Biology
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is the mitochondrion?
The pH of a neutral solution at 25°C.
The SI unit of force.
What is N (newton)?
The planet known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
The outermost layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
This process produces genetically identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
The substance completely consumed first in a reaction is called the _____ reagent.
What is the limiting reagent?
The area under a velocity-time graph represents this quantity.
What is displacement?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
This layer of the atmosphere is closest to Earth’s surface and contains most weather.
What is the troposphere?
This blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart
What is the pulmonary vein?
The sub-atomic particle responsible for an element's chemical properties.
What is an electron?
Newton’s Third Law states that for every action, there is this.
What is an equal and opposite reaction?
This can be seen during a solar eclipse
What is a corona?
The process where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering?
This immune cell type matures in the bone marrow and produces antibodies.
What is a B cell (B lymphocyte)?
In a voltaic cell, this is the electrode where oxidation happens.
What is the anode?
The law stating that induced emf is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux.
What is Faraday's Law?
The term for the hypothetical form of matter that makes up about 27% of the universe.
What is Dark Matter?
The theory that Earth’s outer shell is broken into moving pieces.
What is plate tectonics?
This process generates antibody diversity by rearranging gene segments before exposure to pathogens.
What is VDJ recombination?
This species acts as both a proton donor and proton acceptor.
What is an amphoteric substance?
The quantity conserved because of rotational symmetry, according to Noether's Theorem.
What is angular momentum?
This region of space marks the boundary where a black hole’s escape velocity equals the speed of light. The theoretical boundary around a black hole from which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This motion is caused by a combination of thermohaline currents (thermo = temperature; haline = salinity) in the deep ocean and wind-driven currents on the surface.
What is the global ocean conveyor belt?