Biology
This is the scientific term given to the shape of the E. coli bacterium.
What is bacillus? (Accept: rod or bacilli or bacilliform)
What is ionic?
In the oceans, waves and surf currents are generated by this.
What is wind?
The most common term for the type of energy that is most directly related to the energy of atoms, molecules, and other small particles that are in random motion within a system.
What is thermal?
The temperature of a star can be estimated most directly from its this.
What is color?
This is the MOST common anatomical synonym for ventral, when locating a part of the human body in relation to another part.
What is anterior?
Of the following, this is NOT an endothermic process:
1) sublimation
2) melting
3) vaporization
4) condensation
What is 4 or condensation?
This is the name for the common ocean waves that are not driven by the wind but sustained by the energy they obtained by the sea.
What are swells?
This is the SI unit of electric charge.
What is a coulomb?
The local group is generally referred to as a collection of these celestial objects.
What are galaxies?
This is the most common term for the division of a somatic cell into 2 nucleated cells following of mitosis.
What is cytokinesis?
A beaker of concentrated aqueous ammonia is placed next to a beaker of concentrated aqueous hydrochloric acid at room temperature. After a short while, a white cloud forms between the beakers. This is a demonstration of this.
What is diffusion?
Of the following, this cloud type is classified as a low cloud.
1) altostratus
2) cirrostratus
3) cumulonimbus
4) nimbostratus
What is 4 or nimbostratus?
The most common term for the electrode that acts as the negative electrode.
What is cathode?
This is the proper name for the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.
What is andromeda?
Most corticosteroids are synthesized in this specific part of the human body.
What is the adrenal cortex? (Also accept: Adrenal glands)
This is the scientific term for the ratio between the density of a given substance to that of water when both are at the same temperature.
What is specific gravity? (Also accept: relative density)
This is the oldest Eon on the Geological Time Scale within which the first organisms appeared between 550 million and 3.4 billion years ago.
What is Precambrian?
This is the most common term used the describe the velocity of an object at any discrete moment along its path.
What is the instantaneous velocity?
The main asteroid belt is located immediately between these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter? (Accept in any order)
This is the anticodon on a tRNA for AAA.
What is UUU?
This is the name for the most malleable and ductile metal which can be dissolved in aqua regia but is unaffected by air and most other reagents.
What is gold?
Of the following, this best describes the luster of quartz.
1) dull
2) silky
3) metallic
4) vitreous
What is 4 or virteous?
Giving your answer in kilometers per hour per second, this is the average acceleration of a truck traveling on a straight road from 10 kilometers per hour to 50 kilometers per hour in 1 minute and 20 seconds.
What is 0.5? (Solution: 40/80 = 0.5 km/hr/sec)
The stars Merak and Dubhe in the bowl of the big dipper are most commonly used to locate this star.
What is polaris? (Accept: Pole star, North star, Alpha ursa minoris)