Science Part 2

Chemical Elements

100

What chemical element has the atomic number of 2?

Helium (He)

200

What is the most common gas in the earth's atomsphere?

Nitrogen (N₂)

300

Diamonds are a specialized form of what element?

carbon 

400

What is the chemical symbol for Antimony?

Sb

500

What chemical element is named for a large asteroid?

Cerium

Astronomy

100

A model of the solar system with the sun at the center.

a.  Ptolemiac Model

b.  Copernican Model

c.  Heliocentric model

d.  Tycho Brahe's model

c.  Heliocentric model

200

The dark cooler area of gas on the sun's surface

a.  sunspot

b.  meteorite

c.  sirius

d.  supernova

a.  sunspot

300

The explosion of a dying giant or supergiant star.

a.  sunspot

b.  meteorite

c.  sirius

d.  supernova

d.  supernova

400

Brightest star in the Earth's night

a.  sunspot

b.  meteorite

c.  sirius

d.  supernova

c.  sirius

500

A two star in orbit about their common central of mass help by their mutual gravitational pull.

a.  Binary Star

b.  Terrestrial planet

c.  sirius

d.  Comet

a.  Binary Star

Biology

100

Basic building blocks of all living things

cells

200

Basic physical and functional unit of heredity

gene

300

A red protein responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood of vertebrates.

hemoglobin

400

An class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents

lipid

500

A type of cell division that results in 2 daughter cells

mitosis

Science Terms

100

What is the study of earthquakes?

a.  scientific method

b.  hygrometer

c.  seismologist

d.  AZT

c.  seismologist

200

The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.

continential drift

300

No longer in existence-having ended or died off

extinct

400

A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged

Inertia

500

A  substance that is made entirely from one type of atom.

element

Inventors

100

What Italian scientist is credited with invention of the Barometer?

a.  Mendel

b.  Thomson

c.  Torriceli

d.  Tungsten

c.  Torriceli

200

Who developed the oral polio vaccine?

a.  Sabin

b.  Hawking

c.  Pasteur

d.  Taurus

a.  Sabin

300

This Frenchmen is considered the father of bacteriology.

a.  Carson

b.  Einstein

c.  Pasteur

d.  Mendel

c.  Pasteur

400

Who invented the pendulum clock?

a.  Torricelli

b.  Lister

c.  Fontanelle

d.  Huygens

d.  Huygens

500

Who invented the electrostatic generator?

a.  Van de Graff

b. Koch

c.  Harvey

d. Otis

a.  Van de Graff