quiz

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

2. What are the two main metals in the earth’s core?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Name the three time periods of the dinosaurs.

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

10. What is the name of the deepest location in the world’s oceans?

11. Over a long period of time while under extreme heat and pressure, graphite turns into which precious mineral?

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

13. The gemstone ruby is typically what color?

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

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

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

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

18. What is the name of the layer of earth’s atmosphere that absorbs the majority of the potentially damaging ultraviolet light from the sun?

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

20. What is the second most common gas found in the air we breathe?

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

1. Now that Pluto is no longer included, how many planets are there in the Solar System?

2. What is the smallest planet in the Solar System?

3. What is the largest planet in the Solar System?

4. What is the hottest planet in the Solar System?

5. The sixth planet from the Sun features an extensive ring system, what is the name of this planet?

6. The chemical element uranium was named after what planet?

7. What planet in the solar system is farthest from the Sun?

8. What is the second smallest planet in the solar system?

9. What planet is closest in size to Earth?

10. The moon Titan orbits what planet?

11. What planet is nicknamed the ‘Red Planet’?

12. True or false? Neptune is larger than Saturn.

13. The Galilean moons orbit what planet?

14. What planet is closest to the Sun?

15. What is the seventh planet from the Sun?

16. True or false? Venus has more atmospheric pressure than Earth?

17. Triton is the largest moon of what planet?

18. What is the brightest planet in the night sky?

19. What is the third planet from the Sun?

20. Phobos and Deimos are moons of what planet?

1. 8	2. Mercury	3. Jupiter	4. Venus
5. Saturn	6. Uranus	7. Neptune	8. Mars
9. Venus	10. Saturn	11. Mars	12. False
13. Jupiter	14. Mercury	15. Uranus	16. True
17. Neptune

1. Which decelerates faster, a badminton shuttlecock or a baseball?

2. True or false? Lower tension on a tennis racquet produces more control and less power.

3. In the Winter Olympic sport of curling, what type of rock are the curling stones made from?

4. True or false? Olympic gold medals contain more silver than gold.

5. How high is a regulation sized basketball hoop?

6. Does the chronic injury known as plantar fasciitis affect hands or feet?

7. True of false? Astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball while on the moon in 1971.

8. What is typically the slowest swimming stroke, freestroke, backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly?

9. True or false? The official distance of a marathon is 44 kilometres (27.340 miles).

10. Does an injury to your anterior cruciate ligament affect your arm or leg?

11. True or false? Your body only produces lactic acid during intensive physical activity.

12. Do the fastest male 100m sprinters in the world average above or below 30 kph (18.64mph)?

13. True or false? Dimples on a golf ball help reduce drag and increase the distance the ball flies.

14. Is the diameter of a regulation basketball hoop 2 times, 3 times or 4 times wider than the diameter a regulation basketball?

15. True or false? The fastest recorded tennis serve is faster than 150 mph (241 kph).

1. Shuttlecock	2. False (less control, more power)	3. Granite
4. True	5. 10 foot (3 metres)	6. Feet
7. True	8. Breaststroke	9. False  - 42.195 kilometres (26.219 miles)
10. Leg	11. False (it’s produced all the time)	12. Above - around 36 kph (22.37 mph)
13. True	14. 2 times	15. True - 155 mph (249 kph)

1. When light bends as it enters a different medium the process is known as what?

2. A magnifying glass is what type of lens?

3. Electric resistance is typically measured in what units?

4. A person who studies physics is known as a?

5. Metals expand when heated and do what when cooled?

6. What is the first name of the famous scientist who gave us Newton’s three laws of motion?

7. What state of the art computer technology is used to train pilots when wanting to copy the experience of flying an aircraft?

8. Electric power is typically measured in what units?

9. The most recognized model of how the universe begun is known as the?

10. Who is the Hubble Space Telescope named after?

11. The wire inside an electric bulb is known as the what?

12. Theoretical physicist James Maxwell was born in what country?

13. Infrared light has a wavelength that is too long or short to be visible for humans?

14. What kind of eclipse do we have when the moon is between the sun and the earth?

15. True or false? Iron is attracted by magnets.

16. What is the earth’s primary source of energy?

17. Conductors have a high or low resistance?

18. Electric current is typically measured in what units?

19. What scientist is well known for his theory of relativity?

20. Earth is located in which gala

1. Refraction	2. Convex	3. Ohms	4. Physicist
5. Contract	6. Isaac	7. A flight simulator	8. Watts
9. Big bang	10. Edwin Hubble	11. Filament	12. Scotland
13. Long	14. A solar eclipse	15. True	16. The sun
17. Low	18. Amperes	19. Albert Einstein	20. The Milky Way galaxy

1. Solar power generates electricity from what source?

2. Did the Apple iPhone first become available in 2005, 2006 or 2007?

3. In terms of computing, what does CPU stand for?

4. True or false? Nintendo was founded after the year 1900.

5. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after which American astronomer?

6. Is the wavelength of infrared light too long or short to be seen by humans?

7. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are types of what?

8. True or false? Gold is not a good conductor of electricity?

9. The technologically advanced humanoid robot ASIMO is made by which car company?

10. True or false? Atomic bombs work by atomic fission.

11. In terms of computing, what does ROM stand for?

12. Did the original Sony Playstation use CDs or cartridges to play games?

13. What is the Earth’s primary source of energy?

14. IBM is a well known computer and information technology company, what does IBM stand for?

15. Along with whom did Bill Gates found Microsoft?

16. What science fiction writer wrote the three laws of robotics?

17. True or false? In computing, keyboards are used as input devices.

18. What does the abbreviation WWW stand for?

19. Nano, Shuffle, Classic and Touch are variations of what?

20. True or false? DNA is an abbreviation for ‘Deoxyribonucleic acid’.

1. The Sun	2. 2007	3. Central Processing Unit	4. False - 1889
5. Edwin Hubble	6. Long	7. Web browsers	8. False
9. Honda	10. True	11. Read Only Memory	12. CDs
13. The Sun	14. International Business Machines	15. Paul Allen	16. Isaac Asimov
17. True	18. World Wide Web	19. The Apple iPod	20. True