Ecology/the Environment
Earth & Space
Cells and Molecules
Miscellaneous
Helpful Facts
100
Long term weather conditions that occur in a particular region
What is climate?
100
The only planet in our solar system where you can find liquid water
What is Earth?
100
An atom with a non-neutral charge
What is an ion?
100
The variable that is directly altered by a scientist in research
What is the independent variable?
100
A place where you can find local events, free WiFi, and borrow all sorts of things
What is a library?
200
Extremes of these factors lead to increased biodiversity
What are rainfall and temperature?
200
The term for the planets in our solar system that are typically large, gaseous, and possess many moons
What are the outer planets?
200
This organelle is believed to have once been its own prokaryotic organism that eventually "fused" with a larger cell
What is the mitochondria?
200
The teacher who drops off our meals
Who is Mr. Folster?
200
Cooking and portioning one's food at the start of the week
What is meal prepping?
300
This greenhouse gas results from the anaerobic breakdown of organic molecules, like that occurs in landfills and cow stomachs
What is methane?
300
The deepest parts of our oceans, formed when one continental plate runs under another
What is a trench?
300
You will get this if you place a large number of phospholipids into water
What is a membrane?
300
The percentage of homozygous dominant offspring resulting from this cross
What is 0%?
300
Use this to efficiently complete resumes and cover letters for job applications
What is a template?
400
The process that occurs when organisms colonize an area where there is already exposed topsoil
What is secondary succession?
400
The name for this island of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
400
The portion of an atom that has negligible mass
What are the electrons?
400
The organism that Mr. Jacques used to research
What is the axolotl?
400
The proper way to hold a knife when cutting
What is the handshake method?
500
The omnivorous primary consumer in this food web
What is herring?
500
The reason why New England has so many deposits of granite, large rocks, etc.
What are glaciers?
500
The reason sexually produced offspring vary from their parents
What is crossing over?
500
The primary reason for increase in the human population over the past two centuries
What are advancements in medicine?
500
The number for the Suicide and Mental Crisis Helpline
What is 988?