Math
This is the value of pi rounded to two decimal places.
What is 3.14?
This is the number of protons in an atom's nucleus.
What is the atomic number?
This organelle is often called the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion (or mitochondria)?
This is the unit used to measure electric current.
What is the ampere (or amp)?
The smallest unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or a 1.
What is a bit?
In a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides, according to this theorem.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
A substance with a pH less than 7 is known by this chemical name.
What is an acid? (Acidic is acceptable)
The process plants use to convert light energy into chemical energy (glucose).
What is photosynthesis?
The force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding or grinding against each other.
What is friction?
Abbreviated as CPU, this is often called the "brain" of a computer.
What is the Central Processing Unit?
This type of number cannot be expressed as an integer or simple fraction, like pi or the square root of 2.
What is an irrational number?
The most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The full name of the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for development and functioning of all known organisms.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This process involves a computer program repeating a set of instructions over and over until a specific condition is met.
What is a loop (or iteration)?
The name for the horizontal axis on a standard Cartesian coordinate system graph.
What is the x-axis?
The process where a solid turns directly into a gas without passing through the liquid state.
What is sublimation?
The thymine base in DNA is replaced by this base in RNA.
What is uracil?
This is the tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion.
What is inertia?
This common simple machine is a bar that pivots around a fixed point called a fulcrum.
This is a line that a curve approaches as it heads toward infinity.
What is an asymptote?
This is the term for a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
What is a catalyst?
This term describes a membrane that allows certain molecules or ions to pass through by diffusion or facilitated diffusion, but not others.
What is a selectively permeable membrane? (semi-permeable membrane is also acceptable)
The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another (e.g., from air to water).
What is refraction?
This famous test, designed by Alan Turing, is used to determine if a machine can exhibit human-like intelligent conversation.
What is the Turing Test?