Test Your General Science Knowledge - Paperback

by Chris McMullen (Author)

Test the scope of your general science knowledge.

• How familiar are you with common terms like osmosis, sublimation, mitosis, pneumatic, precession, dendrite, inductance, and isostasy?
• How familiar are you with famous scientists like Ptolemy, Archimedes, Galileo, Dalton, Mendel, Hooke, Lavoisier, and Einstein?
• Can you think of examples of amphibians, elemental forms of carbon, dwarf planets, kinds of weathering, polar liquids, applications of Faraday's law, or types of digestive enzymes?
• Can you explain basic concepts like why the sky appears blue, how photosynthesis works, which blood transfusions are possible, or how to make a Punnett square?
• Are you good with numbers like the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit, the charge of an electron in Coulombs, the number of ribs in a typical adult human, the century when Leonardo da Vinci was born, or the half-life of carbon-14?
• Do you know what common abbreviations stand for, like NASA, EKG, XRT, HTML, VSEPR, or LHC?
• Are you familiar with basic laws and principles like Newton's laws of motion, Boyle's law, capillary action, plate tectonics, Kepler's laws, or Mendel's laws?
• Do you remember equations like the formula for molarity, percent error, Coulomb's law, the half-life of a radioactive decay, or the first law of thermodynamics?
• How familiar are you with units of measurement like the dyne, Btu, AU, amu, Joule, candela, or Weber?
• This book will test your science knowledge in a variety of ways, whether you wish to enjoy some science trivia, prepare for a science competition, see what you can learn by reading the answers and explanations, or simply see how much science you remember.