Transcript KSTA ANNUAL SCIENCE QUIZ

Fáilte Agus Beir Bua
14ú Márta, 2016
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The quiz will be made up of 8 rounds of six
questions:
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Miscellaneous A
Sos Beag
Miscellaneous B
Picture Round
Miscellaneous C
Miscellaneous D
Who won last year???????????????????????????????
Round 1
Round 1 – Biology
1. Name the two types of lenses found in a
common light microscope.
Round 1 – Biology
2. What does xylem transport?
Round 1 – Biology
3. Rings in the trachea help to keep it open.
What are these rings made of?
Round 1 – Biology
4. What name is used to describe the liquid
found at the back of the eye?.
Round 1 – Biology
5. What part of the human body would a
rhinologist study?
Round 1 – Biology
6. What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin
C?
Recap
Round 1 – Biology Recap
1. Name the two types of lenses found in a
common light microscope.
Round 1 – Biology Recap
2. What does xylem transport?
Round 1 – Biology Recap
3. Rings in the trachea help to keep it open.
What are these rings made of?
Round 1 – Biology Recap
4. What name is used to describe the liquid
found at the back of the eye?.
Round 1 – Biology Recap
5. What part of the human body would a
rhinologist study?
Round 1 – Biology Recap
6. What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin
C?
Round 2
Round 2 – Chemistry
1. Write down the symbol for the element lead.
Round 2 – Chemistry
2. What term is used to describe the spreading
of gases to fill all the space available?
Round 2 – Chemistry
3. Write a balanced chemical equation to
describe what happens when methane burns in
oxygen.
Round 2 – Chemistry
4. Write down the chemical formula for the
main substance found in marble and chalk.
Round 2 – Chemistry
5. What scientific term comes from a Greek
word which means “cannot be split up” or
“cannot be divided”
Round 2 – Chemistry
6. Name the element whose chemical symbol is
F.
Recap
Round 2 – Chemistry Recap
1. Write down the symbol for the element lead.
Round 2 – Chemistry Recap
2. What term is used to describe the spreading
of gases to fill all the space available?
Round 2 – Chemistry Recap
3. Write a balanced chemical equation to
describe what happens when methane burns in
oxygen.
Round 2 – Chemistry Recap
4. Write down the chemical formula for the
main substance found in marble and chalk.
Round 2 – Chemistry Recap
5. What scientific term comes from a Greek
word which means “cannot be split up” or
“cannot be divided”
Round 2 – Chemistry Recap
6. Name the element whose chemical symbol is
F.
Round 1
Answers
Round 1 – Biology
1. Name the two types of lenses found in a
common light microscope.
Answer: Eyepiece lens and objective lens.
Round 1 – Biology
2. What does xylem transport?
Answer: Water
Round 1 – Biology
3. Rings in the trachea help to keep it open.
What are these rings made of?
Answer: Cartilage
Round 1 – Biology
4. What name is used to describe the liquid
found at the back of the eye?.
Answer: Vitreous humour
Round 1 – Biology
5. What part of the human body would a
rhinologist study?
Answer: The nose.
Round 1 – Biology
6. What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin
C?
Answer: Scurvy.
Round 3
Round 3 – Physics
1. In what year was the first moon landing?
Round 3 – Physics
2. Arrange the following metals in order of
increasing density: iron, aluminium, mercury
and lead
Round 3 – Physics
3. This famous scientist was a Scottish engineer
who developed the steam engine and after
whom the unit of power is named. State his
name
Round 3 – Physics
4. What name is used to describe an aneroid
barometer that is adapted to measure height
above sea level?
Round 3 – Physics
5. Only one Irish person has received the Nobel
prize in Physics. Who was he?
Round 3 – Physics
6. Name the instrument that you would use to
measure the diameter of a sphere correct to 0.1
mm
Recap
Round 3 – Physics Recap
1. In what year was the first moon landing?
Round 3 – Physics Recap
2. Arrange the following metals in order of
increasing density: iron, aluminium, mercury
and lead
Round 3 – Physics Recap
3. This famous scientist was a Scottish engineer
who developed the steam engine and after
whom the unit of power is named. State his
name
Round 3 – Physics Recap
4. What name is used to describe an aneroid
barometer that is adapted to measure height
above sea level?
Round 3 – Physics Recap
5. Only one Irish person has received the Nobel
prize in Physics. Who was he?
Round 3 – Physics Recap
6. Name the instrument that you would use to
measure the diameter of a sphere correct to 0.1
mm
Round 2
Answers
Round 2 – Chemistry
1. Write down the symbol for the element lead.
Answer: Pb
Round 2 – Chemistry
2. What term is used to describe the spreading
of gases to fill all the space available?
