🧬 Life Science
What organelle is considered the "powerhouse" of the cell?
What is the exact point on the Earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake called?
What is the epicenter?
What are the three main particles that make up an atom?
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
What term describes an animal that only eats plants?
What is a herbivore?
What is an educated guess or a testable statement that predicts the outcome of a scientific experiment?
What is a hypothesis?
What are the two raw materials (reactants) needed for photosynthesis?
What are carbon dioxide and water?
What do we call a boundary between two different air masses?
What is a weather front?
Which state of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape?
What is a liquid?
What diagram shows the complex, overlapping feeding relationships and energy pathways among organisms in an entire ecosystem?
What is a food web?
In a controlled experiment, what is the specific factor or variable that the scientist intentionally changes?
What is the independent variable?
Which human body system is responsible for transporting oxygen, blood, and nutrients throughout the body?
What is the circulatory system?
What is the process called when water changes from a liquid to a gas (water vapor)?
What is evaporation?
What type of energy is possessed by an object in motion?
What is kinetic energy?
What type of symbiotic relationship benefits one organism while the other organism is neither helped nor harmed?
What is commensalism?
What laboratory tool is used to precisely measure the volume of a liquid?
What is a graduated cylinder?
If an organism has both a dominant and a recessive allele for a trait, which one is expressed?
What is the dominant allele?
Why do we experience day and night on Earth?
What is the rotation of the Earth on its axis?
Is the process of ice melting a physical or chemical change?
What do you call the maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustainably support over time?
What is carrying capacity?
What type of data is descriptive and relies on characteristics or traits observed with the senses rather than numbers?
What is qualitative data?
What is the specific cellular process where a single cell divides twice to produce four unique daughter cells containing half the original genetic information? Meiosis or Mitosis?
What standard scale measures an earthquake's intensity based on its observed destructive effects on people, structures, and the natural environment?
What is the Modified Mercalli scale?
What law states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force?
What is Newton's First Law of Motion? (Accept: The Law of Inertia)
What unique species has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem, meaning its removal could cause the entire habitat to collapse?
What is a keystone species?
What part of an experiment is kept completely standard and unchanged to serve as a baseline comparison for the results?
What is the control group?