Green Things
There are over 400 species of oak trees that vary in size and shape, but all share what same characteristic fruit?
acorn
This insect looks like a little helicopter called a mosquito hawk
dragon fly
If you were having trouble with your cuspids and bicuspids, what doctor would you need to see?
What substance do bees make?
wax
Now discovered, the most feared dinosaur is not a runner, but a speed walker.
T-Rex
An arboreal animal spends most of its life in these
trees
The keel in a bird, like that in a chicken or a turkey, is better known as this breakable good luck charm.
(WISH BONE)
Doctors recommend wearing sunglasses as often as possible to protect the eye from what kind of damaging light?
(ULTRAVIOLET)
Dogman is half man half dog, what term would you use to describe that feature?
hybrid
NASA recently succeeded in putting a space probe named Juno into orbit around her “husband,” this largest of planets.
(JUPITER)
What x-initialed word describes the tube inside the plant that brings water and minerals to the plant?
xlyem
The saber tooth tiger is thought to have dispatched its prey by the use of these especially large teeth
(CANINES)
It’s now thought that the slightly cooler temperature in our nose, makes it easier for these agents that cause the common cold to survive.
(VIRUSES)
Known by their St. Joseph name and their orange taste, these 81 mg. tablets, originally used only by children, are now being used by adults to prevent heart disease.
(ASPIRIN)
One of 4 newly discovered chemical elements, number 117, is named for one of our states and has the symbol Ts, which is very similar to its postal abbreviation, TN.
(TENNESSEE)
Leonardo da Vinci not only discovered that the number of tree rings told a tree’s age but also that the width of each ring conveyed information about this.
(KIND OF GROWING SEASON, e.g. RAINFALL AMTS, LACK OF PREDATORS, etc.)
The protection afforded clownfish by the sea anemone and the cleaning service the fish provide in return is an example is this kind of relationship in which both species benefit
(SYMBIOSIS)
Why do doctors routinely use sphygmomanometers on hypertensive patients?
(TO CHECK ON THEIR BLOOD PRESURE)
Phase contrast, compound, acoustic, and electron are just a few of the varieties of this most common of laboratory instruments.
(MICROSCOPE)
When Percy Spencer walked near a magnetron and discovered that a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted, he’d discovered the workings of this now common kitchen appliance.
(MICROWAVE)
Which of the following are vascular plants: roses, mosses, algae, bamboo?
(ROSES and BAMBOO)
Polar bears are the only bears not to adopt this feeding style, preferring carnivory alone.
(OMNIVORY)
Fingerprints leave behind telltale lipids which is another name for what kinds of substances that students test for with the translucency rubbing test in school labs?
(FATS)
he 3 Wise Men visiting Bethlehem brought gifts of gold, myrrh, and a kind of crystallized tree sap known as this.
(FRANKINCENSE)
Benjamin Franklin was the first person to chart the Gulf Stream and note that it was 18 degrees warmer than the water in what surrounding body of water?
(ATLANTIC OCEAN)