This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 68 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 68 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Engineers in the USA often report pressure in PSI's. What does the abbreviation PSI stand for? A) Pounds per Surface Area. B) Pounds per Square Inch. C) Pressure per Surface Incriments. D) Pascals per Square Inch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pounds per Square Inch. 2. What is the term for a group of sepals (in a flower)? Sepals are small buds at the base of the flower that protect the flower bud. (Info from Ighomemathclub) A) Frocal. B) Sternum. C) Ghothe. D) Calyx. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calyx. 3. What is the name of the force that keeps objects in motion unless acted upon by another force? A) Friction. B) Gravity. C) Momentum. D) Inertia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inertia. 4. True or False?In 1905, Percival Lowell predicted where Uranus would be found. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 5. All animals are dependent on plants for A) Minerals. B) Food. C) Fat. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food. 6. A(n)..... is an ion with a Negative (-) charge. A) Cation. B) Anion. C) Solute. D) Ion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anion. 7. The stages of incomplete metamorphosis are egg, nymph, and adult. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. What is the measure of protons plus neutrons? A) Atomic weight. B) Atomic mass. C) Density. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atomic mass. 9. Super unexcited, super cold at absolute zero A) Liquid. B) Plasma. C) Solid. D) BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate). 10. Blood clotting is the process by which blood seals wounds to keep it from leaking out of an injured blood vessel, true or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What determines gender in humans? A) The X and Y chromosome. B) Chromosome 21. C) Codominance. D) Epistasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The X and Y chromosome. 12. The word Botany is taken from Greek language ..... A) Butane. B) Butane. C) Butany. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Butane. 13. Which type of cell has a cell wall and ribosomes, but no other organelles? A) Plant cell. B) Animal cell. C) Bacteria. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bacteria. 14. True or false?An element which will not combine chemically is a non-chemical element. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. What gas is emitted by the simple food, which of the potential or phase of the simple food occurred? A) Aganne. B) Oxygen. C) Anglean. D) Danular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Danular. 16. Recorded observations are called..... A) Ideas. B) Data. C) Information. D) Feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Data. 17. The bending of a wave caused by a change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another. A) Diffraction. B) Refraction. C) Node. D) Rarefaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refraction. 18. Which of the following is an explanation for a natural phenomenon that is supported by a large body of scientific evidence? A) Scientific theory. B) Observation. C) Hypothesis. D) Scientific law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scientific theory. 19. Rocky object formed from material similar to that of the planets, orbiting the Sun A) Meteoroid. B) Dwarf planet. C) Asteriod. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asteriod. 20. The most commonly found green house gas in the world is A) Sulfur Dioxide. B) Water vapor. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water vapor. 21. Echinoderms have arms in multiples of: A) 2. B) 7. C) 5. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 22. The energy an object has due to its motion A) Potential. B) Kinetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kinetic. 23. The percentage of the sky that is covered with clouds A) Atmospheric pressure. B) Humidity. C) Cloud cover. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cloud cover. 24. Resistance is..... A) Moving electrons. B) What "speeds up" electrons. C) What "pushes" electrons. D) What "slows down" electrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What "slows down" electrons. 25. This part of the cell keeps all the organelles inside the cell and allows things into and out of the cell. A) Cell membrane. B) Cytoplasm. C) Liver. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell membrane. 26. The breaking down and formation of compound is called A) Chemical change. B) Chemical equation. C) Chemical reaction. D) Compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemical reaction. 27. Law of..... states that mass cannot be created or destroyed. A) Exothermic reaction. B) Endothermic reaction. C) Conservation of energy. D) Conservation of mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conservation of mass. 28. Opposite magnetic poles will A) Repel. B) Cause the moon phases to change. C) Create friction. D) Attract. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attract. 29. If the graph illustrates a straight line heading upwards, it is inferred that those variables have A) No relationship. B) Not enough info to tell. C) A direct relationship. D) An indirect relationship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A direct relationship. 30. All these are the elements from "SMART" method except ..... A) Measurable. B) Specific. C) Relevant. D) Testable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Testable. 31. A weather forecast of 100% relative humidity suggests an increased possibility of: A) W) rain. B) Y) rising temperature. C) Z) dry conditions. D) X) wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W) rain. 32. An example of Decomposition A) A + B = AB. B) A+B = AB + energy. C) AB + energy = A + B. D) AB = A + B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AB = A + B. 33. When our body is low in or missing an essential nutrient this is called a A) Devise. B) Deficiency. C) Without. D) Deficit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deficiency. 