Mrs Markou
Science Fun Facts 1
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Science Fun Facts 3
Mr Borg
100
This is the year that Mrs Markou began teaching at SCHS.

What is 2018?

100

This element, the lightest in the universe, is the main fuel for nuclear fusion in stars.

What is hydrogen?

100

This organelle in plant cells contains chlorophyll and performs photosynthesis.

What is chloroplast?

100

This invisible form of electromagnetic radiation causes sunburns and is mostly blocked by the ozone layer.

What is ultraviolet radiation?

100

Mr Borg's larger dog is this breed.

What is a staffy?

200

This is Mrs Markou's favourite colour.

What is green?

200

This scientist proposed that continents drift, an idea once mocked but now central to plate tectonics.

Who is Alfred Wegener?

200

This process describes how a species develops traits over time through random variation and survival pressures.

What is Natural Selection?

200

This subatomic particle is found in the nucleus and has no electric charge but similar mass to a proton.

What is a neutron?

200

This is Mr Borg's favourite pokemon. (Hint: it is a steel and psychic type pokemon.)

What is solgaleo?

300

Mrs Markou's children are half-phillipino, half-____?

what is half-greek?

300

This planet has winds exceeding 2,000 km/h, the fastest recorded in the solar system.

What is Neptune?

300

This type of chemical bond involves a shared pair of electrons between atoms.

What is a covalent bond?

300

This effect makes a pencil appear bent when it sits halfway into a glass of water.

What is refraction?

300

To the nearest hundred hours, this is the amount of time Mr Borg has spent in the past decade playing Destiny and Destiny 2.

What is 2,100 hours?

400

If Mrs Markou wasn't a science teacher, they would instead teach this subject.

What is music?

400

This rare type of lava rock is so light and gas-filled that it can actually float on water.

What is pumice?

400

This amphibian, named after an aztec god, can regrow its entire limb—including bone, muscles, and nerves—and is often used in regeneration research.

What is an axolotl?

400

This boundary in the atmosphere marks where temperature stops decreasing with altitude and begins to rise.

The stratosphere.

400

Mr Borg decided to become a Biology teacher because of this Action RPG game series.

What is monster hunter?

500

This is Mrs Markou's favourite type of coffee.

What is a mocha? OR What is chai tea?

500

This hypothetical form of matter could make up most of the universe but has never been directly detected.

What is dark matter?

500

This ultra-dense type of star is made almost entirely of neutrons and can spin hundreds of times per second.

What is a neutron star?

500

This proposed shortcut through spacetime could theoretically allow instant travel between distant points in the universe.

What is a wormhole?

500

Mr Borg is comically obsessed with this annual japanese superhero tv show that starts with the letter K.

What is Kamen Rider?

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