KB General Science 2013 #9

Question 1

What is the tallest animal in the world?

Answer 1

giraffe

Question 2

Botany is the study of ____.

Answer 2

plants

Question 3

Animals which eat both plants and other animals are called what?

Answer 3

omnivores

Question 4

What do we call the process where light bends as it enters another medium?

Answer 4

refraction

Question 5

What do we call a person who studies physics?

Answer 5

physicist

Question 6

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

Answer 6

solar

Question 7

What is the Earth’s primary source of energy?

Answer 7

the sun

Question 8

What scientist is well known for his theory of relativity?

Answer 8

Einstein

Question 9

What is the name of the biggest part of the brain?

Answer 9

cerebrum

Question 10

What is the name of the colored part of the human eye?

Answer 10

iris

Question 11

What is the name of the substance that makes up both fingernails and the horn on a rhinoceros?

Answer 11

keratin

Question 12

What is the human body’s largest organ?

Answer 12

skin

Question 13

What is the shape of human DNA?

Answer 13

double helix

Question 14

What is the name of the long tube that shifts food from the back of your throat down to your stomach?

Answer 14

esophagus

Question 15

What do we call the outside layer of our skin?

Answer 15

epidermis

Question 16

What is another name for a tidal wave?

Answer 16

tsunami

Question 17

Nimbus, cumulus, and stratus are types of what?

Answer 17

clouds

Question 18

What is the longest river on Earth?

Answer 18

the Nile

Question 19

What are the two main metals in the Earth’s core?

Answer 19

iron and nickel

Question 20

What do we call molten rock before it has erupted from the earth?

Answer 20

magma