Mighty Metals
This metal’s oxidation gives the Statue of Liberty its distinctive green hue.
"Copper"
This fault line runs down the California coast and has the potential to cause large earthquakes.
"San Andreas Fault"
In “The Minecraft Movie”, Steve's friend Garrett fights this creature in the Illagers’ arena.
"chicken jockey"
Just a few of this red berry’s pits contain a lethal dose of cyanide.
"cherry"
When a light switch is turned on, the electrons drift through the circuit at the speed of this small, shelled animal.
"snail"
The outer cores of Jupiter and Saturn are theorized to be composed of this element in metallic form. It is a flammable gas on Earth.
"Hydrogen"
During recent protests in Los Angeles, demonstrators disabled cars run by this company by putting traffic cones on their hoods.
"Waymo"
In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, humans have to leave Earth because of this ecological disaster.
"blight"
This berry has a green interior, but is named after its different exterior color.
"blueberry"
This dangerous ocean phenomenon can quickly pull swimmers away from the coastline.
"rip current"
This radioactive metal with two fewer protons than Uranium is a promising alternate fuel for fission reactors that produces shorter-lived nuclear waste.
"Thorium"
DD!!
The Embarcadero and financial districts of San Francisco are built on top of ships that were abandoned and left to sink during the frenzy of this mass migration.
"1849 Gold Rush"
In this 2017 psychological horror, the main character is hypnotized with a teacup and spoon, transporting him to “the sunken place.”
"Get Out"
Wolf spiders infamously live in the bogs where this berry is grown, often crawling onto the people harvesting them to escape the water.
"cranberry"
Hurricanes spin due to this force that arises in rotating frames of reference.
"Coriolis Force"
A thin sediment layer rich in this metal is found everywhere on Earth. It dates to 65 million years ago and indicates that an asteroid ended the era of the dinosaurs.
"Iridium"
In 1814, the first known windmill in California was built at Fort Ross, a settlement about 60 miles north of San Francisco owned by this colonial power.
"Russia"
In one of the final scenes of this movie, an American bomber commander wears a cowboy hat and screams as he rides a nuclear warhead to its target.
"Dr. Strangelove"
DD!!
This fruit, which is botanically considered to be a berry, is somewhat radioactive because of the uptake of potassium-40.
"banana"
This effect occurs when energy is conserved along a flow line, resulting in a decrease in pressure as velocity increases.
“Bernoulli Effect”
This metal, common on Earth, is the ultimate nuclear ash, meaning any nuclear transmutation costs energy. This is the main element whose accumulation in the cores of massive stars triggers a supernova.
"Iron"
Evidence that humans reached the Americas 13,000 years ago while most of present-day Canada was covered by an ice sheet can be found on these islands near the Southern California coast.
"Channel Islands"
This 2019 Bollywood film celebrates the Indian Space Research Organization’s success in putting a spacecraft into orbit around Mars on a very limited budget.
“Mission Mangal”
A raspberry is botanically not classified as a berry, but rather as an ___ fruit.
“Aggregate”
If the depth of a body of water can be approximated as infinite, the motion of the water below the surface traces out this shape as waves travel over the surface.
"circle"