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1. What is the biggest planet in our solar system?

. What is the chemical symbol for the element oxygen?
. Another name for a tidal wave is a?
. True or false? Dogs are herbivores.
. What is the 7th element on the periodic table of
lements?
. What is the name of the long appendage that hangs
rom an elephants face?
. True or false? DNA is the shortened form of the term
Deoxyribonucleic acid?
. The highest mountain on earth is?
. What is the name of the closest star to the earth?
0. True or false? Frogs are cold blooded animals.
1. What is the name of the element with the chemical
ymbol He?
2. The fear of what animal is known as
arachnophobia?
3. Pure water has a pH level of a around?
4. The molten rock that comes from a volcano after it
as erupted is known as what?
5. True or false? Yogurt is produced by bacterial
ermentation of milk.
16. What is the name of the part of the human
skeleton which protects our brain?

7. Is the compound HCl an acid or base?

8. True or false? The fastest land animal in the world is
he zebra.
9. How many bones do sharks have in their bodies?
0. What famous scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel
Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics?

General Science Quiz Answers

Nitrogen
The sun
3. 7
7. An acid
hydrochloric acid)

2. O

3. Tsunami

6. A trunk
10. True
14. Lava
18. False (it is the
cheetah)

7. True
11. Helium
15. True

4. False - They are

omnivores
8. Mount Everest
12. Spiders
16. The skull

19. 0

20. Albert Einstein

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Jupiter

1. What food makes up nearly all (around 99%) of a

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Giant Pandas diet?

2. True or false? Mice live for up to 10 years.
3. What is the name of the phobia that involves an
abnormal fear of spiders?
4. What is the largest type of big cat in the world?
5. True or false? Crocodiles have no sweat glands
so they use their mouths to release heat.
6. Are butterflies insects?
7. What are female elephants called?
8. True or false? Bats are mammals.
9. Bees are found on every continent of earth
except for one, which is it?
10. True or false? Cats spend an average of 13 to
14 hours a day sleeping.
11. What is the fastest land animal in the world?
12. A doe is what kind of animal?
13. True or false? Cougars are herbivores.
14. Groups of lions are known as what?
15. Is a dolphin a mammal?
16. What is the largest land animal in the world?
17. True of false? Snakes have slimy skin.
18. What is the only continent on earth where
Giraffes live in the wild?

19. How many pairs of wings does a bee have?

20. What type of animal is the largest primate in the
world?
21. Is a shark a fish or a mammal?
22. What is the most recognizable feature of a
hedgehogs appearance?
23. True or false? Owls are far-sighted, meaning
that anything within a few inches of their eyes cant
be seen properly.
24. What is the name of an adult female horse?
25. What are baby goats called?
26. What is the tallest animal in the world?
27. True or false? Rabbits are born blind.
28. What is the most recognizable physical feature
of the male lion?
29. How many legs does a spider have?
30. The crocodile species is believed to have been
around for how long? 2 million years or 200 million
years?
Animal Quiz Answers
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1. Bamboo
2. False - Captive mice live for up to 2 and a

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half years while wild mice only live for an

average of around 4 months.
3. Arachnophobia
4. The tiger, weighing up to 300 kilograms
(660 pounds).
5. True - They often sleep with their mouth
open to cool down.
6. Yes
7. Cows
8. True
9. Antarctica
10. True
11. The cheetah (it can reach speeds of up to
120kph 75mph).
12. A female deer.
13. False - They are carnivores.
14. Prides
15. Yes
16. The elephant - The largest on record
weighed around 12,000 kilograms! (26,000 lb).
17. False - Snakeskin is smooth and dry.
18. Africa
19. 2

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20. The Gorilla

21. A fish
22. Their spines of spiky hair.
23. True
24. A mare
25. Kids
26. The giraffe - The average height is around
5 metres (16ft) and the tallest on record stood
nearly 6 metres (20 ft) tall.
27. True
28. Its mane
29. 8
30. 200 million years
1. Now that Pluto is no longer included, how
many planets are there in the Solar System?
2. What is the smallest planet in the Solar
System?
3. What is the largest planet in the Solar
System?
4. What is the hottest planet in the Solar
System?
5. The sixth planet from the Sun features an
extensive ring system, what is the name of this

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planet?
6. The chemical element uranium was named
after what planet?
7. What planet in the solar system is farthest
from the Sun?
8. What is the second smallest planet in the
solar system?
9. What planet is closest in size to Earth?
10. The moon Titan orbits what planet?
11. What planet is nicknamed the Red Planet?
12. True or false? Neptune is larger than
Saturn.
13. The Galilean moons orbit what planet?
14. What planet is closest to the Sun?
15. What is the seventh planet from the Sun?
16. True or false? Venus has more atmospheric
pressure than Earth?
17. Triton is the largest moon of what planet?
18. What is the brightest planet in the night
sky?
19. What is the third planet from the Sun?
20. Phobos and Deimos are moons of what
planet?

