2 Word Science Terms
For Actinium, it's 89.
What is atomic number?
"A": This clear fluid surrounds a baby in it's mother's womb.
What is amniotic fluid?
From the Latin for "fine powder," it's the process by which microscopic grains from one plants travel to another to fertilize it.
What is pollination?
This word for a type of blood vessel is also used for a mineral-filled fissure within a rock?
What is a vein?
In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust and in the human body.
What is oxygen?
This 2 word compound is the main component of both limestone and coral reefs.
What is calcium carbonate?
"C": In myth, it's a fire breathing hybrid monster; in genetics an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA.
What is chimera?
These glands that aid in digestion are found under the tongue and inside the cheeks and lower jaw.
What are the salivary glands?
This process is the weathering of particles as they're worn away and moved by wind or water.
What is erosion?
Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, Laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits.
What is opium?
It's the more common Latin name for the lesser bear constellation?
What is Ursa Minor?
"A": You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom and one from dad.
What are alleles?
As part of this system, thin walls of the alveoli are conducive to extracting carbon dioxide and getting oxygen to the blood.
What is the respiratory system?
Deposits at Bad Water Basin of what is mostly this mineral leave polygon shaped designs due to water evaporation.
What is salt?
Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest US annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal.
What is iron?
It says that the volume of gas varies inversely with the pressure on it at a constant temperature.
What is Boyle's Law?
"B": This pigment gives bile its yellowish color and can lead to gallstones.
What is bilirubin?
In the process of adolescence, the slow development of the PFC, or the prefrontal this, may explain risk-taking.
What is cortex?
Leapfrog is software scientists use to create 3D models of this kind of relative elevation map, partly from Greek for "place."
What is topographical?
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing Kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive.
What is nitroglycerin?
Copperheads belong to this group of snakes named for the heat-sensitive depressions on each side of the head.
What is pit viper?
"C" "C": 2 word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself.
What is the cell cycle?
There no place like this, the regulating process in which equilibrium is the ultimate goal in an organism.
What is homeostasis?
Millions of years ago, all of the continents were combined in one "super" one called this, meaning "all of Earth."
What is Pangea?
Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to develop the Genetic Theory of Heredity.
What is the fruit fly?