Matter
Hydrosphere
Evolution/Genetics
Energy
Microbiology
100

What are the subatomic particles?

Proton, Electron, and Neutron

100

What is the majority of earth's water?

Salt water (97%)

100

Who is considered the Father of Evolution?

Charles Darwin

100

What are fossil fuels and nuclear power?

Nonrenewable resources

100

What are the four types of microbes that cause disease?

Bacteria, virus, protist, and fungi

200

How is the periodic table arranged? How are the elements arranged?

Atomic Number

200

Where is the majority of our freshwater on earth?

Polar Ice Caps

200

What is the strongest evidence for the theory of evolution?

Fossil Record

200

What are water, biomass, solar, wind, and geothermal?

Renewable resources

200

What do you use to fight a bacterial infection?

Anti-biotics

300

What is the Law that states that the mass of reactants must equal the mass of products?

Law of Conservation of Mass

300

What is the normal pH for drinking water?

pH of 7

300

What are structures with the same structure but different functions?

Homologous Structure

300

What is the disadvantage of burning fossil fuels?

Air pollution by releasing greenhouse gas methane.

300

What is the only type of microbe that is not alive?

Virus

400

Give an example of a physical change.

Boiling water.

400

What is a factor that causes eutrophication?

Large amounts of nitrates

400

What is the concept that organisms with traits that are favorable to survival will survive long enough to reproduce therefore they will pass along those traits to their offspring?

Natural Selection

400

What is a disadvantage to solar energy?

Long term storage is not possible.

400

What is a dead or weakened pathogen injected into a healthy organism to prevent a disease?

Vaccine

500

What is the least reactive group on the Periodic Table?

Noble Gases

500

Which factor allows life to exist in water and is effected by temperature and salinity?

dissolved oxygen

500

Who created the Theory of Continental Drift and Pangea?

Alfred Wegener

500

What is drawback of transferring one type of energy to another?

Energy is lost as heat.

500

What is an epidemic that has spread world-wide?

Pandemic