1. What's bigger - Red Blood Cell or a Protein?
Protein
2. Does it take more force, less force, or equal force to overcome the friction of an object at rest compared to that same object in motion?
More force for object at rest
3. What are the four bases of DNA?
CG-something-T
4. In light years, about how far away is the nearest star, other than the sun, to Earth?
About 4
5. What is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity at sea level on Earth?
9.8ms squared
6. How many times greater in magnitude is a 7.0 earthquake relative to a 6.0 earthquake, on the Richter scale?
Ten times
7. What is the most abundant element in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
8. Bats have wings and birds have wings. This is an example of - resplendent evolution, congruous evolution, convergent evolution, or functionally equivalent evolution?
convergent evolution
9. How did Avogadro arrive at his number?
Not a clue – bought it on the lottery
10. A benzene ring has how many hydrogens attached?
6
11. When you see a skater spinning on ice with her hands out, she spins at speed X. If she tucks her hands in, she spins more quickly than X. If she puts her hands back out, her speed returns to X. This is an example of conservation of angular __.
momentum
12. PV=nR__ Fill in the blank.
Pass!
13. What's bigger, an Antibody or a T-Cell?
Antibody
14. About how many genes are coded in the human genome? 2,500, 25,000, 250,000, or 2.5 million?
250 thousand
15. If you put two 12-volt car batteries in parallel, then the total voltage will be ____ volts.
No idea
16. Organic chemistry is the branch of chemistry that is involved chiefly with the study of molecules incorporating the element ____.
carbon
17. "Simple Carbohydrates" refer to what most people know as _________.
sugars
18. The boiling point of water on the Celsius scale is _______.
100
19. The age of the planet is estimated to be, by some sources, about 400 million years, 4 billion years, 40 billion years, 400 billion years, or 4 trillion years.
4 billion
20. Which one of the following was a member of homo sapiens - java man, neanderthal, cro-magnon, Lucy, homo erectus.
Cro magnon
21. The dinosaurs died out about how long ago? 600,000 years, 6 million years, 60 million years, 600 million years, 6 billion years.
60 million
Score -
1. 0-5 correct - you are not only scientifically illiterate, you are also generally ignorant. The world around you is very confusing. You believe in ghosts, astrology, and goblins in the woods.
2. 5-10 correct - you are scientificall illiterate. You likely majored in one of the virtually useless fields of endeavor offered at Institutions of Extended Childhood, or Colleges, across this great land - psychology, sociology, journalism, political science, womens/blacks/whites/men studies, and so on. You have a slim grasp of the world around you, and many things make no sense to you. You believe in ghosts and astrology, but you are pretty sure there are no goblins in the woods.
3. 11-15 correct - decent, but don't be too proud. You are a member of a vast culture of dumbasses. Being the least ignorant dumbass doesn't make you a genius, just like standing next to a 400 pound slob doesn't make you thin.
You understand the world around you at a basic level. Unfortunately, you are "just educated enough to be dangerous." You fancy yourself scientifically knowledgable, but you really are just taking advantage of groups 1 and 2, above, who are easily impressed with your use of big words, like deoxyribonucleic acid. Got A's in school because it's easy to get A's in a public school system filled with dumbasses. You don't believe in goblins or astrology, but you believe that ghosts exist, and you have personally experienced a ghost.
4. 16-18 correct - you are scientifically literate. Congratulations. You probably came from a stable home with 2 no-excuse parents who took personal responsibilty for raising you. You probably majored in college in a useful field, and/or you are naturally curious and intellectual about the world around you. You are competent to find and analyze information about the world around you. The fact is, you should be part of a ruling class who takes care of groups 1 and 2 above and keeps 3 in check when they try to claim that GMOs cause mutations. You don't believe in goblins or astrology, but you believe that ghosts might exist even though you have never seen one yourself.
5. 19 - 21. You are scientifically well read. Congratulations on throwing off the shackles of ignorance with which we are born. Well done. You have muddled through years of doing inane, useless things in school and have actually become intimately familiar with the world around you. You know the context and you know your place in the context. You don't believe in the paranormal at all, including ghosts. You are an empiricist - a true scientist, whether you have a either PhD or a white lab coat.
Final appreciation of science is the understanding that evolution and God are not mutually exclusive.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')ou are scientificall illiterate
(not fair, I know, couldn't resist the jibe, as I should remind the poster that it wasn't arts and humanities bods that invented napalm, sarin, or telephone helplines that play tinny Vivaldi at you till you go mad)
What?
