The most common term for plant water loss through stomata.
What is transpiration?
100
Master Patrick's last name.
What is Yu?
100
The property of a sound wave that is most commonly associated with loudness.
What is amplitude?
100
Best club at TAMS.
What is JETS?
200
I developed the periodic table of elements.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
200
The spines of cacti are a modification of this plant structure.
What are leaves?
200
Master Patrick's favorite color. (Hint: Think of green eggs and ham)
What is green?
200
The common term for the behavior of light where it appears to bend around small obstacles or the spreading out of waves as light passes through pinholes or slits.
What is diffraction?
200
The best selling game for the Wii.
What is Wii Sports?
300
I am the one who was first credited with the thorough classification of animals and plants.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
300
This is the most common term for the substance recognized as foreign and able to elicit antibody production.
What is an antigen?
300
Master Patrick's favorite dish. (For every Asian kid, what did you learn how to cook first, excluding rice)
What is fried eggs and tomatoes?
300
Although not known as such at the time, this was the first form of spectacular electric discharge seen by humans.
What is lightning?
300
The year TAMS was founded.
What is 1987?
400
The Space Shuttle program started this year.
When is 1981?
400
The biological term most often used for the act of a cell
engulfing a particle by extending its pseudopodia around the particle.
What is phagocytosis?
400
Master Patrick's favorite "How I Met Your Mother Character."
Who is Barney Stinson?
400
The centripetal force, in Newtons, that is required to cause a 10 kilogram body to move at 3 meters per second in uniform circular motion with a radius of 10 meters.
What is 9 Newtons?
400
The number of Harvard students it takes to screw in a lightbulb. (Why?)
What is one? (Because he holds the bulb and the world revolves around him)
500
This ancient civilization developed The Dresden Codex, which is a record of another civilization’s early attempts to make sense of the sky above us.
What is Mayan?
500
The most common biochemical term for the degradative phases of metabolism.
What is catabolism?
500
The number of "girlfriends" Master Patrick has had.
What is 2?
500
In response to the development of incandescent lights, gas lights were vastly improved by soaking the mantles in this substance to help convert heat and UV energy into visible light.
What is thorium oxide?
500
Mickey Mouse's original name before he was referred to as Mickey Mouse.