PHYSICS
Energy
What is the ability to do work?
The attraction between neighboring water molecules
What is Hydrogen Bonding?
In cell replication, pairs of sister chromotids allign in the center of the cell is this phase
What is Metaphase?
Largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
Scientific name for an animal with a pouch
What is a marsupial?
Before this element can be used in a fission reactor it has to be enriched to increase the level of its 235 isotope
What is Uranium?
Reaction that involves the transfer of electrons between atoms
What is a Redox Reaction?
Kingdom of organisms that live in harsh environments like hot sulfur springs
What is Archaebacteria?
Describes speed needed to be free of object’s gravitational pull
What is Escape Velocity?
A group of giraffes
What is a neck?
A plane flying at supersonic speed catches up to its own air disturbances which form this sudden wave
What is a Shock Wave?
Covalent bonds between amino acids
What are Peptide Bonds?
The formula for cellular respiration
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2 O + Energy?
Point in a planet’s orbit closest to the sun
What is the Perihelion?
A newborn bactrian camel has how many humps
What is zero?
This theory said that space-time had exactly 10 dimensions (some versions)
What is String Theory?
Ions released (equal number of both) when water is dissociated
What are hydronium and hydroxide ions?
A blood type of this would not be possible for a child of a type AB mother and a type A father
What is Type O?
Nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way
What is Andromeda/ M31?
Has a spur on the hind foot which delivers a poison capable of killing a human
What is a Platypus?
A roentgen is a unit of measure of the amount of exposure to these discovered by Roentgen
What are X-Rays?
Hydrated ferric oxide is the scientific name for this
What is Rust?
Melvin Calvin won a 1961 Nobel Prize for mapping the chemical reactions in this process
What is photosynthesis?
The lander craft that (within the last decade) brought two rovers to Mars to investigate
What is The Phoenix?
Bird that holds its brain in place with its tongue, so it does not get a concussion
What is a Woodpecker?