Science Quiz with Answers- Round 11 to 15

SCIENCE Quiz

by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan

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Quiz on Science 11

1.      Triton is a moon of which planet?

2.      What is the Latin name for Tin?

3.      What is the Latin name for Iron?

4.      What is the Latin name for Mercury?

5.      What is the Latin name for Gold?

6.      What is the Latin name for Silver?

7.      What is the Latin name for Copper?

8.      What is the Latin name for Sodium?

9.      What is the Latin name for Potassium?

10.  What is the Latin name for Lead?

11.  What is the term used for the ability of the eye to clearly see distant objects with the help of ciliate muscles?

12.  What is the term used for the soft and elastic bone?

13.  Name the instrument used to detect and measure the charge on a body.

14.  What is depressant?

15.  What is the term used for reflected sound?

16.  What is the small structure present in the cell called?

17.  Name the innermost layer of the eyeball which is sensitive to light where the image is formed.

18.  Name the disease transmitted by having sex with an infected person.

19.  Name the male reproductive cell.

20.  What do we call to the unwanted plants that grow along with the crop?

Answer to Quiz on Science 11

1.      Neptune

2.      Stannum

3.      Ferrum

4.      Hydrargyrum

5.      Aurum

6.      Argentum

7.      Cuprum

8.      Natrium

9.      Kalium

10.  Plumbum

11.  Accommodation

12.  Cartilage

13.  Electroscope

14.  A substance that includes a mood of hopelessness

15.  Echo

16.  Organelle

17.  Retina

18.  STD

19.  Sperm

20.  Weed

Quiz on Science 12

1.      What is Cirrhosis?

2.      What is the front portion of the eye which is transparent and thin called?

3.      What are Vas deferens?

4.      What store sperms in the male reproductive system?

5.      Name the plant hormone that is responsible for growth and flowering?

6.      What is an astronomical object consisting of a glowing shell of gas and plasma formed by certain types of stars at the end of their lives?

7.      Name the term used for the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting.

8.      How can we reduce carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide?

9.      Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?

10.  In which organelle of a living cell is DNA found?

11.  Which pair of organs filters blood?

12.  What is Marasmus?

13.  What term is used for the severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein?

14.  Define Malnutrition.

15.  What is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged between the biosphere, Geo-sphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere of the Earth?

16.  What do you mean by Organic Chemistry?

17.  Define obesity?

18.  What is the partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food called?

19.  Deficiency of what cause muscle weakness paralyses?

20.  Deficiency of what cause bad bones and teeth?

Answer to Quiz on Science 12

1.      A chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver

2.      Cornea

3.      A duct that carries spermatozoa from the Epididymis to the ejaculatory duct

4.      Epididymis

5.      Gibberellins

6.      A planetary nebula

7.      Meteorology

8.      By passing it through red hot coke

9.      Charles Darwin

10.  Nucleus

11.  The kidneys

12.  Extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or metabolic disorders

13.  Kwashiorkor

14.  A state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

15.  The carbon cycle

16.  The scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and synthesis of organic compounds that by definition contain carbon

17.  More than average fatness

18.  Pasteurization

19.  Potassium

20.  Phosphorus

Quiz on Science 13

1.      Who was elected as a member of the Paris Academy of Science in 1860?

2.      Name an ion with more electrons than protons, giving it a negative charge.

3.      What is the full form of DNA?

4.      What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?

5.      What's a single unit of quanta called?

6.      Name the most common contributor of chronic bronchitis.

7.      Name the scientist who developed telescopes and used them to make revolutionary observations about our solar system, discovering new objects like the moons that orbit Jupiter?

8.      Which French chemist and microbiologist created a new level of understanding regarding microorganisms, the causes of disease and disease prevention?

9.      Name the Scottish physicist who brought together the ideas of electromagnetic fields, describing their nature in publications such as ‘A Dynamic Theory of the Electromagnetic Field’.

10.  Who is known for her lifelong study of the behaviour of chimpanzees in social situations as well as being a tireless animal rights advocate and humanitarian?

