Geography
This U.S. state is made up of more than 100 islands.
What is Hawaii?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This organ is primarily responsible for filtering blood and producing urine.
What is the kidney?
This Italian dish consists of thin sheets of pasta, often layered with cheese and meat or vegetables.
What is lasagna?
This is the largest country by land area in the world.
What is Russia?
This European country is shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
Water boils at this temperature on the Celsius scale.
What is 100°C?
This type of blood cells helps the body fight infections.
What are white blood cells (leukocytes)?
This vitamin, found in citrus fruits, prevents scurvy when consumed regularly.
What is vitamin C?
The capital of Australia is not Sydney or Melbourne, but this city.
What is Canberra?
The largest island that is not considered a continent.
What is Greenland?
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
The medical term for high blood pressure is this.
What is hypertension?
The Japanese delicacy “uni” is the edible part of this sea creature.
What is a sea urchin?
The Great Rift Valley, famous for its unique geology and wildlife, runs through this continent.
What is Africa?
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This country has the most time zones of any nation on Earth.
What is France
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
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This part of the brain controls balance, coordination, and fine motor skills.
What is the cerebellum?
This type of sugar is found naturally in milk.
What is lactose?
This desert covers much of northern China and southern Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert?
The driest place on Earth outside Antarctica, this desert is in Chile.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The law stating that pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional at constant temperature is named after this scientist.
What is Boyle’s Law?
The standard imaging technique using X-rays to create cross-sectional images of the body is called this.
What is a CT scan (computed tomography)?
The process of removing the outer husk from grains is called this.
What is milling (or dehulling)?
This island nation in the Indian Ocean is famous for its lemurs and baobab trees.
What is Madagascar?