Basic Scientific Literacy Quiz

1. At what temperature does water boil? (centigrade and Fahrenheit)
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2. Which is longer a mile or a kilometer?
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3. True or False. It takes a car, traveling at 70 MPH, almost twice the distance to stop as a car, traveling at about 50 MPH.
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4. Which will land first:
   • a basket ball thrown twenty feet straight up or
   • a basket ball that reaches a peak height of twenty feet as it is thrown at a basket, but totally misses the basket (i.e. an air ball)?
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5. If a feather and a rock were dropped from the same height, at the same time on the moon, which would hit the ground first?
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6. Diamonds are composed primary of which element?
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7. Should there be a no smoking sign around helium?
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8. How many cubic feet are there in a cubic yard?
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9. Which weighs more, a cubic foot of water or five gallons of water?
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10. How many atoms are there in a molecule of H2O (water)?
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