Biology/Anatomy
What are nerves?
Electrical pathways that transfer information.
What does cumulative mean?
Everything adds up as you go.
How is magma different than lava?
Magma is under the Earth, and lava has already surfaced.
What does the name Tyrannosaurus Rex mean
Tyrant Lizard King
Who was the Egyptian god of the afterlife?
Osiris
How does the stomach work?
It has acid and a small barrier that stops it from digesting itself, with a small opening in the top and bottom that allows partially digested food to pass through.
How do you find a percent
Find the sum, then divide the individual by the sum. Then multiply that number by 100.
What type of measurement is heat(energy) measured in?
Joules
Where is the huge lizard named Megalania from? (a direct relative of the Komodo dragon)
Australia
What Egyptian god governs who enters the afterlife and who doesn't?
Anubis
How do the kidneys work?
They filter our blood for waste products, then send that waste to our bladder.
What is cross multiplying
When you need to multiply fractions but there is a variable, it is easier just to multiply across.
Ex. 3/X x 5/6 = 3 x 6 and 5 x X, 18 and 5x, 18=5X 5X/5 and 18/5, therfore 3.6=X
Name the steps of the water cycle.
Evaporation+Transpiration->Condensation ->precipitation
What dinosaur was closer to existing when we first roamed the Earth, the T. rex or Stegosaurus
T-Rex by a large margin
What Egyptian god brings the sun to the sky every day?
Ra/Re
What is special about our bone marrow?
Our bone marrow creates stem cells that can be turned into any cell.
How do you find the circumference of a circle?
C=(pi)d
C=2(pi)r
How is a sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock made?
sedimentary = small molecules forming together in a river bed.
Igneous = formed from lava.
Metamorphic = when existing rocks are shoved together through heat and pressure.
What type of animal was our oldest mammal relative?
Hadrocodium Wui and Brasilodon quadrangularis
Or a small mouse/shrew.
What was the Egyptian god that brought the moon every night?
Khonsu
What is a punnet square?
A chart that shows dominant and reccessive traits
What is the Quadratic formula?
x= -b+- (square root)b2-4ac (all over) 2a
Name every life cycle step of a frog.
Egg->Tadpole->Froglet->Frog
What was the smaller but more ferocious version of the T. rex?
The Allosaurus
Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead?
To make it so that the body was a recognizable home for the soul.