Environmental
A word describing soil or rock that drains well, or doesn't retain water.
What is porous?
This natural process, responsible for the movement of tectonic plates, occurs because of heat transfer in Earth’s mantle.
(Hint: Sounds like a name for sweet desserts)
What are convection currents?
(confection/convection, close enough)
This law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
This theory explains how Earth's continents move across the surface.
What is plate tectonics?
This greenhouse gas, with the chemical formula CH₄, is produced by livestock and landfills and has a higher warming potential than carbon dioxide.
What is methane?
This layer of the Earth's atmosphere contains most weather.
What is the Troposphere?
This is the name for the process where plants lose water through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
What does "Ag" stand for in the Periodic Table?
What is silver?
This type of symbiotic relationship benefits one organism and harms the other.
What is parasitism?
This zoonotic disease is transmitted via the bite of infected animals, commonly raccoons, bats, and dogs.
What is rabies?
This branch of Earth science studies the composition, structure, and history of Earth’s solid material.
What is geology?
This molecule carries the genetic instructions for life and is composed of nucleotides containing adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
What is DNA?
The term for a solution that resists changes in pH when small amounts of acid or base are added.
What is a buffer?
This physical property of a wave measures the number of cycles that occur per second and is measured in hertz (Hz).
What is frequency?
This type of force opposes relative motion between two surfaces in contact.
What is friction?
This chemical process converts nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into forms usable by living organisms.
What is nitrogen fixation?
This enzyme “unzips” DNA during replication by breaking hydrogen bonds between base pairs.
What is helicase?
The process by which unstable atomic nuclei lose energy by emitting radiation.
What is radioactive decay?
This branch of Earth science studies earthquakes and the movement of tectonic plates.
What is seismology?
Baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
In ecology, this term refers to the maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely, given its resources.
What is carrying capacity?
The _____ is the powerhouse of the cell.
Really? You don't already know? Get outta here.
The element on the periodic table with the highest level of electronegativity.
What is Flourine?
What planet has the most moons in our solar system?
What is Saturn?
In astronomy, this region around a star is the range of orbital distances where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.
What is the habitable zone (or “Goldilocks zone”)?