Zoology
These are the tallest and largest living organism in the world!
The California redwood (coast redwood and giant sequoia)
Name the star closest to the sun
The sun is a star or Alpha Centauri 4.3 light years away
This rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon
There is enough of this in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
What is DNA?
There is about 400 miles of these in the brain
Blood vessels
What mammal produces the loudest sound on earth
A blue whale
The footprints on the Moon will be there for 100 million years because space lacks this
Wind
These are the only two U.S. state capitals with rhyming names
Boston and Austin
This is the most abundant element in the universe
Hydrogen
Which sense does not work while you sleep
Sense of smell
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
Name the 4 states you could stand in all at one time
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah
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 process by which plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen
Photosynthesis
These are more stars in the Universe than this on Earth
Grains of sand. Milky Way contains 200 billion stars. 2 trillion galaxies in the Universe
What is the reason no life can live in the dead sea
High salt concentration
The Earth's core is composed primarily of what substance?
Iron-nickel alloy
Which body parts never stop growing
Ears and nose
Bees are particularly sensitive to type of light
ultraviolet light
This is the biggest volcano ever discovered in the solar system.
Olympus Mons. At 374 miles across, 16 miles high, or triple the height of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.
This is the deepest trench in the ocean
What is Marianas Trench? 36,200 feet
How fast is the speed of light?
The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second. About 670,616,629 mph
Cholecystitis affects what part of the human body
Gall Bladder