Biology
The powerhouse of the cell
What is mitochondria?
What process of physical and chemical changes involves the changes between the types of rocks?
What is the rock cycle?
What is the chemical formula for methane?
What is CH4?
To the first decimal place, what is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth? (In m/s^2)
How many nuclear factories are operational and providing net energy in the world today?
What is 0?
The graphical depiction of the interdependent feeding relationships that exists between the organisms of an environment.
What is a food web?
The name for the circle of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The phase change that converts a gas directly to a solid.
The length of time taken for a wave to go through a complete cycle, arriving to the same state where it began.
What is the period?
The process used by most organisms to create ATP, using oxygen as a final electron acceptor.
What is aerobic respiration?
A synonym to antibody; important to immune system's attack on various pathogens.
What is an immunoglobulin?
The point on the surface above where an earthquake originates.
What is the epicenter?
The instrument used to measure precise quantities of liquid for a titration.
What is a buret?
The principle that proved that the momentum and position of an electron cannot both be known at any given time.
What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
The amount of energy defined as one pound of water being heated by one degree Fahrenheit.
What is a BTU?
The neurotransmitter that is released at the neuromuscular junction that has stimulatory and depressant effects in the body.
What is acetylcholine?
The prefix that describes clouds found at the mid-altitude range.
What is alto?
The type of reaction seen when metallic sodium reacts with water to form sodium hydroxide and hydrogen.
What is a single displacement reaction?
The final velocity of an object in free-falling motion, assuming air resistance is present and the object is high enough.
What is terminal velocity?
The largest source of hydroelectric energy in the world today.
What is the Three Gorges' Dam?
The name of the expansive mass of hyphae found beneath a fungus.
What is mycelium?
The mass of rocks or sediment left behind as a glacier travels over land.
What is a moraine?
The element with the most stable isotopes (10).
What is tin?
The law that describes the refraction of light in various media.
What is Snell's Law?
The energy used by an electrical device while turned off.
What is phantom load? (Vampire power, standby power)