SCIENCE

(e.g., What is the common name for deoxyribonucleic acid? Answer: DNA.)

Freshman level

1. A tsunami is a huge and often destructive ____.

2. Which is the largest of the planets in our solar system?

3. What occurs when the moon passes between Earth and the sun?

Graduate level

4. What is measured by a Geiger counter?

5. What are the four observable, everyday states of matter?

6. For what is USB an abbreviation?

Ph.D. level

7. The periodic table is an ordered arrangement of what?

8. Term for the giving off of water by plants or animals.

9. Desquamation is the shedding of the outer layers of the ____.

Answers: 1. Wave. 2. Jupiter. 3. Solar eclipse. 4. Radiation (ionizing). 5. Solid, liquid, gas and plasma. 6. Universal Serial Bus. 7. Chemical elements. 8. Transpiration. 9. Skin.

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