Quiz 2 2014

Question 1

What chemical element is needed to make the lenses of thermal cameras? Uranium, beryllium, lithium, germanium?

Answer 1

Germanium

Question 2

Which of the following is not one of the three parts of cell theory? 1 Cell is the basic unit of structure and function in all living things, 2 cells only come from other pre-existing cells by cell division, 3call living things are made of cells, 4 all cells have similar structures, processes and functions

Answer 2

all cells have similar structures, processes and functions

Question 3

Desert biomes receive how much rain each year? Less than 25 cm, 50-100 cm, 26-50 cm, 100-200 cm

Answer 3

less than 25cm

Question 4

Zooshare will be using food waste and what else in their biogas plant at the Toronto zoo. Algae, grass clippings, wood chips, poop from zoo animals

Answer 4

poop from zoo animals

Question 5

What type of imaging do pregnant women often undergo to see their unborn babies? Mri, ct, xray, ultrasound

Answer 5

ultrasound

Question 6

Which is an example of spectacular reflection? Light reflecting of a dry road, light reflecting off grass, light reflecting off a calm pond, light reflecting off snow

Answer 6

light reflecting off a calm pond… like a mirror

Question 7

What is the name for the part of the flower than contains the ovary? Carpel, petal, stamen, sepal

Answer 7

carpel

Question 8

What would you find at the center of the earth? Dinosaurs, solid iron and some nickle, an alien base, hot semi-solid rock

Answer 8

solid iron and some nickle

Question 9

what is the spectroscope on an astronomical camera similar to? A motor, a prism, a mirror, a lens?

Answer 9

a prism

Question 10

What do you need in order to break a code? Skeleton key, hammer, encryption key, lock pick

Answer 10

encryption key

Question 11

a four man bobsled team want to try different seating patterns, how many choices of patterns do they have?

Answer 11

4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24

Question 12

What travels at 299 792 458 m/s

Answer 12

light

Question 13

What is the unit used by most pressure gauges in North America to measure air pressure in tires? Pascal, bar, torr, psi

Answer 13

psi

Question 14

What is the order for a mine’s life cycle?

Answer 14

exploration, development, operation, closure and reclamation

Question 15

Which part of these plant parts is NOT a fruit? Peanut in it’s shell, tomato, grain of wheat, stalk of celery

Answer 15

stalk of celery

Question 16

An ice cream parlour has 3 flavours and 4 topings, how many different sundaes can you have with one flavour of icecream and one topping?

Answer 16

4x3=12

Question 17

What do many plants in a boreal forest work together with to get the most nutrients they can out of soil? Birds, worms, squirrels, mycorrhizal fungi

Answer 17

mycorrhizal fungi

Question 18

Which is a biome found in Canada? Desert, tropical rainforest, boreal forest/taiga, savana

Answer 18

boreal forest/taiga

Question 19

Grote Reber is the first person to have built which type of telescope? Radio, reflecting, refracting, x-ray

Answer 19

Radio

Question 20

What does a functional MRI (fMRI) machine measure? Healing of bones, changes in blood flow in the brain, growth of the brain, changes in tumour size

Answer 20

Changes in blood flow within the brain

Question 21

What is the name of the flat part of the leaf? Petiole, lamina, node, internode

Answer 21

lamina

Question 22

What is the term for when crust material is pushed downwards into the mantle? Obduction, extrusive, intrusive, subduction

Answer 22

subduction

Question 23

lithotripsy is a process by which ultrasound is used to remove fat, observe blood flow, break up kidney and gallstones, look for tumours

Answer 23

break up kidney and gallstones

Question 24

Using a Caesar cipher and a downward shift of 5 letters what would be the cipher for house?

Answer 24

mtzxj

Question 25

Where does the Hubble space telescope get its power?

Answer 25

solar panels

Question 26

In African, elephants and rhinoceros are illegally hunted for what parts?

Answer 26

horns and tusks

Question 27

What type of light refracts light into all its colours? Biconcave lens, prism, mirror, telescope

Answer 27

prism

Question 28

What do mountains and volcanoes have in common? Large and steep, made of rock, formed from tectonic plate movement, all of the above

Answer 28

all of the above

Question 29

What does T stand for in the ideal gas law?

Answer 29

Temperature

Question 30

Cones are located in which part of the eye?

Answer 30

Fovea

Question 31

Which part is part of a pressure guage? Piston, spring, calibrating rod, all of the above

Answer 31

all of the above

Question 32

What was Roentgen experimenting with when he discovered x-rays? Telescope, cathode ray tubes, microscope, CT scanner?

Answer 32

cathode ray tubes

Question 33

Which of the activity has had the most impact on Savanna biomes?

Answer 33

poaching

Question 34

Which phylum of the plant kingdom includes ferns? Gymnosperm, pteridophyta, bryophta, chlorophyta

Answer 34

Pteridophyta

Question 35

what morse code message is … --- …

Answer 35

SOS

Question 36

-273.15 degrees Celsius is what temperature on the Kelvin scale?

Answer 36

0 K

Question 37

What are the three primary colours?

Answer 37

Red green blue

Question 38

What is the name of the large bowl shaped part of a radio telescope?

Answer 38

Dish

Question 39

Which of these is a precious metal? Nickle, iron, silver, lead

Answer 39

silver

Question 40

Which of these is the MOST primitive true plant? Lichen, seaweed, mosses, ferns

Answer 40

mosses

Question 41

What kind of lens would correct vision of a person with myopia? Biconcave, convex, double convex, concave?

Answer 41

biconcave lens

Question 42

Where is the Hubble telescope?

Answer 42

in low earth orbit

Question 43

Which of the following is NOT one of the seven major tectonic plates: Antarctic, African, North American, Arctic

Answer 43

Arctic

Question 44

What is the name of a key that is used to both encrypt and decrypt a message? Symmetric, public, private,master

Answer 44

symmetric key

Question 45

What gas is combusted at the ZooShare facility to generate electricity? Methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen

Answer 45

methane

Question 46

If the Arecibo Message is heard in M13 and a reply is sent when can we expect it? 27000 years, 42000 years, 100 years, 1500 years

Answer 46

42000 years

Question 47

Which of these is NOT a type of carbohydrate found in plants. Pectin, chlorophyll, cellulose, starch

Answer 47

chlorophyll

Question 48

If a spinner has 1,2,3,4 what is the chance that it will stop on 1 two times in a row?

Answer 48

¼ x ¼ = 1/16

Question 49

What is unusual about larch trees?

Answer 49

they are deciduous and lose their needles

Question 50

What did Sir Godfrey Hounsfield use to test his prototype CT machine? preserved human brain, fresh cow brain, himself, all of the above

Answer 50

all of the above