General Science Quiz 279 (20 MCQs)

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1. This is the passageway that sends signals to olfactory bulb.

Correct Answer: B) Olfactory nerve.

2. It is when algae bloom (algal bloom), oxygen concentration is reduced in a water system

Correct Answer: A) Eutrophication.

3. Temporary magnet created when there is a current in a wire coil

Correct Answer: B) Electromagnet.

4. The distance and direction from a starting point to an ending point

Correct Answer: B) Displacement.

5. What is the function of the Golgi apparatus in a cell?

Correct Answer: D) The Golgi apparatus is responsible for modifying, sorting, and packaging proteins and lipids for transport. NGSS.MS-LS1-2.

6. Which of the following are amphoteric metals

Correct Answer: A) Aluminium.

7. What are the smallest particles of matter?

Correct Answer: A) Atoms.

8. What is an example of an input device?

Correct Answer: A) Keyboard.

9. What is the dry ice out of the following?

Correct Answer: B) Solid Carbon dioxide.

10. Units which may be expressed in terms of base units by means of mathematical symbols of multiplication and division.

Correct Answer: A) Derived unit.

11. Electricity produced by falling water is called

Correct Answer: B) Hydroelectricity.

12. Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?

Correct Answer: D) Venus.

13. All of the following are states of water EXCEPT:

Correct Answer: B) Sand.

14. Motion of the earth around the sun is called

Correct Answer: A) Revolution.

15. In scientific research, what is the term for a repeatable procedure that is used to test a hypothesis?

Correct Answer: A) Experiment.

16. The speed of light = 186, 000 miles a second. Calculate the distance which light would travel in just 100 seconds.

Correct Answer: D) 18, 600, 000 miles.

17. Which of the following metal is the heaviest?

Correct Answer: D) Osmium.

18. A cyclist starts at rest and Accelerates at 0.5m/s2 south for 20s, what is his final velocity

Correct Answer: A) 10 m/s South.

19. The action of one surface, material, or object rubbing against another is

Correct Answer: C) Friction.

20. An object as it appears to the eye, but it is not satisfactory for showing complex forms and shapes is what kind of drawings

Correct Answer: C) Pictorial Drawings.