Biology
This process is how cells divide to produce two genetically identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
This subatomic particle has no electric charge and is found in the nucleus alongside protons.
What is a neutron?
This quantity describes how fast an object's velocity is changing over time.
What is acceleration?
This term describes memory for facts and general knowledge, as opposed to personal experiences.
What is semantic memory?
Who is the president of Science Club
Who is Kofi?
This macromolecule serves as the primary long-term energy storage in animals.
What is fat/lipid?
Elements in this vertical column of the periodic table share the same number of valence electrons.
What is a group/family?
This type of simple machine is a rod that pivots around a fixed point called a fulcrum.
What is a lever?
This researcher developed a stage theory of cognitive development in children involving concepts like object permanence.
Who is Jean Piaget
This term describes an allele that will show its effect even when only one copy is present.
What is dominant?
This type of chemical reaction releases heat into the surroundings.
What is exothermic?
This term describes the bending of light as it passes from one medium into another.
What is refraction?
This term describes a change in behavior resulting from experience, as opposed to maturation.
What is learning?
This process describes how genetic information in DNA is copied into messenger RNA.
What is transcription?
In a redox reaction, this term describes the substance that loses electrons.
What is the reducing agent / what is oxidized?
This law states that pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional at constant temperature.
What is Boyle's Law?
This term describes the tendency to interpret ambiguous information in a way that confirms existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This term describes two species evolving in response to each other over time, like predator and prey.
What is coevolution?
This principle states that when a system at equilibrium is disturbed, it shifts to counteract the change.
What is Le Chatelier's Principle?
This phenomenon explains why a moving ambulance's siren sounds higher pitched as it approaches and lower as it moves away.
What is the Doppler Effect?
This term, coined by Leon Festinger, is not this concept itself but the discomfort motivating people to reduce it — describing the drive to restore consistency between conflicting attitudes and behavior.
What is dissonance reduction