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The Wonderful World of Science Tests

Remember 5th grade General Science? Remember chewing your pencil and straining your brain on the pop quizzes? Here are some amusing answers provided by imaginative 11-year-olds under test pressure.


Respiration

When you breathe, you inspire. When you do not breathe, you expire.

Respiration is composed of 2 acts. first inspiration, then expectoration.



Water

H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.

Water is composed of two gins, oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.


Gases

When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.

Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state.

To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.



Earth Science

All tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends toward the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight.

The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader.

The equator is a managerie lion running around the Earth through Africa.

A planet is a body of Earth surrounded by sky.


Plants

Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.

The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.

Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.


Anatomy and Physiology

The body consists of three parts-- the brainium, the borax, and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five-- a, e, i, o, & u.

The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana.

The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to.


Circulation

Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes, and caterpillars.

Blood flows down one leg and up the other.


Health & First Aid

For a nosebleed, put the nose much lower than the body until the heart stops.

Many women believe that an alcoholic binge will have no ill effects on the unborn fetus, but that is a large misconception.

For fainting, rub the person's chest, or if a lady, rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the head between the knees of the nearest doctor.

Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative.

To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.

For dog bite, put the dog away for several days. If he has not recovered, then kill it.

For a head cold, use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat.


Definitions

Germinate: to become a naturalized German.
Liter: a nest of young puppies.
Magnet: something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
Momentum: what you give a person when they are going away.
Rhubarb: a kind of celery gone bloodshot.
Vacuum: a large, empty space where the pope lives.
Super-saturated solution: one that holds more than it can hold.
Fossil: an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.


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