Biology
This green pigment in plant chloroplasts captures light energy for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This transition metal, symbol Fe, is the primary component of steel and is essential for oxygen transport in blood.
What is Iron?
This value represents the limit of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
What is Pi?
This quantity, measured in meters per second (m/s), describes how fast an object is moving and in what direction.
What is Velocity?
The official school colors of UNC Charlotte.
What is White and Green?
This double-helical molecule carries genetic information in nearly all living organisms.
What is DNA?
This element, atomic number 3 on the periodic table, is an essential component of batteries often used to store harvested solar energy.
This ratio, found by dividing “rise” by “run,” represents the steepness of a line.
What is Slope?
his simple machine consists of a rigid bar that pivots on a fixed point to amplify force.
What is a Lever?
The name of UNC Charlotte’s mascot.
What is Norm the Niner?
This system in mammals transports oxygen, nutrients, and hormones throughout the body and removes waste products.
What is the Cardiovascular System?
As its chemical symbol of Hg indicates, this liquid-at-room-temperature metallic element was once known as “hydrargyrum.”
What is Mercury?
This type of polynomial has exactly two terms.
What is a Binomial?
This type of energy is associated with an object’s position in a gravitational field.
What is Gravitational Potential Energy?
The founder of UNC Charlotte.
Who is Bonnie Cone?
This organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins for secretion or delivery to other organelles.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This highly reactive halogen, atomic number 17, is widely used in water treatment and bleach production.
What is Chlorine?
This derivative rule is used to find the derivative of a function raised to a power.
What is the Chain Rule?
This wave phenomenon occurs when two waves meet and combine to form a new wave pattern.
What is Interference?
This molecule, produced by ribosomes, carries amino acids to the ribosome for protein synthesis.
What is tRNA?
This noble gas, atomic number 10, is commonly used in brightly glowing advertising signs.
What is Neon?
This theorem allows you to evaluate a line integral of a conservative vector field using only the values of a potential function at the endpoints.
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Line Integrals?
This law states that the force between two charges is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
What is Coulomb’s law?
The year UNC Charlotte was founded.
1946