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  • 1. 
    The day on which the Sun’s direct rays cross the celestial equator is called:

  • the ecliptic
  • the solstice
  • the aphelion
  • the equinox

  • 2. 
    Which of these objects is the farthest from the Sun?

  • 90377 Sedna
  • Kuiper belt
  • Saturn
  • Neptune

  • 3. 
    What term describes the alignment of three celestial bodies?

  • symbology
  • sizzle
  • syzygy
  • suzerainty

  • 4. 
    How many times larger is the radius of the Sun than that of the Earth?

  • 1,025
  • 109
  • 4.8
  • 10

  • 5. 
    In physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite what?

  • impaction
  • subtraction
  • reaction
  • distraction

  • 6. 
    A baby blue whale drinks this many liters of milk per day:

  • 190
  • 50
  • 500
  • 10

  • 7. 
    Which of the following technological developments came first?

  • telephone
  • teletype
  • telegraph
  • telescope

  • 8. 
    For what is the Jurassic period named?

  • the French word for "day"
  • a soccer hero
  • a kind of dinosaur
  • a mountain range

  • 9. 
    What is the Pythagorean theorem?

  • the square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides
  • the corresponding angles of two triangles are equal if and only if their corresponding sides are proportional
  • the sum of the angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees
  • two sides of an isosceles triangle are equal if and only if the angles opposite them are equal

  • 10. 
    What is the term for all positive and negative whole numbers, including zero?

  • natural numbers
  • prime numbers
  • real numbers
  • integers

  • 11. 
    In what year was the ball bearing patented?

  • 1913
  • 1794
  • 1899
  • 1826

  • 12. 
    When were the first rockets launched?

  • 13th century
  • 17th century
  • 19th century
  • 18th century

  • 13. 
    Who discovered the X-ray?

  • Ray Stevens
  • Wilhelm Roentgen
  • Alexander Fleming
  • Stephen Hawking

  • 14. 
    Which vehicle was invented about 3000 BCE?

  • the helicopter
  • the space shuttle
  • the chariot
  • the bicycle

  • 15. 
    Which of these animals swims in an upright position?

  • sea lion
  • sea urchin
  • sea slug
  • sea horse

  • 16. 
    What chemical element is represented by the symbol H?

  • helium
  • hassium
  • holmium
  • hydrogen

  • 17. 
    What chemical element is represented by the symbol C?

  • carbon
  • cobalt
  • cerium
  • chromium

  • 18. 
    What is the theory that posits large-scale horizontal movements of continents that occur over long episodes of geologic time?

  • greenhouse effect
  • seafloor spreading
  • continental drift
  • gradualism

  • 19. 
    What chemical element is represented by the symbol Ge?

  • germanium
  • gadolinium
  • gallium
  • gold

  • 20. 
    Golden hamsters are commonly kept as pets. Nearly all are descended from a small group captured in 1930. From what country did the original hamsters come?

  • Mongolia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syria
  • the United States

  • 21. 
    Where is a giant rodent called the capybara found?

  • South America
  • North America
  • Africa
  • Asia

  • 22. 
    Zebras belong to the same family as which of these animals?

  • gazelle
  • deer
  • horse
  • giraffe

  • 23. 
    In some parts of the world, mysterious deaths of which creatures threaten agriculture?

  • vipers
  • bees
  • kangaroos
  • fire ants

  • 24. 
    Which of the following is not a marsupial?

  • kangaroo
  • badger
  • koala
  • wombat

  • 25. 
    How many times is the largest fish larger than the smallest fish?

  • 1,800 times
  • 130 times
  • 20 times
  • 10 times

  • 26. 
    What chemical element is represented by the symbol Ag?

  • silver
  • argon
  • astatine
  • arsenic

  • 27. 
    What variety of mole is characterized by 22 fleshy pink touch organs projecting from around the tip of the snout?

  • star-nosed mole
  • shrew mole
  • Old World mole
  • New World mole

  • 28. 
    In geology, what is a monadnock?

  • a valley
  • a type of hill
  • a type of lake
  • another name for a stream

  • 29. 
    What is another name for a drowned river valley?

  • ria
  • peninsula
  • bay
  • grotto

  • 30. 
    That radiation and matter have properties both of particles and of waves is called what?

  • entanglement
  • mixing
  • confusion
  • wave-particle duality

  • 31. 
    Max Planck’s great discovery was that radiation energy is emitted in packets that he called what?

  • wave functions
  • photons
  • gamma rays
  • quanta

  • 32. 
    In the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which two measurable properties of a particle cannot be observed precisely at the same time?

  • spin and color
  • position and momentum
  • energy and torque
  • size and speed

  • 33. 
    The square of a particle’s wave function describes the probability of what about the particle?

  • that it will disappear
  • that it has a specific spin
  • that it will decay
  • that it is at a particular place

  • 34. 
    Identify the type of chemical reaction: S + O2 →  SO2

  • synthesis
  • single displacement
  • double displacement
  • decomposition

  • 35. 
    What instrument is used to measure the ground oscillations produced by an earthquake?

  • spectroscope
  • magnetic resonance imager
  • seismograph
  • radioscope

  • 36. 
    Identify the type of chemical reaction: 2Na + Cl2 → 2NaCl

  • decomposition
  • double displacement
  • single displacement
  • synthesis
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