BIOLOGY QUESTIONS

1. Which famous scientist introduced the idea of natural selection?

2. A person who studies biology is known as a?

3. Botany is the study of?

4. Can frogs live in salt water?

5. True or false? The common cold is caused by a virus.

6. Animals which eat both plants and other animals are known as what?

7. Bacterial infections in humans can be treated with what?

8. A single piece of coiled DNA is known as a?

9. A group of dog offspring is known as a?

10. The area of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as?

11. What is the name of the process used by plants to convert sunlight into food?

12. The death of every member of a particular species is known as what?

13. The process of pasteurization is named after which famous French microbiologist?

14. True or false? A salamander is a warm blooded animal?

15. A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait is known as a?

Biology Quiz Answers

1. Charles Darwin 2. Biologist 3. Plants

4. No 5. True 6. Omnivores
7. Antibiotics 8. Chromosome 9. Litter
10. Mycology 11. Photosynthesis 12. Extinction
13. Louis Pasteur 14. False 15. Mutation
ANIMAL QUESTIONS

16. What food makes up nearly all (around 99%) of a Giant Pandas diet?

17. True or false? Mice live for up to 10 years.

18. What is the name of the phobia that involves an abnormal fear of spiders?

19. What is the largest type of big cat in the world?

20. True or false? Crocodiles have no sweat glands so they use their mouths to release heat.

21. Are butterflies insects?

22. What are female elephants called?

23. True or false? Bats are mammals.

24. Bees are found on every continent of earth except for one, which is it?

25. True or false? Cats spend an average of 13 to 14 hours a day sleeping.

26. What is the fastest land animal in the world?

27. A doe is what kind of animal?

28. True or false? Cougars are herbivores.

29. Groups of lions are known as what?

30. Is a dolphin a mammal?

31. What is the largest land animal in the world?

32. True of false? Snakes have slimy skin.

33. What is the only continent on earth where Giraffes live in the wild?

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

35. What type of animal is the largest primate in the world?

36. Is a shark a fish or a mammal?

37. What is the most recognizable feature of a hedgehogs appearance?

38. True or false? Owls are far-sighted, meaning that anything within a few inches of their eyes cant be seen
properly.

39. What is the name of an adult female horse?

40. What are baby goats called?

41. What is the tallest animal in the world?

42. True or false? Rabbits are born blind.

43. What is the most recognizable physical feature of the male lion?

44. How many legs does a spider have?

45. The crocodile species is believed to have been around for how long? 2 million years or 200 million years

Animal Quiz Answers

1. Bamboo
2. False - Captive mice live for up to 2 and a 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
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

GENERAL QUESTIONS

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

47. What is the chemical symbol for the element oxygen?

47. Another name for a tidal wave is a?

48. True or false? Dogs are herbivores.

49. What is the 7th element on the periodic table of elements?

50. What is the name of the long appendage that hangs from an elephants face?

51. True or false? DNA is the shortened form of the term Deoxyribonucleic acid?

52. The highest mountain on earth is?

53. What is the name of the closest star to the earth?

54. True or false? Frogs are cold blooded animals.

55. What is the name of the element with the chemical symbol He?

56. The fear of what animal is known as arachnophobia?

57. Pure water has a pH level of a around?

58. The molten rock that comes from a volcano after it has erupted is known as what?

59. True or false? Yogurt is produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.

60. What is the name of the part of the human skeleton which protects our brain?

61. Is the compound HCl an acid or base?

62. True or false? The fastest land animal in the world is the zebra.

63. How many bones do sharks have in their bodies?

64. What famous scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics?

General Science Quiz Answers

4. False - They are

1. Jupiter 2. O 3. Tsunami
omnivores
5. Nitrogen 6. A trunk 7. True 8. Mount Everest
9. The sun 10. True 11. Helium 12. Spiders
13. 7 14. Lava 15. True 16. The skull
17. An acid (hydrochloric
18. False (it is the cheetah) 19. 0 20. Albert Einstein
acid)
NATURE QUESTIONS

