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QUIZALIA

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the only Indian to win Nobel Prize in physics?

a)

Dr. CV Raman

b)

Abhijit Banerjee

c)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

d)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

2.

What is the study of gravitation called?

a)

Acarology

b)

Barology

c)

Ecohydrology

d)

Arachnology

3.

Which discovery was done by Gopinath Kartha?

a)

Restriction enzymes

b)

Gel Electrophoresis

c)

Enzyme ribonuclease

d)

The Structure of DNA

4.

Which Indian female scientist worked on pioneering work in protein folding?

a)

Asima Chatterjee

b)

Darshan Ranganathan

c)

Janaki Ammal

d)

Anna Mani

5.

Name the biographical web series based on the lives of two brilliant scientists, Vikram Sarabhai and Homi J. Bhaba?

a)

Rocket Boys

b)

The Dropout

c)

The Crown

d)

Our Flag Means Death

6.

When is world science day celebrated ?

a)

November 18

b)

December 1

c)

November 10

d)

November 9

7.

who established the world science day ?

a)

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

(UNESCO)

b)

International Organization for Standardization

(IOS)

c)

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

d)

International Atomic Energy Agency

(IAEA)

8.

which year is the first world science day celebrated?

a)

November 10 2010

b)

November 10 2000

c)

November 10, 2001

d)

November10,2002

9.

Why is world science day celebrated ?

a)

Strengthen public awareness of the role of science for peaceful and sustainable societies.

b)

Promote national and international solidarity for shared science between countries.

c)

Build Climate-Ready Communities

d)

All of the above

10.

What is the theme of the world science day for 2019 ?

a)

Global COVID-19 pandemic

b)

Open Science, leaving no one behind

c)

Human Right

d)

Green societies

11.

Science day is celebrated in India to Honour ?

a)

C.P. Srinivasa Ramanujan

b)

Homi J. Bhabha

c)

Jagadish Chandra Bose

d)

Sir CV Raman

12.

Sir C.V. Raman awarded Nobel Prize on ...................... was a First Asian person.

a)

1935

b)

1937

c)

1940

d)

1930

13.

UNESCO headquarters is located in ?

a)

Geneva, Switzerland.

b)

Paris, France.

c)

Washington, USA.

d)

London, England.

14.

Who invented zero ?

a)

Aryabhata

b)

Brahmagupta

c)

Srinivasa Ramanujan

d)

Bhāskara II

15.

Which of the following will lead to a more sustainable world culture?

a)

increasing green energy production for everyone

b)

increasing consumer growth for all developing nations

c)

reducing overall consumption and halting population growth

d)

creating industrial systems that are linear in design and operation

16.

Environmental science is most accurately viewed as a science

a)

Incorporating economics, social sciences, geography, and policy

b)

Incorporating all the sciences, politics, economics, and social sciences 

c)

Incorporating world politics, decision making, and the environment

d)

Designed to solve environmental problems using current technologies 

17.

It has been well documented that world population growth negatively impacts ecosystem services. The current world population is estimated to be closest to:

a)

3 billion

b)

5 billion

c)

7 billion

d)

10 billion

18.

Specific examples of potentially renewable natural resources are:

a)

water, soil, air, and oil

b)

timber, water, and mineral resources

c)

forests, water, and soil

d)

tidal energy, water, and mineral ores

19.

 A modern day example of the "tragedy of the commons" would be:

a)

strip-mining in a national park or national forest

b)

use of herbicides and pesticides by industrial agriculture in California

c)

acid precipitation falling throughout the northeastern United States

d)

razing sheep in private park

20.

Carbon-neutrality approaches refer to:

a)

reducing greenhouse  gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion

b)

eliminating use of of all carbon-based compounds

c)

cap-and-trade efforts currently employed by global interprise

d)

adhering to the Montreal Protocol, purchasing carbon offsets, and employing ecosystem services