100 SCIENCE TRIVIA QUESTIONS
BIOLOGY
1. What is the basic unit of life?
2. Which organ pumps blood throughout the human body?
3. What pigment gives plants their green color?
4. What do we call the process by which plants make their own food?
5. Which part of the cell contains the genetic material?
6. What gas do plants absorb during photosynthesis?
7. What gas do humans exhale after respiration?
8. Which organ is responsible for filtering blood in humans?
9. What type of blood cells fight infections?
10. What is the largest organ in the human body?
11. What do we call the animals that eat only plants?
12. What do we call organisms that break down dead materials?
13. What organ system includes the brain and spinal cord?
14. What is the process of breaking down food into usable nutrients called?
15. What do bees collect from flowers to make honey?
16. Which group of animals lay eggs and have feathers?
17. What part of the eye controls the amount of light entering it?
18. What is the term for the permanent disappearance of a species?
19. What is the smallest bone in the human body?
20. What blood type is known as the universal donor?
CHEMISTRY
21. What is the chemical symbol for water?
22. What is the smallest particle of an element?
23. Which element is needed for combustion?
24. What do we call a substance made of two or more elements chemically combined?
25. What is the pH value of a neutral substance?
26. What gas is released when vinegar reacts with baking soda?
27. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
28. What do we call substances that speed up chemical reactions?
29. What state of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape?
30. What scale is used to measure acidity or alkalinity?
31. Which element is the main component of diamonds?
32. What is formed when an acid reacts with a base?
33. Which gas is known as “laughing gas”?
34. What do we call the process of a solid changing directly to gas?
35. What sugar is known as blood sugar?
PHYSICS
36. What force pulls objects toward the Earth?
37. What simple machine consists of a wheel and rope?
38. What is the speed of light measured in?
39. Which energy is stored in food?
40. What do we call materials that do not allow electricity to pass through?
41. What unit is used to measure force?
42. What simple machine is a seesaw?
43. What do we call the bending of light as it passes through different materials?
44. What is the term for sound bouncing off a surface?
45. What do we call energy an object has due to motion?
46. What unit measures electric current?
47. What is the push or pull acting on an object?
48. What device is used to measure temperature?
49. What energy source comes from the sun?
50. What type of lens is thicker in the middle?
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
51. What do we call molten rock beneath the earth’s surface?
52. What is the largest planet in our solar system?
53. What layer of the Earth do we live on?
54. What do we call scientists who study earthquakes?
55. What natural phenomenon is measured using the Richter scale?
56. What do we call the path the Earth takes around the Sun?
57. What causes tides on Earth?
58. What is the process by which water vapor becomes liquid?
59. What is the longest river in the world?
60. What type of rock is formed from cooled magma?
61. What kind of cloud is associated with fair weather?
62. What do we call the blanket of gases surrounding Earth?
63. What do we call a period of no rainfall for a long time?
64. What natural disaster is caused by movement along fault lines?
65. What is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?
SPACE SCIENCE
66. What galaxy do we live in?
67. What is Earth’s natural satellite?
68. What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
69. What do we call a star that suddenly explodes?
70. What do astronauts use to breathe in space?
71. What do we call a group of stars forming a pattern?
72. What planet is known as the Red Planet?
73. What tool is used to observe distant celestial objects?
74. What do we call the spinning of Earth on its axis?
75. What term refers to the study of space?
GENERAL SCIENCE
76. What is the scientific method’s first step?
77. What sense organ is responsible for detecting sound?
78. What tool is used to measure mass?
79. What do we call the energy of moving particles that determines temperature?
80. What is the study of living organisms called?
81. What is the study of matter and its interactions called?
82. What do we call animals active during the night?
83. What is the freezing point of water in Celsius?
84. What instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?
85. What part of a plant absorbs water from the soil?
86. What is the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly?
87. What do we call the mixture of gases we breathe?
88. What scientist is known for the three laws of motion?
89. What is the branch of science dealing with the study of earthquakes?
90. Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
91. What vitamin do we get from sunlight?
92. What do we call the study of weather?
93. What do we call animals that can live both on land and in water?
94. What energy comes from the motion of molecules?
95. What do we call living things that can make their own food?
96. What do we call the preserved remains of ancient organisms?
97. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
98. What do you call a scientist who studies plants?
99. What organ helps birds fly?
100. What do we call the force that resists motion between two surfaces?