11.  What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per second?

12.  What's the base unit of mass in the metric system?

13.  What is the unit of measuring heat energy?

14.  What is the term used for a vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks?

15.  Define Calorie?

16.  Who published a theory of atom assuming atoms are ultimate indivisible particles of matter?

17.  When was a theory of atom published?

18.  Name the star nearest to the solar system.

19.  What are the two distinct parts of the sun?

20.  What is centripetal force?

Answer to Quiz on Science 13

1.      Fizeau

2.      An anion

3.      Deoxyribonucleic acid

4.      The electron

5.      A quantum

6.      Smoking

7.      Galileo Galilee

8.      Louis Pasteur

9.      James Maxwell

10.  Jane Goodall

11.  The Watt

12.  The kilogram

13.  Joule

14.  Thermos flask

15.  Unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure

16.  John Dalton

17.  1808

18.  Proxima Centauri

19.  Photosphere and Chromospheres

20.  The inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body

Quiz on Science 14

1.      Name the type of trees that yield the resin used to produce turpentine.

2.      What energy unit is defined as the heat required to raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius?

3.      What is Prostate cancer?

4.      What organ is inflamed when one has encephalitis?

5.      What is the melting point of pure ice called?

6.      What is the boiling point of pure water called?

7.      What is solidification?

8.      What is Liquefaction?

9.      What is Liquefaction point?

10.  What is the solidification point?

11.  What instrument is used to measure the speed of wind?

12.  What instrument is used to measure Rainfall?

13.  Who discovered the cure for scurvy?

14.  When were the first contact lenses made?

15.  Who made the first contact lenses?

16.  What do you mean by Ear Ossicles?

17.  What term is used for the number of complete vibrations of a vibrating object in one second?

18.  What is Eutrophication?

19.  Name a disease with fits of sleepiness and drowsiness.

20.  Name a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways.

Answer to Quiz on Science 14

1.      Pine trees

2.      One Calorie

3.      Cancer of the prostate gland

4.      The brain

5.      Lower Standard Point

6.      Upper Standard Point

7.      The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

8.      The conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid

9.      The fixed temperature at which a gas changes into liquid state rapidly.

10.  The temperature at which a liquid starts changing into solid state

11.  Anemometer

12.  Pluviometer

13.  James Lind

14.  1887

15.  A. E. Fink

16.  It is the three small bones in the ear (malleus, incus, and staples)

17.  Frequency

18.  Water pollution caused by fertilizers containing nitrates when it gets into the water

19.  Narcolepsy

20.  Alveoli

Quiz on Science 15

1.      What is a Saline Water?

2.      What salt is obtained from the Sulphuric acid?

3.      What salt is obtained from the Hydrochloric acid?

4.      What salt is obtained from the Nitric acid?

5.      What salt is obtained from the Carbonic acid?

6.      Who discovered Radium that fight against the dreaded disease called cancer?

7.      Who discovered Insulin in 1932 that gave relief to sufferers of diabetes?

8.      What is Hansen's disease commonly known as?

9.      What do we call the crystalline form of carbon?

10.  What do you mean by Ornithology?

11.  What is deliquescent salt?

12.  What is the term used for a place where there is no matter?

13.  Name three states of matter?

14.  Which state of matter has a definite shape and definite volume?

15.  Which state of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape?

16.  Which state of matter has neither a definite shape nor definite volume?

17.  What do you mean by Transpiration?

18.  What is Osmosis?

19.  Name the only liquid metal?

20.  What is Electrolysis?

Answer to Quiz on Science 15

1.      Natural water containing more than 2% of dissolved salt (common salt)

2.      Sulphates

3.      Chlorides

4.      Nitrates

5.      Carbonates

6.      Madam Curie

7.      Frederick Banting

8.      Leprosy

9.      Diamond

10.  Science that deals with the study of birds

11.  Salt that becomes liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

12.  Vacuum

13.  Solid, liquid, and gas

14.  Solid

15.  Liquid

16.  Gas

17.  The emission of water vapour from the leaves of plants

18.  Diffusion of molecules through a semi permeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal

19.  Mercury

20.  A chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions