Biology
This largest organ in the human body serves as a protective barrier.
What is the skin?
The center of an atom, containing protons and neutrons.
What is the nucleus?
This type of bridge uses tension and is held up by cables anchored at the ends.
What is a suspension bridge?
This four-sided figure has all equal sides but not necessarily 90 angles.
What is a rhombus?
The unit of electrical resistance, named after a German physicist.
What is the ohm?
The powerhouse of the cell is the mitochondria; this is the control center.
What is the nucleus?
This is the chemical symbol for the element gold.
What is Au?
This principle describes the ability of a structure to support a load without collapsing.
What is structural integrity?
The formula for the area of a circle, using its radius r
What is A=pi *r ^2?
This law states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law (or the Law of Inertia)?
The structure that connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means.
What is an element?
This type of civil engineer is often responsible for the design of roadways, dams, and bridges.
What is a civil engineer?
The name for the longest side of a right-angled triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
The point at which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is the boiling point?
The process by which the body maintains a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
The name for the vertical columns on the Periodic Table of Elements.
What are groups (or families)?
The material often combined with cement, aggregate, and water to make concrete.
What is rebar (or steel reinforcement)?
The mathematical term for a line that touches a circle or curve at only one point.
What is a tangent?
The term for the energy of an object due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the name for the tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs.
What are alveoli?
This most electronegative element is found in group 17 and is given the symbol F
What is fluorine?
A structural beam supported at one end and projecting horizontally into space.
What is a cantilever?
This famous number, pi, is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is the diameter?
This equation relates energy (E) to mass (m) and the speed of light (c).
What is E = mc^2