Science Quiz #400
Science and Nature Quiz for 14 September 2016
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Q1.
The scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch is known as what?
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Q2.
What is the name for the individual leaves of the calyx or outer whorl of a flower?
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Q3.
Not all human digits are the same length; which is usually the shortest in any person?
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Q4.
Which of these is not a species of Chipmunk?
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Q5.
The rafflesia, a parasitic plant which has no leaves or stems but the largest flower in the world, is native to which area?
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Q6.
Of which species of plant found on the floors of east Asian forests from eastern India, Indochina, China and Japan have 93 species been formally described, and, it is speculated, there may be 200 to 300?
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Q7.
Tetanus is known by what other name?
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