Astronomy
Which planet in the solar system is the closest to the sun?
What is Mercury?
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
How do you determine the age of a tree?
What is count its growth rings?
What creature with an equine name is one of the only species on Earth where the male carries the unborn offspring?
What is a seahorse?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is the skin?
Which is the hottest planet in the solar system?
What is Venus?
What does a Geiger counter measure?
What is radiation?
Twenty percent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere is provided exclusively by what large rainforest?
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
What is the fastest animal on land?
What is the cheetah?
What is the hardest substance in the human body?
What is tooth enamel?
Which element mostly makes up Earth’s atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
What are the three layers of the Earth?
What are the Crust, mantle and core?
Which green pigment in plants absorbs light energy for photosynthesis?
What is Chlorophyll?
What do you call an animal that eats a variety of other organisms, including plants, animals and fungi?
What is an omnivore?
What is the heaviest internal organ in the human body?
What is the liver?
What colour are sunsets on the planet Mars?
What is Blue?
An anoxic environment wouldn’t be great for humans, but certain organisms thrive in them. Anoxic means that which element that is needed by most life to survive is absent?
What is Oxygen?
Which famous carnivorous plant snaps its leaves shut when tiny trigger hairs are touched?
What is a Venus flytrap?
How many bones does a shark have?
(they are all cartilage)
Where is the smallest bone in the body?
Where is in the ear (the stapes)?
Which chemical is responsible for Mars’ red colour?
What bacterium had a famous outbreak in 1993 when “Jack In The Box” inadvertently spread it across four states?
What is E. Coli?
Carrots were originally not orange—what two main colors were they historically?
What is purple or white?
How long is the memory of a goldfish?
What is six months?
Which part of the eye gives it its color?
What is the iris?