Geography
The thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
Red blood cells use this protein to carry oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
The West Asian country, Turkiye, considers this hand sign an insult.
What is the "OK" sign?
This person's assassination caused World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
The famous saying "God is dead" is attributed to this philosopher.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Gases in the earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun to raise its surface temperature.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This plant organelle stores chlorophyll for photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
This category of voiced sounds usually forms the nucleus of a syllable and is one of the most primary sounds taught to children regardless of which languages they are raised in.
What is a vowel?
A model proposed by Emil Fischer used to explain how sets of enzymes and substrates were specific to each other.
What is the lock and key model?
This rule states that many languages in history, like Sanskirt, Latin and English, always undergo regular processes of sound change and is named after a pair of famous brothers.
What is Grimm's Law?
Rene Descartes' theory that the body and mind are distinct entities.
What is Cartesian dualism/mind-body dualism?
A U-shaped lake that forms when a meander is cut off from the rest of the river.
What is an oxbow lake?
A state of constant internal chemical and physical conditions maintained by a living organism.
What is homeostasis?
This fake animal was devised by a psycholinguist to test if native English-speaking kids could apply the /s/ plural suffix onto an entirely made up concept?
What is wug?
This describes the phenomena where cities experience higher mean temperatures than rural areas.
What is the urban heat island effect?
This Prime Minister tried to promote a standardised version of Malay in Malaysia called Bahasa Baku that was then rejected in favour of the Johor-Riau variety of Malay.
Who is Anwar Ibrahim?