Biology
Animals that only eat plants are known by this term
What are herbivores?
What is the chemical symbol for water?
What is H₂O?
The force that opposes motion between two surfaces in contact is called this
What is friction?
The galaxy that contains our solar system
What is the Milky Way?
The letters "WWW" stand for this.
What is the World Wide Web?
The movement of water across a cell membrane is called this
What is osmosis?
This element, with the symbol Na, is commonly found in table salt
What is sodium?
This principle states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is Newton's Third Law?
This planet is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of its similar size
What is Venus?
The letters "CPU" stand for this computer component
What is Central Processing Unit?
These green structures in plant cells use sunlight to make food
What are chloroplasts?
A change that creates a new substance is known as this type of change
What is a chemical change?
This simple machine consists of a wheel with a grooved rim and a rope
What is a pulley?
The first artificial satellite launched into space was this Soviet spacecraft in 1957
What is Sputnik?
This company developed the PlayStation gaming console
What is Sony?
The process by which organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce
What is natural selection?
The process of separating a liquid mixture based on differences in boiling points
What is distillation?
The bending of light as it passes near a massive object is a prediction of this theory
What is General Relativity?
This famous comet becomes visible from Earth about every 76 years
What is Halley's Comet?
The first widely used graphical web browser, released in 1993, was called this
What is Mosaic?
The process by which cells divide to produce gametes with half the normal number of chromosomes
What is meiosis?
The element with atomic number 6 is this
What is carbon?
The SI (International System of Units) unit used to measure power bears the name of this steam engine pioneer.
What is a watt?
This planet's immense gravity causes both it and the Sun to orbit a shared center of mass, known as the barycenter, that is outside of the surface of the sun
What is Jupiter?
This programming language, created by Guido van Rossum, is named after a British comedy troupe
What is Python?