Blinded me w/ Science
Scientifically Speaking
Potpourri
Less than Zero
More than a Million
100

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

What is an Ecosystem?

100

A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor  

What is a Recessive Trait?

100

One of the names of the two co-founding teachers of South Valley Academy.

Who is Alan Marks or Katarina Sandoval?

100

The same shape and size, but we are allowed to flip, slide or turn.

What is Congruence?

100

A pair of numbers that give the coordinates (location) for a point on a grid.

What are ordered pairs/coordinates?

200

The energy an object has due to its motion

What is Kinetic Energy?

200

Cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms.

What is Meiosis?

200

First year location of South Valley Academy campus.

What is Ernie Pyle Middle School?

200

Any of the prime numbers that can be multiplied to give the original number.

What is a Prime Factor?

200

A rate that describes how one quantity changes in relation to another.

What is Rate of Change?

300

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.

What is Mutualism?

300

The system that removes waste from your body and controls water balance.

What is the Excretory System?

300

Years of operation of South Valley Academy. 

What is 20 years? (This is the 21st year)

300

More than two algebraic terms, especially the sum of several terms that contain different powers of the same variable(s)

What is a Polynomial?

300

An expression with only one term?

What is a Monomial?

400

A colorless, odorless gas that is present in the atmosphere and is formed when any fuel containing carbon is burned

What is Carbon Dioxide?

400

All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.

What is the Hydrosphere?

400

Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering

Who are the authors of "Building Academic Vocabulary"

400

An equation between two variables that gives a straight line when plotted on a graph.

What is a Linear Equation? 

400

An area of information in which data are not available.

What is a Data Gap?

500

A self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes.

What is DNA?

500

Part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides

What is Mitosis?

500

To offer something to be polite of courteous but not really meant.

What is Taarof?

500

A set of numbers or objects that will follow a specific pattern.

What is an Array?

500

The distance around a figure.

What is the Perimeter?