Now and 13b.y.a.
Noble Advances
Newton's Playground
Planetary Practices
Being Human
100

The Earth's landmasses were once part of this supercontinent over 300 million years ago.

What is Pangaea?

100

About 70% of a healthy human body is composed of this 18-gram-per-mole substance.

What is water?

100

An object's velocity stays constant until a nonzero amount of this acts on it.

What is force?

100

Seeds are eaten by a mouse, which is eaten by a snake, which is eaten by a hawk. These are all "links" in this kind of diagram.

What is a food chain?

100

Different sets of body parts work together to achieve different tasks, as this type of formation.

What is a body system? or What is an organ system?

200

This visible line on Earth's surface is evidence that pieces of the crust move as time goes on.

What is a fault line (fault)?

200

This type of energy is proportional to the motion of objects that you can see.

What is kinetic energy?

200

A nuclear furnace, it is the source of energy for almost all ecosystems.

What is the sun?

200

When a genetic trait passed down is different between the parents, this cross-reference of alleles is considered to be heterozygous.

What is a genotype?

300

This effect, named after a place to store your plants in the winter, keeps thermal energy close to the Earth's surface.

What is the greenhouse effect?

300

The T-shirts that should have arrived today feature this chemical structure format.

What is the Lewis dot structure?

300

Like with spring constants, this property has a different net equation depending on if its objects are parallel to each other or one-after-the-other.

What is electrical resistance?

300

The term for organisms that form the base of the food pyramid.

What are autotrophs? or What are producers?

300

If a faulty cell continues to reproduce, it can cause a form of this disease.

What is cancer?

400

Circulation of matter in this very hot, semi-solid layer underneath the crust causes plate tectonics.

What is the mantle?

400

Gravity is the only explanation for your movement in this projectile-related situation.

What is freefall?

400

These organisms consume the remains of all trophic levels and thus make nutrients available for new organisms.

What are decomposers?

400

Your body temperature is kept at around 37°C due to this endothermic feature

What is homeostasis?

500

This object formed out of a spinning cloud of gas and dust 4.6 billion years ago.

What is the Earth?

500

This tendency in Newton's First Law is why you surge forwards after slamming the brakes in a car.

What is inertia?

500

Though it might have a small population, this type of species has an impact on many others in its ecosystem.

What is a keystone species?

500

This term is the name for the sequence of phases the chromosomes go through when a cell divides.

What is mitosis?