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Trivia
100
Who is considered the father of evolutionary biology?
Answer: Charles Darwin
100
How many significant digits are in the number: 1.660
Answer: 4
100
Air resistance is a _______ force.
Answer(s): Frictional, resistive, drag
100
What once covered 14% of the Earth's land area, but by 1991 had been over half destroyed?
Answer: Rainforest
100
What 4 elements are most abundant in the human body? (The team with the most correct elements will win.)
Answer: Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen.
200
The addition of these two NH2-HCR-COOH (name what kind of molecules they are) results in the formation of _____.
Answer: Amino acids; water (H2O)
200
Atoms of which three elements bond to hydrogen in hydrogen bonding?
Answer: Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine
200
For object 1, a net force F applied to mass m will produce an acceleration of a. What is the mass of object 2 accelerating at 5a when experiencing a net force of 2F? (Hint: Newton's Second Law)
Answer: (2/5)m
200
What is the collective term for substances such as coal, oil and natural gas, the burning of which produces carbon dioxide?
Answer: Fossil fuel.
200
Where is the oldest individual living tree located? A) Vancouver Island, Canada B) Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka C) California, US D) Yellow stone, US E) Los Lagos, Chile
Answer: C, California, US
300
Name three of the five characteristics of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.
Answer: Random mating, no natural selection, no mutations, no genetic drift, no gene flow (immigration/emigration)
300
What is the approximate angle between atoms or unshared electron pairs in a tetrahedral arrangement?
Answer: 109.5°
300
Which of the following wave properties CANNOT be demonstrated by all kinds of waves? Polarization Diffraction Superposition Refraction Frequency
Answer: polarization
300
This protocol was initially adopted in 1997 for the purpose of reducing green house gas output. What is the name of this protocol?
Answer: Kyoto Protocol
300
About how heavy can a cloud become? A) 45 kg B) 450 kg C) 4,500 kg D) 45,000 kg E) 450,000 kg
Answer: E, 450,000 kg, which is over a million pounds. Sometimes, clouds can even weigh more than that!
400
What is the enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation?
Answer: RuBisCo (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase)
400
Which substance is produced by the Haber process?
Answer: Ammonia
400
Two satellites A and B orbit with radii R and 2R, respectively, about the same center. Satellite A orbits with a velocity v. What is the orbital velocity of satellite B?
Answer: v/sqrt(2)
400
Name at least 3 of the most prominent renewable energy sources used today.
Answer (3 of the following): wind, hydroelectricity, solar, agricultural biomass, geothermal, tidal
400
As many as 70,000 people nationwide(U.S.) may die prematurely from heart and lung disease aggravated by: A) air pollution B) smoking C) obesity D) drugs
Answer: A, air pollution
500
What is cretinism and the deficiency of what hormone does it usually result from?
Answer: Cretinism is a severe form of hypothyroidism in children; hypothyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland cannot produce enough thyroxine. Hypothyroidism usually occurs from iodine deficiency, as iodine is needed to produce thyroxine.
500
What is the balanced equation for the following reaction? Excess hydrochloric acid is added to a solution of cobalt(II) nitrate to produce a coordination complex.
Answer: Co2+ + (n)Cl- --> CoCl(n) (charge: 2-n)
500
A particle with mass m and charge +q travels perpendicularly to a magnetic field of magnitude B. The particle moves circularly with radius R and with frequency f. Find the equation for B.
Answer: 2(pi)(f)(m)(1/q)
500
What do you call naturally occurring gaseous/liquid fuels, such as tar shales?
Answer: Synfuels
500
In scientific terms, how to we define “immortality”? A) Gompertz Model B) Aristotelian inevitability C) Apoptosis D) Negligible Senescence E) Turritopsis nutricula
Answer: (D), Negligible Senescence. It is commonly called biological immortality, and animals with negligible senescence have never been observed to actually age. Animals, like the hydra, with this only die because of accidents, disease, or predators.
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