Physics
This vector quantity is defined as the rate of change of velocity.
What is acceleration?
This structure regulates what enters and exits a cell.
What is the cell membrane (plasma membrane)?
This subatomic particle, found in the nucleus, has no electrical charge.
What is a neutron?
This part of the water cycle occurs when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
In a controlled experiment, this group receives no treatment and serves as a baseline for comparison.
This law related force, mass, and acceleration.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion (F = ma)?
This process, occurring in mitochondria, converts glucose into ATP using oxygen.
What is cellular (aerobic) respiration?
This term refers to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
What is a catalyst?
This layer of the Earth lies directly beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
This scientist's experiments with pea plants established the foundational laws of genetic inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This term describes the point in a system where forces are balanced and no net motion occurs.
What is equilibrium?
This organelle uses chlorophyll to capture light energy and convert it into chemical energy during photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
This type of chemical reaction releases energy, usually in the form of heat, to its surroundings.
What is an exothermic reaction?
This type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What is igneous rock?
This scientist developed the periodic table, arranging elements by increasing atomic mass and recurring properties.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This type of potential energy is stored in objects that are stretched or compressed.
What is elastic potential energy?
This process describes how enzymes speed up chemical reactions by lowering activation energy.
What is catalysis?
This term describes the amount of energy needed to remove an electron from an atom.
What is ionization energy?
This planet is home to Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system.
What is Mars?
This is Darwin's proposed mechanism of evolution, in which organisms best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
This quantity is calculated by multiplying an object's mass by its velocity, and describes how difficult it is to stop a moving object.
What is momentum?
This type of cell division produces four genetically unique daughter cells with half the chromosome number of the parent cell.
What is meiosis?
This process describes how atoms in an unstable nucleus lose energy by emitting particles or radiation.
What is radioactive decay?
This term describes the explosive death of a massive star, which can leave behind a neutron star or black hole.
What is a supernova?
This physicist proposed that light behaves as both a particle and a wave to explain the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?