A self replicating material that is the carrier of genetic information, present in nearly all living organisms.
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
100
Type of engineers that deal with a wide range of components, devices, and systems that range from microchips to huge power station generators
What are electrical engineers?
100
A dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt that was first thought to be the 9th planet from the sun
What is Pluto?
100
The presence in, or introduction into the environment of a substance that has harmful or poisonous effects
What is pollution?
100
A theory that defines the effect that the availability of a particular product and the desire for that product has on its price
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
200
The antimicrobial drugs that are used to treat and prevent bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
200
Engineers who design power producing machines, such as internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, as well as machines that use the power, such as refrigerators and air conditioning systems
What are mechanical engineers?
200
The galaxy that contains our solar system
What is the Milky Way?
200
The gradual rise in average temperature of the Earth's climate system. Also referred to as "climate change."
What is global warming?
200
The mortgage crisis in the United States that contributed to the recession of December 2007 - June 2009
What is the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (AKA Housing Crisis)?
300
An organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. It is also known as the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is the mitochondria?
300
Those who design equipment for medicinal purposes such as artificial internal organs, body part replacements, and machines that are able to diagnose medical problems
What are biomedical engineers?
300
An asterism in a constellation that contains the three bright stars Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Both the constellation and the asterism are named after a giant hunter in Greek Mythology.
What is Orion's Belt?
300
Harmful or annoying levels of noise, as from airplanes and industrial facillities
What is noise pollution?
300
The term used to define a government imposed price control for a product
What is a price ceiling?
400
The theory that states that change comes through the production of variation in each generation and different survival of individuals with different combinations of variable characteristics.
What is the Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
400
Engineers that primarily deal with the theory of computation and the design of computational systems
What is computer engineering?
400
The brightest star in the sky, also known as the "Dog Star"
What is Sirius A?
400
Those who apply scientific and engineering principles for the protection of human populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors
What are environmental engineers?
400
The term used for objects that must be given up to obtain another item
What is Opportunity Cost?
500
The total number of bones in an adult human
What is 206?
500
Those who design infrastructure, ranging from roads and bridges to aqueducts, dams, and skyscrapers.
What are civil engineers?
500
Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Dipper, is a constellation in the Northern Sky that houses this star, often used to navigation in olden times.
What is Polaris (AKA The North Star)?
500
The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
500
Two types of statements that attempt to describe the world and prescribe how the world should be