Biology
This macromolecule serves as the primary structural component of plant cell walls.
What is cellulose?
The element with the highest electronegativity on the periodic table.
What is fluorine?
The process by which rocks are broken down by chemical reactions, often involving water.
What is chemical weathering?
The only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
The common name for the chemical compound NaHCO₃.
What is baking soda?
These organelles contain their own DNA and are thought to have originated from ancient symbiotic bacteria.
What are mitochondria and chloroplasts?
The chemical reaction type in which an acid and a base produce water and a salt.
What is a neutralization reaction?
The convection currents in Earth's mantle are primarily responsible for this.
What is plate tectonics?
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who explained the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This part of the brain regulates balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
The process in which homologous chromosomes exchange genetic material during meiosis.
What is crossing over?
This principle states that a system at equilibrium will shift to counteract a change in concentration, pressure, or temperature.
What is Le Chatelier’s Principle?
This natural phenomenon occurs when cold, dense air displaces warmer air, often causing storms.
What is a cold front?
The gas used to fill most modern neon lights, producing a red-orange glow.
What is neon?
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
What is pi (π)?
The type of RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome during protein synthesis.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
A molecule that contains both a carbonyl and a hydroxyl group on the same carbon atom.
What is a carboxylic acid (contains both carbonyl and hydroxyl on the same carbon)?
The long-term rise in global average temperature due to greenhouse gases.
What is global warming?
This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
The SI unit of electric current.
What is the ampere (A)?
This hypothesis suggests that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living prokaryotes.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
This equation relates pressure, volume, temperature, and number of moles of a gas.
What is the ideal gas law (PV = nRT)?
The cycling of elements like carbon and nitrogen in which microbes play a crucial role in transforming compounds into usable forms.
What is biogeochemical cycling?
The planet with the shortest day, completing a rotation in about 10 hours.
What is Jupiter?
The branch of mathematics concerned with rates of change and slopes of curves.
What is calculus?