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Human Body Systems
Catastrophic Events
Energy, Forces, Motion
Scientific Randomness
That's Not Science . . .
100
This system is responsible for transforming food into energy the body can use.
What is the digestive system?
100
Most weather takes place in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
100
Chemical energy in a battery being changed into electrical energy is an example of this.
What is energy transfer?
100
This plant cell organelle is what gives plants their green color.
What are chloroplasts?
100
This doughnut restaurant in Portland is famous for its bacon maple bars and unique decorations.
What is VooDoo Doughnuts?
200
Red blood cells are manufactured here.
What is bone marrow?
200
Cool air mixing with warm air creates this global phenomenon.
What is wind?
200
A force that acts to stop or slow the movement of an object.
What is friction?
200
The Milky Way Galaxy is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiraling galaxy?
200
When the property of Japanese Americans was taken by the government during WWII, this Constitutional Amendment was broken.
What is the Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizure)?
300
Neurons send messages from cell to cell using these chemical messengers.
What are neurotransmitters?
300
Convection in the mantle is the main cause of these daily events.
What are earthquakes?
300
Sound cannot travel through outer space for this reason.
What is sound needs matter to travel through (atoms and molecules)?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: When a solution cannot hold any more solids, it is called this.
What is super-saturated?
300
This large parade is held each May at dusk.
What is the Starlight Parade?
400
Nutrients combine in the cells with this chemical element to create energy for the body.
What is oxygen?
400
Mt. St. Helen's is this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
400
As a rocket launches, fuel combusts, producing downward thrust that pushes against the platform. This is an examples of this law of motion.
What is for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction (3rd Law)?
400
This landform exposes 2 billion years of earth's history.
What is the Grand Canyon?
400
This iPhone update caused problems for many iPhone 4S owners.
What is iOS8?
500
H5N1 is a form of influenza more commonly known as this.
What is bird flu (or avian flu)?
500
If it erupted, this volcano would spell doom for much of the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Yellowstone Supervolcano?
500
A person weighs less on the moon than he or she does on earth for this reason.
What is the moon has less gravity than the earth?
500
DNA between humans and this organism differ by only 2-4%, depending on who you ask.
What are chimpanzees?
500
This country has more English speakers than the United States.
What is China?