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Big Christmas Science Quiz
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End of year Science quiz. Designed to be modified to suit the year you are aiming it at.
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1
What does a barometer measure?
humidity
temperature
Gravity
air pressure
2
Name the force that pulls objects towards the centre of Earth.
Gravity
Inertia
Friction
Magnetism
3
What do we call a space which contains no matter?
Vacuum
Black hole
Asteriod
Blank
4
What colour does Litmus paper turn in strong acid?
Green
Yellow
Red
Blue
5
What colour are emeralds?
Red
Green
Blue
Yellow
6
What compound is formed when hydrogen burns?
Helium
Peroxide
Water
Hydrochloric Acid
7
What is the common name for the white substance chemists call sodium chloride?
Salt
Honey
Baking soda
Baking powder
8
How many active volcanoes are there in Australia?
2
0
3
1
9
How many minutes do the Suns' rays take to reach Earth?
six
eight
ten
twelve
10
What is the name given to animals which eat only the meat of other animals?
Carnivore
Omnivore
Herbivore
11
How long does Earth take to turn around once on its axis?
Hour
Month
Year
Day
12
How many legs do spiders have?
2
6
8
4
13
What word describes any plant that sheds its leaves in winter?
Photosynthetic
Eucalyptus
deciduous
biennial
14
Which class of animal, with over 6 million species, is by far the most numerous on earth?
Mammals
Arachnids
Crustaceans
Insects
15
How many years does Earth take to orbit the Sun?
10
53
1
364.25
16
What name is given to teeth which are used for cutting food?
Canines
Incisors
Molars
Falsies
17
What is the largest living species of mammal?
T-Rex
Elephant
Mammoth
Blue Whale
18
To the nearest second, how long does it take sound to travel 1km through air?
5 seconds
2 seconds
4 seconds
3 seconds
19
Who first correctly predicted the return of Comet Halley?
Collin Hubble
Galileo Gallileo
Stephen Hawking
Edmund Halley
20
What is the correct scientific name for Humans?
Homo habilis
Homo smiliest
Homo neanderthal
Homo sapiens
21
What element is added to iron to make steel?
Tin
Copper
Silver
Carbon
22
What unit is the difference in electrical potential between the two terminals of a battery usually measured in?
Ohms
Amps
Charge
Volts
23
What is the process by which plants turn sunlight into food?
Respiration
deciduous
Breathing
Photosynthesis
24
Where in the body would you find the femur?
Leg
Skull
Arm
Back
25
What is the electrical charge of a proton?
neutral
positive
negative
26
What is a person suffering hypothermia lacking?
Sugar
Body heat
Coffee
Water
27
What is the common name for sucrose?
Sulphur
Silicone
Sugar
Cyanide
28
Around which planet does the moon Titan orbit?
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
29
What does a seismologist study?
Volcanoes
Growth rings
Mountain ranges
Earthquakes
30
What household liquid do chemists call acetic acid?
Soy sauce
vinegar
bleach
turpentine
31
What colour is a neon light?
Orange
Green
Red
Blue
32
What is the name of our galaxy?
Andromeda
Sol
Orion
Milky Way
33
What is the SI unit for time?
hours
seconds
minutes
days
34
What types of animal live in the Canis genus?
Birds
Cats
Horses
Dogs
35
When light bounces off a mirror, we say it has been....
reflected
refracted
returned
redacted
36
Which letter is the chemical symbol for hydrogen?
He
Hg
Hm
H
37
What do we call the parts of flowers that are often coloured to attract insects?
stems
anthers
petals
leaves
38
What element has the chemical symbol P?
Perspexium
Phosphorous
Potassium
Plumbinium
39
What organ in the body coordinates all the body's functions?
Brain
Liver
Heart
Lung
40
Starting with 'L', which organ of the human body gives us our voice?
Lung
Leg
Liver
Larynx
41
What do we call rocks that have formed from the alteration of other rocks due to heat and or pressure?
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Space
Igneous
42
What is the name given to the inner most part of the Earth?
Mantle
crust
Athenosphere
Core
43
If a substance is soluble then what will it do when placed in water?
explode
erupt
dissolve
effervese
44
What animal can you not climb on but you can get down from?
Horse
Duck
Camel
Mouse
45
What year did humans first walk on the Moon?
1968
1967
1969
1970
46
What instrument is regularly used to measure temperature?
Barometer
Thermometer
Altimeter
Hydrometer
47
What does the Richter scale measure the magnitude of?
volanoes
Ocean Depth
wind strength
Earthquakes
48
What is the medical name for your funny bone?
Humerous
Humerus
ticklus
Tickilous
49
Which planet is sometimes mistakenly called the Evening Star?
Venus
Mars
Saturn
Mercury
50
What substance is mined in Bass Strait?
Petroleum
Crude Oil
Natural Gas
51
What is the name of the mixture of gases that surround the earth
Biosphere
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
Atmosphere
52
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Mars
Earth
Mercury
Venus
53
What is the name given to a river of ice?
glacier
morain
very freezing
freezing
54
What is the mathematical name for a solid box with six square sides?
dodecahedron
pyramid
prism
cube
55
Which gas is the most common in Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Carbon dioxide
Hydrogen
Oxygen
56
What gas fills a hot air balloon?
Air
Oxygen
Helium
Hydrogen
57
How many groves are there on one side of a vinyl record?
10
1
100
1000
58
What is the simplest and most common element in the universe?
Beryllium
Helium
Lithium
Hydrogen
59
The decay of which isotope of carbon is the key to radiocarbon dating?
13
11
14
12
60
Which state of matter can be most easily compressed?
Gas
Liquid
Plasma
Solid
61
What is the name given to a five sided polygon
Pentagon
Hexagon
Square
Octagon
62
What is the only kind of mammal capable of true flight?
Sugar glider
Tree Kangaroo
Bat
Bird
63
What can be seen from the Earth every 29 1/2 days?
Comet
Full Moon
Sunset
Saturn
64
If a liquid evaporates, what does it become?
Plasma
Solid
Liquid
Gas
65
How many millimetres in one kilometre?
One million
One hundred
One hundred thousand
One thousand
66
What name is used for the study of plants?
Botany
Chemistry
Zooology
Geology
67
What cannot pass through an opaque material?
Gravity
Sound
Light
Electrons
68
What colour does the human eye see the most clearly?
Green
Blue
Red
Yellow
69
What does a palaeontologist look for in rocks?
Ores
Fossils
Minerals
Crystals
70
What property of an object describes how much space it occupies?
Area
depth
surface area
volume
71
What is meant by the term unicellular?
one brain
one cell
one wheel
one ear
72
What is the chemical symbol for Calcium
C
Co
Cu
Ca
73
What star is the closest to the Earth?
Sol
Betelgeuse
Crux alpha
Andromedea
74
What name is given to a computer program capable of automatically reproducing itself?
Virus
Fortran
C++
Facebook
75
In what regular repeating shape do bees build honeycomb cells?
decagon
hexagon
octagon
pentagon
76
What do meteorologists study?
Meteors
Weather
Clouds
Winds
77
What force dominates tides?
The Moon's gravity
The Sun's gravity
Mars gravity
The Earth's gravity
78
What fraction of a meter is a micron?
one thosandth
one hundredth
one tenth
one millionth
79
What is the scientific name for Wattles?
Eucalyptus
Xanthorea
Dicksonia
Acacia
80
What scientific term is give to describe the speed and direction of an object?
Velocity
North
Kilometres
Rate
81
In a rainbow, which colour forms the outside of the curve?
Red
Green
Violet
Blue
82
Which of the following are sciences?
None of these
Numerology
Creationsism
Astrology
