Elements
What is the symbol of the element silver?
Ag
Where is the world’s most active volcano located?
Hawaii
True or False: Metals are poor conductors of heat and electricity.
False
What is the largest known land animal?
African Elephant
What is the unit for measuring distance?
Metres
How many elements are there in the periodic table?
118
What is the nearest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What is the chemical symbol of gold?
Au
Animals that eat both plants and meat are called what?
Omnivores
What is a unit that measures force?
Newtons
Which two elements on the periodic table are liquids at room temperature?
Mercury and Bromine
What are the three main layers of the Earth?
Crust, mantle, and core
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of what two elements?
Copper and Tin
What is the tallest type of grass?
Bamboo
Which of Newton’s Laws states that ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?’
The third law of motion
What type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between different atoms?
Covalent
What planet in our solar system has the most gravity?
Jupiter
Which metal is the most precious?
Platinum
How many bones do sharks have?
Zero
What does ‘E’ represent in E=MC2?
Energy
What element did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?
Oxygen
What is the name of the most recent supercontinent?
Pangea
What metal is the best conductor of electricity?
Silver
Diabetes develops as the result of a problem with which specific organ in the body?
Pancreas
What is the splitting of atomic nuclei called?
Nuclear Fission