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Science 150526 is a selection of 10 questions. Science 150526 is the filename to differentiate it from other Science quizzes.
1 Which single unit of metric measurement is equivalent to 61.0237441 cubic inches?
A Litre
2 In medicine, what is an ECG used to show?
A Heart activity / heart rhythm (Electrocardiography)
3 Which Russian physiologist famously experimented in conditioning reflexes in dogs?
A (Ivan) Pavlov
4 Which word describes the bending of a light ray as it passes from one medium to another?
A Refraction
5 Which inert gas is the third most common gas in the Earth’s atmosphere at up to 1%?
A Argon (one of the six noble gases, the other five are helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and the radioactive radon)
6 Which sort of triangle has three sides of differing length?
A Scalene (no sides are equal and no angles are equal)
7 What chemical substance has the common name plaster of Paris?
A Calcium sulphate (CaSO4⋅ 1/2H2O)
8 What was the name of the space station launched in 1986 by the Soviet Union?
A Mir (translates a peace or world – in Earth’s orbit until 2001)
9 What is the common English name for Sirius, the brightest star in the Earth’s night sky?
A The Dog Star (it is in fact a star system)
10 Which designation of spacecraft launched Laika the dog into Earth orbit in 1957?
A Sputnik 2 (Sputnik is Russian for Satellite)