Mythic tales
This winged horse comes from Greek mythology
What is Pegasus
This organ helps you filter toxins from your blood
What is the liver ?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body
What is the heart ?
This layer of the Earth lies just below the crust and is mostly molten rock
What is the mantle ?
This ancient river in Egypt allowed farming and civilization to thrive
What is the Nile?
He wore a golden armor and killed the Hydra
Who is Heracles
This element’s symbol is “Fe” on the periodic table
What is Iron
The shortest bone in the human body
What is the stapes ?
This layer of the Earth lies just below the crust and is mostly molten rock
What is the Sahara Desert
This ancient Mesopotamian city is famous for the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders
What is Babylon
She was the goddess who was known to be mother of the founder of Rome
Who is Aphrodite
The process by which cells copy their DNA is called this
What is replication
These tiny structures in cells are the “powerhouses” producing energy.
What are mitochondria
This type of mountain forms when tectonic plates collide and push up the Earth’s crust
What are fold mountains ?
These ancient Chinese structures were built to protect the empire from northern invasions
What is the Great Wall of china
This hero used a wooden horse to sneak into Troy
Who is Odysseus
This force causes objects to accelerate towards each other based on mass and distance
What is gravity
This system protects the body from disease and includes white blood cells
What is the immune system
This natural wonder in Australia is a massive sandstone monolith sacred to the Indigenous Anangu people
What is Uluru (Ayers Rock)?
This civilization created the first known alphabet, which influenced Greek and Latin scripts
Who are the Phoenicians ?
This river in the underworld is known to make you forget everything
What is the river Lethe
These subatomic particles hold quarks together inside protons and neutrons
What are gluons
This gland in the brain controls growth, metabolism, and hormone regulation
What is the pituitary gland
These underwater mountain ranges stretch for thousands of miles along the ocean floor
What are mid -ocean ridges
This Persian king created an empire stretching from India to Egypt in the 6th century BCE
Who was Cyrus the Great