WorksheetsNational Science Week 2025 Morning Tea Quiz
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which of the following ancient devices used for telling the time does not work after the sun sets each night?
Sundial
Water Clock
Astrolabe
Incense Clock
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Australia’s first scientists, have cultural knowledge of changes in seasonal weather over a yearly cycle which can be based on:
The positions of stars and other objects in the sky
Changes in animal behaviour
The life cycles of certain plants
All of the above
When did scientists discover that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to a warmer planet?
1850s
1910s
1950s
2010s
In April 2024, Katherine Bennell-Pegg became what?
The first Australian to win a Nobel prize
The first Australian to build a solar-powered car that could travel over 200km per hour
The first person to build a computer entirely from recycled materials
The first person qualified as an astronaut under the Australian flag
True or false: Antibiotics are the best medicine for the common cold.
True
False
Which of the following unusual tests might a palaeontologist use to test if a rock is a fossil?
Lick it
Sniff it
Test if it floats in water
Test if it will catch fire
Humans, koalas, and gorillas have what in common that could be of interest to forensic scientists?
They have unique fingerprints.
They have the same diet.
They live in similar habitats.
They are all nocturnal.
The force that prevents Earth’s atmosphere from drifting away into space is:
Gravity
Magnetism
Friction
Solar wind
The three letter word used for both the cutting part of a drill and for the smallest piece of information stored on a digital computer is:
bit
dot
bar
tip
In which decade did Eunice Newton Foote discover that carbon dioxide absorbed heat more effectively than other gases?
1850s
1820s
1900s
1880s
What are the first 5 binary numbers?
1, 10, 11, 100, 101
1, 11, 111, 100, 110
1, 10, 11, 101, 111
1, 10, 100, 101, 110
These are patterns that the scale or smaller unit is repeated continuously until it is difficult to repeat or see.
golden ratio
fractals
patterns
Fibonacci sequence
