Microscopes
Cell Biology
Scientific Method
Exoplanets
Wild Animals
100
This name refers to the part of the microscope where a slide is placed
What is the stage
100
This substance is mostly made of water and fills the inside of a cell, suspending its organelles
What is cytoplasm
100
This word describes an if-then statement that makes a prediction, and is used as starting point for scientific investigation
What is a hypothesis
100
An exoplanet is defined as
A planet found in another solar system
100
This type of animal is the only mammal capable of true flight
What is a bat
200
These two knobs are used to focus the image in a light microscope
What are the coarse and fine focus knobs
200
This organelle contains genetic information, and is only found in eukaryotes
What is the nucleus
200
This type of variable changes depending on another variable
What is a dependent variable
200
This phrase describes a planetary body stuck in orbit with one side always facing its sun
What is tidally locked
200
This species of animal is the largest true fish
What is a whale shark
300
This 17th century scientist invented the first microscope
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
300
This external structure is found only in plant cells
What is a cell wall
300
A scientific claim needs to be backed up with two things, one based on the other
What are evidence and reasoning
300
The new space telescope that will be used to find exoplanets is called
The James Webb telescope
300
This North American herbivore is the only one in its family, and in our modern time there are no predators fast enough to chase it down
What is a pronghorn
400
This aperture controls the amount of light allowed onto a slide
What is the diaphragm
400
The small bubbles are used to keep food and waste substances separate from the cytoplasm in a cell
What are vacuoles
400
This type of graph displays data's summary statistics, and its name might remind you of a mouse
What is a box and whisker plot
400
The year on 51 Pegasi B, a Jupiter sized exoplanet is this long
What is 4 days
400
This giant prehistoric animal is thought to have been the main seed disperser for avocados and joshua trees
What was a giant ground sloth
500
This type of microscope uses multiple lenses to magnify an image
What is a compound or objective microscope
500
This group of mostly single celled organisms didn't fit well into the kingdoms of animal, plant, or fungi, and so were given their own kingdom
What are Protists or Protista
500
In a scientific graph the x axis is one type of variable, while the y axis is another
What are independent and dependent variables
500
There are this many planets in the Trappist system
What is 7
500
This funny looking animal is an antelope native to the central Asian steppes, and its populations are in grave peril
What is a Saiga Antelope
