Quiz Bee Questionnaire

Easy Round

1 point

1. What is the universal sea or single ocean, which would have surrounded the postulated supercontinent of Pangaea?

Answer: Panthalassa

2. What type of RNA catalyzes the formation of the peptide bond?

Answer: rRNA

3. What term is used for the study of light?

Answer: Optics

4. What type of image can be projected in a screen?

Answer: Real Image

5. What device converts electrical energy to mechanical energy?

Answer: Motor

6. Chemical equations must be balanced to satisfy what law?

Answer: Law of Conservation of Mass

7. Who is the proponent of the Continental Drift Theory?

Answer: Alfred Wegener

8. Sulfur is found in?

a. DNA B. SUGARS C. Lipids D. Proteins

Answer: D

9. What is the mechanism of heat transfer that can be observed in the asthenosphere and outer core?

Answer: Convection

10. What term refers to the crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the
other?

Answer: Fault

Average Round:

2 Points

1. What is the boundary within the Earth's continental crust that can be detected seismically at about 10–12 km depth
that separates the crust into a lower, basic layer and an upper, granitic layer?
Answer: Conrad Discontinuity

2. What biomolecule is considered as the building block of biological membranes?

Answer: Lipid

3. The production of the sperm cell occurs in what part of the testes?

Answer: Semeniferous Tubules

4. What term is used for the gaps in the myelin sheath?

Answer: Nodes of Ranvier

5. What do you call a device that receives a signal in the form of one type of energy and converts it to a signal in another
form?

Answer: Transducer

6. Mount Everest increases it height because of what type of boundary?

Answer: Convergent

7. What process solidifies the Earth’s inner core?

Answer: Pressure Freezing

8. What states that the volume occupied by an ideal gas is directly proportional to the number of molecules of the gas
present in the container?

Answer: Avogadro’s Law

9. When an object is located at the center of curvature in front of a concave mirror, what can you say about the image
height compared with the object?

Answer: Same Size

10. When an object is located at infinity in front of a convex lens, where is the image located?

Answer: At the focus

Difficult Round

1. What hormone is released from the hypothalamus and stimulates cells in the anterior pituitary?

Answer: GnRH

2. What organ from the Nervous System serves as a message station between several areas of the brain. It helps relay
messages from the cortex and the cerebellum?

Answer: Pons

3. Who discovered the microwave?

Answer: James Clerk Maxwell

4. Water purification and dilution of toxins is performed by a _____.

A) tundra B) wetland C) estuary D) coniferous forest

Answer: D

5. What is the genotype of an individual with Turner syndrome?

Answer: XO