SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a PH.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the freshman level, 2 points on the graduate level and 3 points on the PH.D. level.

SCIENCE

(e.g., What word is used to describe the shape of the Milky Way galaxy? Answer: Spiral.)

Freshman level

1. Four-letter word for the part of an apple containing the seeds. 2. Cirrus is a type of thin ____. 3. One of the four pointed teeth between the incisors and the premolars.

Graduate level

4. For what does the “L” stand in the word “laser”? 5. This type of simple machine uses a wheel and a rope. 6. Ichthyology is the branch of zoology that studies ____.

Ph.d. level

7. Gregor Mendel used pea plants to discover the basic principles of _____. 8. The solid part of Earth consisting of the crust and the upper mantle. 9. Term for the lowest theoretical temperature, -273 degrees Celsius.

ANSWERS:

1. Core. 2. Cloud. 3. Cuspid (canine) tooth. 4. Light. 5. Pulley. 6. Fish. 7. Heredity (genetics). 8. Lithosphere. 9. Absolute zero.