Planetary Science - "Our Cosmic Backyard"
This is the hottest planet in our solar system, thanks to a runaway greenhouse effect.
What is Venus?
The process by which plants convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars, releasing oxygen as a byproduct
What is photosynthesis?
This element, atomic number 6, is the fundamental building block of all known life.
What is Carbon?
This is the force that pulls objects towards the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight are called this.
What are producers or autotrophs
This gas giant is known for its prominent and visible rings made of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
This process is how spiders, insects, and crabs grow by shedding their exoskeleton.
What is molting?
This is the term for a reaction that releases heat, like combustion.
What is exothermic
This is the metric unit of force, named after a famous scientist.
This branch of Earth science studies the origin and structure of rocks.
What is geology?
In the collapse of a massive star, the core runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own gravity, and triggers a massive explosion that expels the star's outer layers into space.
What is a supernova
This is the biological term for when an animal, like an octopus or a chameleon, can change its skin color and texture to blend in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage
This metal is a liquid at room temperature and is the only one like that.
What is Mercury?
This states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force.
What is Newtons First Law of Motion
The scientist famous for an apple falling on his head.
Who is Issac Newton?
A region in space where a tremendous amount of matter is concentrated into an extremely small volume, creating an incredibly strong gravitational pull from which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces ATP through cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed but can be converted from one form to the next
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter
This type of energy is stored in an object due to its position, like a rock at the edge of a cliff.
What is Potential Energy?
Who made this awesome jeopardy hint he's really awesome.
Who is Gamaliel Williams or the upper school vice president?
A celestial event that takes place when the moon is visible during the day
What is an eclipse
This molecule carries genetic information and has a double-helix structure.
What is DNA
This type of bond involves the sharing of electrons between atoms.
What is a Covalent bond?
The product of an object’s mass and its velocity is known as this quantity.
What is Momentum
The word means a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos.
What is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?