Science Quiz #8
Science and Nature Quiz for 11 March 2009
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1
What is the name of the process by which plants obtain carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water?
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2
What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
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3
What is another name for ultra-violet light?
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4
What is the name of the model for the formation and evolution of the solar system first developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace?
A
Gravitational collapse exposition
C
Giant molecular cloud theory
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5
What was the name of the enterprise, directed by J Robert Oppenheimer, to develop the first US nuclear weapon?
C
The Brooklyn Experiment
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6
Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
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7
The pericardium is part of which organ?
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