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Considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Also called a "molecular machine," what organelle found in the cytoplasm of living cells builds proteins from amino acids?
Ribosome
Dry Ice is the solid form of which gas?
Carbon Dioxide
A magnifying glass is what type of lens?
Convex
When is Earth Day?
April 22nd
In 1911, these scientists conducted the Gold Foil Experiment.
Rutherford and coworkers Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden
What mosquito-borne, parasitic disease causes red blood cells to explode after they've served as a mating ground?
Malaria
Which is the only metal that is in liquid form at room temperature?
Mercury
In mathematical physics, Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and which other quantity?
Time
Which inorganic molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms is found at a higher concentration in the Earth’s stratosphere than in any other one of the Earth’s atmospheric layers?
Ozone
British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
What is the longest type of cell in the human body?
Nerve cell/Neuron
What is the main constituent of limestone?
Calcium carbonate
A type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter; Combine to form composite particles called hadrons.
Quarks
What effect, created by the rotation of the Earth, deflects winds to the east in both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere
Coriolis Effect
Discoverer of radioactivity, for which he won the 1903 Nobel Prize
Professor Henri Becquerel
Which type of lymphocyte has enzyme-filled particles inside it that get released during an allergic reaction? (Hint: Their name implies that they stain well—a dark purple—with a basic dye).
Basophil
What is the common name for the compound with the chemical formula NaHCO3?
Baking soda
On a circuit diagram, which item can be represented by a circle with a diagonal cross in it?
Bulb
A patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather
Rain shadow (effect)
The Father of Modern Chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier
What is the term for bacteremia that develops into a potentially life-threatening invasion of the bloodstream by bacteria and their toxins, accompanied by acute systemic illness?
Septicemia
What gas is given off by pouring dilute euphoric acid on to granulated zinc?
Hydrogen
What is the acronym laser stand for?
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Muskeg is typically found in which biomes/areas?
Boreal Forest/Taiga and Arctic areas