Biology Basics
Q: This organ pumps blood through your body.
A: What is the heart?
Q: The force that opposes motion between surfaces.
A: What is friction?
Q: The brain of a computer.
A: What is the CPU?
Q: This animal is the largest land mammal on Earth.
A: What is an elephant?
Q: The students who attend K-State are called this.
A: What are Wildcats?
Q: The basic unit of life.
A: What is a cell?
Q: Energy of motion is called this.
A: What is kinetic energy?
Q: This type of software controls the computer (Windows, MacOS).
A: What is an operating system?
Q: This desert is the largest hot desert in the world, covering much of North Africa.
A: What is the Sahara Desert?
Q: This large stadium is where K-State plays football.
A: What is Bill Snyder Family Stadium?
Q: This process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.
A: What is photosynthesis?
Q: This simple machine includes a wheel and a rope.
A: What is a pulley?
Q: The language computers use made of 0s and 1s.
A: What is binary?
Q: This country is both a continent and a nation.
A: What is Australia?
Q: Kansas State University became the first land-grant college under the Morrill Act when it was founded in this year.
A: What is 1863?
Q: The molecule that carries genetic instructions.
A: What is DNA?
Q: The unit used to measure force.
A: What is a Newton?
Q: A step-by-step set of instructions for solving a problem.
A: What is an algorithm?
Q: This scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
A: Who is Charles Darwin?
Q: This river runs through Manhattan, Kansas.
A: What is the Kansas River?
Q: This body system includes the brain and spinal cord.
A: What is the nervous system?
Q: This law states objects in motion stay in motion unless acted on.
A: What is Newton’s First Law?
Q: This field focuses on creating intelligent machines.
A: What is artificial intelligence?
Q: This element, with chemical symbol “Fe,” is commonly used to make steel.
A: What is iron?
Q: Manhattan, KS is sometimes called this “small” version of a famous city.
A: What is the Little Apple?