Biology
This jelly-like fluid fills the inside of a cell, surrounding and supporting the organelles.
What is cytoplasm?
This is the dense, central core of an atom that contains both protons and neutrons.
What is the nucleus?
This property, which resists any change in an object's state of motion, is directly related to the object's mass.
What is inertia?
This 17th-century English physicist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
This spectacular celestial event occurs when the Moon perfectly blocks out the Sun, plunging the daytime world into a sudden, eerie darkness.
What is a total solar eclipse?
This organelle acts as the cell's packaging and distribution center, sorting proteins before they are sent to their destinations.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
Columns on the periodic table are called groups, while these horizontal rows represent the number of electron shells an element has.
What are periods?
Measured in Joules, this type of energy is stored in an object due to its position or height above the ground.
What is potential energy?
This "father of modern science" used his telescope to discover Jupiter's four largest moons and supported the theory that Earth revolves around the Sun.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This chemical element, from group 15, was discovered by an alchemist tracking a mysterious glow in a dark room; today, we use its red form to strike matches.
What is phosphorus?
This type of symbiotic relationship benefits one organism while the other organism is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
An aqueous solution is measured on how acidic or alkaline on this scale.
What is the pH scale?
This fundamental force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun and pulls objects down toward Earth's surface.
What is gravity?
This English naturalist traveled aboard the HMS Beagle and authored his book On the Origin of Species.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This animal can effectively live forever, reverting to a polyp when it is damaged or old.
What is the immortal jellyfish?
This mutation DNA causes the amino acid chain to end prematurely.
What is a nonsense mutation?
When measuring this trend on the periodic table, Fluorine is the highest and Francium is the lowest
What is electronegativity?
This SI unit measures the difference in electric potential between two points
What is the Volt?
While working at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, this physicist developed the famous mass-energy equivalence equation.
Who was Albert Einstein?
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From the family Bombus, this creature benefits plants and has multiple songs named after it.
What is the bumblebee?
Used in the Calvin Cycle of photosynthesis, this enzyme creates RuBP.
What is RuBisCO?
This polyatomic ion has a chemical formula of
CH3COO-
What is acetate?
The unit kilogram, once the standard for weight in the SI scale, is made of what metal?
What is platinum?
This Polish-born physicist and chemist remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Who was Marie Curie?
This SI unit measures the luminous intensity of an object.
What is the candela?