Spooky Science
What is the fear of spiders?
What is Arachnophobia?
Which body part, associated with vampires, pumps blood?
What is the heart?
This spooky black bird is known for its intelligence and is often associated with Halloween.
What is a raven?
These are organisms that make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
This gas makes up most of the air we breathe and is essential for life.
What is oxygen?
True or False: Cockroaches can live for weeks without their heads.
What is true?
This part of the digestive system is large, coiled, and helps absorb nutrients.
What are the intestines?
This mammal is often linked with vampires and uses echolocation to find its way in the dark.
What is a bat?
This term refers to an animal that only eats plants, like a rabbit or a deer.
What is a herbivore?
Double Jeopardy" The “powerhouse of the cell” is responsible for producing energy.
What is the mitochondria?
This common kitchen item, if left out, will quickly grow colonies of bacteria and fungi due to its nutrient-rich surface.
What is a sponge?
These are the hard parts inside your body that help you stand up and protect your organs.
What are bones?
The insect can break down dead material and is often found on decaying things, helping to recycle nutrients.
What is a fly (or maggot)?
These organisms, like fungi and bacteria, break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
When something changes from a liquid to a gas, like a potion bubbling on a witch’s stove, it’s called this process.
What is evaporation?
This creature has teeth in its stomach, which it uses to chew food before digesting it.
What is a lobster?
Double Jeopardy: What are the bones in your fingers called, often used in skeleton decorations?
What are phalanges?
This creepy sea creature can change colors to camouflage itself, and is related to Halloween with its tentacled appearance.
What is an octopus?
Structures like the human appendix, which have lost their original function through evolution.
What are vestigial structures?
These single-celled organisms can be found always everywhere and are involved in breaking down dead material.
What are bacteria?
Double Jeaopardy: This insect’s blood is blue-green in color due to a substance called hemocyanin instead of the hemoglobin in human blood.
What is a horseshoe crab?
This is the largest organ of your body and it protects you from germs and helps control body temperature.
What is the skin?
This underwater creature has thousands of tiny stinging cells to catch its prey and can be found floating in the ocean, like a ghostly blob.
What is a jellyfish?
This term describes a trait that helps and organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
This natural disaster is measured by the Richter scale and occurs when plate tectonic moves.
What is an earthquake?