Physics
The Large Hadron Collider is located in this country
What is Switzerland?
This gas is produced when hydrochloric acid reacts with zinc.
What is hydrogen?
This hormone, produced by the pancreas, regulates blood sugar levels by promoting the uptake of glucose into cells.
What is insulin?
The most abundant greenhouse gas.
What is water vapor?
The most dangerous animal in the world by annual related fatalities.
What is the mosquito?
This phenomenon occurs when an EM wave changes direction as it passes from one medium to another
What is refraction?
This is the amount of energy required to remove an electron from a gaseous atom or ion.
What is ionization energy?
Due to the requirements in pumping blood to its brain, this animal has the highest blood pressure.
What is giraffe?
An underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock. Waterloo derives 90% of its water from one of these.
The cause of mirages on hot pavement.
What is atmospheric refraction?
This experiment demonstrates the particle-wave duality of electrons.
What is the double-slit experiment?
The 56th element.
What is Barium?
This process involves the conversion of glucose to pyruvate, producing ATP in the absence of oxygen.
What is glycolysis?
The name of the most recent supercontinent, and its correct spelling.
What is Pangaea?
The medical term for the overheating of the body - an abnormally high body temperature.
What is hyperthermia?
This is the term for the mathematical function that describes the quantum state of a system
What is the wavefunction?
The only element that was discovered before it was found on Earth.
The longest protein in the human body.
What is titin?
An upward-growing mound of mineral deposits that have precipitated from water dripping onto the floor of a cave.
What is a stalagmite?
The degree to which the earth is tilted on its axis (this is the cause of seasons).
What is 23.4 degrees? (±0.5)
This effect, predicted by General Relativity, was first confirmed by observing light bending around the Sun.
What is gravitational lensing?
This type of semiconductor has more holes than electrons and is typically doped with group III elements.
What is a p-type semiconductor?
This hormone, known for its role in promoting fruit ripening and abscission, is also involved in the regulation of plant growth and development.
What is ethylene?
The earliest fossils are of this type of organism.
What is cyanobacteria?
The reaction that causes a marshmallow to brown.
What is the maillard reaction?