DNA
The long name for DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid
The name of the scientist who coined either the theory of relativity, or the idea of black hole radiation.
Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
An atom
The hardest mineral on the mohs scale
Diamonds
Who is considered the father of evolution?
Charles Darwin
The number of chromosomes in a normal human cell
46 chromosomes
A supermassive black hole
What happens to particle motion as temperature increases?
It increases
What layer of the earth is made of hot, flowing rock beneath the crust?
The mantle
Why do giraffes have long necks (according to natural selection)?
To reach foliage
Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine, Uracil (RNA)
Unit used to measure temperature in scientific work (mostly chemistry and physics).
Hint: Not celsius or Fahrenheit
Kelvin
What kind of bond shares electrons between atoms?
Covalent Bond
What is the theory that Earth’s outer layer is broken into moving pieces?
Plate tectonics
What island group did Darwin visit that inspired his ideas?
The Galapagos
A cellular organelle containing DNA
Nucleus or Mitochondria
The term for the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C?
Calorie
The names of all four states of matter
Hint: The difficult one is also a kind of television
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma
What mountain range formed from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates?
The Himalayas
What is the main mechanism of evolution?
Hint: "Evolution by means of...."
Natural Selection
One of the three people who discovered DNA
Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick
What principle says we can't know both the exact position and velocity of a particle?
Hint: Breaking Bad
Heisenberg principle
The process by which something phase shifts directly from a solid to a gas
Sublimation
What is the name of Earth’s most recent supercontinent?
Pangaea
What famous early human ancestor was found in Ethiopia in 1974? She is sometimes referred to as the missing link in human evolution.
Hint: Common womens name
Lucy