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Astronomy and Biology and Other Stuff

Have you ever wanted to learn about prehistoric life? I have! Can you master this quiz?
Source: The web and my sanity
Forgive me I'm not even in 7th grade ;0;
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Last updated: March 6, 2021
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1. The Permian Extinction lasted until the beginning of the Jurassic Period.
True
False
The Permian Period, after the Carboniferous and Triassic is infamous for the greatest mass extinction the world had ever faced, which lasted into the early TRIASSIC.
2. The family, "Canidae", is how much older than the family, "Felidae"
24M years
18M years
12M years
6M years
Canidae and Felidae are the families of cat-like and dog-like species. Canidae appeared about 37M years ago, while Felidae appeared 25M years ago.
3. What theory is behind the expansion of spacetime?
Big bang theory
Inflation
Evolution theory
Altercasting
The expansion of the universe was discovered in 1925, and Alan Guth proposed the theory of inflation 55 yrs later.
4. What is seen in the thumbnail of this quiz?
A neutron star
A forming galaxy
A protoplanetary disk
A quasar
A quasar is an extremely luminous "supermassive" black hole, with billions of times the mass of our sun (1.989e+30kg or 1 solar mass) most recognizable by its bright accretion disk.
5. Giraffes, turtles, and sloths are the only LAND animals in the world with no vocal cords.
True
False
Giraffes are the only land animals with no vocal cords while sloths can oftentimes sound like pitchy paradise birds and turtles often sound like briefly snorting cows or baby paradise birds.
6. Finish the following sequence; Quarks, atoms, molecules, _____
Cells
Matter
Chemicals
DNA
Quarks make atoms in groups of three which makes an atom, then atoms come together to make molecules, and finally, molecules and nutrients come together to make cells.
7. What are hurricanes called in Asia?
Cyclones
Hurricanes. . . !
Typhoons
Tropical storms
All of these names are referred as hurricanes, but hurricanes from the Pacific Ocean to Asia are called typhoons (to them).
8. What is the scientific name the a Giant otter?
Enhydra lutris
Lontra canadensis
Aonyx cinereus
Pteronura brasiliensis
You need to know the genus (the first word of the scientific name, always capitalized) and the species (the second word of the scientific name, always lowercase).
9. We currently live in the . . .
Neogene Period
Paleogene Era
Holocene Epoch
Northgrippian Age
According the the geological time scale, we currently live in the Phanerozoic Eon, Cenozoic Era, Quaternary Period, Holocene Epoch, and Megahalayan Age.
10. This astronomer dicovered the three major laws of planetary motion;
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Edwin Hubble
Charles Messier
Johannes Kepler (December 27th, 1571 - November 15th, 1630) was a German astronomer who discovered these "laws", despite not calling them laws since it would become customary after Isaac Newton derived them from a new and quite different set of general physical principles.
11. How many taste buds does an average human have?
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
Human taste buds are replaced quite frequently, every two weeks, but when you age, these taste buds are unable to replace themselves and you could only have around 5,000 working taste buds.
12. Why do you hear a crunch while eating your food?
The sound is from air popping and escaping from whatever is being consumed
The sound is of cell walls breaking when you bite into it
The sound is because of a reaction when it hits the saliva in your mouth
The sound is caused by the illuminati :p (idk I'm out of ideas)
Your teeth and bones are kept strong by calcium, and this can help you more easily chew food WHILE breaking down the cells (FBI OPEN UP)
13. Which one of these voids are the most closest to the Milky Way (Our home galaxy)
Bootes Void
Sagittarius Void
Ophiuchus Void
The Local Void
Our Milky Way is part of a Local Group with many other galaxies like the Triangulum Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (we plan to have a collision with Andromeda in the far future), and there's a large void right outside of the Local Group.
14. Was is one megaparsec in light years? ♗🐙 𝓘'𝓶 𝓼𝓸 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓻𝔂 ☺👌
3,261,633 ly (Approx)
1e+9 ly
3.262e+9 ly
63,360 ly
wtf 🤣
15. Which of the following is a bacterial disease?
Chickenpox
Leprosy
Influenza
Herpes
Leprosy is a very rare bacterial disease with only 20,000 U.S. cases per year.
16. What is the most common blood type?
Type A
Type B
Type AB
Type O
yea . . . there goes my career.
17. Which epoch did humans first appear and start to evolve?
Pliocene
Pleistocene
Miocene
Holocene
Humans first appeared 6 million years ago, and look what we've done to our planet. We're slowly turning it into a burning ball of carbon and non-green things.
18. Which one of these is "the study of aquatic ecosystems"?
Byrology
Cetology
Phytotomy
Limnology
Limno can mean things like "of or pertaining to lakes and fresh water," or "pool of standing water, tidal pool, marsh, lake,", thus meaning "of aquatic ecosystems"
19. How many minutes does it take for the sun's light to reach earth?
10 mins
8 mins
6 mins
4 mins
Although the largest celestial body in the solar system, it will take 8 light minutes for us to realize that the world ended.
20. FREE CORRECT QUESTION JUST CLICK THE SECOND ANSWER CUZ I'M OUT
omae wa shinderu
To the 0.000193% of people who click this "CORRECT" answer, have a good day :)
da ting goes skraaa
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