Answer: Diffusion
Round 2 – Chemistry
3. Write a balanced chemical equation to
describe what happens when methane burns in
oxygen.
Answer: CH4 + O2 ----- CO2 + 2H2O
Round 2 – Chemistry
4. Write down the chemical formula for the
main substance found in marble and chalk.
Answer – CaCO3
Round 2 – Chemistry
5. What scientific term comes from a Greek
word which means “cannot be split up” or
“cannot be divided”.
Answer: Atom
Round 2 – Chemistry
6. Name the element whose chemical symbol is
F.
Answer: Fluorine
Round 4
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
1. What is an omnivore?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
2. What country names its years after animals?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
3. What name is given to the alloy which is a
mixture of lead and tin?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
4. What term is used to describe a variable
resistor?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
5. Which of the following illnesses (if any) are
caused by a virus: the common cold, the flu and
chicken pox?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
6. . An indigestion table is added to water and
fizzes to release a gas. Name the gas released.
Recap
Round 4 – Miscellaneous Recap
1. What is an omnivore?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous Recap
2. What country names its years after animals?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous Recap
3. What name is given to the alloy which is a
mixture of lead and tin?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous Recap
4. What term is used to describe a variable
resistor?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous Recap
5. Which of the following illnesses (if any) are
caused by a virus: the common cold, the flu and
chicken pox?
Round 4 – Miscellaneous Recap
6. . An indigestion table is added to water and
fizzes to release a gas. Name the gas released.
Round 3
Answers
Round 3 – Physics
1. In what year was the first moon landing?
Answer: 1969
Round 3 – Physics
2. Arrange the following metals in order of
increasing density: iron, aluminium, mercury
and lead
Answer: Aluminium, iron, lead, mercury.
Round 3 – Physics
3. This famous scientist was a Scottish engineer
who developed the steam engine and after
whom the unit of power is named. State his
name
Answer: James Watt
Round 3 – Physics
4. What name is used to describe an aneroid
barometer that is adapted to measure height
above sea level?
Answer: Altimeter.
Round 3 – Physics
5. Only one Irish person has received the Nobel
prize in Physics. Who was he?
Answer: (ETS) Walton
Round 3 – Physics
6. Name the instrument that you would use to
measure the diameter of a sphere correct to 0.1
mm
Answer: Vernier callipers
Sos beag
Round 4
Answers
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
1. What is an omnivore?
Answer: A consumer that feeds on both plant
and animal material.
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
2. What country names its years after animals?
Answer: China
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
3. What name is given to the alloy which is a
mixture of lead and tin?
Answer: Solder
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
4. What term is used to describe a variable
resistor?
Answer: Rheostat.
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
5. Which of the following illnesses (if any) are
caused by a virus: the common cold, the flu and
chicken pox?
Answer: All of them
Round 4 – Miscellaneous
6. . An indigestion table is added to water and
fizzes to release a gas. Name the gas released.
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Round 5
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
1. What does the MMR vaccine protect against?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
2. In a pressure cooker, would you expect water
to boil at a higher or lower temperature than
100 oC
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
3. What term is used to describe an apparatus
that consists of two strips of metal joined
together?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
4. At what temperature measured in degrees
Celsius is water at its most dense?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
5. A certain property of light can sometimes
cause a mirage to form. What is this property?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
6. What term is used to describe zero on the
decibel scale?
Recap
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B Recap
1. What does the MMR vaccine protect against?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B Recap
2. In a pressure cooker, would you expect water
to boil at a higher or lower temperature than
100 oC
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B Recap
3. What term is used to describe an apparatus
that consists of two strips of metal joined
together?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B Recap
4. At what temperature measured in degrees
Celsius is water at its most dense?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B Recap
5. A certain property of light can sometimes
cause a mirage to form. What is this property?
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B Recap
6. What term is used to describe zero on the
decibel scale?
Round 6
This blood-sucking worm is sometimes used in
medicine. Name it.
Name this item of laboratory apparatus.
How many chromosomes
would you find in a
human cheek cell?
This advertising sign contains a certain
element which glows when an electric
current is passed through it. Name the
element.
What electronic component is
represented by the symbol shown?
When light is shone on this
apparatus, the vanes rotate. Name
the apparatus.
Recap
This blood-sucking worm is sometimes used in
medicine. Name it.
Name this item of laboratory apparatus.
How many chromosomes
would you find in a
human cheek cell?
This advertising sign contains a certain
element which glows when an electric
current is passed through it. Name the
element.
What electronic component is
represented by the symbol shown?
When light is shone on this
apparatus, the vanes rotate. Name
the apparatus.
