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Discoveries and inventions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was invented by Tim Berners-Lee?

a)

THE INTERNET

b)

THE PENICILLIN

c)

THE PLANE

2.

What is Elon Musk famous for?

a)

He invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives and he also founded the Nobel Prizes. 

b)

A founder, CEO and chief designer of SpaceX, co-founder and CEO of Tesla.

3.

What was invented by Dmitriy Mendeleev?

a)

The Periodic system of chemical elements.

b)

He invented dynamite.

c)

A machine for printing.

4.

Who invented the first automobile ?

a)

John Baird

b)

Karls Benz

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Horace Wells

5.

Who invented the sewing machine ?

a)

Alexander Bell

b)

Leonardo Da Vinci

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Elias Howe

6.

Who was vaccination invented by?

a)

The Chinese

b)

Alexander

Flemming

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Galilei

7.

Where was paper invented?

a)

In Mesopotamia

b)

In Greece

c)

In Japan

d)

In China

8.

The Rubik's cube was invented in ________

a)

1974's

b)

1980's

c)

1990's

d)

1960's

9.

This is invented by _______

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Martin Cooper

c)

Johannes Gutenburg

d)

Jonathan Swift

10.

Which company invented the iphone?

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

Who invented the Aeroplane?

a)

The wright brotheres

b)

James Watt

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Galileo Galilei

12.

Who was the inventor of video games?

a)

Karl Benz

b)

Henry Moseley

c)

Ralph Baer

d)

Eli Whitney

13.

Who invented Radio?

a)

Joseph Swan

b)

Mathew Evans

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Martin Cooper

14.

The active part of the medicine that is contained inside a plastic shell that dissolves slowly in the stomach.

a)

Tablet

b)

Capsule

c)

Topical Medicine

d)

Gel

15.

Sedimentary rocks are made up of

a)

large rocks.  

b)

hard rocks.

c)

mostly igneous rocks

d)

small particles of sediment.

16.

According to the diagram, how does a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?

a)

Weathering and Erosion

b)

Heat and Pressure

c)

Compaction and Cementation

d)

Melting

17.

Fossils are more likely to form in which type of rock?

a)

Sedimentary rocks form in layers which help keep fossils from being destroyed.  

b)

Metamorphic rocks form by being exposed to a lot of heat and pressure and this keeps the fossils from being destroyed.

c)

Igneous rocks form when lava or magma cools and this keeps the fossils from being destroyed

d)

Fossils only form in igneous rocks.

18.

Which is the correct arrangement of smallest to largest?

a)

cells, organ, organ system, tissue

b)

cells, tissue, organ, organ system

c)

cells, organ system, organ, tissue

19.

Which event would NOT happen because of a flood?

a)

Dams would overflow causing water to run into neighborhoods.

b)

River banks would erode and soil would be moved downstream.

c)

Crops would flood and be damaged so people would not have food to eat.

d)

Animals would continue to live the same as they did before the flood.

20.

Students planted a similar bean in two pots. One pot contained nutrient rich topsoil. The other contained subsoil. After 2 weeks, the plants were measured. What question were the children trying to answer with this experiment?

a)

Which type of bean grows faster?

b)

Which bean will taste better?

c)

Which type of soil helps plants grow better?

d)

Which bean plant is the prettiest?