This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 56 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 56 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Not all experimental variables are bad. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 2. 2nd planet from the Sun; has a dense atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide and very high surface temperatures A) Earth. B) Venus. C) Mercury. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 3. Eclecticism puts historical documents through 3 tests which include all of the following except: A) Textural test. B) External test. C) Internal test. D) Bibliographic test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Textural test. 4. The blood component that helps blood to clot is called the ..... A) Water. B) Platelet. C) White blood cell. D) Red blood cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Platelet. 5. What can be recycled to help the ecosystem? A) Cans, paper, plastic, glass. B) Fuel, waste, and toxic chemicals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cans, paper, plastic, glass. 6. A pendulum is..... A) An object that swings back and forth like what is seen in a grandfather clock. B) An object that is projected off of the face of this Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An object that swings back and forth like what is seen in a grandfather clock. 7. This period in history marks the beginning in the underlying assumptions of science, looking more to human reasoning than to the Bible. A) Industrial Revolution. B) Dark Ages. C) Science Revolution. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enlightenment. 8. Al birony dad in A) 1049. B) 1048. C) 1047. D) 1148. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1048. 9. A temperature at which the substance burns is called A) Boiling temperature. B) Melting. C) Kindling temperature. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boiling temperature. 10. Most of the Earth's surface is covered in..... A) Water. B) Land. C) Rivers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 11. Atoms normally have an equal number of protons and electrons A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Solid, white, granular A) Hypothesis. B) Conclusion. C) Inference. D) Observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observation. 13. Machines can change the direction of force A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Substances that exhibit definite properties and composition A) Pure Substances. B) Heterogenous. C) Homogenous. D) Mixtures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pure Substances. 15. ..... causes geysers, hot springs, and can be used as a natural energy source. A) Hydro energy. B) Solar energy. C) Geothermal energy. D) Wind energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geothermal energy. 16. Which of the following is not a simple machine? A) Pulley. B) Lever. C) Wedge. D) Computer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Computer. 17. Which cloud is Cirrus? A) Cirrus. B) Uniform layer of grey/lightgrey clouds that usuallybring a drizzle. C) Thin, wispy, hair-likeclouds associated with fairweather. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thin, wispy, hair-likeclouds associated with fairweather. 18. Foggy means..... A) Rain. B) Foggy. C) Cloudy. D) Windy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foggy. 19. ..... are the starting substances in the reaction, while..... are the new substances that are formed. A) Coefficients, subscripts. B) Reactants, products. C) Products, reactants. D) Subscripts, coefficients. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reactants, products. 20. Who invented the first functional telephone? A) Albert Einstein. B) Nikola Tesla. C) Thomas Alva Edison. D) Alexander Graham Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander Graham Bell. 21. Reduces temperature below its ignition point to extinguish a fire. Example water systems. A) Cooling. B) Chain breaking. C) Saponification. D) Smothering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooling. 22. Decomposers help in cleaning the environment. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. How many arms does the typical octopus have? A) 10. B) 12. C) 6. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8. 24. As distance between two objects increase the pull of gravity A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Stays the same NGSS.MS-PS2-4. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreases. 25. Renewable recourses..... A) Cannot be replaced quickly. B) Can be replaced in our lifetime. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can be replaced in our lifetime. 26. Why is water blue? A) Molecular scattering of the sunlight. B) The seafloor is blue. C) The reflection of color on water. D) Water is naturally blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Molecular scattering of the sunlight. 27. The Arctic is a habitat. Is this statement True or False? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. The energy of motion. A) Kinetic Energy. B) Potential Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kinetic Energy. 29. Weathering is..... A) Movement of sediment by wind, water, or ice. B) Breaking down of rocks by wind, water, or ice. C) Moving rocks and sediments through water or wind and having them dropped in a new location. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Breaking down of rocks by wind, water, or ice. 30. In the equation f=ma, what unit of measure is used for force? A) Feet per second. B) Kilogram. C) Newton. D) Meters per second. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Newton. 