Environment
What region on Earth produces 20% of the planet's oxygen?
Amazon Rainforest
The most common DNA test used for paternity testing is performed by collecting buccal cells, which are found in what specific body part?
Cheek
What is the only letter not on the Periodic Table of Elements?
J
What is the official name for rocket science?
Aeronautics
What is the name of the tallest grass on earth?
Bamboo
Where does most of Earth's breathable air come from?
The ocean
Beginning with L are which molecules that are the primary building blocks of fats like the plasma membrane in cells?
Lipids
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury (Hg)
______ light contains all the colors in the visible spectrum
White
What larger variant of the "sweet" banana is frequently used for cooking?
Plantains
As of 2020, which country is the world’s top natural gas exporter?
Russia
Also called a "molecular machine," what organelle found in the cytoplasm of living cells builds proteins from amino acids?
Ribosome
What is the name of the chemical formula that is used in bleaches and to get stains out?
Hydrogen peroxide
If the universe were to end with a "Big Crunch," this means it would collapse into what object?
Black hole
What's the largest desert in the world
Antarctica
Environmental regulations ensure refineries remove certain pollutants. What element, a large contributor to 'acid rain', is removed in the refining process?
Sulfur
All amino acids contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and what other element that starts and ends with the same letter?
Nitrogen
What chemical causes the burning sensation when eating chiles?
Capsaicin
What is the hottest planet in the solar system, and why?
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere traps heat, making it feel like a furnace on the surface. It's so hot on Venus, the metal lead would melt!
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
To keep everyone in different countries on the same page, energy efficiency in transportation is measured in meters per what precious unit of energy named for an English physicist? And don't just pop down one letter.
Joules
What bacterium, better known in its partially abbreviated name, is Gram-negative and rod-shaped? It had a famous outbreak in 1993 when “Jack In The Box” inadvertently spread it across four states.
E. Coli
What is the scientific name for the name of the material commonly called "fool's gold"?
Iron pyrite crystals
What device measures electric currents?
An ammeter
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
-40