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Science Potpourri
100

What green pigment in plants absorbs sunlight to help make food during photosynthesis?

What is chlorophyll?

100

What mammal is known as the largest animal to ever live on Earth?

What is that blue whale?

100

Doctors are now trying to develop a much better hearing aid that they want to place inside these body parts that are made up of the hardest materials in your body.

What are your teeth. 

100

The animated movie that tells the backstory of Buzz the astronaut in the toy story series is named for this measurement of distance in space. 

What is light year? 

100

There are some books out there called "what if books" they ask kind of crazy questions. One of the questions is what would happen if everyone on the earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped all at the same time and all came down at the same time? A hypothesis would be that they would all cause one of these. 

What are earthquakes? 

200

After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine the people there planted these flowers that are well known for turning all during the day that will suck up the radioactive material from the soil.

What is sunflowers?

200

Animals that are active at night like geckos that are not able to see colors at night, known as these "n" initial kinds of animals. 

What are nocturnal animals?

200

Another way of saying that someone ignored you at a party is to say they gave you a cold one of these joints.

What is a cold shoulder?

200

Multiple choice - During the calendar year is the day when the sun crosses the equator heading north the vernal equinox, autumnal equinox, winter solstice, summer solstice?   

What is the vernal equinox?

200

To protect themselves from the toxins found in the leaves that they eat elephants will dig up and eat this material, the same substance that kids like you use to play with and use to mold objects like vases that can be baked in a kiln. 

What is clay?

300

The tallest trees in the world, the redwoods and the giant sequoias, get some of the water they need from the ground.They also absorb water that arrives from this vapor in the morning, which is kind of a ground leveled cloud. 

What is Fog.

300

The prehensile tails of many monkeys, possums, and some porcupines let the animals get through the treetop more easily since their tails acts as a 5th one of these. 

What is a limb.

300

The olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is so good partly because, even though he's 6ft 4in. his outstretched arms and hands reach to 6 ft. 8 in., a number known as this that is also used to describe the outstretched wings of a bird. 6ft 8 is Michael Phelps what?

What is wingspan?

300

Iodine crystals can subline meaning they can change from a solid to a vapor without going through another state of matter first. 

What is liquid?

300

Visual question - meet the Goops - characters invented by a cartoonist back in the 1800's. The Goops had bad manners and were sort of human and were boneless putting them in what "I" initial classification group. 

What are invertebrates? 

400

Wetlands like bogs and swamps are often full of smelly and decaying masses of dead plant material known as peat what?

what is moss?

400

Multiple Choice - Fly fisherman have long used Mayflies, the world's oldest known insects. Mayflies develops as nimps under water then they emerge as adults they mate and they only live for one day or two, because they have such short lives which of the following adjectives describes these mayflies are they  ephemeral, gregarious, or polygamous?  

What are ephemeral?

400

If someone is suffering from sickle cell anemia the cells that are sickled are these. 

What are the red blood cells?

400

Nasa is worried that one of the instruments on the new James Webb telescope might malfunction because of the detected the increase amount of this force on some of the moving parts.

What is friction?

400

All scientist hope one day to win one of these prestiges prizes. They cannot win one by nominating themselves.

What is the Nobel Prize

500

In the opening song for televisions Big bang theory they sing about autotrophs which refers to this what all plants do. 

What is feed themselves? 

500

Animals will often visit certain trees to rub against them or to eat the tree sap because it will help them get rid of these "p" initial kinds of organisms. 

What are parasites? 

500

Plaque is a substance that can build up on your teeth and also it is the name of a fatty substance that can clog these kinds of blood vessels especially those that are on your heart.   

What are arteries? Coronary arteries. 

500

A semiconductor ,a bit of silicon, that conducts electricity can convert AC into DC 

What is DC - direct current? 

500

If your taking antibiotics you're hoping to kill off bacteria in your body but if you eat yogurts  or sauerkraut or imeche these foods are giving you good bacteria and are known as these. 

What are probiotics?