This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 52 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 52 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The smallest part of any substance is? A) Molecule. B) Element. C) Compound. D) Atom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atom. 2. The point farthest north on Earth is called the..... A) North pole. B) South pole. C) Santa's home. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North pole. 3. When you slide a box across the floor, which force tries to OPPOSE your motion? A) Electrical. B) Kinetic. C) Friction. D) Air Resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friction. 4. I do not eat, breathe or reproduce but I move. What am i? A) A camel. B) A living thing. C) A non-living thing. D) A reptile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A non-living thing. 5. Living or Nonliving? Water A) Nonliving NGSS.2-ESS2-3. B) Living. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonliving NGSS.2-ESS2-3. 6. All graphs have your name, date and..... A) TAGS. B) RAILS. C) TAILS. D) TALES. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) TAILS. 7. Clouds are excess water vapor in the air that condenses into liquid droplets or ice crystals A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. In a series circuit, the same amount of current flows to all the connected components. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. Most rocks are very hard. However, a very small amout of water can cause them to break. When water seeps into cracks and freezes it then expands. This powerful force can increase the size of cracks. Over time the repeated action of water can break rocks apart. Eventually, pieces of rock break off creating screed. What kind of weathering occured? A) Biological weathering. B) Freeze-thaw. C) Chemical weathering. D) Exfoliation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freeze-thaw. 10. Which of the following is NOT considered a limitation of science? A) It cannot prove anything. B) It is not 100% reliable. C) Scientific theories can never be proven. D) It must conform the scientific method. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scientific theories can never be proven. 11. Acceleration is equal to the net force exerted on the object divided by the object's mass A) Newton's second law of motion. B) Newton's first law of motion. C) Newton's third law of motion. D) Law of conservation of momentum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Newton's second law of motion. 12. What causes the planets to move around the sun? A) Gravity. B) Light. C) Magnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravity. 13. Famous scientist Albert Einstein was born in what country? A) Thailand. B) Canada. C) Ireland. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. 14. Who discovered genetic code.? A) R L Kotpal. B) Birbal dishes. C) Brahmachari. D) H D Khorana. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) H D Khorana. 15. Scientists publish the results of important experiments so A) Their work will be repeated. B) Others can try to reproduce their results. C) Their experimental procedures can be reviewed. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. If you were using the scientific method to perform an experiment, what would the first step be? A) Design an experiment. B) Analyze the data. C) Recognize the problem. D) Draw conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recognize the problem. 17. Who did Alexender call at his first phone call? A) Mr. Waston. B) Mrs. Waston. C) Mr Buddy. D) Miss Kwok. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. Waston. 18. Which of the following Ideas most aligns with Darwin's work in On the Origin of Species? A) If an organism changes during its life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes are paseed on to its offspring. B) The geological priocesses that alter the earth are uniform through time. C) Human populations wil rapidly increase unless kept in check by limits in food supply. D) Natures selects the best adapted varieties to survive and reproduce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natures selects the best adapted varieties to survive and reproduce. 19. In the US, some wind farms generate more than..... hundred megawatts of electricity a day. A) Thirteen hundred. B) Eleven hundred. C) One hundred. D) Twenty hundred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thirteen hundred. 20. If you increase the force on an object, its acceleration increases A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. Which word means pieces of information described in numbers and units? A) Quantitative data. B) Bar graph. C) Line graph. D) Data table. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantitative data. 22. If a car is traveling at constant speed around a curve: A) It is speeding up. B) It is not accelerating. C) It is accelerating. D) It is slowing down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is accelerating. 23. Mass of an object can be defined by..... A) How small an object is. B) How large an object is. C) How far an object is from the sun. D) How much matter an object is made out of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How much matter an object is made out of. 24. Which tissue help plants to transport food A) Phloem. B) Xylem. C) Parenchyema. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phloem. 25. Particles are more tightly packed in a A) Solid. B) Liquid. C) Gas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solid. 26. The tool used to measure volume is a graduated cylinder A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. The system of muscles that allows the lungs to expand and contract, drawing air in and out is the A) Diaphragm. B) Trachea. C) Pharynx. D) Bronchioles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaphragm. 28. What is the process called in which a solid changes directly into a gas? A) Deposition. B) Evaporation. C) Condensation. D) Sublimation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sublimation. 29. Mercury and bromine are two elements which exist as ..... at room temperature A) Non of them. B) Liquid. C) Solid. D) Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liquid. 30. Magnets create gravitational fields around themselves. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 31. Choose the correct answer. What is the fibrin function? A) Prevent bleeding. B) Defend the body against germs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prevent bleeding. 