EASY – 10 questions

AVERAGE – 8 questions
DIFFICULT – 5 questions

ELEMENTARY
Easy
1. Which animal lay eggs?
a. Dog c. Cat
b. Duck d. Sheep

2. All animal need food, air and _____ to survive.

a. house c. fruits
b. water d. chocolate

3. Which part of the bird lets it fly high in the sky?

a. Beak c. Wings
b. Feet d. Claws

4. Which is the closest planet to the sun?

a. Mercury c. Venus
b. Earth d. Mars

5. What are animals, which eat both plants and animals called?
a. Herbivores c. Carnivores
b. Insectivores d. Omnivores

6. Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?

a. Mars c. Mercury
b. Venus d. Pluto

7. Where in the human body is the smallest bone located?

a. Finger c. Spine
b. Nose d. Ear

8. Which of the following forces affect the Earth’s tides?

a. Sun c. Rotation
b. Moon d. All of the above

9. What is the hardest substance known to man?

a. Butter c. Salt
b. Cement d. Diamond

10. What body organ helps to pump blood through the entire body?
a. Lungs c. Stomach
b. Heart d. Brain

Average
1. What are three states of matter?
- Solid, Liquid and Gas

2. What part of the skeletal system protects the brain?

- Skull

3. What is the boiling point of water?

- 100 °C

4. What is the Earth’s only natural satellite?

- Moon
5. Which scientist proposed the three laws of motion?
- Isaac Newton

6. What is the official name of Earth’s moon?

- Luna

7. Where does our food collect after we chew and swallow it?
- Stomach

8. How many colors are in a rainbow?

- Seven (7)

Difficult
1. In biology, what is considered to be the basic unit of life?
- Cell

2. Earth is surrounded by layers of gases collectively called the _____.

- Atmosphere

3. The measurement of the hotness and coldness of the air is called _____.
- Temperature

4. How many natural satellites move around Earth?

- One (1)

5. What makes your palm hot when you rub them together?
- Friction

TIE BREAKER
1. It is a combination of two or more substances that are physical combined.
- Mixture

2. This is the substance which is dissolved in the solvent.

- Solute

3. What is the largest animal on Earth?

- Blue whale

4. What gas does plant need to perform photosynthesis?

- Carbon dioxide (CO2)

5. Which is the only planet that can sustain life?

- Earth

JUNIOR HIGH
Easy
1. What part of the plants conduct photosynthesis?
a. Root c. Trunk
b. Leaf d. Branch

2. Which is the largest land animal?

a. Elephant c. Lion
b. Tiger d. Giraffe

3. Which biologist proposed the theory of evolution through natural selection?

a. Albert Einstein c. Charles Darwin
d. Alexander Fleming d. Isaac Newton
4. Which organelle is also called powerhouse of the cell?
a. Mitochondria c. Nucleus
b. Ribosome d. Cytoplasm

5. Ellie is building a simple circuit. It has wires, a switch, a battery and a bulb. When Ellie turns it on, what does
the bulb produce?
a. electricity c. sound
b. air d. light

6. In science, which element’s symbol is “O”?

a. Oxygen c. Carbon
b. Hydrogen d. Helium

7. The only species of cat that lives and hunts in groups is ______.
a. Lion c. Jaguar
b. Leopard d. Cougar

8. What is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust?

a. Carbon c. Oxygen
b. Helium d. Dirt

9. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. It is which Newton’s law of motion.
a. First Law c. Third
b. Second d. Fourth

10. Where does our food collect after we chew and swallow it?
a. Liver c. Stomach
b. Small Intestine d. Large Intestine

Average
1. If an individual is suffering from emphysema, what organ of the body is primary affected?
- Lungs

2. What is the lightest element in the periodic table?

- Hydrogen

3. If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily, it is called _____.

- Ductile

4. Which force acts upon an object to slow it down, or stop its motion?
- Friction

5. What is the name of a cone-shaped mountain formed by lava?

- Volcano

6. A group of tissues that work together to perform a function is called a what?

- Organ

7. Which element is simply represented on the periodic table by the letter K?

- Potassium

8. What science studies all forms of life?

- Biology

Difficult
1. A cloud at ground level is called what?
- Fog

2. The change of state between Liquid and Gas is generally called what?
- Evaporation
3. The bending of light through a glass prism is called _____.
- Refraction

4. What star shines in a day and provides light?

- Sun

5. How many protons does atomic number 7 have?

- Seven (7)

TIE BREAKER
1. What is the axial tilt of the Earth?
- 23.5°

2. The Earth has how many natural satellites visible to the naked eye?
- One (1)

3. What was the giant land mass called that existed some 200 million years ago?
- Pangaea

4. Earth has how many continents?

- Seven (7)

5. When the Earth is directly between the Sun and the moon, it is called a ________ eclipse.
- Lunar

SENIOR HIGH
Easy
1. The fastest-running terrestrial animal is _____.
a. Lion c. Jaguar
b. Man d. Cheetah

2. Table sugar, from cane is what type of sugar?

a. Sucrose c. Lactose
b. Fructose d. Monosaccharide

3. What compound is a common component of air pollution, but is essential in the upper atmosphere to protect
life on Earth?
a. Ozone c. Oxygen
b. Carbon dioxide d. Methane

4. Yeast, used in making bread is a _____.

a. Plants c. Fungus
b. Bacteria d. Animal

5. The word atom is from a Greek word meaning _____.

a. small c. unseen
b. indivisible d. visible

6. What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?

a. Ice age c. Stone Age
b. Dawn age d. Dry age

7. Who is the father of Genetics?

a. Archimedes c. Charles Darwin
b. Gregor Mendel d. Albert Einstein
8. The very first element on the periodic table is which of these?
a. Hydrogen c. Helium
b. Carbon d. Oxygen

9. The fourth state of matter is called what?

a. Solid c. Liquid
b. Gas d. Plasma

10. Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet?

a. Saturn c. Jupiter
b. Mars d. Earth

Average
1. Who is known as the father of modern periodic table?
- Dmitri Mendeleev

2. It defines how far an object moves.

- Distance

3. A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler form by ordinary chemical means is called _____.
- Element

4. The smallest unit of an element that has all the basic properties of the element is called a _____.
- Atom

5. The Earth rotates in about how many hours?

- 24

6. A group of cells that work together to perform a function is called a what?

- Tissue

7. What are the three primary colors of light?

- Red, Blue, and Green

8.  It is the time rate at which an object is moving along a path.

- Speed

Difficult
1. Bill runs 400 meters to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 meters back home.  What is Bill's distance?
- 800 m

2.  A person walks 50 meters directly north, stops, and then travels 32 meters directly south.  What is their
displacement?
- 18 m

3. What do you called the organisms that can produce their own food?
- Autotrophs

4. What is the food making process of plants called?

- Photosynthesis

5. Who formulated the geocentric theory?

- Ptolemy

TIE BREAKER
1. The highest mountain on the Earth is ___________.
- Mt. Everest

2. The deepest depression on Earth is the ______________

 - Mariana’s Trench

3. What do you called the ability to do work?

- Energy

4. All matter consists of particles called________________.

- Atoms

5. The nucleus of an atom contains protons and _________________.

- Neutrons

6. An element is determined by the number of ___________________ (also known as its atomic number).
- Protons