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| | Location: Denmark | | Joined: 08.06.06 | | Posted on 06-07-2007 05:37 |
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TEST YOUR SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE
1. The center of the Earth is very hot. (True or False)
2. The oxygen we breathe comes from plants. (True or False)
3. Electrons are smaller than atoms. (True or False)
4. The continents on which we live have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move in the future. (True or False)
5. Humans beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. (True or False)
6. The earliest human beings lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. (True or False)
7. Which travels faster: light or sound?
8. How long does it take for the Earth to go around the sun: one day, one month, or one year?
9. Tell me, in your own words, what is DNA?
10. Tell me, in your own words, what is a molecule?
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| Grizlas | RE: test your knowledge! |
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The quiz given by researchers from the National Science Foundation to determine how much American adults know about basic science issues. Answers are at the end, along with the percentage in the survey who answered correctly.
Answers, along with the percentage who had correct responses:
1. True. 78 percent.
2. True. 85 percent.
3. True. 44 percent.
4. True. 79 percent.
5. True. 44 percent.
6. False. 48 percent.
7. Light. 75 percent.
8. One year. 47 percent.
9. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a large molecule in the chromosomes that contains the genetic information for each cell. 21 percent.
10. Molecule is the smallest unit of a chemical compound capable of existing independently while retaining properties of the original substance. 9 percent.
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| Norlander | RE: test your knowledge! |
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| | Location: Copenhagen | | Joined: 09.06.06 | | Posted on 07-07-2007 18:23 |
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I'm pondering which I think is the most scary result. The 25% that failed question 7, the 52% that failed question 6 or the 53% that failed question 8...
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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| Aliennizer | RE: test your knowledge! |
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| | Location: Copenhagen | | Joined: 05.10.06 | | Posted on 07-07-2007 20:56 |
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Very scary test results... American adults you say, doesn't bode well for the american youth. who are to be taught by these adults.
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| Jogvanth | RE: test your knowledge! |
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| | Location: Hoyvík | | Joined: 08.06.06 | | Posted on 09-07-2007 15:18 |
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I would love to see a survey, that indicated the general IQ level for Americans vs. Europeans!
Or Americans vs. Japanese. Or Chinese. Or Nigerian. Or just about anybody else in the world.
My guess would be (Biased, I know! ) that anybody but the jungle Indians of the Amazon have a general higher IQ than the Americans.
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No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences.
No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions.
Not even death.
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