32. What best describes the mass and weight of a person as they move around the universe? A) Mass and weight changes. B) Mass and weight stays constant. C) Weight remains constant, mass changes. D) Mass stays constant, weight changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mass stays constant, weight changes. 33. What U.S. President was recognized as a world authority on American game animals? A) Theodore Roosevelt. B) William McKinley. C) John Adams. D) Grover Cleveland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theodore Roosevelt. 34. Which is the fastest land snake? A) Black Mamba. B) Southern black racer. C) Texas rat snake. D) Diamondback rattlesnake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black Mamba. 35. A baseball held by a pitcher has.....energy. A) Kinectic. B) Thermal. C) Potential. D) Chemical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Potential. 36. On a graph, where does the independent variable go? A) X-axis. B) Y-Axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) X-axis. 37. What is an example of a mixture? A) Soil. B) Ice. C) Gold. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soil. 38. How many colours are there in white light? A) 8. B) 7. C) 5. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 39. Which community relationship is best represented in the following?An oxpecker bird eats ticks from a rhino's skin. A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Predation. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 40. What are the stages to the water cycle? A) Evaporation, deposition, precipitation and collection. B) Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection. C) Weathering, erosion & deposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection. 41. Which planet is closest to our Sun? A) Mercury. B) Earth. C) Venus CCSS.SL.1.2. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercury. 42. Water is called the universal A) Solvent. B) Base. C) Ion. D) Solute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solvent. 43. Who is the director of the Chandrayaan-3 mission? A) Veeramuthuvel. B) K. sivan. C) M Vanita. D) Ritu Karidhal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ritu Karidhal. 44. The formula for speed is: A) S=d/t2. B) S=d*t. C) S=d/t. D) S=t/d. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S=d/t. 45. Name the Instrument Used to Measure Blood Pressure.What is the name of the human blood pressure measuring device? A) Fathometer / Fethomeita. B) Lactometer / lectomita. C) Barometer / beamita. D) SphygmoMoMeter / Sphygmomenometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SphygmoMoMeter / Sphygmomenometer. 46. A tide that rises highest and falls lowest from the mean sea level at any time of the year and in any season of the year A) Low tide. B) High tide. C) Neap tide. D) Spring tide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring tide. 47. The Earth can be divided into the stratosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere and the atmosphere. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 48. This system includes over 200 bones and it is where the red blood cells are stored and made. A) Skeletal System. B) Respiratory System. C) Nervous System. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal System. 49. What releases carbon into the carbon-oxygen cycle? A) Nitrogen fixation. B) The burning of fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The burning of fossil fuels. 50. A(n)..... is an inclined plane that moves when it is used A) Wedge. B) Pulley. C) Screw. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wedge. 51. Your bones are the strongest material found in the body. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 52. Gaining electrons make an atom A) Negatively charged. B) Atomic. C) Independently wealthy. D) Mrs. Ruberti's favorite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negatively charged. 53. What is the word for the process of classifying organisms? A) Labology. B) Astrology. C) Taxonomy. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taxonomy. 54. The molecules that are used in photosynthesis are released during respiration A) Glucose and water. B) Carbon dioxide and glucose. C) Carbon dioxide and oxygen. D) Carbon dioxide and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon dioxide and water. 55. In an ISOTONIC solution, the concentration of molecules is..... A) Higher in the cell then out of the cell. B) Lower in the cell then out of the cell. C) Equal both in and out of the cell. D) Empty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Equal both in and out of the cell. 56. The two types of science are: A) Social and natural science. B) Biology and chemistry. C) Medicine and engineering. D) Earth and physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social and natural science. 57. Which of the following is an example of Newton's First Law of Motion? A) A book falling off a table. B) A car accelerating on a highway. C) A passenger moving forward when a bus stops suddenly. D) A rocket launching into space. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A passenger moving forward when a bus stops suddenly. 58. The Olympus Mons is a volcano nearly 3 times taller than Mt. Everest! Where is it located? A) Venus. B) Jupiter. C) Ganymede. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mars. 59. Total momentum of a group of objects remains the same unless outside forces act on the objects A) Newton's second law of motion. B) Newton's first law of motion. C) Law of conservation of momentum. D) Newton's third law of motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law of conservation of momentum. 60. What is the role of DNA in genetics? A) DNA is only important for physical appearance, not genetics. B) DNA has no impact on genetics. C) DNA serves as the genetic material that stores and transmits hereditary information. D) DNA is only found in plants, not animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DNA serves as the genetic material that stores and transmits hereditary information. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesGeneral Science Quiz 1General Science Quiz 2General Science Quiz 3General Science Quiz 4General Science Quiz 5General Science Quiz 6General Science Quiz 7General Science Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books