This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Overview > General Science – Quiz 92 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Science Quiz 92 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False?Vertebrate animals have backbone. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. What is the meaning of vernacular misconceptions? A) Misunderstandings about the meaning of words. B) Sources from other than scientific education. C) Misapplying general principle. D) Incomplete observations/ previous experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misunderstandings about the meaning of words. 3. What is the function of sodium A) It is helpful in controlling the pressure and maintains the balance of water. B) It is not helpful in controlling the pressure and maintains the balance of water. C) It is helpful in controlling pressure and does not maintain water balance. D) It is not helpful in controlling the pressure pressure and does not maintain water balance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is helpful in controlling the pressure and maintains the balance of water. 4. What is the SI unit for Work A) Pascal. B) Joule. C) Newton. D) Joule/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joule. 5. When something has speed in a certain direction it is called..... A) Position. B) Speed. C) Velocity. D) Motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Velocity. 6. A scale used to measure Intensity A) Richter Scale (by Charles Richter). B) Mercalli Intensity Scale. C) BEC. D) HERTZ SCALE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercalli Intensity Scale. 7. Days is the average life of A) DNA. B) RNA. C) RBC. D) WBC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RBC. 8. Which of the following substances is the basis of microchips? A) Neon. B) Lead. C) Sulphur. D) Silicon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silicon. 9. How do scientists determine the actual age of fossils? A) Relative dating. B) Sedimentary dating. C) Radioactive dating. D) Mold and cast dating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radioactive dating. 10. Trials are the number of times an experiment is repeated A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Which one of the following dissolve in water A) Plastic. B) Wood. C) Rock. D) Sugar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sugar. 12. Which one of the following gases helps in the burning process? A) Oxygen. B) Hydrogen. C) Nitrogen. D) Helium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen. 13. Complex food relationship A) Ecological succession. B) Sun stroke. C) Herbivore. D) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food web. 14. The rise and fall of ocean levels due to the pull between the Earth and the Moon A) Comet. B) Light year. C) Pag. D) Tsunamis. E) Tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Tides. 15. A change of position A) Displacement. B) Motion. C) Average Speed. D) Reference Point. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motion. 16. The science of plants is called A) Botany. B) Plantology. C) Physics. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Botany. 17. When rainwater soaks into the ground A) Runoff. B) Infiltration. C) Percolation. D) Transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infiltration. 18. Heat from the Earth's interior is what type of energy? A) Gravitational. B) Kinetic. C) Chemical. D) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geothermal. 19. Geologists are generally have agreed that Earth is A) About 100 million years old. B) As old as the bacteria. C) About 6, 000 years old. D) About 4.55 billion years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) About 4.55 billion years old. 20. Which is not true about our sense organs? A) Allows us to observe our environment. B) Protects us from danger. C) Allows us to find food. D) Makes us sick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Makes us sick. 21. The temperature at which a liquid becomes a gas. A) Freezing point. B) Melting point. C) Condensation point. D) Boiling point. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boiling point. 22. How do we know that Saturn is a young planet? A) Saturn's rings. B) The position of Saturn. C) The color of Saturn. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saturn's rings. 23. A substance with a pH of 8 is a A) Acid. B) Base. C) Neutral. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Base. 24. The nuclear signal of sodium A) So. B) Na. C) S. D) Sd. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Na. 25. An element has an atomic number of 76. The number of protons and electrons in a neutral atom of the element are A) 76 p+, 76 e-. B) 152 p+, 76 e-. C) 76 p+, 0 e-. D) 38 p+, 38 e-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 76 p+, 76 e-. 26. When a magnet is broken in half, ..... result. A) Two magnets. B) Two poles. C) No magnets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two poles. 27. A particle in an atom with a negative electric charge A) Proton. B) Electron. C) Jimmy Neutron. D) Neutron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Electron. 28. This scientist is known as the "Father of Quantum Mechanics" , stating that matter exsists in packets called "quanta" . A) Max Planck. B) Neils Bohr. C) Albert Einstein. D) Sir Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Max Planck. 29. What is ultimately made from DNA (what does it code for)? A) Sugars. B) Nucleus. C) Proteins. D) Carbohydrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proteins. 30. The split in Congress between extremists and moderates took place at Surat in A) 1908. B) 1907. C) 1906. D) 1909. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1907. 31. Kerosene does not dissolve in water. What are they called? A) Immiscible liquids. B) Solute and solvent. C) Solvent and solution. D) Miscible liquids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immiscible liquids. 