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WorksheetsScience Quiz Bee 2021
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 35mins
Which of the following makes up Earth’s crust and the uppermost part of the mantle?
core
continent
lithosphere
asthenosphere
Which of the following best describes earthquake intensity?
Richter scale
Mercalli scale
Shadow scale
Seismograph
The Ring of Fire is located around the edges of the _____________.
Eurasian Plate
Nazca Plate
Pacific Plate
South American Plate
The point on the crust directly above the hypocenter is the ________.
Epicenter
Fault plane
Focus
Slip
Who is considered the Father of Electromagnetism?
Albert Einstein
Heinrich Hertz
James Clark Maxwell
Wilhelm Roentgen
In radio broadcasting, AM stands for ________.
After Morning
Amplitude Modeling
Amplitude Modulation
Ante Meridian
Among the different colors of visible light, which has the longest wavelength?
Blue
Green
Orange
Red
Which evidence does not support Wegener’s concept of continental drift?
Seas and oceans in different parts of the world have the pH and salt content with their coasts containing the same type of sand
Matching plant fossils in South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica
Matching early mammal fossils found in South America and Africa
Evidence of glaciers is present in regions with warm, dry climates
What is the correct order of the layers of Earth from the surface to the center?
Asthenosphere, lithosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
Mesosphere, outer core, inner core, lithosphere, mesosphere
Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, inner core, outer core
The northern part of Pangaea.
Gondwanaland
Asia
Laurasia
Eurasia
Which of the following processes is responsible for the transport of heat within Earth?
Earthquake
Subduction
Convection
Seafloor spreading
What happens to the path of light when a light ray moves from air into glass?
The path is not bent
The path bends toward the normal
The path bends away from the normal
The path bends to become parallel to the normal
Why do tectonic plates move?
Due to active volcanism and earthquakes
Due to thermal convection in the mantle
Due to earth’s gravitational force
Due to earth’s rotation
A certain radio station broadcasts at a frequency of 675 000 Hz. What is the wavelength of the radio waves?
280 m
324 m
400 m
444 m
A light ray, traveling parallel to a concave mirror’s axis, strikes the mirror’s surface. The reflected ray __________.
passes through the mirror’s focal point
again travels parallel to the mirror’s axis
travels at right angles to the mirror’s axis
passes through the mirror’s center of curvature
Volcanoes are formed as a result of __________.
the thrust faulting of a tectonic plate
the up warping of a continental plate
the divergence of two continental plates
the subduction of an oceanic plate underneath a continental plate
In which order will a seismogram record seismic waves?
S-waves, P-waves, surface waves
P-waves, S-waves, surface waves
Surface waves, P-waves, S-waves
P-waves, surface waves, S-waves
Which earthquake wave is the most destructive?
Primary wave
Secondary wave
Surface wave
Thermal wave
Light that enters the eye is refracted mostly at the _______.
Crystalline lens
Cornea
Pupil
Retina
What is the violent shaking of Earth's crust as built-up energy is released?
Focus
Fault
Earthquake
Landslide
What happens to the light that passes at an angle to the normal, from one material into another material in which its speed is lower?
It remains the same
It is bent toward the normal to the surface
It is bent away from the normal to the surface
It bends to lie along the normal to the surface
When the magnetic field intensity in a closed loop is changed, which of the following is induced?
Force and resistance
Voltage and Current
Resistance
Force
Which of the following electromagnetic radiation is used for viewing objects through fog?
Microwave
Infrared
Visible Light
Ultraviolet
An image formed by the apparent intersection of light rays is called ________.
a virtual image
a plane
a normal
a real image
Speed of light in a vacuum
30 x 108 m/s
3.0 x 108 m/s
3.5 x 108 m/s
3.8 x 108 m/s
Radio waves were discovered by __________.
Heinrich Hertz
James Clerk Maxwell
William Herschel
Paul Villard
At the critical angle of incidence, the angle of refraction is equal to _____.
0
45˚
60˚
90˚
Which results from the vertical motions of the seafloor generated during an earthquake?
Land and soil failure
Soil liquefaction
Tsunami
Ground tsunami
What electromagnetic wave is sometimes called heat rays?
Gamma rays
Infrared
Radio waves
Visible light
When a small object is placed on the principal axis of a concave mirror between the focus and the mirror, the image formed is __________.
erect, magnified, and virtual
inverted, magnified, and real
inverted, reduced, and real
erect, reduced, and real
