PTE Answer Short Question Quiz - wificlass

The PTE Answer Short Question section is a part of the Speaking module in the PTE Academic test. This section requires quick thinking and language skills.

Keep in mind that you will not be given any option in the PTE Academic Test, you will have to answer the question as soon as you hear it.

Question 1: What do you call a person who has died for their country?

A) Martyr

B) Patriot

C) Fighter

D) Army

Explanation: A person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle.

Question 2: What do you call a place where fish are kept?

A) apiary

B) Aviary

C) Aquarium

D) yard

Explanation: Aquarium- a transparent tank of water in which live fish and other water creatures and plants are kept.

Question 3: What is the largest planet in our solar system?

A) Jupiter

B) Earth

C) Mars

D) Venus

Explanation: Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.

Question 4: Which gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?

A) Carbon dioxide

B) Oxygen

C) Nitrogen

D) Hydrogen

Explanation: Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Question 5: What is the largest mammal in the world?

A) Blue whale

B) African elephant

C) Giraffe

D) Lion

Explanation: The blue whale is the largest mammal in the world.

Question 6: What do you call something that cannot be explained?

A) inexplicable

B) unexplicable

C) enexplicable

D) explicable

Explanation: that cannot be understood or explained.

Question 7: What do you call having more than one wife or husband?

A) Polegamy

B) Poligmy

C) Polygamy

D) Poligamy

Explanation: Polygamy- the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.

Question 8: What do you call the number of people living in a specific area?

A) Croud

B) Peoples

C) crowd

D) Population

Explanation: Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.

Question 9: What is the most important document you would have to show if you wanted to hire a car?

A) Police verification

B) Helmet

C) IMP documents

D) Drivers Licence

Explanation: DRIVERS LICENCE a document permitting a person to drive a motor vehicle.

Question 10: What do we call a picture that a doctor takes to see inside your body?

A) X-ray

B) Scan

C) Check up

D) physical exam

Explanation: X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, similar to visible light.

Question 11: Is plastic or paper easier to recycle?

A) No

B) Paper

C) Plastic

D) Yes

Explanation: the US EPA says paper has a 68 percent recycling rate compared to nine percent for plastics.

Question 12: What crime has someone stealing items from a shop committed?

A) Shop Lifting

B) Criminal

C) Shop keeper

D) Crime

Explanation: the action of stealing goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer.

Question 13: What is the name of the capital city of Australia?

A) Canberra

B) Oceania

C) Sydney

D) Melbourne

Explanation: Canberra is the federal capital of Australia.

Question 14: What do we call a person who studies rocks and minerals?

A) physicist

B) Physician

C) Geologist

D) Geography

Explanation: A geologist is an expert in the field of geology, the study of what the Earth.

Question 15: What is the term for the money people pay to the government to support public services?

A) Tax

B) GST

C) bill

D) Tex

Explanation: Goods and Services Tax.

Question 16: What is the term for a person who designs and constructs buildings?

A) Architect

B) engineer

C) civil engineer

D) Technician

Explanation: a person who is qualified to design buildings and to plan and supervise their construction.

Question 17: What is the process of plants making their food using sunlight called?

A) Photosynthesis

B) respiration

C) plant development

D) food chain

Explanation: the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.

Question 18: What is the word for studying the Earth’s atmosphere and weather patterns?

A) Meteorology

B) climatology

C) atmospheric sciences

D) atmospheric physics

Explanation: the branch of science concerned with the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, especially as a means of forecasting the weather.

Question 19: Which planet is called the “Red Planet” due to its reddish appearance?

A) Saturn

B) Jupiter

C) Mars

D) Venus

Explanation: Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest.

Question 20: What is the term for the fear of heights?

A) emetophobia

B) Acrophobia

C) aerophobia

D) Cryophobia

Explanation: Acrophobia is a mental health condition in which the individual experiences an intense fear of heights.

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