Chemistry
An atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
What is an Ion?
This renaissance scientist is credited with the discovery of the pendulum.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism.
What is a cell?
A part of an organism that is typically self-contained and has a specific vital function.
What is an organ?
The type of tree found between Building 1 and Building 2, especially visited in the fall.
What is apple tree?
Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine are all members of this group.
What are Halogens?
The spontaneous decomposition of an unstable atomic nucleus into a more stable form, in one of three decays: alpha, beta, gamma.
What is Radioactivity?
This branch of science is concerned with the classification of organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
What is metabolism?
The elevation of East Mountain High School.
What is 7,007'?
This is the year that the first Periodic Table of the Elements was made.
What is 1869?
This physicist is more famous for his cat than for his equation.
Who is Erwin Schrodinger?
A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait.
What is a mutation?
This anatomical plane divides the body into right and left parts.
What is a Sagittal Plane?
The scientific name of the timberwolf.
What is Canis lupus?
This man is credited with the creation of the modern Periodic Table.
What is Mendeleev?
A quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another.
What is a Vector?
This famous French microbiologist created the process of pasteurization.
What is Louis Pasteur?
The greatest speed a human sneeze travels.
What is 100mph?
The type of bird that has made the front of EMHS home.
What is Starling?
In 1649, Hennig Brand discovered this first element that would later be a part of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
What is Phosphorus?
The instrument used to measure gas pressure.
What is a manometer?
This organelle in a typical cell provides the function of ribosome production.
What is the Nucleolus?
This structure of the digestive system is responsible for absorbing water from the remaining indigestible food matter and transmit the useless waste material from the body.
What is the Large Intestine?
The cause of a smelly Building 3.
What is outgassing?
(The release of gas products from the process of decomposition in the sewer)