Amphibians and Reptiles
The difference between these 2 types of amphibians of the order Anura? Smooth skin & long legs vs. rough skin & short legs, mostly.
What are toads and frogs?
A life-size 20-foot-tall rock carving of this animal in Niger shows that the Sahara supported more varied life 5,000 years ago.
What is a giraffe?
Umbilicus
What is your belly button?
This company proudly states that its Falcon Heavy rocket can lift 64 metric tons into orbit via 5 million pounds of thrust.
What is SpaceX?
India's Chandrayaan-3 landed near the Moon's South Pole & searched for this resource, hiding in shadowed craters.
What is water?
The familiar name of these big salamanders comes from the mistaken belief that they could bark.
What are mudpuppies?
Fish need shade too, sometimes provided by these, the floating leaves of plants such as Nuphar advena.
What are lily pads?
Patella
What is your kneecap?
In 2003, using its Long March 2F rocket, it became the third nation to launch a man into Earth's orbit.
What is China?
The dividing line between day & night on the Moon is called "the twilight zone" or this word, like the title of a 1984 Ahnold film.
What is the terminator?
Discovered only in 1986 & now critically endangered, the pink iguana lives only on Isabela Island in this archipelago.
What is the Galapagos?
A desire to work in the kelping professions may lead you to phycology, defined as the study of these.
What are algae?
Scapula
What is the shoulder blade?
Not the V but the IB version of this "planetary" rocket carried crews to Skylab.
What is Saturn?
Nearly 30% of the Moon's near side is made of this igneous rock; its holes were formed by gas bubbles captured as lava cooled.
What is basalt?
The feet of these common lizards are covered with tiny hairs that help them to climb even very smooth surfaces.
What are geckos?
Geneticist Polly Fordyce dislikes this term for the 98% of DNA that is non-coding; much of it does come out in gene expression.
What is "junk DNA"?
Sternum
What is your breastbone?
Titan series rockets like the ones that launched Viking & Voyager were originally conceived as ICBMs, short for these.
What are intercontinental ballistic missiles?
A mountain on the Moon is named for computer programmer Melba Ray Mouton, & is called this Latin word Mouton.
What is Mons?
Like mammals, amphibians were only mildly affected by the mass extinction at the end of this period; reptiles, well...
What is the Cretaceous?
All of a manatee's teeth, which gradually move forward in its jaw, are these.
What are molars?
Pollex
What is your thumb?
Charles Lindbergh & Harry Guggenheim aided this professor's early rocketry experiments at Roswell.
Who is Goddard?
An impressive crater 53 miles in diameter in the Southern Highlands of the Moon is named for this eccentric 16th century Dane.
Who is Tycho Brahe?