Chapter 5
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Geography
Potpourri
100

The prefix adip means this.

What is fat?

100

This 'membrane' connects the dermis and the epidermis.

What is the basement membrane?

100

The prefix odont means this.

What is tooth?

100

This capital city has the largest population of any city in the world.

What is Tokyo?

100

This all-time great MLB player is nicknamed "The Kid" in large part due to the fact that his same-named father was also an MLB HoFer.

Who is Ken Griffey Jr.?

200

This, along with secretion, absorption, and excretion, is the fourth function of epithelial tissue.

What is protection?

200

You find much of the underlying adipose tissue in this layer which literally means "under the skin."

What is the subcutaneous layer?

200

Along with calcium carbonate, this mineral salt is responsible for much of the hardness of bones.

What is calcium phosphate?

200

Alexander the Great's father was King Phillip II of this political entity which shares its name with a modern day "north" country.

What is Macedonia?

200

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, but do you know that this man was second?

Who is Buzz Aldrin?

300

These type of glands secrete by duplicating and performing apoptosis.

What are holocrine glands?

300

These two glands populate the dermis.

What are sweat and sebaceous glands?

300

These are the fundamental cell units of bone tissue.

What are osteocytes?

300

This mountain range, along with the Ural Mountains, is commonly considered to separate Europe and Asia.

What are the Caucuses?

300

With all the new Wicked hype, let's not forget about these two women who played Glinda and Elphaba in the original Broadway play.

Who are Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith?

400

Mast cells secrete this hormone which is vital for inflammation.

What is histamine?

400

As opposed to the terminal hair which grows in a few specific places, this type of hair grows on the arms, legs, and anywhere else terminal hair doesn't.

What is vellus hair?

400
Bone cells form concentric circles which form units known as this.

What are osteons?

400

This city, in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, is currently the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

What is Sarajevo?

400

With a name similar to golf's favorite "bear", this actor is well known for his roles in The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as the Joker in the 1989 Batman.

Who is Jack Nicholson?
500

Chondrocytes are the cells which compose this type of connective tissue.

What is cartilage?

500

This is the muscle responsible for goosebumps.

What is the arrector pili?

500

Bones begin losing density at this age.

What is 30 years old?

500

This is the longest river in Asia.

What is the Yangtze River?

500

This woman who recently made headlines with her novel, Demon Copperhead, is also famous for novels such as The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees.

Who is Barbara Kingsolver?