riddles about science
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Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it. It will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?
What did the scientist say when he found 2 atoms of helium?
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it and gray when you throw it away?
What element is derived from a Norse god?
What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?
What did the angry electron say when it was repelled
Which is heavier, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?
What is the center of gravity?
Did you hear the one about a chemist who was reading a book about helium?
What element is a girl’s future best friend?
What do you do with a dead chemist?
I am a god, a planet and I can measure heat. What am I?
Answer:
Q. What is neither water nor land, and is always soaking wet?
A. Wetlands
Q. I am a god, a planet and I can measure heat. What am I?
A. Mercury
Q. Of all the glands, I am known as the master because I boss around the other endocrine glands and tell them what to do. But even though I am a bit bossy, you need me for many things, such as secreting hormones required for sexual development and promoting bone and muscle growth.
A. Pituitary gland
Q. Your mom and dad each gave you 23 of these threadlike strands and they helped to make you who you are today.
A. Chromosomes
Q. What are the three R’s that keep our planet clean?
A. The three R’s are reduce, reuse and recycle.
Q. What two periodic elements, when combined, heal?
A. Helium and Aluminum (HE + AL)
Q. When two light nuclei become one, I liberate quite a bit of nuclear energy? What am I?
A. Nuclear fusion
Q. What kind of animal lives longest in zoos?
A. Turtles
Q. What would you call a bird in winter?
A. Brrrrd.
Q. Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it. It will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?
A. An echo
Q. I was once an old massive star and soon I will be a brightly colored gas cloud, but for now I am a massive explosion. What am I called?
A. Supernova
Q. What are the only two periodic elements to have the state of a liquid?
A. Mercury and Bromine
Q. I make up about three-fourths of all the universe and almost nothing is known about me. What am I?
A. Dark energy
Q. I am a hypothetical tunnel, a short cut if you will, of space-time which connects far away regions. I am a what?
A. Wormhole
Q. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. What is it?
A. Fire
Q. What did the scientist say when he found 2 atoms of helium?
A. HeHe
Q. I was once called an embryo, but I have now gone through more than eight weeks of development, so my name is now changed to what?
A. Fetus
Q. What kind of chemical element hates to be a follower?
A. Lead
Q. I am a black hole’s equivalent of a one-way street. What am I?
A. The event horizon (a boundary in which nothing can ever leave, only get pulled in)
Q. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it and gray when you throw it away?
A. Charcoal
Q. What is the loneliest of all physics concepts?
A. The singularity
Q. What four periodic elements, when combined, make up something that terrifies criminals?
A. Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorous & Sulfur (C + O + P + S)
Q. What element is derived from a Norse god?
A. Thorium
Q. What would you call a re-make of the classic film Tron?
A. Neutron
Q. What period of time has the least weight?
A. A light year
Q. What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?
A. Rust
Q. Which weighs more a ton of concrete or a ton of feathers?
A. They both weigh the same (a ton)
Q. I am the toe that every scientist would love to have as their own, yet there has never been a single person who has had a toe that everyone agreed is the best. What kind of toe am I?
A. Theory of everything (also called a TOE in the scientific community)
Q. What did the angry electron say when it was repelled?
A. Let me atom
Q. What periodic element do pyromaniacs love the most?
A. Arsenic
Q. What is the center of gravity?
A. The letter “v”
Q. What number do Nickel and Neon make when combined?
A. Nine (NI + NE)
Q. I come as a gas and I get in line with neon. I am also known as the home of a very super person. What am I?
A. Krypton
Q. Did you hear the one about a chemist who was reading a book about helium?
A. He couldn’t put it down
Q. I can rush, I can be still, I can be hot, I can be cold, I can be hard, I can slip through almost anything. What am I?
A. Water
Q. I am said to be only one dimension, and as small as can be, some say I am the foundation of all that you see. What am I?
A. A string (from String Theory)
Q. What do you do with a dead chemist?
A. Barium
Q. It is impossible for me to be created, and I can never ever be destroyed, I can only change form. What am I?
A. Energy
Q. Ronnie’s teacher told him that he and his classmates all had to dress up as a part of the body for the school’s Halloween party. The teacher also said it couldn’t be the same old thing, it had to be something new. Ronnie had the perfect idea. What costume did he come up with?
A. Neuron (new-Ron)
Q. You cannot see me, I cannot be touched, you cannot feel me, but I can cook your lunch!
A. A microwave particle
Q. What scientist is the least interesting to listen to?
A. Niels Bohr
There you have it! 40 of the best science riddles!
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