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100

Considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees



Jane Goodall



100

Also called a "molecular machine," what organelle found in the cytoplasm of living cells builds proteins from amino acids?


Ribosome

100

Dry Ice is the solid form of which gas?


Carbon Dioxide


100

A magnifying glass is what type of lens?


Convex


100

When is Earth Day?


April 22nd


200

In 1911, these scientists conducted the Gold Foil Experiment.


Rutherford and coworkers Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden


200

What mosquito-borne, parasitic disease causes red blood cells to explode after they've served as a mating ground?


Malaria

200

Which is the only metal that is in liquid form at room temperature?


Mercury


200

In mathematical physics, Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and which other quantity?


Time

200

Which inorganic molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms is found at a higher concentration in the Earth’s stratosphere than in any other one of the Earth’s atmospheric layers?


Ozone

300

British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite


Rosalind Elsie Franklin


300

What is the longest type of cell in the human body?


Nerve cell/Neuron


300

What is the main constituent of limestone?


Calcium carbonate


300

A type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter; Combine to form composite particles called hadrons. 


Quarks

300

What effect, created by the rotation of the Earth, deflects winds to the east in both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere



Coriolis Effect



400

Discoverer of radioactivity, for which he won the 1903 Nobel Prize


Professor Henri Becquerel


400

Which type of lymphocyte has enzyme-filled particles inside it that get released during an allergic reaction? (Hint: Their name implies that they stain well—a dark purple—with a basic dye).


Basophil


400

What is the common name for the compound with the chemical formula NaHCO3?


Baking soda


400

On a circuit diagram, which item can be represented by a circle with a diagonal cross in it?


Bulb

400

 A patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather


Rain shadow (effect)



500

The Father of Modern Chemistry


Antoine Lavoisier


500

What is the term for bacteremia that develops into a potentially life-threatening invasion of the bloodstream by bacteria and their toxins, accompanied by acute systemic illness?


Septicemia

500

What gas is given off by pouring dilute euphoric acid on to granulated zinc?


Hydrogen

500

What is the acronym laser stand for?


Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation


500

Muskeg is typically found in which biomes/areas?


Boreal Forest/Taiga and Arctic areas


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