Environment
Chemistry
Anatomy
Misc
Potpourri
100
An aquatic environment with very low dissolved oxygen.
What is a dead zone?
100
The universal solvent
What is water?
100
A triangle shaped organ also known as the the voice box.
What is the larynx?
100
A type of rock formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
What is igneous?
100
A British pharmacist.
What is an apothecary?
200
A mineral deposit found in a cave which grows from the cave floor.
What is a stalagmite?
200
A group of highly reactive elements with two valence electrons.
What are Alkaline earth metals?
200
A condition where the immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas.
What is type 1 diabetes?
200
The collapsed core of a massive supergiant star.
What is a neutron star?
200
The river that runs through the capital of the U.S.
What is the Potomac River?
300
An organism that consumes dead and decaying organic matter.
What is a detritivore?
300
A chemically organic functional group composed of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom.
What is a Carbonyl group?
300
An inanimate object that can be the vehicle for transmission of an infectious agent.
What is a fomite?
300
A tree found in the swamps of the South
What is a baldcypress?
300
The number of countries on Ireland.
400
An interaction which is beneficial to one species, but has no effect on the other species
What is commensalism?
400
The number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one mole of any pure substance.
What is Avogadro's constant?
400
A method of synthetic DNA replication used to amplify fragments of DNA
What is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
400
T(t) = Ts + (To-Ts)e-kt
What is Newton's Law of Cooling?
400
The shared first name of co-founders of Oracle, Google, and Wikipedia.
What is Larry?
500
Human-placed rock or other material used to protect shoreline structures against scour and water, wave, or ice erosion.
What is riprap?
500
A non-superimposable set of two molecules that are mirror image of one another.
What is chirality?
500
The process by which the body produces blood cells/blood plasma.
What is hematopoiesis?
500
An electrical device that converts between a balanced signal and an unbalanced signal, or feed line.
What is a balun?
500
The number of Rush Hour movies.
What is 3?