Planet Quiz Answers

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1. 8
2. Mercury 3. Jupiter
4. Venus
5. Saturn
6. Uranus 7. Neptune 8. Mars
9. Venus
10. Saturn 11. Mars
12. False
13. Jupiter 14. Mercury 15. Uranus 16. True
17. Neptune 18. Venus 19. Earth
20. Mars
What is the closest planet to the Sun?
2. What is the name of the 2nd biggest planet in our
solar system?
3. What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
4. What planet is famous for its big red spot on it?
5. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings that
surround it?
6. Can humans breathe normally in space as they
can on Earth?
7. Is the sun a star or a planet?
8. Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
9. What planet is known as the red planet?

10. What is the name of the force holding us to the

Earth?
11. Have human beings ever set foot on Mars?
12. What is the name of a place that uses
telescopes and other scientific equipment to
research space and astronomy?
13. What is the name of NASAs most famous
space telescope?
14. Earth is located in which galaxy?
15. What is the name of the first satellite sent into
space?
16. Ganymede is a moon of which planet?
17. What is the name of Saturns largest moon?
18. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on
which planet?
19. Does the sun orbit the Earth?
20. Is the planet Neptune bigger than Earth?

1. Mercury 2. Saturn 3. Venus

4.
Jupiter

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Space Quiz Answers

5. Saturn

6. No

7. A star

9. Mars

10. Gravity 11. No

13. Hubble
Space
Telescope
17. Titan

14. The
15.
Milky Way
Sputnik
Galaxy
18. Mars 19. No

8. Neil
Armstrong
12. An
observatory
16. Jupiter
20. Yes

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1. Solar power generates electricity from what

source?
2. Did the Apple iPhone first become available in
2005, 2006 or 2007?
3. In terms of computing, what does CPU stand for?
4. True or false? Nintendo was founded after the
year 1900.
5. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after
which American astronomer?
6. Is the wavelength of infrared light too long or
short to be seen by humans?
7. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are
types of what?

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8. True or false? Gold is not a good conductor of

electricity?
9. The technologically advanced humanoid robot
ASIMO is made by which car company?
10. True or false? Atomic bombs work by atomic
fission.
11. In terms of computing, what does ROM stand
for?
12. Did the original Sony Playstation use CDs or
cartridges to play games?
13. What is the Earths primary source of energy?
14. IBM is a well known computer and information
technology company, what does IBM stand for?
15. Along with whom did Bill Gates found Microsoft?
16. What science fiction writer wrote the three laws
of robotics?
17. True or false? In computing, keyboards are
used as input devices.
18. What does the abbreviation WWW stand for?
19. Nano, Shuffle, Classic and Touch are variations
of what?
20. True or false? DNA is an abbreviation for
Deoxyribonucleic acid.

Technology Quiz Answers

1. The Sun 2. 2007
5. Edwin
Hubble

6. Long

9. Honda

10. True

14.
International
13. The Sun
Business
Machines
18. World
17. True
Wide Web

3. Central
Processing
Unit
7. Web
browsers
11. Read
Only
Memory
15. Paul
Allen

4. False 1889
8. False
12. CDs
16. Isaac
Asimov

19. The
20. True
Apple iPod

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1. What is the name of the largest ocean on earth?

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2. What are the two main metals in the earths

core?
3. Which is hotter, the center of the earth or surface
of the sun?
4. What do you call molten rock before it has
erupted?
5. What do you call it after it has erupted?
6. The Great Barrier Reef is found off the coast of
which country?
7. What do you call a person who studies rocks?
8. Name the three time periods of the dinosaurs.
9. True or false? The Grand Canyon is around
10000 feet (3000 meters) deep.
10. What is the name of the deepest location in the
worlds oceans?
11. Over a long period of time while under extreme
heat and pressure, graphite turns into which
precious mineral?
12. Outside of Antarctica, what is the largest desert
in the world?
13. The gemstone ruby is typically what color?
14. What is the name of the highest mountain on
earth?

