EARTH SCIENCE
It is a hot molten rock or magma expelled out of an erupting volcano.
Lava
A microscopic infectious agent that cannot reproduce on its own and must use a living host cell to make copies of itself.
Virus
In the periodic table of elements, if Mg stands for Magnesium, what does the element Mn mean?
Manganese
This basic physical property measures the amount of matter in an object, usually weighed in grams or kilograms.
Mass
It is the sudden movement of tectonic plates.
Earthquake
This is the process by which green plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
Photosynthesis.
A clear, uniform cup of saltwater where the salt is completely dissolved is best classified as what type of mixture?
Homogeneous mixture
This is the color of visible light that has the shortest wavelength.
Violet
It is known as the thickest layer of the earth.
Mantle
A vital single-stranded molecule found in living cells that helps turn genetic instructions into proteins.
RNA
Which subatomic particle carries a negative electrical charge and orbits the nucleus of an atom?
Electron
Named after a famous scientist, this unit of measurement is used globally to quantify force.
Newton
This is a type of volcano that has no record of eruption for the last 10,000 years.
Inactive Volcano
It is also called a "molecular machine," what organelle found in the cytoplasm of living cells builds proteins from amino acids?
Ribosome
What is the term for a liquid changing directly into a gas?
Vaporization
This is the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another, which produces heat and slows things down.
Friction
This is an instrument used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake. They are installed in the ground throughout the world.
Seismograph
This is an inherited group of blood disorders that make red blood cells hard, sticky, and shaped like a crescent moon instead of round and flexible.
Sickle cell
This type of chemical reaction releases heat or energy into its surroundings, causing the temperature of the immediate environment to rise.
Exothermic reaction
A compass needle points approximately toward Earth's north because it interacts with Earth's what?
Magnetic field