32. Neutral charge particle A) Proton. B) Neutron. C) Electron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neutron. 33. Dogs are herbivores. True or false? A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 34. By definition the anemometer measures the speed of what? A) Wind. B) Moon. C) Sun. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind. 35. What is the function of a catalyst in a chemical reaction? A) Increases activation energy of reaction. B) Reduces enthalpy of reaction. C) Decrease rate constant of reaction. D) Does not affect the equilibrium constant of reaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Does not affect the equilibrium constant of reaction. 36. What is the primary purpose of an automobile engine? A) To convert mechanical energy into chemical energy. B) To convert chemical energy into mechanical energy. C) To convert electrical energy into chemical energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To convert chemical energy into mechanical energy. 37. Water is chemically indestructible A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 38. The SI Unit for temperture is A) K. B) Degrees celsius. C) Fahrenheit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) K. 39. The prefix kilo-means..... A) 100. B) 10. C) .001. D) 1, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1, 000. 40. The Kuiper Belt is located just beyond..... orbit that contain much larger objects made of ice and rocky material. A) Pluto's. B) Neptune's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neptune's. 41. A..... is thick in the middle and thin at the edges. A) Convex lens. B) Sound. C) Mirror. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convex lens. 42. True or False?Only those covered by the umbra can see a total solar eclipse when the moon's umbra crosses the Earth A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 43. ..... states that all objects are attracted to each other by gravity. A) Inertia. B) Friction. C) Contact force. D) Law of universal gravitiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Law of universal gravitiation. 44. What is it call that define a graphic representation of an assembly or system and expresses the methods or principles of operation A) Troubleshooting flowchart. B) Diagrams. C) Nomogram. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diagrams. 45. What causes the Earth's seasons? A) The distance of the Earth from the sun. B) The rotation of the moon around the Earth. C) The amount of rainfall in different regions. D) The tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the sun. 46. A steering wheel is an example of what kind of simple machine? A) Wheel and axel. B) Lever. C) Pulley. D) Inclined plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wheel and axel. 47. If you were to cut a magnet in 1/2, you would end up with one North end and one South end. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 48. You might have noticed that a feather falls slowly toward the ground, while a ball falls rapidly. Which statement correctly explains the motion of these objects? A) The ball does not experience fluid friction as it falls. B) Gravity is the only force acting on the feather and the ball. C) The acceleration of the ball and feather are the same. D) The feather experiences more fluid friction than the ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The feather experiences more fluid friction than the ball. 49. Which of the the following is an example of an autotroph A) A toadstool. B) A vulture. C) A sea anemone. D) An apple tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An apple tree. 50. In most weather systems, the air pressure is equal to the weight of the air column divided by the area of the column A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 51. Life beyond Earth, object of the search by exobiologists A) Point. B) Extrasolar planet. C) Extraterrestrial life. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extraterrestrial life. 52. Who meets litmus A) With a license. B) Sakkain. C) Standard. D) From Gasan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With a license. 53. Smallest and closest planet to the Sun A) Mercury. B) Venus. C) Earth. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercury. 54. Chemical Property A) Is determined by changing the material in ways that can be undone. B) Cannot be determined without changing the material completely. C) Changes that can be reversed. D) Changes that cannot be reversed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cannot be determined without changing the material completely. 55. The strait that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra is the strait ..... A) Sunda. B) Bitung. C) Karimata. D) Bali. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sunda. 56. If an electric circuit is left open, A) Electricity will flow. B) Electricity will not flow. C) Electricity will flow and then stop. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Electricity will not flow. 57. Who is the current Chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)? A) K Sivan. B) S Boopathy. C) The Goldpandian. D) M manogaran. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) K Sivan. 58. What is heat energy A) Heat is energy. B) We get heat from water. C) Heat burns. D) Heat energy makes things hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heat energy makes things hot. 59. A number equal to the number of protons in the nuclues of an atom. A) Symbol. B) Atomic Mass. C) Atomic Number. D) Neutrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atomic Number. 60. Earth's greenhouse effect is caused by which of the following conditions? A) The increase in the thickness of the ozone layer. B) The number of plants in tropical rainforests trapping CO2. C) Heat from the sun that is trapped by atmospheric gases. D) Changing rainfall patterns from global warming. 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