The Periodic Table
Common name for kitchen substance known chemically as NaCl
Table Salt
Humans have 23 pairs of these per cell, corn has 10, and fruit flies have 4.
Chromosomes
The process by which populations of organisms adapt and change in response to pressures.
Natural Selection
The General Theory of Relativity is concerned with this force of attraction.
Gravity
A type of chemical reaction that releases heat.
Exothermic Reaction
The acceleration of an object due to the Earth's gravity to 1 decimal place is approximately:
9.8 m/s2
This Nobel prize winning physicist has a famous cat.
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger
On this scale, battery acid is listed as a 1.
Subatomic particle that adds to the mass of an atom but not its charge.
Neutron
The names of the four nitrogenous bases which make up the rungs of DNA.
Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine.
The study of the development of organisms from fertilization to birth.
Embryology
A point in space where no light can escape.
Event Horizon
A reaction producing a solid from two aqueous solutions.
Precipitation reaction
A quantity that has direction and magnitude is called a:
Vector
He formulated the universal laws of gravitation and motion and was the first scientist buried at Westminster Abbey.
Isaac Newton
A calorimeter measures the amount of this released or absorbed in a chemical reaction.
Heat
Two atoms contribute one of something each to form this.
Watson and Crick were presented a Nobel prize for discovering this structure of a molecule.
Double Helix
A type of evolution resulting in analogous structures
Convergent Evolution
The ring of dust that forms around black holes.
Accretion Disk
A substance that donates protons (hydrogen ions)
Acid
Energy being unable to be created or destroyed is called the:
Law of Conservation of Energy
This famous modern physicist was diagnosed with ALS as a graduate student at The University of Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking
In 2012, scientists achieved a temperature lower than -273.15 degrees Celsius better known by this term.
Absolute zero
This force holds cations and anions together in a lattice.
Electrostatic force of attraction
Term for one form of a gene that masks another form; also a term for the leader of a group of animals.
Dominant Gene
The ranks going from domain and kingdom down to genus and species are part of this aspect of biology.
Taxonomy
The term for the apparent difference in position of an object viewed from different angles.
Reduction is:
The gain of electrons
The force that opposes motion is called:
Friction
Chemist credited for theorising that electrons sit at different fixed energy levels from the nucleus.
Niels Bohr
Used to separate two liquids mixed together, this device helped Theodor Svedberg win a 1926 Nobel prize.
Centrifuge.
When copper is burnt a blue flame is produced. When sodium is burnt it will produce what colour flame?
Yellow
Alleles that result in a blending of traits is known as what kind of dominance?
Incomplete dominance
The scientific term for a process that can last up to 9 months in humans.
Gestation
The effect that causes light from objects moving away from us to appear redder.
Doppler Effect
An acid with what substance produces hydrogen gas and a salt?
Acid + Metal
The resistance of an object to changes in motion is called:
Inertia
This Austrian monk cross-bred pea plants and is recognised as the father of modern genetics.
Gregor Johann Mendel
Appropriately the name of this bone comes from the Latin word for 'to chew'.
The mandible