1.    The credit for discovering the polio vaccine goes to which scientist?

2.    What is the study of earthquakes known as?

3.    Meteorology is the study of …?

4.    Who invented the telephone?

5.    What is the Earth’s primary source of energy?

6.    In photography, what sort of lens enables a speedy transition from long shots to close-ups?

7.    Is the wavelength of infrared light too long or short to be seen by humans?

8.    Which is the standard scale used for measuring the velocity of wind?

9.    Which gas is mainly responsible for the creation of the Greenhouse effect?

10.    What does the natural phenomenon El Nino mean?

— Rehan Jalal i

Answers:

1.    Jonas Salk 2.    Seismology 3.    The atmosphere 4.    Alexander Graham Bell 5.    The Sun 6.    A zoom lens 7.    Long 8.    Beaufort Scale 9.    Carbon dioxide 10.    Small boy

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