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September 6, 2018
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Science
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1. The egg came

first than the
chicken.
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Bird evolved from reptiles, so

the first bird must have come
out of an egg – laid by a
reptile. (J.B.S. Haldane)
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2. A cloud weighs
like 100 elephants.
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True. An average cloud weighs about

100 elephants, while a big storm the
clouds can weigh about 200,000
elephants. (National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
Colorado)
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3. Pythagora founded the

sciences of mechanics and
hydrostatics, calculated pi
precisely, devised the law of
exponents, and created new
geometrical proofs
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Archimedes.
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4. Dmitri Mendeleev
discovered the periodic table
in a dream.
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True
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5. Diffusion is the spontaneous net

movement of water across a
semipermeable membrane from a
region of low solute concentration to a
more concentrated solution.
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Osmosis. Diffusion is a spontaneous

movement of particles from an area of
high concentration to an area of low
concentration
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6. Bacteria are the smallest of all cells,

visible only through powerful
microscopes.
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True.
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7. Newton formulated the first law of

motion, sometimes called the law
of inertia, stating that a body will
remain at rest or in uniform motion
unless acted upon by external forces
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True.
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8. In computer, ISP stands for

International Service Presenter.
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International Service Provider.

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9. Plants and animals produce oxygen

during photosynthesis and utilize
carbon dioxide.
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Plants only.
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10. Pangea was the name of the

Earth’s original (first) continent.
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The very first supercontinent was called

Vaalbara and it started forming 3 billion
years ago.
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