Helpful History
What did Alexander Fleming discover in 1928?
What is Penicillin?
Name the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
What is Avogadro's Number?
What is 6.022 x 10^23?
What is a keystone species?
A species with a strong influence on the environment.
What sport does Dr. Arrington coach at Lakeside?
What is tennis?
Name the location where Darwin made a lot of observations leading to his theory of evolution.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
Describe the central dogma order.
What is DNA to RNA to protein?
Which halogen is a dark solid at room temperature that sublimes into a purple vapor when heated, and is an essential nutrient required by the human thyroid gland? (double)
What is iodine?
What is the term where excess nutrients enter bodies of water, causing explosive algal blooms that eventually deplete dissolve oxygen and create "dead zones"?
What is eutrophication?
What two phenomenons explain capillary action?
What are cohesion and adhesion?
Name the scientist who made the Plum Pudding Model.
Who was J.J. Thompson?
The Name the 7 functional groups. (double)
What are the Hydroxyl, Carbonyl, carboxyl, amino, sulfhydryl, phosphate, methyl groups?
What common lab indicator turns pink in basic solutions and is colorless in acidic solutions?
What is phenolphthalein?
What is the term for the total amount greenhouse gases emitted by a person, organization, event, or product throughout its lifecycle?
What is a carbon footprint?
The Mbempa effect causes hot water to ___ (condense, freeze, exhibit more capillary action, be less viscous) than cold water.
What is freeze?
Which 1890s inventor and rival to Thomas Edison had a giant lab in Colorado Springs where he claimed to have accidentally detected outer space signals?
Who was Nikola Tesla?
What does CRISPR stand for?
What is Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats?
What is the molecular geometry of NH3?
What is trigonal pyramidal?
Discovered in the 1980s, the "ozone hole" refers to severe depletion of O3 in the stratosphere. What major family of synthetic chemicals (commonly used in aerosol cans + refridgerants) was primarily responsible for the destruction?
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
What does Wi-Fi stand for?
What is wireless fidelity?
Who discovered neutrons?
Who was James Chadwick?
Name at least 2/3 major cellular organelles that mature mammalian red blood cells lack (because they need to maximize space for O2)
What are the nucleus, mitochondria, and ribosomes?
What dangerous, explosive substance did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867 by stabilizing nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr)?
What is dynamite?
What effect is the measure of how much sunlight a surface reflects back into space?
What is the Albedo Effect?
Name the country with the most pyramids.
What is Sudan?