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WorksheetsJSEG Fest Quiz Bee - Average Round
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Air moving from the poles toward the equator turns west. The primary cause of this global deflection is:
The shape and size of land masses
Larger cities surrounded by farmlands
Changes in the magnetic field
The rotation of the planet
Snow on the ground prevents polar climates from gaining heat by what mechanism?
Heating by greenhouse gases
Heat spread from the equator
Reflection of solar radiation
Release of heat from earth’s core
The chromosomes responsible for characteristic other than sex are known by which of the following terms?
ribosomes
lysosomes
autosomes
spermatocytes
Into which of the following acids is glucose broken down in the first stage of carbohydrate metabolism?
pyruvic acid
lactic acid
hydrochloric acid
citric acid
The universe is estimated to be between ten and twenty billion years old. This estimate is based on the value of which constant?
mass of the Earth
speed of light
Hubble constant
mass of electron
Globular clusters in our galaxy are primarily found:
in the spiral arms
distributed throughout the disk including regions between the spiral arms
in the bulge at the center of our galaxy
in the halo of our galaxy
The noble gases have low boiling points because:
their ionization potentials are very low
only weak Van der Waals forces hold the atoms together
they are produced by the fractional distillation of liquid air
they have eight electrons in the outer shell
Which of the following contain sp2 hybridized carbon atoms?
alkanes
alkenes
alkynes
cycloalkanes
A heat engine with cycle of isothermal expansion, isentropic (reversible adiabatic) expansion, isothermal compression, and isentropic compression
Carnot engine
Diesel engine
Otto engine
Heat engine
This law states that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid will be transmitted without a change in magnitude to every point of the fluid and to the walls of the container.
Pascal's Law
Gauss's Law
Newton's Law
Faraday' Law
