Statistics for Science A-Z #2

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This quiz has been taken 491 times
The average score is 16 of 26

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Branch of physics that studies celestial objects and phenomena	Astronomy	94%
N	English mathematician credited for the discovery of gravity	Newton	92%
B	A region of spacetime where gravity is so strong nothing can escape it	Black Hole	91%
C	Green pigment in plants responsible for the absorption of light	Chlorophyll	91%
L	Element with the chemical symbol Pb	Lead	89%
D	The mass of a substance per unit volume	Density	86%
G	An organism's complete set of DNA (or RNA)	Genome	82%
X	Type of electromagnetic radiation	X-ray	80%
M	Medical imagining technique that uses magnetic fields to image inside the body	MRI	78%
P	Substance or treatment designed to have no therapeutic value e.g. sugar pills	Placebo	71%
Y	Nutrient bearing portion of an egg	Yolk	71%
U	The tube that carries urine from the bladder to the exterior of the body	Urethra	70%
R	Emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles	Radiation	67%
V	Space devoid of matter	Vacuum	65%
H	Name of the world's largest partical accelerator (Large H_____ Collider) or a type of subatomc particle	Hadron	58%
Q	Elementary particles that combine to form the answer for H	Quark	54%
E	A process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings	Exothermic	53%
K	German astronomer known for his laws of planetary motion	Kepler	53%
T	Biological classification or rank e.g. species, genus, family, order...	Taxonomic	46%
F	Term that indicates a compound contains the Iron +2 oxidation state	Ferrous	44%
O	Compounds that generally include Carbon-Hydrogen bonds	Organic	44%
I	Compounds with the same chemical formula but different chemical structures	Isomer	35%
W	One of the fundamental forces of nature	Weak	27%
Z	Small animal organisms that suspend and drift in water	Zooplankton	23%
S	Principle of constructive and destructive interference of waves	Superposition	17%
J	Junction that consists of two or more superconductors named after a British physicist	Josephson	8%