Vex Us, Lexis!
What the Cell!
What a Trip!
Al... Gee, Brah!!
Geometry & Measurement
50
The definition of evoke.
What is to bring forth an emotion or memory?
50
The name of the fundamental "building block" of life?
What is "cell?"
50
The two coolest employees of Camp St. Croix.
Buffalo Bob and Joe!
50
The probability of flipping heads on a fair coin.
What is
1/2 or 50%?
50
The volume of a cube with side length 3 cm?
What is
27 cm^3?
100
The adjective with the following definition: consisting or characterized by fibers
What is fibrous?
100
The duo originally credited with discovering the double structure of DNA.
Who are Watson & Crick.
100
The exact, milled dimensions of the wooden beams that we used this fall before we cut them.
What is 5.5" x 5.5" x 12' and 5.5" x 5.5" x 16'?
These are called "6x6 beams."
100
The value of x when
x=5^3
What is 125?
100
The measure of each angle in an equilateral triangle.
What is 60°?
150
A synonym of domicile.
What is "house?"
150
The two ways a eukaryote differs from a prokaryote.
What are no nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles?
150
The length of the retaining wall that we built this Fall.
What is ~110 feet?
150
The quadrant of the coordinate plane that is home to (-2,4).
What is the second quadrant?
150
The sum of the angle measures in any triangle.
What is 180°?
200
The part of speech and a synonym of "utterance."
What are noun and remark (also, comment, word, statement, pronouncement, etc.).
200
What the acronym, "DNA" stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
Three or four great ways to protect yourself against ticks, poisonous plants, and scratches in the wilderness.
What are wearing long pants tucked into your socks, a tucked-in long-sleeve shirt, using insect repellent on your clothing, and doing regular tick checks.
200
The slope of the line described by
y=3x+7
What is 3?
200
The formula for the circumference of a circle.
What is
2pir or dpi?
250
An example of a juxtaposition.
What is any side-by-side placement of two things that highlights their similarities and differences in contrast? Examples will vary.
250
The name of four nitrogenous bases in DNA.
What is adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C)?
250
The three essential ingredients of building a fire.
What are fuel (wood, sticks), oxygen (air flow), and heat (spark, flame)?
250
The value of x when
3x+4=16.
What is 4?
250
The formula for the area of a circle.
What is
A=pir^2 cm?
300
The vocabulary word with the following definition: bitterness and ill feeling.
What is "acrimony?"
300
Where the green pigments (chlorophyll) are stored in plant cells.
What are in the chloroplasts?
300
A type of hitch knot that is great for creating lots of tension on a line of rope.
What is the "trucker's hitch?"
300
The rational form of 0.125.
What is
1/8?
300
The length of the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle with each leg measuring 1 cm.
What is
sqrt(2)
350
A vocabulary word that is a synonym of sluggish.
What is lethargic?
350
The unique living conditions of Archaea.
What are acidic, hot, and remote places, such as thermal vents, geysers, salt lakes, and hot springs?
350
The theme of Buffalo Bob's "Story of a Boy Called Jason."
What is "Never give up on yourself"?
350
The greatest common factor (GCF) of 126 and 180.
What is 18?
350
The name of a quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides.
What is "trapezoid?"
400
The definition of zealous, without using the word zeal.
What is "showing great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective?"
400
The specific name of this organism:
What is a bacteriophage?
400
The 10 steps required to safely set up and start an MSR camping stove.
What is,
1. Gather stove, pump, fuel, and striker.
2. Remove stove from bag and the cap from the fuel.
3. Place the cap in the bag and put in the supplies area.
4. Ensuring the pump valve is in the closed position, attach pump to the fuel bottle and pump 30-50 times.
5. Ensuring the stove valve is in the closed position, extend the feet of the stove and connect the fuel bottle.
6. Fully open the pump valve.
7. Open the stove valve to allow fuel to collect in the base of the stove cup, then close the stove valve.
8. Use the striker to ignite the fuel.
9. Let the flame heat the stove.
10. As soon as the flame is about to go out (or once the stove is sufficiently hot), open the stove valve to the desired flame level.
400
The value of x when 2(x-3)=5x+9
What is
-5?
400
The height of an isosceles triangle with a base of 4 cm and the other sides each 5 cm.
What is 4 cm?
450
What is a literary juxtaposition of malevolence and benevolence.
What is a well-meaning character contrasted with an evil character? Examples will vary.
450
What happens during the metaphase of the cell cycle.
What is the chromosomes line up along the middle of the dividing cell?
450
The name of the road on which Camp St. Croix is located.
What is "County Road F."
450
The value of x when x/2-3/4=1/2
What is
5/2
or 2.5?
450
The volume of a cylinder with a radius 3 cm and a height equal to 5 cm.
What is 45pi cm^3
500
The missing vocabulary word in this sentence: The flowers that emerge along the forest floor after winter are _______; they only last until the upper canopy leaves fill in.
What is ephemeral?
500
The function of the Golgi Apparatus.
What is packages proteins that will eventually be exported from the cell?
500
The distance (within 5 miles) from FBS to Camp St. Croix.
What is 364 miles?
500
6x^2-19x+10 factored completely.
What is
(2x-5)(3x-2)?
500
The volume of a sphere with a radius of 3 cm.
What is
4/3*9pi cm^3 or about 37.7 cm^3?