Cells and Organ Systems
This bean-shaped organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it converts nutrients into energy (ATP).
What is the mitochondrion?
This form of energy is possessed by an object due to its motion, calculated using the object's mass and speed.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the ultimate source of energy for almost all life on Earth, providing the light needed for producers to make food.
What is the sun?
In a chemical equation, these are the starting substances located on the left side of the arrow
What are reactants?
In the show SpongeBob SquarePants, this is the secret ingredient that Plankton is constantly trying to steal from the Krusty Krab.
What is the Krabby Patty Secret Formula?
This organ system consists of the heart, blood, and blood vessels, and is responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body.
What is the circulatory system (or cardiovascular system)?
This type of heat transfer occurs through direct contact between materials, such as a metal spoon heating up in a bowl of hot soup.
What is conduction?
This chemical process occurs in the chloroplasts of plants, using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This specific chemical reaction uses light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
In Hannah Montana, this is the real name of Miley Stewart's famous pop-star alter ego's father (who was also her real-life father).
Who is Billy Ray Cyrus (or Robby Ray Stewart)?
Unlike skeletal muscles, these two types of muscle tissue—found in the heart and digestive tract—operate without you having to think about them.
What are cardiac and smooth muscles?
This method of thermal energy transfer happens in fluids (liquids or gases) when warmer, less dense material rises and cooler, denser material sinks
What is convection?
As you move up a food chain, only about this percentage of energy is passed from one level to the next, while the rest is lost as heat.
What is 10 percent?
A campfire or an explosion are examples of this type of reaction, which releases energy into its surroundings, usually in the form of heat or light.
What is an exothermic reaction?
This 1950s sitcom was the first scripted television show to be filmed in front of a live studio audience using a three-camera setup.
What is I Love Lucy?
Found only in eukaryotic cells, this organelle houses the cell's genetic material (DNA) and acts as the control center for all cellular activities.
What is the nucleus?
In a transverse wave, this term describes the maximum distance the particles of a medium move from their resting position (the "height" of the wave).
What is amplitude?
These organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, break down dead plants and animals, returning essential nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Daily Double This fundamental law of chemistry states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, meaning the total mass of the reactants must equal the total mass of the products.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
This is the name of the long-running fictional TV show within The Simpsons that features a violent cat and mouse duo.
What is The Itchy & Scratchy Show?
Unlike animal cells, plant cells contain these two specific structures: a rigid outer layer for support and green organelles for photosynthesis.
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
This phenomenon occurs when a wave changes speed and direction as it passes from one medium to another, such as light passing from air into water.
What is refraction?
While a food chain shows a single path of energy, this more complex diagram shows all the overlapping feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed or permanently changed by the reaction itself.
What is a catalyst (or enzyme)?
In the Disney+ series WandaVision, this catchy theme song revealed that a certain neighbor had been pulling the strings the entire time.
What is "Agatha All Along"?