General Science Quiz 222 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the best type of soil texture for plant growth?

Correct Answer: D) Loam.

2. Which of the following is not a basic category of non-planetary bodies?

Correct Answer: D) Nebula.

3. Has a positive charge and located in the nucleus

Correct Answer: B) Proton.

4. Biology, botany, ecology, paleontology, zoology may be grouped together and called the.....sciences.

Correct Answer: C) Biological.

5. What are the three main types of seismic waves?

Correct Answer: A) P waves, S waves, and surface waves.

6. ..... is a process in which new substances are formed

Correct Answer: A) A chemical reaction.

7. World Health Institutions abbreviated as .....

Correct Answer: A) WHO.

8. What do animals and plants release by evaporation?

Correct Answer: A) Water vapor.

9. The wise and careful use of energy resources is called

Correct Answer: B) Conservation.

10. What happens when you reduce, reuse, and recycle?

Correct Answer: B) You conserve natural resources.

11. What is Soda?

Correct Answer: A) Sodium hydroxide.

12. Controls are the factors that are manipulated throughout the experiment

Correct Answer: B) False.

13. The efficiency of most coal power plants is approximately.....

Correct Answer: B) 35%.

14. Invented the TV in 1920's

Correct Answer: D) John Logie.

15. A wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and waves

Correct Answer: B) Transverse wave.

16. The region of an atom where its neutrons and protons are is its

Correct Answer: A) Central nucleus.

17. Who discover double helical structure of DNA.?

Correct Answer: D) Watson & Crick.

18. What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: A) Carbon dioxide.

19. Which of the following has the highest pH?

Correct Answer: C) Baking soda.

20. What year did Alfred Wegener first propose the Continental Drift Theory?

Correct Answer: D) 1912.