Biology
What is considered the basic structural and functional unit of all living organisms?
What is a cell?
What is the standard International System of Units (SI) derived unit for force?
What is Newtons?
Which subatomic particle carries a positive electrical charge?
What is a Proton?
The San Andreas Fault in California is a famous example of which type of plate boundary?
What is a transform boundary?
Which of Galileo Galilei's telescopic observations provided the strongest direct evidence against the geocentric model of the universe?
What is the phases of Venus?
Which cell organelle is commonly known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it generates chemical energy?
What is the mitochondria?
Which of Newton's laws of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
What is Newton´s Third Law?
On the periodic table, what do elements in the same vertical column (group) typically share?
What is chemical properties?
Which layer of Earth's atmosphere contains the majority of our weather phenomena, such as clouds, rain, and wind?
What is the troposphere?
Published in 1687, Isaac Newton's groundbreaking work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is most famous for formulating which fundamental concept?
What is the laws of motion?
What is the primary green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis?
What is chlorophyll?
Approximately how fast does light travel in a vacuum?
What is 3x10^8 meters per second?
Which state of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape, meaning it takes the shape of whatever container it is poured into?
What is liquids?
During the water cycle, plants absorb water through their roots and release it as water vapor through tiny pores in their leaves. What is this process called?
What is transpiration?
During his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin made critical observations in which archipelago that heavily inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection?
What are the Galapagos Islands?
In a typical eukaryotic animal cell, where is the majority of the genetic material (DNA) safely housed?
What is the nucleus?
A roller coaster car is sitting completely still at the very top of a tall hill right before it descends. What primary type of energy does it possess at this moment?
What is Potential Energy?
What type of chemical bond is formed when there is a complete transfer of electrons from one atom to another, typically between a metal and a nonmetal?
What is ionic bond?
Which of the following rocks is classified as a sedimentary rock formed from the compaction and cementation of mineral particles or rock fragments? (Answer Choices: Basalt, Granite, Marble, Sandstone)
What is Sandstone?
Marie Curie coined the term "radioactivity" and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Which two new chemical elements did she and her husband Pierre discover while studying pitchblende?
What is Polonium and Radium?
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
What optical phenomenon causes a straight straw placed inside a clear glass of water to look bent or broken at the surface of the water?
What is Refraction?
What is the standard chemical formula for a single molecule of water?
What is H2O?
What is the primary mechanism within Earth's interior that drives the slow movement of lithospheric tectonic plates?
What is convection currents?
Building on the precise observational data of Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler revolutionized astronomy by demonstrating that the orbits of the planets are what shape?
What are ellipses?