General Science Quiz 288 (20 MCQs)

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1. When something has speed in a certain direction it is called.....

Correct Answer: C) Velocity.

2. A scale used to measure Intensity

Correct Answer: B) Mercalli Intensity Scale.

3. Days is the average life of

Correct Answer: C) RBC.

4. Which of the following substances is the basis of microchips?

Correct Answer: C) Silicon.

5. How do scientists determine the actual age of fossils?

Correct Answer: C) Radioactive dating.

6. Trials are the number of times an experiment is repeated

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. Which one of the following dissolve in water

Correct Answer: C) Sugar.

8. Which one of the following gases helps in the burning process?

Correct Answer: B) Oxygen.

9. Complex food relationship

Correct Answer: A) Food web.

10. The rise and fall of ocean levels due to the pull between the Earth and the Moon

Correct Answer: B) Tides.

11. A change of position

Correct Answer: B) Motion.

12. The science of plants is called

Correct Answer: A) Botany.

13. When rainwater soaks into the ground

Correct Answer: C) Infiltration.

14. Speed =

Correct Answer: A) Distance / time.

15. Heat from the Earth's interior is what type of energy?

Correct Answer: C) Geothermal.

16. Geologists are generally have agreed that Earth is

Correct Answer: B) About 4.55 billion years old.

17. Which is not true about our sense organs?

Correct Answer: D) Makes us sick.

18. The temperature at which a liquid becomes a gas.

Correct Answer: C) Boiling point.

19. How do we know that Saturn is a young planet?

Correct Answer: A) Saturn's rings.

20. A substance with a pH of 8 is a

Correct Answer: B) Base.