Physics
What is the force that pulls objects toward the center of the Earth?
Gravity
What is the compound that has this chemical formula H₂O?
Water
What is the control centre of the cell?
The nucleus
What is the molten rock beneath the Earth's surface called?
Magma
The planet closest to the Sun is?
Mercury
Which scientist is best known for describing a cell.
Robert Hooke
What is the largest organ in the human body?
Skin
What is the unit used to measure a force?
Newtons
What are the subatomic particles that make an atom?
Protons, neutrons and electrons
What is the process by which plants make their food using sunlight?
Photosynthesis
This type of rock forms from the cooling of molten rock.
Igneous
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
Which scientist played a crucial role in the development of vaccines for diseases like anthrax and rabies
Louis Pasteur
Which system in the body is responsible for transporting blood, nutrients, gases, and wastes?
The circulatory system
What are the two main types of energy?
Potential and kinetic energy
What is the atomic number of carbon?
6
What is the basic unit of life? (the building block of all living things)
The cell
This natural disaster is caused by the sudden movement of Earth's plates.
Earthquake
This force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
Gravity
The scientist who organised the periodic table.
Dmitri Mendeleev
These bones protect the brain.
The cranium / skull
What is the term for the energy an object has due to its motion?
Kinetic
What is the process called where a solid changes directly into a gas?
Sublimation
What do plant cells have that animal cells do not have?
Cell wall or chloroplasts or large vacuoles
Name the three plate boundaries
Divergent, convergent and transform
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
Milky way
The scientist who formulated the theory of plate tectonics?
Alfred Wegener
This is the longest bone in the human body.
The femur or thigh bone
What is biomimicry?
-‘bio’ means life
-‘mimic’ means copy
-Biomimicry take inspiration from living things
A substance made of two or more elements chemically combined is a?
Compound
What is the name of the molecule that carries genetic information?
DNA
What layer of the Earth is liquid and made of liquid iron and nickel?
Outer core
This term describes a star explosion.
Supernova
This scientist is famous for his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Issac Newton
Where would you find the smallest bones in the human body?
In the ear