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WorksheetsScience Week 2019
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
The longest under-sea tunnel in the world is about 40km long. How long would it take to run through this tunnel at a speed of 5m/s?
2 hours
133 minutes
8 hours
8000 minutes
Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Which of these animals is NOT native to Australia:
kookaburra
platypus
koala
kiwi bird
On which ship did Darwin famously journey in 1831?
HMS Beagle
HMS Galapagos
HMS Evolution
HMS Giant Turtle
Ideas about atoms have changed over the centuries. Who proposed that elements consisted of atoms that were identical.
Isaac Newton
John Dalton
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
The only person to have received the Nobel Prize for Physics and also the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Albert Einstein
Linus Pauling
John Bardeen
Marie Curie
ALbert EInstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on:
Quantum theory
Photoelectric effect
General relativity
Special relativity
What would a 5kg rock weigh on the Moon?
5kg
50N
8N
Nothing
Distillation involves
solidifcation and evaporation
sublimation and evaporation
evaporation and condensation
solidification and condensation
NOT a unit of temperature
watt
celsius
fahrenheit
kelvin
How many cm3 in one m2?
1
100
1000
10000
Which energy source does not produce CO2 emissions?
oil
gas
nuclear
coal
A superconductor is...
a material with no electrical resistance
a material which is not a good thermal insulator
really important in an orchestra
The pH of a weak alkali
2
6
8
14
The theory of plate tectonics / continental drift was proposed in 1915 by:
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wegener
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Which is not a process involved in the carbon cycle?
respiration
photosynthesis
decomposition
fermentation
Earth's atmosphere has evolved over millions of years. Which gases made up the early atmosphere?
oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen
carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia
oxygen, nitrogen, water vapour
chlorine, nitrogen, oxygen
