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The movement of these large plates is responsible for most volcanic activity and earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
This is the most common element in the human body.
What is oxygen?
Cartilaginous fish such as sharks lack these.
What are bones?
This property of water allows it to stick to itself.
What is cohesion?
This planetary body is named after the king of the roman pantheon of gods.
What is Jupiter?
This fossil fuel is responsible for 35% of the worlds electricity production.
What is coal?
These balls of protein speed up chemical reactions in organisms.
What are enzymes?
This is the name for a group of flamingos.
What is a flamboyance?
This is the collective name for the inert gasses on the right side of the periodic table.
What are the noble gasses?
Mars is red in color due to this element.
What is iron?
This biogeochemical cycle does NOT include the atmosphere.
What is phosphorus?
These two processes work in opposites and share a flipped equation.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
You are at the beach swimming and you see a triangular shaped fin gliding through the water towards you. The name of that fin is?
What is a dorsal fin?
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
This number of stars make up the big dipper.
What is seven?
Name one gas that can contribute to acid rain.
What is SO2, NO, NO2?
An apiary is a home to these creatures.
What are bees?
Sponges and starfish are examples of animals that display this type of symmetry.
What is radial symmetry?
The pH of a substance is determined by the concentration of these ions.
What are hydrogen ions?
This object is at the center of the milky way galaxy.
What is a black hole?
Overfishing is one of the ways species are threatened. Name the other methods outlined in the acronym HIPPCO. (100 points for each)
Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Population Growth, Pollution, Climate Change
The lack of this bone is why cats can fit through small spaces and always land on their feet.
What is the clavicle or collar bone?
There are only two known types of echinoderms. Name one of the two.
What are platypi or echidnas?
Name the four states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
Upon its death, our sun will become this type of star.
What is a red giant?