Zoology
These are the tallest living organism in the world!
The California redwood (coast redwood and giant sequoia)
Our Milky Way galaxy is this type of galaxy
Spiral
Covering an area of over 1.2 billion acres, this rainforest is the largest in the world.
The Amazon
At over 2,000 kilometers long, this is the largest living structure on Earth
The Great Barrier Reef
There is about 400 miles of these in the brain
Blood vessels
This is the only mammal that can fly
A bat
The planets in our solar system are in this order
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
These are the only two U.S. state capitals with rhyming names
Boston and Austin
These were first seen in human cells in 1882; the exact number 46 was determined in 1956
Chromosomes
This is largest cell in the human body is and is barely visible to the naked eye
An egg (or ovum)
These animals plant thousands of new trees each year by merely forgetting where they put their seeds.
What are squirrels?
Name the best theory why Jupiter has 49 moons
It`s gravity attracts asteroids from the asteroid belt
This mountain system stretches about 1500 miles from Maine to Alabama
The Appalachians
Energy from food is usually measured in joules or
Calories
The average person has about 5 pounds of this in his or her digestive system
Bacteria/Flora
The pain killer, Aspirin, was originally derived from this type of tree bark
Willow Tree
All the heavier elements in our body such as iron, carbon, calcium were made by this event
Supernova explosion
What is the reason no life can live in the dead sea
High salt concentration
What produces most of the world's oxygen?
Phytoplankton, algae
The stomach produces this acid, which can dissolve metal
Hydrochloric Acid
A group of owls is called this
A parliament
A black holes gravity is so strong not even this can escape
Light/photons
This is the deepest trench in the ocean
What is Marianas Trench? 36,200 feet
This blood type is the Universal recipient and Universal donor
AB positive and O negative
In a new breakthrough, researchers used this virus successfully to cure sickle-cell disease
HIV-good at transferring DNA into cells, treating genetic disorders