Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (Samagra Shiksha),Quiz Competition for Junior (Classes 6-8)

1. What is the process by which plants make their food?

Answer: Photosynthesis
2. What gas do living creatures need to breathe?
Answer: Oxygen
3. What is the boiling point of water?
Answer: 100 degrees Celsius
4. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars
5. What do you call the force that pulls objects towards the Earth?
Answer: Gravity
6. What is the main organ of the human body responsible for
pumping blood?
Answer: Heart
7. What part of a plant absorbs water and nutrients from the soil?
Answer: Roots
8. Which part of the cell contains the genetic material?
Answer: Nucleus
9. What is the chemical formula for water?
Answer: H₂O
10. What do we call animals that eat both plants and animals?
Answer: Omnivores
11. What type of animal lays eggs and has feathers?
Answer: Bird
12. LWhich mammal is known to lay eggs?
Answer: Platypus
13. What do you call a baby frog?
Answer: Tadpole
14. Which organ in the human body helps in digestion?
Answer: Stomach
15. What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: Skin
16. Which part of the brain controls balance and coordination?
Answer: Cerebellum
17. What type of animal breathes through its skin?
Answer: Frog
18. What are animals that eat dead or decaying matter called?
Answer: Scavengers
19. Which gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
20. What is the process by which caterpillars turn into butterflies
called?
Answer: Metamorphosis
21. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
22. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer: Fe
23. What do you call a substance made up of only one type of
atom?
Answer: Element
24. Which acid is found in vinegar?
Answer: Acetic acid
25. What is the pH level of pure water?
Answer: 7 (neutral)
26. Which gas is produced when vinegar reacts with baking soda?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
27. What do you call a mixture of two or more substances that
can be separated physically?
Answer: Mixture
28. What are the three states of matter?
Answer: Solid, liquid, gas
29. Which element has the atomic number 1?
Answer: Hydrogen
30. What do you call a reaction that absorbs heat energy?
Answer: Endothermic reaction
31. What force opposes motion between two surfaces in contact?
Answer: Friction
32. What is the unit of force in physics?
Answer: Newton
33. Which law states that an object at rest stays at rest unless
acted upon by an external force?
Answer: Newton’s First Law of Motion
34. What type of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band?
Answer: Elastic potential energy
35. What do we call energy that is stored due to an object’s
position or state?
Answer: Potential energy
36. What type of wave requires a medium to travel through (solid,
liquid, or gas)?
Answer: Mechanical wave
37. What instrument measures temperature?
Answer: Thermometer
38. In what unit is electrical power measured?
Answer: Watt
39. Which planet has rings around it?
Answer: Saturn
40. How many colors are there in a rainbow?
Answer: Seven
41. What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
Answer: Crust
42. True or false: Earth is mostly covered by water.
Answer: True
43. Which layer of the atmosphere contains weather phenomena
like clouds and rain?
Answer: Troposphere
 44. What natural disaster is measured using a seismometer?
Answer: Earthquake
45. Which ocean is the largest on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
46. True or false: Volcanoes are formed by molten rock erupting
from Earth’s interior.
Answer: True
47. What process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces over
time due to wind and water action called?
Answer: Weathering
48. How many continents are there on Earth?
Answer: Seven
49. True or false: The North Pole is located at latitude 90 degrees
North.
Answer: True
50. Which planet is known as Earth’s “sister planet” due to its
similar size and composition?
Answer: Venus
51. Which animal can sleep for three years at a time?
Answer: Snail

52. What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?

Answer: Mercury

53. What is the largest organ in the human body?

Answer: Skin

54. Which planet is known for its beautiful rings?

Answer: Saturn

55. What do we call the process by which plants lose water vapor?
Answer: Transpiration

56. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

Answer: Diamond

57. Which gas do plants release during photosynthesis?

Answer: Oxygen

58. What is the main ingredient in glass?

Answer: Sand (Silica)

59. What type of animal is a dolphin?

Answer: Mammal

60. What is the speed of light?

Answer: Approximately 299,792 kilometers per second (or about 186,282
miles per second)
 61. Which part of the human body is responsible for producing
insulin?
Answer: Pancreas

62. What do you call a scientist who studies rocks?

Answer: Geologist

63. Which planet is closest to the Sun?

Answer: Mercury

64. What is the chemical formula for table salt?

Answer: NaCl (Sodium Chloride)

65. How many bones are there in an adult human body?

Answer: 206

66. What phenomenon causes rainbows to form?

Answer: Refraction and reflection of light in water droplets

67. Which animal is known as the “King of the Jungle”?

Answer: Lion

68. What do we call a baby kangaroo?

Answer: Joey

69. What type of energy does a moving object possess?

Answer: Kinetic energy

70. Which vitamin is produced when a person is exposed to

sunlight?
Answer: Vitamin D

71. What instrument measures atmospheric pressure?

Answer: Barometer

72. Which part of the cell is known as the powerhouse?

Answer: Mitochondria

73. What do you call animals that can live both on land and in
water?
Answer: Amphibians

74. How many legs does an octopus have?

Answer: Eight (they are often referred to as tentacles)

75. What is the main gas found in the air we breathe?

Answer: Nitrogen (about 78%)
 76. Which organ in the human body filters blood and produces
urine?
Answer: Kidneys

77. What do you call a group of stars that form a pattern in the
sky?
Answer: Constellation

78. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?

Answer: Charles Darwin

79. What element do diamonds consist of?

Answer: Carbon

80. Which gas makes up most of Earth’s atmosphere?

Answer: Nitrogen

81. How many planets are there in our solar system?

Answer: Eight

82. What is the process by which water vapor turns into liquid
water?
Answer: Condensation

83. What do you call a scientist who studies plants?

Answer: Botanist

84. Which gas is most commonly used in balloons?

Answer: Helium

85. What is the primary source of energy for the Earth?

Answer: The Sun

86. What do you call the layer of gases surrounding Earth?

Answer: Atmosphere

87. What is the smallest unit of life?

Answer: Cell

88. Which part of the plant is responsible for photosynthesis?

Answer: Leaves

89. What instrument is used to measure temperature?

Answer: Thermometer

90. Which planet is known as the “Giant Planet”?

Answer: Jupiter
 91. What do we call a substance that speeds up a chemical
reaction?
Answer: Catalyst

92. Which part of the human body contains the brain?

Answer: Skull

93. What type of energy is stored in food?

Answer: Chemical energy

94. Which animal is known for its ability to change colors?

Answer: Chameleon

95. What is the main function of red blood cells?

Answer: To carry oxygen throughout the body

96. Which planet has the most moons?

Answer: Saturn

97. What do you call an animal that only eats plants?

Answer: Herbivore

98. What is the term for a baby sheep?

Answer: Lamb

99. Which force keeps us grounded on Earth?

Answer: Gravity

100. What do we call the study of weather and atmospheric

conditions?
Answer: Meteorology