Science Quiz #225
Science and Nature Quiz for 8 May 2013
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Q1.
What was the Mars rover, Curiosity, investigating in its first ever drilling operation in 2013?
A
Chemical composition of the soil
B
Shiny pebbles embedded in sandstone
C
Evidence of microbial life
D
What look like water-created minerals
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Q2.
Which South American water rat is the world's largest rodent, growing to over 4 feet long?
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Q3.
Besides their meat, whales have been hunted from the 1600s for three main items. Which of these is not one of them?
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Q4.
What is another name for egg white?
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Q5.
What is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field, a term first used by Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II while trying to counter German mines?
D
Lambert Point Deperming
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Q6.
Which of these is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyses the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity?
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Q7.
A function whose logarithm is a quadratic equation is represented graphically as what?
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