World in motion
The earth completes one orbit around the sun in approximately this amount of time.
What is 365.25 days?
The photosynthesizing portions of plants are often this color due to the pigment required for photosynthesis.
What is green?
This is the term for water that is not salty and typically found in lakes, streams, or groundwater
What is freshwater?
This type of kinetic energy is the average movement of particles in an object
What is thermal energy?
This smallest unit of life consists of a nucleus, an outer membrane, and many organelles
What is a cell?
At just 15 years old, Justin Bieber shook the world with this repetitive single.
What is Baby?
Hailing from brainrot lore, this tree creature wielding a bat is named from onomatopoeia of a muslim prayer drum
Who is Tung Tung Tung Sahur (aka Triple T)
This is the temperature in Celsius at which water typically boils.
What is 100oC?
These materials buried contain energy from photosynthesis concentrated over millions of years.
What are fossil fuels?
What is skin?
Look down at the earth from above the North Pole, the earth spins in this direction.
What is counter clockwise (or east)?
This type of soil is ideal for most types of agriculture and consists of about 40% sand, 40% silt, and 20% clay
What is loam?
This is the chemical formula for water (the elemental makeup of a water molecule) as well as the name of an Australian TV show about mermaids.
What is H2O
This is the process by which most animals, including humans get their energy
What is eating?
In Darwin's theory of evolution, this is mechanism by which favorable genetic traits tend to get passed to the next generation. Some incorrectly simplify this as "survival of the fittest"
What is natural selection?
Convection in this layer of the earth causes continents to shift over millions of years.
What is the mantle?
Through photosynthesis, plants gain most of their mass from capturing and converting this molecule.
What is carbon dioxide?
Ice floating on water breaks this general rule about density.
This process of larger elements breaking down into smaller elements is responsible for geothermal energy emanating from within the earth. It is also what makes enriched uranium dangerous to handle
What is radioactive decay?
In a trophic system (a food web), these types of organisms specialize in breaking down dead matter and returning their energy to the rest of the system.
What are decomposers?
This point in the year is when the day time and night time are exactly equal in duration. After this point, days start becoming shorter and nights start becoming longer
What is the autumn equinox?
These essential elements for life are often added via fertilizers to soils for plants to take in through their roots.
What are nitrogen and phosphorus?
This asymmetrical property of water molecules gives them the ability to adhere to and dissolve many materials
What is polarity?
(Solvency will be accepted for half points)
This process in stars is responsible for making them glow as well as making most of the elements that you are made of
What is nuclear fusion?
These four letters represent the nucleotide bases of DNA. Different sequences of these four letters encode all the genetic information of a person
What are ATCG?