General Awareness: General Science Vocabulary Quiz

1. A polysaccharide made from seaweed used to culture bacteria and fungi.

a) agamete
b) agar
c) agglutin
d) agent

The correct answer is b) agar

2. A marsh at the inlet or outlet of a lake or a river.

a) batholith
b) basin
c) bead
d) bayou

The correct answer is d) bayou

3. A waxy membrane near the nostrils on the beak of some birds.

a) centriole
b) cephalin
c) cere
d) cercaria

The correct answer is c) cere

4. A generator. It normally creates direct current electricity.

a) durain
b) dyad
c) duramen
d) dynamo

The correct answer is d) dynamo

5. Illness found primarily among certain group of people or plants and found primarily in one region.

a) endarch
b) endemic
c) enantiomorph
d) encrinite

The correct answer is b) endemic

6. A unit of frequency equal to 1 trillion Hertz.

a) frill
b) fresnel
c) frond
d) frenum

The correct answer is b) fresnel

7. Small granular pellets of snow due to riming (adding a thin layer of ice due to condensation then freezing of water vapor.)

a) gravid
b) graticule
c) graupel
d) gravel

The correct answer is c) graupel

8. The unit of inductance when a current varies at 1 ampere/second and creates an EMF of 1 volt

a) henry
b) herb
c) heparin
d) heptad

The correct answer is a) henry

9. A number smaller than any positive magnitude yet larger than zero.

a) infradian
b) inferior
c) infinitesimal
d) infinity

The correct answer is c) infinitesimal

10. An exceedingly hot wind from the Sahara Desert that blows into Egypt (usually) in the spring.

a) kieselguhr
b) ketone
c) khamsin
d) kettle

The correct answer is c) khamsin