Random Science 1
What is the area where freshwater and salt water mix near the mouth of a river?
Estuary
What is the compound found in the stratosphere that keeps solar / UV radiation from earth?
Ozone
What measures the force of gravity on an object?
Weight
What is made of made of one or more minerals?
Rock
What is the most common example of non-renewable energy?
Coal
Owls and hawks are in the same ecosystem and both eat mice, what would an increase in owl population do?
cause a strain on the food supply
What type of rock is formed when magma cools?
Igneous
What determines the gravitational attraction between two objects?
Mass
What type of bond is formed when atoms transfer or share electrons?
Chemical / Covalent bonds
What is genetically passed down from parents to their offspring?
DNA
What is missing: Sun - Grass - Rabbit - Fox - ...
Decomposer
A simple, low-growing plant that lacks specialized conducting tissues (xylem and phloem) to transport water and nutrients is called what?
Nonvascular plant
What type of wave is light?
Transverse
A rainbow arch of colors is caused by water droplets doing what to light?
Refracting
What is considered the backbone of life due to its ability to bond and form compounds with lots of organic material?
Carbon
How many oxygen atoms does ozone have?
Three
Why does an irrigated field have high salt / mineral content?
Evaporation
What are primarily ice and dust, orbit the sun and have a tail?
Comets
How are organisms generally classified?
Physical Structure
Balance: Fe + O₂ → Fe₂O₃
4Fe + 3O₂ → 2Fe₂O₃
Pressure increase on a barometer (high pressure) indicates what?
clear skies / mild weather
The need for new antibiotics proves what evolutionary trend?
New organisms exist
What are primarily rock and metal and reside between Mars and Jupiter?
Asteroids
When someone repeatedly hits the same area of a target, but this area is not near the bullseye, are they accurate or precise?
precise
What mineral is colorless, has a medium Mohs hardness, and breaks along 3 cleavage planes?
Calcite