Science Week 2019

The longest under-sea tunnel in the world is about 40km long. How long would it take to run through this tunnel at a speed of 5m/s?

• 2 hours

• 133 minutes

• 8 hours

• 8000 minutes

Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Which of these animals is NOT native to Australia:

• kookaburra

• platypus

• koala

• kiwi bird

On which ship did Darwin famously journey in 1831?

• HMS Beagle

• HMS Galapagos

• HMS Evolution

• HMS Giant Turtle

Ideas about atoms have changed over the centuries. Who proposed that elements consisted of atoms that were identical.

• Isaac Newton

• John Dalton

• Albert Einstein

• Ernest Rutherford

The only person to have received the Nobel Prize for Physics and also the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

• Albert Einstein

• Linus Pauling

• John Bardeen

• Marie Curie

ALbert EInstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on:

• Quantum theory

• Photoelectric effect

• General relativity

• Special relativity

What would a 5kg rock weigh on the Moon?

• 5kg

• 50N

• 8N

• Nothing

Distillation involves

• solidifcation and evaporation

• sublimation and evaporation

• evaporation and condensation

• solidification and condensation

Which is the fourth planet from the sun?

• Mars
• Saturn
• Earth
• Jupiter

NOT a unit of temperature

• watt

• celsius

• fahrenheit

• kelvin