Biology
The molecule that carries genetic information in all living things.
What is DNA?
The smallest unit of an element that still retains its properties.
What is an atom?
The force that pulls objects towards Earth.
The main greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
The galaxy our solar system is in
What is the Milky Way?
The powerhouse of the cell, where ATP (energy) is produced.
What is the mitochondria?
Represented on the periodic table as, Ag.
What is silver?
The person who described the laws of motion.
What is Isaac Newton?
What is the sun?
The only natural satellite of Earth.
What is the moon?
The term for a change in an organism's DNA sequence.
What is a mutation?
The type of bond that holds sodium and chlorine (table salt) together.
What is an ionic bond?
Formula for speed.
The biome that has the greatest amount of biodiversity on Earth.
What is a rainforest?
What is continental drift or plate tectonics?
The organelle responsible for making proteins
What are ribosomes?
What the atomic number on the periodic table of an element represents.
What is the number of protons?
The type of energy stored in a stretched rubber band.
What is potential energy?
Earth's tectonic plates float on top of this hot, semi-liquid layer.
What is the mantle?
The process that creates gametes with half the usual number of chromosomes.
What is meiosis?
The process where solid turns directly into gas without becoming liquid.
Light bends when it passes from air to water because of this property.
What is refraction?
The layer of Earth's atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
A star's color tells us about this property.