Young Life and Times 1998: Public Understanding of Science

Listed below are the questions asked in the Public Understanding of Science module 1998.
If you want to see how young people actually answered the questions you can click on the short name given beside every question.  

• SCIQUIZ1: Is it true that the CENTER of the earth is very hot?
• SCIQUIZ2: Is it true that lasers work by focusing sound waves?
• SCIQUIZ3: Is it true that the father's gene decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl?
• SCIQUIZ4: Is it true that antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria?
• SCIQUIZ5: Does the earth go round the sun, or the sun go round the earth?
• EVOLVE: Did human beings develop from earlier species of animals?
• SCIQUIZ7: Is DNA related to the study of stars, rocks, living things or computers?

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