Astronomy
Often called the "Red Planet", it is home to Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.
What is Mars?
This is the only mammal capable of true, powered flight.
What is a bat?
This is the name for the giant, frozen "rivers of ice" that slowly carve out valleys as they move across the landscape.
What are glaciers?
This common seasoning, chemically known as sodium chloride, was once so valuable it was used as currency,
What is salt?
This is the hardest substance in the human body, covering the crown of your teeth.
What is enamel?
Between Mars and Jupiter lies this region, filled with rocky remnants from the early solar system.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
These "soft-bodied" mollusks have three hearts, blue blood, and can squeeze through any opening larger than their beak.
What is an octopus?
This process, essential for life on Earth, is how plants use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into food.
What is photosynthesis.
Often used in baking, this fungus reacts with sugar to produce carbon dioxide, causing bread dough to rise.
What is yeast?
These are the smallest blood vessels in the body, where actual exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place.
What are capillaries?
These massive explosions occur at the end of a high-mass star's life cycle, often outshining entire galaxies for a short time.
What is a supernova?
This type of cartilaginous fish must keep swimming to push oxygen-rich water over its gills, or it will suffocate.
What is a shark?
This type of giant storm, characterized by a "calm eye" at its center, is called a typhoon in the Pacific and a cyclone in the Indian Ocean.
What is a hurricane.
What is a Durian?
This is the longest and strongest bone in the human body, extending from the hip to the knee.
What is the femur?
This theoretical boundary surrounding a black hole marks the point of no return.
What is the event horizon?
Experiments have shown that this specific bird species can not only use tools but can also recognize individual human faces and "gossip" to their peers about which humans are dangerous.
What is the Crow?
This atmospheric phenomenon often called the Northern Lights, is caused by solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field,
What is the Aurora Borealis?
In the world of peppers, this scale is used to measure the heat or pungency based on the concentration of capsaicin.
What is Scoville Scale?
This "butterfly-shaped" gland in the neck regulates the body's metabolism and energy levels.
What is the thyroid?
This unit of distance, equivalent to about 3.26 light-years, is derived from the "parallax of one arcsecond".
What is a parsec?
Known by the scientific name Turritopsis dohrnii, this marine creature can theoretically live forever by reverting its cells to their earliest colonial stage after reaching sexual maturity.
What is the Immortal Jellyfish?
This is the name of the "supercontinent" that existed 300 million years ago before breaking apart into our current continents.
This is Pangea.
While often mistaken for a nut or a grain, the "bean" used to make this popular morning beverage is actually the seed of a bright red fruit called a "cherry".
What is Coffee?
This organ is the only one in the human body capable of natural regeneration; as little as 25% of the original tissues can regrow into a whole organ.
What is the Liver?