SCIENCE QUIZ

If you get stuck, you’ll find some helpful clues in Chapter 3

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Question 1: Question 6:
How many elements are on the periodic table? Tufa is a type of?
101 Animal
118 Vegetable
121 Mineral
212 Gas

Question 2: Question 7:
What is the symbol for mercury on the In 2019, scientists were shocked to find what
periodic table? at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
Hg A living deep sea spider
Mc A hoard of gold coins
Gl A shipwreck
My A plastic bag

Question 3: Question 8:
What kind of bond is formed when a Which of the following animals was among those
compound is made up of elements that on the first ever hot air balloon
share the same electrons? flights in 1783?
Ionic Pig
Covalent Sheep
Molecular Dog
Brooke Cow

Question 4: Question 9:
Bronze is created by mixing which two metals? Heavy metals such as gold were originally created:
Copper and iron By the big bang
Copper and tin During the formation of the Earth
Tin and iron Through forces in Earth’s crust
Iron and copper By stars colliding

Question 5: Question 10:

Which element is most abundant in Whales communicate through what kind
Earth’s crust? of sound waves?
Silicon Infrasound
Iron Decisound
Carbon Macrosound
Oxygen Suprasound

bag, 8) Sheep, 9) By stars colliding, 10) Infrasound

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Answers: 1) 118, 2) Hg, 3) Covalent, 4) Copper & tin, 5) Oxygen, 6) Mineral, 7) A plastic
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They
ATOM
can be found going up, down, diagonal, side to side and backwards!
BIOPLASTIC
ARCHIMEDES
CARBONDATINGSCREW ELEMENT PLASMA
COMPOUNDATOM ENZYME POLYMER
ELEMENT
BIOPLASTIC
ENZYME GRAVITY PRESSURE
CARBON DATING
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who found new radioactive elements but later
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2 The precious metal measured in carats (4)
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Table (8)
9. The pH number that is neutral
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Earthin any shape or colour (7)
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to make it colder (3)
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the Universe is neutral
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they are very very small (4)

Down - 1. Marie, 2. Gold, 3. Plastic, 4. Sonic, 5. Ice, 7. Oxygen, 8. Newton, 11. Atom
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ANSWERS: Across - 3. Periodic, 4. Static, 6. Hydrogen, 9. Seven, 10. Gravity