Geology
Rocks formed from the cooling of magma/lava
What are igneous rocks?
The process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change
What is natural selection?
When the moon partially or fully blocks the sun
What is a solar eclipse?
The element with the symbol "Au"
What is gold?
The property of a soundwave that is associated with volume (how loud the sound is)
What is amplitude?
The ancient remains of living things preserved in rock
What are fossils?
What is skin?
The planet whose orbit is closes to the orbit of Earth
What is Venus?
The element responsible for Mars's red appearance
What is iron?
A term describing the tendency for an object at rest to remain at rest
What is inertia?
The color of the gemstone "Peridot"
What is the color green?
The four letters that represent bases in DNA structure
What are A, T, C, and G?
There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance
What is a lightyear?
Category of naturally occurring elements that are in group 18 on the Periodic Table, known for their unreactive nature
What are noble gases?
The energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement
What is work?
The largest tectonic plate (shares a name with the ocean it lies underneath)
What is the Pacific Plate?
The branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects
What is entomology?
What is a singularity?
A mixture in which very small particles of one substance are distributed evenly throughout another substance
What is a colloid?
A unit of measurement equivalent to a kilogram-meter per second squared
What is a Newton?
The national gemstone of Australia, nicknamed the "fire of the desert"
The amount of blood the average human has (in quarts)
What is 6 quarts?
The rapidly moving stream of charged particles that is being driven away from the sun
A unit of measurement that is often interpreted as the amount of disorder/chaos is in the system
The speed of sound (in mph)
What is 761 miles per hour?