Forces of Nature
This scale measures tornado strength based on damage.
What is the Fujita scale?
This line at 0° latitude divides Earth into hemispheres
What is the equator ?
These structures carry genetic instructions in cells.
What is DNA
This structure in China stretches thousands of miles for defense.
What is the Great Wall
This simple machine uses a rope and wheel to lift objects
What is a Pulley ?
This layer of Earth is broken into tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere ?
This line at 0° longitude runs through Greenwich, England
What is the Prime Meridian ?
This organelle produces energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
This emperor was buried with thousands of terracotta soldiers.
Who is Qin Shi Huang
This invention allows people to see very distant objects in space.
What is a telescope ?
Molten Rock beneath Earths surface is called this
What is magma
This country controls the Bosporus Strait
What is Turkey
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell ?
This material invented in China replaced bamboo slips.
What is paper
This invention allows communication over long distances using sound and was invented by Alexander Grahmen Bell
What is the telephone ?
This storm forms over warm oceans and has a calm eye
What is a hurricane ?
This strait separates Russia from Alas
What is the Bering strait ?
This process creates two identical cells.
What is mitosis
This philosophy teaches harmony with the Tao
What is Taoism
This device converts chemical energy into electrical energy.
What is a battery ?
This boundary between tectonic plates is where earthquakes often occur.
What is a fault line?
This region in western China includes the Taklamakan Desert and was key to the Silk Road.
What is Xinjiang
This type of cell lacks a nucleus
What is a prokaryotic cell
This was the final imperial dynasty of China
What is the Qing Dynasty
This Chinese invention uses magnetism to determine direction.
What is a compass?