31. The time a computer takes to start has increased dramatically. One possible explanation for this is that the computer is running out of memory. This explanation is a scientific ..... A) Conclusion. B) Hypothesis. C) Experiment. D) Observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 32. Who supported the geocentric solar model of Aristarchus? A) Aristarchus. B) Johann Kepler. C) Ptolemy and Aristotle. D) Nicolas Copernicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ptolemy and Aristotle. 33. Located at the leading edge of a temperature drop off. Bring heavy thunderstorms, rain, and hail. Cool, fair weather is likely to follow. A) Warm Front. B) Occluded Front. C) Stationary Front. D) Cold Front. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cold Front. 34. What can be changed into any other form? A) Energy. B) Heat. C) Combustion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy. 35. Which explains that the continents were once joined together and over time they broke up and then drifted apart? A) Plate Tectonic Theory. B) Continental Drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continental Drift. 36. A relatively large and randomly oriented grains constitute the rock A) )marble. B) ) gneiss. C) Granite. D) ) gneiss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Granite. 37. What happens to the air pressure when the air warms up? A) The air pressure becomes unpredictable. B) The air pressure remains constant. C) The air pressure increases. D) The air pressure decreases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The air pressure increases. 38. Which one of the following represents a velocity? A) 20 feet per second north. B) 20 miles per hour. C) 50 miles per hour. D) 16.2 meters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20 feet per second north. 39. Is the outer core solid or liquid? A) Liquid. B) Solid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liquid. 40. Which two gases make up 99% of the volume of clean dry air? A) Oxygen and carbon dioxide. B) Nitrogen and ozone. C) Oxygen and nitrogen. D) Nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxygen and nitrogen. 41. A 5kg ball rolls at a speed of 2 m/s. if a bigger ball of 10kg is used and rolls at 6m/s.By what factor is the new momentum of the bigger ball more A) 2 times bigger. B) 5 times bigger. C) 3 times bigger. D) 6 times bigger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6 times bigger. 42. What is the danger of volcanoes in the Northwest? A) Mudslides. B) Rock avalanches. C) Pyroclastic surge. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 43. What is the overall charge of the ionic compound NaCl A) +3. B) 0. C) +2. D) +1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0. 44. What causes the day and night cycle on Earth? A) The Earth's rotation on its axis. B) The Earth's revolution around the sun. C) The moon's phases. D) The gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Earth's rotation on its axis. 45. Moon is also called as satellite ..... A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 46. Who Invented steel converter A) Graham Bell. B) Bessemer. C) William Thomson. D) Maxwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bessemer. 47. ..... is the hottest planet in the solar system. A) Earth. B) Mars. C) Venus. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Venus. 48. What do plants release into the atmosphere? A) Oxygen. B) Carbon Dioxide. C) Helium. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen. 49. A..... is a long period of dry weather due to absence of a rain over a long time. A) Tsunami. B) Dry season. C) Drought. D) Summer time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drought. 50. In the above figure, when a car moves from A to B (down the hill), the stored energy will convert into; A) Gravitational energy. B) Zero energy. C) Potential energy. D) Kinetic energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kinetic energy. 51. Dolly was the first ever living creature to be cloned. What type of animal was she? A) Monkey. B) Dog. C) Sheep. D) Bird. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sheep. 52. Organs repair themselves through a process of? A) Mitosis. B) Meiosis. C) Transformation. D) Cellular differentiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mitosis. 53. Food chain order A) Chlorophyll. B) Blue. C) Sun-producer-consumer-decomposer. D) Ferromagnetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun-producer-consumer-decomposer. 54. Device that uses electromagnetic induction to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy A) Turbine. B) Electromagnetism. C) Generator. D) Transformer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Generator. 55. Avoid eating..... food. A) Spicy. B) Salty. C) Sticky. D) Carrot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sticky. 56. A lever is a simple machine A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 57. Matter is made up of distinct particles. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 58. Choose the correct answer for the following definition. Vast, treeless, arctic plain that is north of the tree line and covered with lichens, moss, and other small plants. A) Savanna. B) Tundra. C) Rainforest. D) Desert. E) Jungle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tundra. 59. The methyl of the metholing indicator is in which color is in the statutory solvens? A) Yellow. B) Red. C) Almonds. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yellow. 60. The tendency for a plant to sense which way is "up" and to grow that way. A) Photosynthesis. B) Catastrophism. C) Gravitrophism. D) Phototrophism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravitrophism. ← 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