General Science Quiz 114 (20 MCQs)

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1. Choose the correct term for the following definition:Finding the size, quantity, or amount by comparing with a standard.

Correct Answer: C) Measurement.

2. How much of the ocean is pure water?

Correct Answer: C) 96%.

3. How do scientists usually test a hypothesis

Correct Answer: C) Experiment.

4. Which city is also known as 'The city of the Golden Temple'

Correct Answer: B) Amritsar.

5. Good science requires that you record your observations accurately?

Correct Answer: A) True.

6. What elements generally make an ionic bond?

Correct Answer: A) Metal and nonmetal.

7. The ax is an example of what kind of simple machine?

Correct Answer: B) Wedge.

8. The picking up and movement of rock fragments is called.....

Correct Answer: A) Erosion.

9. The corona stretches out for millions of miles, while the chromosphere is only about 1800 miles thick.

Correct Answer: A) True.

10. Speed of sound waves travel depends on the

Correct Answer: B) Type of material through which the sound travels.

11. If you rub your hands together they get warmer because of

Correct Answer: C) Friction.

12. The gaseous layer surrounding Earth or another heavenly body

Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere.

13. Who is known as the father of pasteurisation?

Correct Answer: B) Louis Pasteur.

14. A carnivore is.....

Correct Answer: B) An organism that only eats other animals.

15. Re-processing material to make another product

Correct Answer: C) Recycle.

16. Tees give us .....

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

17. Which of the following is a non-biodegradable waste?

Correct Answer: D) All the given choices.

18. In an atom, what is the number of protons equal to?

Correct Answer: A) The number of electrons.

19. SI is also called the:

Correct Answer: D) Metric system.

20. Meterology is the study of

Correct Answer: C) Weather and climate.