65. What is the name of the worlds largest reef system?

66. Do male or female mosquitoes bite people?

67. True or false? Earth Day is held on June 18.

68. What state of the USA is the Grand Canyon located in?

69. True or false? The Dead Sea is 8.6 times more salty than the ocean.

70. What are the 3 Rs of recycling?

71. True or false? The horn of a rhinoceros is made from bone.

72. What famous islands west of Ecuador were extensively studied by Charles Darwin?

73. Ayers Rock in Australia is also know as what?

74. True or false? Burning or logging naturally occurring forests is known as deforestation.

Nature Quiz Answers

1. Great Barrier Reef 2. Female

3. False (April 22) 4. Arizona
5. True 6. Reduce, reuse and recycle
7. False (keratin) 8. Galapagos Islands
9. Uluru 10. True
HEAT QUESTIONS

75. True or false? The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit).

76. When water is cooled, does it expand or contract?

77. True or false? The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth is 42.4 C (108.3 F).

78. Heat from the sun gets to the Earth by radiation, conduction or convention?

79. What is the freezing temperature of water?

80. True or false? Kelvin, Celsius and Fahrenheit are all measures of temperature.

81. True or false? 100 Kelvin is the temperature of absolute zero.

82. Substances that dont conduct heat are known as what?

83. True or false? Heat is a form of energy.

84. 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 degrees Fahrenheit) 6. True
7. False - 0 Kelvin 8. Insulators
9. True 10. -40 degrees
EARTH QUESTIONS

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

86. What are the two main metals in the earths core?

87. Which is hotter, the center of the earth or surface of the sun?

88. What do you call molten rock before it has erupted?

89. What do you call it after it has erupted?

90. The Great Barrier Reef is found off the coast of which country?

91. What do you call a person who studies rocks?

92. Name the three time periods of the dinosaurs.

93. True or false? The Grand Canyon is around 10000 feet (3000 meters) deep.

94. What is the name of the deepest location in the worlds oceans?

95. Over a long period of time while under extreme heat and pressure, graphite turns into which precious min

96. Outside of Antarctica, what is the largest desert in the world?

97. The gemstone ruby is typically what color?

98. What is the name of the highest mountain on earth?

99. Do stalactites rise from the floor or hang from the ceiling of limestone caves?

100. 'Cascade', 'horsetail', 'plunge' and 'tiered' are types of what?

101. Someone who studies earthquakes is known as a what?

102. What is the name of the layer of earths atmosphere that absorbs the majority of the potentially damagin
ultraviolet light from the sun?

103. The mass of the earth is made up mostly of which two elements?

104. What is the second most common gas found in the air we breathe?
Earth Quiz Answers

1. The Pacific Ocean 2. Iron and nickel 3. The center of the earth 4. Magma
8. Triassic, Jurassic an
5. Lava 6. Australia 7. A geologist
Cretaceous
9. False - 5000 feet (1500 12. The Sahara Desert
10. Mariana Trench 11. Diamond
meters) Africa
13. Red 14. Mount Everest 15. Hang from the ceiling 16. Waterfall
19. Iron (32%) and oxygen
17. Seismologist 18. The ozone layer 20. Oxygen (21%)
(30%)
CHEMISTRY QUESTIONS

105. What is the first element on the periodic table?

106. What is the centre of an atom called?

107. True or false? Acids have a pH level below 7.

108. What is the main gas found in the air we breathe?

109. True or false? An electron carries a positive charge.

110. Famous New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford was awarded a Nobel Prize in which field?

111. What is the chemical symbol for gold?

112. K is the chemical symbol for which element?

113. What orbits the nucleus of an atom?

114. At room temperature, what is the only metal that is in liquid form?

115. True or false? A neutron has no net electric charge.

116. A nuclear reaction where the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts is known as nuclear fission or
nuclear fusion?

117. What is H20 more commonly known as?

118. What is the third most common gas found in the air we breathe?

119. What is the name given to substances that are initially involved in a chemical reaction?

120. True or false? Bases have a pH level below 7.

121. Is sodium hydroxide (NaOH) an acid or base?

122. Atoms of the same chemical element that have different atomic mass are known as?

123. True or false? A proton carries a positive charge.

124. What is the fourth most abundant element in the universe in terms of mass?
Chemistry Quiz Answers

1. Hydrogen 2. A nucleus 3. True 4. Nitrogen (around 78

5. False 6. Chemistry 7. Au 8. Potassium
9. Electrons 10. Mercury 11. True 12. Nuclear fission
13. Water 14. Argon (around 1%) 15. Reactants 16. False
17. Base 18. Isotopes 19. True 20. Carbon