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  1. On the periodic table, elements are arranged in order of what?

  2. True or false: The moons Phobos and Deimos belong to planet Saturn?

  3. What does a litmus test establish?

  4. What did Benjamin Franklin invent?

  5. What is fool's gold made of?

  6. Which astronomer discovered Uranus whilst surveying the night sky through a telescope?

  7. What is the process by which plants convert light energy into food known as?

  8. What group of invertebrate animals have three pairs of legs and a body split into three parts?

  9. Which famous scientist wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 advising that the United States should focus on its own nuclear weapon research?

  10. What is the first stage of the hydrologic cycle?

  1. What type of energy is stored by a spring when it is stretched?

  2. Which 3 elements can be magnetised??

  3. Which planet takes approximately 23 Earth months to orbit the Sun?

  4. Which Russian chemist became the first scientist to create a periodic table?

  5. True or false: More than half of the bones in a human body are found in the hands and feet?

  6. Which silvery-white metal has the atomic number 46?

  7. What scientific name is table salt known as?

  8. Which famous physicist discovered and named the proton?

  9. What powers pneumatic machinery?

  10. True or false: Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years following the death of Gallileo?