Science Quiz Bee Questions
Science Quiz Bee Questions
Identification
1. What is the meaning of each letter (s, p, d, f) that is used in orbital names?
Answer: sharp, principal, diffuse & fundamental
2. How many classifications of elements do we have in periodic table of elements?
Answer: 10: Alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, noble gases, metalloids, halogens,
transition metals, post-transition metals, lanthanoids, actinoids and other non-metals.
3. Normally, how many chromosomes does a human have?
Answer: 46
4. Base from the famous term of Isaac Newton, what is the third law of motion?
Answer: ‘For every action, there is equal and opposite reaction”.
5. In electronics, what is the symbol for resistance?
Answer: ohm/omega (Ω)
6. The term for the theory that is used to define that the continent was came from one large
continent also known as “super continent”
Answer: Pangea
7. In Food Web, it is the main source of energy of all living organism.
Answer: Sun
8. The hottest star that is known to be in a bluish-white color.
Answer: Rigel
9. It is caused by an extreme high temperature that sometimes create an illusionary image.
Answer: Mirage
10. The Russian Chemist who arranged the periodic table of elements base on the element’s
increasing atomic weight.
Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev
Multiple Choice
1. Atoms of the same element which have different masses are called:
A. Allotropes B. Isotones
C. Isotopes D. Isomers
Answer: C. Isotopes
2. How fast is the speed of light?
A. 3 X 108 m/s B. 30 X 108 m/s
C. 3 X 109 m/s D. 30 X 109 m/s
Answer: A. 3 X 108 m/s
3. The process wherein a matter (gas) doesn’t need to go into a liquid state to turn into a solid is
called:
A. Sublimation B. Evaporation
C. Deposition D. Freezing
Answer: C. Deposition
4. There are total of ______ bones in human adult and ______ in baby at birth.
A. 206, 312 B. 204, 300
C. 204, 312 D. 206, 300
Answer: D. 206, 300
5. (Optics) Visualize the situation: The place is so dark that no light source is available, and you
even didn’t know that you are facing a house with a window from afar. Suddenly, someone from
the inside opened the light from behind of this individual, you saw a human figure in front of the
light on the same window. Will you be able to see the face of the individual inside the house?
A. Yes B. No
C. Maybe D. Not enough data to define the situation.
Answer: B. No