Science
The name of the tallest grass on earth.
What is bamboo?
This is a material that will not carry an electrical charge.
What is an insulator?
The first vaccine was for this disease.
What is Smallpox?
This is the only planet that spins clockwise.
What is Venus?
This part of the brain deals with hearing and language.
What is the temporal lobe?
The most abundant element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
Celsius and Fahrenheit are equal at this temperature.
What is -40?
The four states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, gas and plasma ?
This color has the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum.
What is Red?
We call animals that eat both plants and meat this.
What are Omnivores?
Sound travels faster in this place than in air.
What is water?
Roughly, it takes this long for the sun’s light to reach Earth:
A. 8 minutes
B. 8 hours
C. 8 days
What is 8 minutes?
The human body and this many bones.
What is 206?
This type of material can be man-made, but it is also emitted from the sun and stars and found naturally in soil, water, and vegetation.
What is radioactive material?
These two elements on the periodic table are liquids at room temperature.
What are Mercury and Bromine?
Lasers work by focusing on this.
What are light waves?
The electrical charge of a neutron.
What is no charge?
The main structural molecule in hair and nails.
What is Keratin?
The temperature of Earth’s core is almost:
A. 23,000 degrees Fahrenheit
B. 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit
C. 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit
What is 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit? As hot as the surface of the sun.
The medical term for bad breath is this.
What is Halitosis?
Diamonds, after billions of years, degrade to this.
What is graphite?
This is the only rock that floats.
What is pumice?
Aspirin comes from the bark of what tree:
A. Ash
B. Elm
C. Oak
D. Willow
What is WIllow?
Making light change direction by passing it through a lens is know as this.
What is refraction?
The “powerhouse of the cell" is known as this.
What is Mitochondria?