Body Works
What system do our lungs belong to?
Respiratory
Which of the following is a recessive trait?
Red Hair
What is 90 degrees in terms of pi?
A. Pi/4
B. Pi
C. 2(pi)
D. Pi/2
Pi/2
Working after Einstein proposed his famous equation, Lise Meitner was the first to show that a uranium atom can be split, converting a tiny amount of mass into a prodigious amount of energy in accordance with the formula E= mc2. What is the name of this splitting process?
Fission
What form of travel revolutionized transportation in the 19th century?
The steam ship
The steam train
Automobiles
The steam ship
What organ in your body absorbs the majority of nutrients from your food?
Small Intestine
Your DNA is:
A combination of half of each of your parent's DNA
If two equations with two variables are to be solved together, what are they called?
A. Differential Equations
B. Simultaneous Equations
C. Parametric Equations
D. Linear Equations
Simultaneous Equations
How long does it take for light to travel from the sun to Earth?
What year is regarded as the birth of the modern car?
1886
1900
1896
1886
What is the difference between arteries and veins?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood back to the heart.
Where is DNA located?
In a cell's nucleus
What do we call the combination of the rational and irrational numbers?
A. Natural Numbers
B. Real Numbers
C. Integers
D. Whole Numbers
B. Real Numbers
What radioactive element was used in the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
Uranium; offer bonus point for naming specific isotope uranium-235
What civilization is credited with creating the first paved road?
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Rome
Mesopotamia
What is the part of the cell that contains the DNA and controls the cell?
A behavior that is coded into an organism’s DNA is known as:
an instinct
Which number is both prime and odd?
9
21
15
7
7
One interesting thing about light is that although it appears white, it can be broken out into a spectrum of different colors by passing the white light through a prism. What are the colors of the rainbow from longest wavelength to shortest?
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. (Also acceptable is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet—forming the familiar mnemonic ROYGBIV. The labels used for colors are arbitrary and while indigo is no longer commonly used, it is included to make the sequence easier to remember.)
What were the earliest form of canoes made from?
Birch bark
Tree trunks
Sticks and leaves
Tree trunks
What is an organ system?
Two or more organs that work together to perform a specific function for the organism.
Which of the following is not one of the amino acid building blocks of DNA?
Adeline
What is the base in the binary numeration system?
10
8
16
2
2
What was the name of the top-secret U.S. government program to build the atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
What year was the first controllable airplane debuted?
1903
1906
1919
1903