15. Do stalactites rise from the floor or hang from

the ceiling of limestone caves?
16. 'Cascade', 'horsetail', 'plunge' and 'tiered' are
types of what?
17. Someone who studies earthquakes is known as
a what?
18. What is the name of the layer of earths
atmosphere that absorbs the majority of the
potentially damaging ultraviolet light from the sun?
19. The mass of the earth is made up mostly of
which two elements?
20. What is the second most common gas found in
the air we breathe?
Earth Quiz Answers
4.
Magma
8.
Triassi
c,
Jurassi
c and
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3. The
1. The
2. Iron and
center of
Pacific Ocean nickel
the earth
5. Lava
6. Australia 7. A
geologist

1. True or false? Electrons are larger than

molecules.

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Cretac
eous
12. The
9. False Sahara
10. Mariana 11.
5000 feet
Desert
Trench
Diamond
(1500 meters)
in
Africa
15. Hang 16.
14. Mount
13. Red
from the
Waterf
Everest
ceiling
all
19. Iron
20.
17.
18. The
(32%) and Oxyge
Seismologist ozone layer oxygen
n
(30%)
(21%)

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2. True or false? The Atlantic Ocean is the

biggest ocean on Earth.
3. True or false? The chemical make up food
often changes when you cook it.
4. True or false? Sharks are mammals.
5. True or false? The human body has four
lungs.
6. True or false? Atoms are most stable when
their outer shells are full.
7. True or false? Filtration separates mixtures
based upon their particle size.
8. True or false? Venus is the closest planet
to the Sun.
9. True or false? Conductors have low
resistance.
10. True or false? Molecules can have atoms
from more than one chemical element.
11. True or false? Water is an example of a
chemical element.
12. True or false? The study of plants is
known as botany.
13. True or false? Mount Kilimanjaro is the
tallest mountain in the world.

14. True or false? Floatation separates

mixtures based on density.
15. True or false? Herbivores eat meat.
16. True or false? Atomic bombs work by
atomic fission.
17. True or false? Molecules are chemically
bonded.
18. True or false? Spiders have six legs.
19. True or false? Kelvin is a measure of
temperature.
20. True or false? The human skeleton is
made up of less than 100 bones.
True or False Quiz Answers

3. True

5. False - 2 6. True

7. True

9. True

11. False

10. True

4. False Fish
8. False Mercury
12. True
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1. False

2. False Pacific
Ocean

13. False Mount

Everest

14. True

17. True

18. False - 8 19. True

15. False

16. True
20. False 206

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True or false? The boiling point of water is 100

degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit).
2. When water is cooled, does it expand or
contract?
3. True or false? The highest temperature ever
recorded on Earth is 42.4 C (108.3 F).
4. Heat from the sun gets to the Earth by radiation,
conduction or convention?
5. What is the freezing temperature of water?
6. True or false? Kelvin, Celsius and Fahrenheit are
all measures of temperature.
7. True or false? 100 Kelvin is the temperature of
absolute zero.
8. Substances that dont conduct heat are known as
what?
9. True or false? Heat is a form of energy.
10. At what temperature is Fahrenheit equal to

Centigrade?

Heat Quiz Answers

1. True
2. Expand
3. False - 57.8 C (136 F) 4. Radiation
5. 0 degrees Celsius (32
6. True
degrees Fahrenheit)
7. False - 0 Kelvin
8. Insulators
9. True
10. -40 degrees

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Electric current is measured using what device?

2. True or false? Batteries convert chemical to
electrical energy.
3. In terms of electricity, what does DC stand for?
4. The wire inside an electric bulb is known as the
what?
5. Conductors have a high or low resistance?

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6. True or false? The concept of electric fields was

first introduced by Albert Einstein.
7. Electric resistance is typically measured in what
units?
8. In terms of electricity, what does AC stand for?
9. Electric power is typically measured in what
units?
10. True or false? You can extend battery life by
storing batteries at a low temperature.
1. Ammeter
2. True
3. Direct current
4. Filament
6. False (Michael
5. Low
Faraday)
7. Ohms
8. Alternating current
9. Watts
10. True