Science
This law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Newton's Third Law.
This financial statement summarizes a company’s revenues and expenses over a period, showing net profit or loss.
Income statement.
In this 2014 film by Christopher Nolan, astronauts travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity.
Interstellar.
This singer’s 2022 album Midnights includes the hit song “Anti-Hero.”
Taylor Swift.
The world’s largest coral reef system lies off the northeastern coast of this country.
Australia.
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are the site of gas exchange.
Alveoli.
The risk that an investment’s return will fluctuate due to market-wide factors, such as recessions or interest rate changes, is called this.
Systematic risk.
In this 1994 film, the title character repeatedly encounters historic events while telling the story of his life on a bench.
Forrest Gump.
This Puerto Rican superstar released the record-breaking 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti.
Bad Bunny.
This tectonic boundary, where the Pacific Plate slides past the North American Plate, runs through much of California.
San Andreas Fault
These organelles contain digestive enzymes and recycle cellular waste.
Lysosomes.
This term describes a situation where increasing the production of one good requires giving up more and more of another good, illustrated by a bowed-out production possibilities frontier.
Increasing opportunity cost.
This 2006 film features a character who says, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” summarizing the moral ambiguity of vigilante conflicts.
The Dark Knight.
Before becoming a global pop star, this artist performed under the stage name Stefani Germanotta.
This desert covers much of northern China and southern Mongolia and is known for its expanding desertification zones.
Gobi Desert.
This type of hybridization occurs in carbon atoms forming triple bonds, producing a linear geometry with 180° bond angles.
sp Hybridization.
This type of accounting tracks revenues and expenses when cash is actually received or paid, rather than when earned or incurred.
Cash basis accounting.
In this 2001 animated film, a boy named Ashitaka tries to broker peace between humans and forest spirits affected by a cursed boar demon.
Princess Mononoke.
This producer and musician, one half of Daft Punk, also co-wrote and produced Uptown Funk.
Thomas Bangalter.
This African river forms a massive inland delta in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert rather than emptying into the ocean.
In designing a rotating space habitat intended to simulate gravity at the rim, engineers exploit this radially outward acceleration that arises in the rotating frame, proportional to angular velocity squared and radial distance.
Centrifugal force.
This ratio, calculated as net income ÷ shareholders’ equity, measures how efficiently a company uses equity to generate profit.
Return on Equity (ROE).
In this 2001 French film, the character Amélie Poulain silently influences the lives of strangers around her in Montmartre, including a man who collects discarded photo booth pictures.
Amélie.
This singer became the first woman inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first with Fleetwood Mac and later as a solo artist.
Stevie Nicks.
This cold ocean current flowing north along the west coast of South America contributes to the extreme aridity of the Atacama Desert.
Humboldt Current.