Science Quiz #546
Science and Nature Quiz for 3 July 2019
A new science quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.
1
Q1.
Which of these is a medical term for the escape of blood from a blood vessel?
Select from the options above.
2
Q2.
What does the Fujita Pearson Scale measure?
A
Volume of a volcano's magma chamber
C
Height and length of travel of a tsunami
Select from the options above.
3
Q3.
Which of these was an aircraft designer?
B
Antoine Herman Gerard Fokker
Select from the options above.
4
Q4.
What is the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System?
A
Silpium Mons, on Jupiter's moon Io
B
Ciuacoatl Mons, on Venus
C
Maxwell Montes, on Venus
Select from the options above.
5
Q5.
Lead poisoning, caused by increased levels of the metal lead in the blood, that may cause irreversible neurological damage, renal disease, and reproductive toxicity, is NOT also known in medical circles as … ?
Select from the options above.
6
Q6.
What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Select from the options above.
7
Q7.
Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950?
Select from the options above.