Everyday Science MCQS Set 22

Most of the communication satellites today are placed in a geostationary orbit, in order to stay over the same spot on the earth, a geostationary satellite has to be directly above the

Either North or South Pole

Equator

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Forces can be indicated on graph paper by the use of__

Vectors

Empirical rules

interaction coefficients

Variables

In 1987, what was Fred Whipple awarded?

J.lawrence Smith award

Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Henry Norris Russell Award

The application of theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology

Biophysics

Cryptography

Archaeology

Hematology

What do we call the opening in the skin?

Sweet

Pupil

Pores

pupil

For which invention is Alessandro Volta famous?

Battery

Light bulb

Camera

Telephone

Following are the characteristics of genetic code

Ambiguous

Universal

None overlapping

Triplet

1 KB is equal to

1000 Bytes

1024 Bytes

1064 Bytes

1256 Bytes

A group of cells that work together to perform a function id called what?

organ system

Organ

cell system

Tissue

One hectare is approximately how many acres:

3.5

2.5

1

2