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In evolutionary biology, this term describes the process by which new species arise from a single ancestral species, usually due to environmental or genetic factors.
Speciation
This unit of energy is commonly used to measure the energy consumption of household appliances and is equivalent to 1 joule per second.
Watt
Au is the symbol on the periodic table for this element
Gold
There are __ oceans on Earth
5
Northeastern has this many undergraduate colleges. Bonus points for naming them all.
8
This process in cell division creates a duplicate of the original cell
What are the first 6 digits of pi.
3.14159
These elements are very unreactive. They exist as monatomic gasses and have a full octet
Which country is Tasmania a part of?
Australia
Northeastern's President Joseph Aoun, was born in the Middle Eastern Country
Lebanon
This protein is commonly used as a fluorescent biological marker when studying cells
Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
The maximum speed that anything can travel at, according to our current physics theory.
The speed of light (~ 3.00 * 10^8 m/s)
This is the only metal found in a liquid state at room temperature
Mercury
This is someone who specializes in wine and wine service
Northeastern was founded in this year
1898
This lobe of the brain is responsible for vision
Occipital
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level. At what temperature does water freeze?
This is the process of a material going straight from a gas to a solid without becoming a liquid
deposition
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations and territorial losses on Germany.
Treaty of Versailles
How many global campuses does Northeastern have. Bonus points for listing them all.
13: Boston, London, Oakland, Arlington, Burlington, Charlotte, Miami, Nahant, Portland, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Toronto, and Vancouver
The name of the biological phenomenon that allows certain living organisms, like fireflies, to emit light
Bioluminescence
Atoms (including protons and neutrons) are made of these two particles
Quarks and Leptons
Two molecules that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other
This whale is the largest member of the dolphin family.
This is northeastern's oldest building (hint: there was an explosion here)
Kerr Hall