EASY
1. Which particle is negatively charged and orbits the nucleus of an
atom?
a. Proton c. Electron
b. Neutron d. Positron
2. Which of the following minerals is the hardest?
a. Quartz c. Diamond
b. Topaz d. Calcite
3. What does DNA stand for?
Answer: deoxyribonucleic acid
4. True or False: Earthquakes originate along fractures called folds.
Answer: False
5. True or false: The gills of the fish facilitate gas exchange.
Ans: True
Moderate:
1. It is the process by which the organisms break down food into forms
that their cells may absorb and use.
a. Circulation c. Immunity
b. Digestion d. Respiration
2. Which of the following is not a result of marine and coastal processes?
a. Coastal erosion c. Saltwater intrusion
b. Flood d. Submersion
3. What are hazard maps for?
a. To ensure the precipitation rate in a given area.
b. To know which areas are prone to natural hazards.
c. To measure how strong an earthquake was in a given area.
d. To know when a natural hazard is most likely to occur in a given
area.
4. Which type of bond involves the sharing of electrons between atoms?
a. Ionic bond c. Metallic bond
b. Covalent bond d. Hydrogen bond
5. What type of quantity is work?
a. Scalar c. Complex
b. Vector d. none of these
DIFFICULT:
1. Why does a sitting person in a moving bus suddenly move when the
bus suddenly stops?
a. Due to inertia c. due to negative acceleration
b. Due to brakes d. due to the force exerted by the
machine
2. If photosynthesis takes place in the chloroplast, in what part of the
plant cell does cellular respiration occur?
Answer: Mitochondrion
3. How is energy transferred from one organism to another in an
ecosystem?
Answer: energy from the sun is captured by plants and used to make
food through photosynthesis. Energy in food is then transferred to
consumers. Energy from food eaten by consumers is then used and
transformed into different forms of energy such as heat and
mechanical energy.
4. Which law explains why satellites remain in orbit around the Earth
without falling back to the surface?
a. Kepler’s third law c. Einstein’s equivalence principles
b. Newton’s first law d. Bernoulli’s principle
5. The atomic mass of an element is the total number of protons and
neutrons.
If a Carbon atom has 6 proton, 8 neutron and 6 electrons, what is the
atomic mass?
Ans: 14