Question: Most meteorites are found in Antarctica and where else?
1) Brazil
2) New Zealand
3) North Africa
4) Hawaii
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Question: In what country must you turn over any meteor finds?
1) Scotland
2) Egypt
3) South Africa
4) Russia
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Question: In the 1990s, a spacecraft was designed to protect Earth from meteors, asteroids and comets. What was its name?
1) Buster I
2) Maybelle I
3) Defender II
4) Clementine II
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Question: It has been estimated that a meteorite does what once every 180 years?
1) Hits a human
2) Leaves a crater
3) Strikes the moon
4) Splits in half
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Question: The International Space Station has protection from meteors. What is it made of?
1) Rubber
2) Kevlar
3) Plastic
4) Steel
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Question: The most famous meteor shower is the Perseids. What is its other name?
1) Saint Elmo's Fire
2) Tears of Saint Lawrence
3) Northern Lights
4) Southern Lights
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Question: A piece of stone and/or iron traveling through space that moves through the earthıs atmosphere is...?
1) Planet
2) Sun
3) Moon
4) Meteor
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Question: At room temperature, which element conducts electricity better than any other element?
1) Pb
2) Au
3) Ag
4) Cu
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Question: The candela is one of the seven base units in the SI system. It measures...?
1) Magnetism
2) Luminous intensity
3) Combustion rate
4) Luminance
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Question: Which of the "rare" gases is the most common in the atmosphere?
1) Radon
2) Neon
3) Xenon
4) Argon
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Question: What scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?
1) Isaac Newton
2) Albert Einstein
3) Benjamin Franklin
4) Marie Curie
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Question: What type of storm has a central calm area, called the eye, which has winds spiraling inwardly?
1) Tornado
2) Earthquake
3) Thunderstorm
4) Hurricane
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Question: Acid rain may have a pH of...?
1) 6
2) 7
3) 8
4) 9
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Question: In meteorology,Which is the horizontal movement of mass of air that warms or chills the air?
1) Aquarelle
2) Arbitrage
3) Advection
4) Aphasia
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Question: Which one of these is a non-metal?
1) Scandium
2) Sulfer
3) Zinc
4) Potassium
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Question: Exhaled air has what % of its oxygen left?
1) 77%
2) 26%
3) 48%
4) None
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Question: Who invented Bakelite?
1) Charles Goodyear
2) Leo Hendrik Baekeland
3) Roy Plunkett
4) Henry Ford
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Question: Which of the two metals are mixed in manufacturing of stainless steel ?
1) Zinc, chromium
2) Chromium, nickel
3) Chromium, iron
4) Nickel, iron
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Question: Much of our body heat escapes through the head. What percent is this?
1) Ninety percent
2) Sixty percent
3) Seventy percent
4) Eighty percent
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Question: You are making a model of the Earth and Moon to show their relative sizes and massiveness. You've decided that Earth will be a ball of clay 6 inches in diameter, so the Moon should be...?
1) A tennis ball
2) A golf ball
3) A ping pong ball
4) A baseball
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