General Science
What is the bending of light as it passes through different mediums?
Refraction
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell.
MITOCHONDRIA
What is the third planet from the sun?
Earth
The type of boundary where two plates slide past each other.
Transform boundary
Amphibians undergo this process, changing from larvae to adults.
Metamorphosis
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The theory that the universe began with a massive expansion.
The jelly-like substance inside the cell where organelles are found.
CYTOPLASM
What is the largest planet in the solar system?
JUPITER
The boundary in California where the Pacific Plate meets the North American Plate.
SAN ANDREAS FAULT
What is the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth?
Blue whale
This is the only planet not named after a Roman or Greek god.
Earth
The process by which a cell divides into two identical daughter cells.
MITOSIS
What is the closest star to Earth?
The mid-Atlantic ridge is an example of this type of boundary.
DIVERGENT BOUNDARY
The stripes of a zebra are used for this type of survival strategy.
Camouflage
The scale used to measure the strength of earthquakes.
Richter scale
The father of genetics who studied pea plants.
GREGOR MENDEL
OORT CLOUD
Who si the father of plate tectonics theory?
ALFRED WEGENER
The only mammals capable of true flight.
Bats
The process of separating liquids based on their boiling points.
Distillation
A cross between members of a similar offspring.
SELF-CROSS or SELFING
The outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, visible during a total solar eclipse.
CORONA
Pangaea was a supercontinent that split into two, and eventually divided into 7 continents. What are the 7 continents?
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
Whales and dolphins use this type of sound-based navigation.
Echolocation