34. An educated guess that can be proven or disproven and must be testable. A) Constant. B) Independent Variable. C) Dependent Variable. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypothesis. 35. After observing an outdoor ecosystem, a student writes this conclusion in a science notebook: "Ecosystems are only made of biotic components." Is the student's conclusion logical? A) Yes, because ecosystems are made of living things that interact. B) Yes, because an ecosystem is another name for habitat. C) No, because ecosystems are made of living and nonliving components that interact. D) No, because an ecosystem has nothing to do with biotic components. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No, because ecosystems are made of living and nonliving components that interact. 36. Atmospheric conditions at a specific place and time A) Wind. B) Weather. C) Jet stream. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weather. 37. What do plants need to survive? A) Sun and water. B) Sun, Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, Water. C) Sun, Oxygen, Water. D) Sun, Carbon dioxide, Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sun, Carbon dioxide, Water. 38. 'Great Astronomical Conjunction', which was seen in the news recently, is the closer appearance of which two planets? A) Jupiter and Saturn. B) Saturn and Venus. C) Jupiter and Venus. D) Mercury and Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jupiter and Saturn. 39. Acid rain contains mainly A) Oxygen and nitrogen gas. B) Fluorine and chlorine gas. C) Magnesium oxide. D) Nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide. 40. A device that uses an electromagnet to measure electric current A) Transformer. B) Solenoid. C) Turbine. D) Galvanometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Galvanometer. 41. The nucleus consists of....., so it has an overall..... charge. A) Positive protons and negative neutrons; neutral. B) Positive protons and neutral neutrons; positive. C) Negative electrons and neutral neutrons; negative. D) Positive electrons and neutral neutrons; positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive protons and neutral neutrons; positive. 42. The most common elements in the universe are A) Hydrogen and helium. B) Sodium and oxygen. C) Carbon and calcium. D) Aluminum and nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrogen and helium. 43. What are the polymers of lipids? A) Disaccharides and polysaccharides. B) Triglycerides and phospholipids. C) Polypeptides. D) DNA and RNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triglycerides and phospholipids. 44. Planetary motion, galaxies A) Chemistry. B) Geology. C) Astronomy. D) Physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astronomy. 45. Which force is responsible for keeping planets in orbit around the sun? A) Magnetic force. B) Electrical force. C) Frictional force. D) Gravitational force. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gravitational force. 46. Can you identify this Vitamin? This vitamin maintains a lot of your body's tissues, like the ones in your eyes, skin and liver. It protects your lungs from becoming damaged by polluted air and is important for the formation of red blood cells. A) Vitamin A. B) Vitamin E. C) Vitamin C. D) Vitamin K. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vitamin E. 47. Which waves travel with the same velocity as that of light? A) Mechanical waves. B) Radio waves. C) Matter waves. D) Electromagnetic waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radio waves. 48. Which of the following simple machines are combined to make scissors A) Wedge and pulley. B) Lever and screw. C) Inclined plane and pulley. D) Lever and wedge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lever and wedge. 49. Which air do you think applies more force on the area under it? A) The force cannot be determined. B) Air 2. C) Air 1. D) Both air apply the same force. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Air 2. 50. When veins not only branch out from the midrib but those branches also have branches on them A) Pinnate. B) Parallel. C) Palmate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palmate. 51. If it is supported by enough data, a scientific theory can become a scientific law. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 52. Most of the fossils you'll find in the upper layer of the Grand Canyon are mammal and bird fossils. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 53. On a roller coaster, where is maximum kinetic energy? A) At the bottom of a big hill. B) When going around a corner. C) At the top of a big hill. D) When going upside down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the bottom of a big hill. 54. What is the basic unit of structure and function for living organisms? A) Atom. B) Organ. C) Molecule. D) Cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cell. 55. Choose the correct term for the following definition:A graph that uses rectangular bars to show the comparisons or relationships A) Pie chart. B) Line graph. C) Bar graph. D) Pictograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bar graph. 56. Natural science deals with A) Physical and biology world. B) Ocean world. C) The Bahamas. D) Aaliyah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical and biology world. 57. One of the 4 main functions of the bone is to..... your internal organs. A) Protect. B) Support. C) Move. D) Sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protect. 58. What is a female elephant called? A) Cow. B) Jenny. C) Mare. D) Ewe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cow. 59. Evaporation occurs when water molecules cool down and form water vapor. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 60. Which layer contains all weather? (rain, snow, hail, storms, etc.) A) Troposphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Stratosphere. 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