SCIENCE MONTH CELEBRATION GRADE 6 QUIZ BEE

EASY ROUND

1. What is the best way of separating a teaspoon of iron filings from a teaspoon of fine sand?

• a. Decantation

• b. Distillation

• c. Magnetism

• d. Filtration

2. How many bones does an average adult skeleton have?

• a. 206 bones

• b. 300 bones

• c. 600 bones

• d. 306 bones

3. Spiders are members of what class?

• a. Diplopoda

• b. Insecta

• c. Chilopoda

• d. Arachnida

4. Who discovered the laws of gravity?

• a. Pythagoras

• b. Nicolaus Copernicus

• c. Stephen Hawking

• D. Isaac Newton

5. The most abundant element in the universe is thought to be :

• a. Carbon

• b. Oxygen

• c. Hydrogen

• d. Nitrogen

AVERAGE ROUND

1. 1. Which part of the brain acts like a switchboard that allows the communications from brain to the other parts of the nervous system?

• a. Midbrain

• b. Medulla

• c. Pons

• d. Thalamus

2. Global climate change is being attributed to the atmospheric increase in what two gases produced by human activities?

• a. Oxygen and hydrogen

• b. Ozone and methane

• c. Nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide

• d. Methane and carbon dioxide

3. When does WHO declared COVID-19 as pandemic?

• a. 31 December 2019

• b. 31 January 2020

• c. 11 February 2020

• d. 11 March 2020

DIFFICULT ROUND

1. 1. What is the name of the phenomenon that causes an accumulation of heat in the lower atmosphere because of the absorption of longwave radiation from the Earth’s surface?

2. Where can the lowest point on Earth’s crust be found?