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1
What layer of the atmosphere sits between the troposphere and the mesosphere?
Exosphere
Sphereosphere
Thermosphere
Stratosphere
2
What percentage of the cells in your body are bacteria?
2%
90%
68%
15%
3
What comes next? Kingdom, Phylum, Class, _____.
Genus
Species
Family
Order
4
An earthquake that measures 8 on the Richter Scale would be how many times stronger than an earthquake that measures 4?
2x stronger
4x stonger
1000x stronger
10,000x stronger
5
What does it mean if you are surrounded by stellar dendrites?
You are in a cave.
You have a tooth ache.
You are in near a coral reef.
It is snowing.
6
What percentage of animal species are invertebrates?
25%
90%
50%
95%
7
What disease takes its name from the Italian word for "bad air"?
Malaria
Influenza
Tuberculosis
Pertussis
8
Which of these is not one of the three main rock types?
Metamorphic
Basaltic
Igneous
Sedimentary
9
What is the word for an animal that is active at dawn and dusk?
Matutinal
Crepuscular
Diurnal
Nocturnal
10
Named for the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, the "coulomb" (c) is a unit of what physical property?
Current
Radioactivity
Spin
Charge
11
What does an ichthyologist study?
Fungus
Birds
Fish
Amphibians
12
What tube connects the larynx to the lungs?
Vocal Cords
Aorta
Esophagus
Trachea
13
This type of cell division results in four daughter cells, each with half the # of chromosomes as in the parent cell.
Stumbmytosis
Mitosis
Halitosis
Meiosis
14
What name is given to the closet star to Earth?
Proxima Centuri
Vega
Polaris
None of the above
15
Which of these is not a correct DNA base pairing?
Adenine (A) and thymine (T)
Adenine (A) and guanine (G)
Cytosine (C) and guanine (G)
16
What is it called when a solid matter transitions to a gas immediately without having to pass through the liquid state?
Vaporization
Sublimation
Condensation
Magic
17
This part of the brain deals with hearing and language
Temporal Lobe
Medulla
Cerebellum
Occipital Lobe
18
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
-40
100
-273
0
19
Which day is the earth closest to the sun?
July 4
Sept 21
June 21
January 4
20
To what scientific domain do Kepler's three laws pertain?
electrostatic
planetary motion
optics
the speed of sound
21
What is gymnophobia?
Fear of pine-cones
Fear of pine needles
Fear of physical exertion
Fear of nudity
22
What potentially fatal disease is also known as "rabbit fever"?
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Influenza
Ebola
23
Which planet has the most moons?
Jupiter
Uranus
Saturn
Neptune
24
What is it called when you make light change direction by passing it through a lens?
Refraction
Reflection
Defraction
Diffusion
25
ATP is the molecular unit of energy that gives our body fuel on a cellular level. What does ATP stand for?
Adenosine triphosphate
Adrenaline tris-phenoanaline
Ammonia Tripote
Always triggering power
26
Having no effect on the direction in which toilets drain, earth's rotation does affect weather patterns. This is called:
the Coriolis effect
the Mould effect
Grimm's law
the toilet bowl effect
27
An airplane can rotate around 3 principal axes with specialized names. Two are "roll" and "pitch". What is the other?
Slope
Torque
Lift
Yaw
28
Which two elements on the periodic table are liquids at room temperature?
Mercury and Bromine
Iodine and Chlorine
Hydrogen and Oxygen
Polonium and Radium
29
What is the only phase of the moon that can produce a solar eclipse?
Full moon
New moon
30
Predecessors and succedaneous are terms related to...
Teeth
Protein Synthesis
Radioactivity
Hair follicles
31
Which of these is another way to write Newton's second law of motion?
F = m + a
F = ma
F = m/a
F = a/m
32
What geologic time period saw the first dinosaurs?
Cretaceous
Dinosauric
Mesozoic
Jurasic
