Misc. Science Fax
This method is used to test hypothesis and reproduce results.
What is the scientific method?
The outermost layer of the Earth, where we live. Also a part of a pizza.
What is the crust?
Resources that can be replenished regularly such as sun, wind, and water power are this type of resource.
What are renewable resources?
Rain is the most identifiable part of this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
Animals with backbones are called this.
What are vertebrates?
H20 is the chemical structure of water. Give the names of each element, and how many of each there are.
What is 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen?
This is the largest ocean and holds about 46% of the Earth's water.
What is the Pacific?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are all this type of resource that has a finite supply.
What is nonrenewable?
Rain, snow, sleet, hail are all types of _____.
What is precipitation?
What are Fungi? (Mushrooms)
This scientist is famous for his theory of General Relativity (e=MC^2).
Who was Albert Einstein?
The difference between lava and magma.
What is being above or beneath the Earth's surface?
These types of gases tend to get trapped in the atmosphere and capture more sunlight, warming up average temperatures.
Humans exhale this element, plant's inhale it. Charcoal and diamonds are made of it, part of it's own cycle.
What is Carbon?
This is the scientific name for sea bugs. (Crabs, Crawfish, Lobsters etc).
What are crustaceans?
The reason colors appear the way they are to our eyes is due to their reflection or absorption of _____.
What is light?
This scale measures vibrations in the Earth's crust and is used to determine the intensity of Earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
The Hoover Dam uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to generate this type of renewable power.
What is hydro-electricity?
This element (N) and its cycle transfer nutrients between plants in the soil and the atmosphere. It is an essential part of the biosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is Mitochondria?
A cow has this many stomachs.
What is 4?
This extra-atmospheric structure protects the Earth from cosmic radiation and connects at the North and South Poles. It also causes the Northern Lights.
What is the magnetic field?
The Chernobyl Disaster (1986) resulted from the malfunctioning of this type of power generator. Though dangerous if mismanaged, it is generally considered the most powerful energy producer.
What is nuclear energy?
This is the name of the earth's rock layers, encompassing all of Earth's natural rocks and the rock cycle.
What is the Lithosphere?
Bones or plants that have been fossilized and turned to stone are called this.
What is petrified?