Biology
The mitochondria
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
This is the value of (x) that satisfies the linear equation 3x - 7 = 11
What is 6?
This chemical symbol on the periodic table represents the element gold.
What is Au?
energy can neither be created or destroyed but only transferred and transformed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The adult human skeleton is typically composed of this exact number of bones.
What is 206?
This is the green pigment found in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
It is the term for a polynomial equation of the second degree, which yields a U-shaped parabola when graphed.
What is a quadratic equation?
This type of chemical bond is formed when two atoms share pairs of electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
When an object travels in a perfect circle at a constant speed, this vector quantity is constantly changing because the object's direction is constantly changing.
What is velocity?
Acting as a barrier against pathogens and regulating temperature, this is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin(integumentary system)?
In genetics, this term refers to the observable physical characteristics of an organism, which are determined by its genotype.
What is a phenotype?
discovered by an ancient Greek mathematician, this theorem states that a^2 + b^2 = c^2for any right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A value less than 7 on this scale indicates that a solution is acidic.
What is the pH scale?
This standard constant represents the acceleration due to gravity on Earth, measured in meters per second squared.
What is 9.8 m/s^2
Located in the thigh, this is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This type of cellular division occurs in somatic cells and results in two genetically identical diploid daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
In trigonometry, this function represents the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side in a right-angled triangle.
What is Tangent?
According to this law, equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain an equal number of molecules.
What is Avogadro's law?
The name of the force keeping you in your seat when you are upside down on a rollercoaster
What is Centripetal force?
Radius and Ulna
What are the two bones in the forearm?
Introduced by Charles Darwin, this is the primary mechanism of evolution where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
In algebra, if a polynomial function has a graph that crosses the x-axis at a specific point, that x-value is known by this name, which is also a term for the base of a plant.
What is a root/zero?
This is the name given to the minimum amount of energy required to initiate a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
According to the work-energy theorem, if a moving car slams on its brakes and skids to a halt, all of its initial kinetic energy is transformed into this form of non-mechanical energy by friction.
What is thermal energy?
These microscopic, functional units of the kidney are responsible for filtering blood and forming urine.
What are nephrons?