Round 5
Answers
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
1. What does the MMR vaccine protect against?
Answer: Measles, mumps and rubella.
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
2. In a pressure cooker, would you expect water
to boil at a higher or lower temperature than
100 oC
Answer: Higher
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
3. What term is used to describe an apparatus
that consists of two strips of metal joined
together?
Answer: Bimetallic strip.
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
4. At what temperature measured in degrees
Celsius is water at its most dense?
Answer = 4 0C
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
5. A certain property of light can sometimes
cause a mirage to form. What is this property?
Answer: Refraction
Round 5 – Miscellaneous B
6. What term is used to describe zero on the
decibel scale?
Answer: Threshold of hearing.
Round 7
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
1. Pierre and Marie Curie discovered two new
elements. Name one of them.
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
2. Dmitri Mendeleev drew up an earlier form of
the modern Periodic Table. In what country was
he born?
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
3. Name the stimulant found in tea and coffee?
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
4. Name one of the two elements which are
liquid at room temperature.
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
5. What term is used to describe the method of
producing energy which involves forcing the
nuclei of light elements to come together?
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
6. What is the name of the largest planet in the
solar system?
Recap
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C Recap
1. Pierre and Marie Curie discovered two new
elements. Name one of them.
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C Recap
2. Dmitri Mendeleev drew up an earlier form of
the modern Periodic Table. In what country was
he born?
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C Recap
3. Name the stimulant found in tea and coffee?
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C Recap
4. Name one of the two elements which are
liquid at room temperature.
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C Recap
5. What term is used to describe the method of
producing energy which involves forcing the
nuclei of light elements to come together?
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C Recap
6. What is the name of the largest planet in the
solar system?
Round 6
Answers
This blood-sucking worm is sometimes used in
medicine. Name it. Answer: A Leech
Name this item of laboratory apparatus.
Answer: A Beehive Stand
How many chromosomes would you
find in a human cheek cell? Answer: 46
Chromosomes
This advertising sign contains a certain
element which glows when an electric
current is passed through it. Name the
element. Answer: Neon
What electronic component is
represented by the symbol shown?
Answer: Light Dependent Resistor
When light is shone on this
apparatus, the vanes rotate. Name
the apparatus. Answer: Crooke’s
radiometer
Round 8
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
1. What name is given to the apparatus which
consists of two burettes joined together and is
commonly used to electrolyse water?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
2. The scientist Anders Celsius devised a scale
of temperature. In what country was he born?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
3. What are the male organs of a flower called?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
4. Hydrogen Peroxide is added to Manganese
Dioxide to make Oxygen gas, but which is the
Catalyst?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
5. What is the purpose of the piece of gauze in
a pooter?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
6. What is an Alloy?
Recap
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D Recap
1. What name is given to the apparatus which
consists of two burettes joined together and is
commonly used to electrolyse water?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D Recap
2. The scientist Anders Celsius devised a scale
of temperature. In what country was he born?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D Recap
3. What are the male organs of a flower called?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D Recap
4. Hydrogen Peroxide is added to Manganese
Dioxide to make Oxygen gas, but which is the
Catalyst?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D Recap
5. What is the purpose of the piece of gauze in
a pooter?
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D Recap
6. What is an Alloy?
Round 7
Answers
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
1. Pierre and Marie Curie discovered two new
elements. Name one of them.
Radium and Polonium
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
2. Dmitri Mendeleev drew up an earlier form of
the modern Periodic Table. In what country was
he born?
Answer: Russia
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
3. Name the stimulant found in tea and coffee?
Answer: Caffeine
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
4. Name one of the two elements which are
liquid at room temperature.
Answer: Mercury or bromine.
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
5. What term is used to describe the method of
producing energy which involves forcing the
nuclei of light elements to come together?
Answer: Nuclear fusion
Round 7 – Miscellaneous C
6. What is the name of the largest planet in the
solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
Round 8
Answers
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
1. What name is given to the apparatus which
consists of two burettes joined together and is
commonly used to electrolyse water?
Answer: Hofmann voltameter.
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
2. The scientist Anders Celsius devised a scale
of temperature. In what country was he born?
Answer: Sweden.
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
3. What are the male organs of a flower called?
Answer: Stamens.
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
4. Hydrogen Peroxide is added to Manganese
Dioxide to make Oxygen gas, but which is the
Catalyst?
Answer: Manganese Dioxide
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
5. What is the purpose of the piece of gauze in
a pooter?
Answer: To prevent you swallowing the
organism being collected
Round 8 – Miscellaneous D
6. What is an Alloy?
Answer: A mixture of two or more metals.
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