Bio
It's not Tchaikovsky changing his mind, it's the term for an organism that breaks down dead plants & animals into simpler forms
What is a decomposer?
Every second, our sun creates energy by the nuclear fusion of 600 million tons of this element into helium.
What is Hydrogen?
This common 4-letter word has a more specific meaning in physics: change in kinetic energy.
What is work?
In a flame test, this element--atomic number 11--burns yellow; it's also often the basis of the yellow color in fireworks
What is sodium?
Syntax, logic & runtime are the 3 basic types of these programming boo-boos, also a baseball term
What are errors?
Trehalose is the major blood sugar in insects; this is its counterpart in humans
What is glucose?
Astrophysicists debate how fast the universe is doing this; it's somewhere around 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec
What is expanding?
For things like discovering polonium & radium, she & her husband Pierre won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Who is Marie Curie?
Known to early chemists as "oil of vitriol", this corrosive, colorless acid is found in car batteries
What is sulfuric acid?
A standard term in statistics, it's the difference between one of a set of values & the mean value of the same set
What is a deviation?
Considering it's about 7 feet up from its heart to its brain, this mammal's normal blood pressure is about 280/180
What is a giraffe?
The universe could end with the Big Crunch, meaning it collapses into one of these
What is a black hole?
This colorful-sounding type of radiation has wavelengths between the visible part of the spectrum & X-rays.
What is ultraviolet?
Atomic No. 53, it's highly soluble in alcohol & then is used on cuts & scrapes
What is iodine?
This is another name for concentrated uranium oxide used as the raw material for commercial nuclear fuel
What is yellow cake?
In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym
What is CRISPR?
The first American woman in space, she later became a professor of physics at UC San Diego
Who is Sally Ride?
In physics, it's when 2 waves meet & sometimes neutralize each other; in broadcasting, it's disturbance by outside signals
What is interference?
In biology, an insectivore; in chemistry, a measuring unit of very small things
What is a mole?
Named for the little shelter you draw over the dividend, the "bus stop" is one method in this 2-word exercise that's been called the most difficult basic math process to teach kids
What is long division?
Species of this marine cephalopod with 10 appendages include the colossal, which can be 40' long, & the southern pygmy, less than 3/4"
What is a squid?
You'll find this familiar red supergiant in Orion's shoulder
What is Betelgeuse?
Hey, farmer! It's the physics term for a region in which every point is affected by a force
What is a field?
The hollow carbon molecule called a fullerene or a buckyball was named for this non-chemist
Who is Buckminster Fuller
The dewlap is a hanging fold of skin under the muzzle of this largest member of the deer family
What is a moose?