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100

This double-membraned organelle has its own DNA and was probably originally a prokaryote that got engulfed. Oxidation of water begins an important chemical pathway in this organelle. This organelle consists of the fluid stroma, which surrounds the grana, which are stacks of thylakoids.

Chloroplast

100

Below the lambda point, it has no viscosity and is called a superfluid. After the Hindenburg disaster, this gas replaced hydrogen in zeppelins and blimps. Because the speed of sound in this gas is much faster than that in air, inhaling this gas causes a high-pitched voice. 

Helium


100

In Amonton's Laws, the effect of this force is independent of surface area. One type of this force prevents resting objects from sliding and can be overcome with lubricants. 

Friction


100

This programming language’s namesake virtual machine helped popularize its slogan “write once, run anywhere.” This language is commonly used to develop Android applications. This Language's logo is a hot cup of coffee.

Java

100

Which science teacher used to be a pro boxer?

Mr. Klammer

200

This molecule has high surface tension because it forms many hydrogen bonds. This compound is unusual in that as it is cooled, it becomes less dense, so its solid form floats on top of its liquid form. What is this molecule? 

Water

200

The compound tris is used in the TAE and TBE types of these solutions. In blood, carbonic acid and bicarbonate ions form a system that acts as one of these. These solutions that resist changes in pH.

Buffers


200

This force is related to an accelerating observer by the Equivalence Principle of general relativity. Spacecraft can speed up by using this force as a "slingshot." Galileo used two balls of different masses to demonstrate that the pull of this force is constant, causing an acceleration of 9.8 meters per second squared.

Gravity

200

The two patterns that make up the binary system.

0 and 1

200

Who is Mr. Gordon's favorite singer?

Bob Dylan

300

This process stalls midway until the cell validate that all the kinetochores are attached to the spindle fibers. The checkpoint at the end of the G2 phase leads to this process, though cancer cells typically do it without any regulation. 

Mitosis

300

Perpetual motion machines that convert heat into motion are consistent with the conservation of energy but violate this principle. One statement of this principle disallows spontaneous heat flow from a cold object to a warm object, and an equivalent statement of this law says that no process can fully convert heat to work. What is this law?

Second Law of Thermodynamics

300

 Kinetic energy can be given as this quantity squared over two times mass. Impulse is the change in this quantity. This quantity is equal to the time derivative of force by Newton’s second law and it is conserved in both inelastic and elastic collisions.

Momentum

300

Modern computers often possess a few gigabytes of storage of this entity, which mainly comes in volatile types that lose the information they contain when a system loses power. Main high-speed memory that holds data and instructions.

RAM

300

Which teacher likes to make fishing poles and knives?

Mr. Beckman

400

5'-3' kinds require a covalent bond to single strands, and all of them move along a phosphodiester backbone of a nucleic acid. This molecule is an essential part of DNA replication as it breaks the hydrogen-bonded nucleotides apart.

DNA Helicase

400

The "redox" type of this lab technique may use potassium permanganate, which is especially useful due to its role as a “self-indicator.” This procedure is commonly conducted by slowly dripping a solution of known concentration from a burette into a flask until the equivalence point. 

Titration

400

By Lenz’s Law, this quantity is dampened by inductors due to it creating a magnetic field concentrically around its path. Name the rate at which charge moves through a material. Ohm’s law relates the drop in voltage across a resistor to this quantity. 

Current

400

What are the roots of the following equation: x2+10x+16

x = -2, x = -8

400

What is the name of Mr. Baldrige's cat?

Prince

500

The muscles that cause goosebumps maybe this type of organ, as are kiwi’s wings and the pelvic bones of whales. The human tailbone and appendix are examples of what type of structure served a role in an ancestor species but do not have a present function?

Vestigial Structures

500

The hydrogenation of this molecule yields cyclohexane, and adding a methyl group to this molecule creates toluene. Kekule discovered the structure of this molecule, which contains alternating single and double bonds. This molecule is drawn as a hexagon surrounding a circle.

Benzene

500

One of these particles and its antiparticle form a meson and three of these particles form a baryon. These particles have a charge of plus two-thirds or negative one-third and come in six flavors. Name  these elementary particles whose “up” and “down” flavors make up protons and neutrons.

Quark

500

What is the most beautiful mathematical equation called?

Extra points if you can tell me the equation.  

Euler's Identity

ei*π + 1 = 0

500

Which science teacher regularly consults the “flavor Bible” to create delicious dishes?

Mrs. Love

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