strength of shaking produced by the earthquake at a certain location. A) Magnitude. B) Intensity. C) Focus. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magnitude. 28. Which state of matter has the greatest random molecular motion? A) Liquid. B) Solid. C) Gas. D) Plasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gas. 29. When large rocks are broken down into smaller parts by physical and chemical means A) Weathering. B) Erosion. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 30. Convert to the unit shown:Note:1 meter (m) = 100 centimeters (cm) = 1, 000 millimeters (mm)78 m =..... cm A) 7 800 cm. B) 780 cm. C) 78 000 cm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7 800 cm. 31. Science comes from which Latin word A) Knowledge. B) Studies. C) Feel. D) Magus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge. 32. What is the amount of material an object has? A) Mass. B) Volume. C) Weight. D) Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mass. 33. Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable source of energy? A) Coal. B) The Sun. C) Water. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coal. 34. Using your observations and knowledge you can make a(n) A) Inference. B) Measurement. C) Observation. D) Cake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inference. 35. Which part of plant is called food factory? A) Leaves. B) Fruits. C) Flowers. D) Seeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leaves. 36. What does friction produce? A) Gravity. B) Light. C) Sound. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heat. 37. Who created the first color photograph. A) James Clerk Maxwell. B) Robert Koch. C) Thomas Edison. D) R.H Fritz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Clerk Maxwell. 38. With the Gyk's metal when hydroclower accomplishments? A) The Zeft of Zecket. B) The Gy's nitrate. C) The rink. D) The Gink Carbonate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rink. 39. Y which way does the soil help the plants? A) Is very unhealthy. B) Is useless. C) Gives minerals. D) It gives them ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gives minerals. 40. Because Noble Gases do not want to change their number of electrons, they have the..... a period. A) Lowest ionization energies but the highest electron affinities. B) Highest ionization energies but the lowest electron affinities. C) Lowest ionization energies and electron affinities. D) Highest ionization energies and electron affinities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Highest ionization energies but the lowest electron affinities. 41. When sugar is stirred in water it will- A) Sink. B) Dissolve. C) Float. D) Disappear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dissolve. 42. Electrons are located..... A) Center of the atom. B) Outside of the nucleus. C) Inside the nucleus. D) Center of the nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outside of the nucleus. 43. What kind of energy is associated with vibrations? A) Electrical energy. B) Mechanical energy. C) Light energy. D) Sound energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sound energy. 44. What is a chart made up of rows and columns, used to organize data? A) Bar graph. B) Line graph. C) Data table. D) Y-Axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data table. 45. Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in the Stars Wars films, has two Suns ..... what astronomers would call a binary system. Scientists have discovered recently that planets really can form within such systems. A) FACT. B) FICTION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FACT. 46. What is the tribe of brass? A) To bull. B) To chew food. C) The native of affectionate food. D) To talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The native of affectionate food. 47. The energy of food is measured in A) Calories. B) Celcius. C) Kelvin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calories. 48. What is definition to "compare" ? A) To take in. B) Find similarities. C) Steps to do something. D) Find differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Find similarities. 49. Which instrument is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes? A) Seismograph. B) Tachometer. C) Radiometer. D) Straboscope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismograph. 50. The most primitive creatures of the following are A) Stylist. B) Fungal. C) Protista. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protista. 51. The particles are very close to each other in A) Solids. B) Plasma. C) Gases. D) Liquids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solids. 52. The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest point in an area. A) Contour interval. B) Relief. C) Contour lines. D) Elevation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relief. 53. What is Earth's annual motion around the sun called? A) Revolution NGSS.MS-ESS1-1. B) Rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Revolution NGSS.MS-ESS1-1. 54. Radiation is heat transfer by- A) Touch. B) Circles. C) Waves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waves. 55. How does the age of a tree know A) Counting the squeals. B) Counting the buds. C) Counting the roses. D) Counting the work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counting the roses. 56. The study of the properties of matter and how matter changes A) Chemistry. B) Engineering. C) Physics. D) Quantum mechanics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemistry. 57. A green pea plant (GG) is being crossed with a green pea plant (Gg). What are the possible phenotypes (%) of the offspring? A) 100 % rainbow. B) 50% yellow and 50% green. C) 100% green. D) 100% yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100% green. 58. Which gas is used in respiration? A) CO2. B) Co. C) No2. D) O2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) O2. 59. Choose the correct answer, to make this statement true. The..... acts as "packaging and local delivery" for the cell. A) Lysosomes. B) Ribosomes. C) Endoplasmic reticulum. D) Golgi apparatus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Golgi apparatus. 60. Mention a heat source A) Radiation. B) Convenction. C) Rubbing. D) Conduction. 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