Physics
What force pulls objects toward the Earth?
Gravity
What organelle turns nutrients into energy for the cell?
What is the chemical symbol for Hydrogen?
H
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What are the first 3 digits of pi?
3.14
What is the SI unit of force?
Newton
What molecule carries genetic information?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What do we call a large mass of ice that moves slowly over land?
Glacier
What is the area of a circle with radius 4?
16
What term describes the rate of change of velocity?
Acceleration
What is the largest human organ?
Skin
What state of matter has definite volume but not definite shape?
What is the term for the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's origin?
Epicenter
What do you call two lines that never intersect?
Parallel Lines
What is the term for the bending of light as it passes through a different medium?
Refraction
What organelle is responsible for packaging and shipping proteins within the cell?
Golgi Apparatus
What is the name for a positively charged ion?
Cation
What is the name for the collapsed core remnant left after a massive star explodes as a supernova?
Neutron star (or black hole)
What is the value of sin(30°)?
1/2
What term describes the phenomenon where a particle's exact position and momentum cannot both be known precisely?
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
What term describes the process by which a single mRNA transcript can produce different protein products through selective exon inclusion?
Alternative Splicing
What is the name of the rule stating atoms tend to form bonds until they have eight electrons in their valence shell?
Octet Rule
What term describes the gradual wobble of Earth's rotational axis over a ~26,000-year cycle?
Axial Precession
What theorem states that every polynomial of degree n has exactly n complex roots, counted with multiplicity?
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra