General Science
Observations, hypothesis, testing of the hypothesis, and theory.
What is the scientific method?
NaHSO4 has this many atoms.
What is 7?
This pigment breaks down in leaves, causing fall colors.
What is chlorophyll?
The smallest functional unit of life.
Both DNA and cookbooks contain these.
What are recipes?
The relationship determined by dividing the first quantity by the second quantity.
What is a ratio?
Substances that are composed of positive and negative ions.
What are ionic compounds?
This U.S. president proclaimed Thanksgiving in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
All living things are made up of one or more cells, and cells come from pre-existing cells.
What is cell theory?
A simple sugar that contains 3 to 10 carbon atoms.
What is a monosaccharide?
A force that acts on an object moving in a circle, directed toward the center of a circle.
What is centripetal force?
A chemical bond made by sharing electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
What is a male turkey commonly called?
A gobbler or a Tom.
I'm known as the post office of the cell.
What is the golgi body (or apparatus) ?
Chemicals that are essential to nutrition and are required in relatively large amounts. (carbohydates, protiens & fats)
What are macronutrients?
A measure of how much matter exists in an object.
What is mass?
The two types of orbitals in an atom.
What are S & P?
We grow on vines in the wetlands and the areas are typically flooded by harvest time.
What are cranberries?
I help to support the shape of the cell.
What is the cytoskeleton?
One helix of DNA has adenine, then cytosine, then thymine, and then guanine. This is the order of the nucleotide bases on the same part of the other helix.
What is thymine, then guanine, then adenine, then cytosine?
The mass to volume ratio of a substance.
What is density?
The name of the atom's outermost electrons.
What are valence electrons?
The origin of November's name comes from the Latin "novem" meaning nine. Why?
It had originally been had been the ninth month of the early Roman Romulus calendar and was changed by Julius Caesar when 2 additional months were added. (January & February)
I am an organelle that holds lots of chemicals used to break down other chemicals. I'm also known as the suicide sac.
What is the lysosome?
Isomers.
What are compounds with the same chemical formula but different arrangements of atoms, which leads to different chemical properties?