Science Quiz #430
Science and Nature Quiz for 12 April 2017
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1
Where is the radius in the human body?
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2
When an animal, insect, fish, crustacean, snail or amphibian aestivates what is it doing?
A
Migrating to better feeding areas during hot and dry times
B
Waking up after hibernation
C
Entering a state of inactivity and a lowered metabolic rate during hot and dry times
D
Altering its feeding patterns in response to temperature change
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3
One of the tools proposed in detecting skin cancer is called what?
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4
In the 1960s Raymond Davis Jr. set up a deep underground laboratory. Under what was the laboratory built?
A
The Mammoth Site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA
B
Henderson Mine near Empire, Colorado, USA
C
The Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
D
Homestake gold mine, South Dakota, USA
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5
Where is an opisthosoma found?
A
The posterior of an arthropod's body
B
The thorax of some insects
C
On the end of a moth's proboscis
D
At the joints of a centipede's legs
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6
What does moxibustion involve?
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7
Hideki Yukawa, the first to postulate the existence of particles in an atom of less mass than a proton and greater mass than an electron, was the first Japanese person to do what in 1949?
A
Walk across the continental USA
B
Appear on the "Fear Factor" TV series
C
Fly an aeroplane through the sound barrier
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