the longest bone in the body that is attached to the patella via ligament.
What is femur
100
A star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness due to a violent explosion that ejects most of the star's mass.
What is supernova
100
a fault type where the movement of the plates are typically horizontal.
What is strike slip fault
100
The acceleration of Earth's gravity
What is 9.8 m/s^2
100
The man who invented the process of heating a liquid to kill bacteria.
Who is Louis Pasteur
200
The tiny whip-like hairs on some single celled organisms that is responsible for movement.
What is flagella
200
the bend in a river
What is a meander
200
The law that states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion
200
The man who accidentally discovered penicillin during an experiment.
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming
300
The woody vascular tissue in a plant.
What is xylem
300
an object in space that has mass dense enough that light cannot escape its gravitational pull.
What is a black hole
300
a deep crevice in a glacier that can extend thirty meters or more
What is a crevasse
300
The formula for acceleration
What a=(vf-vi)/t
300
The man who famously got his dog to salivate by ringing a bell and did research on instinct
Who is Ivan Pavlov
400
A serious disorder that causes red blood cells to be crescent shaped and can cause blockages of the arteries, but also prevents malaria.
What is sickle cell anemia
400
a mass that is too small to be a star, but is too large to be a planet.
What is a brown dwarf
400
the tallest volcano in the solar system
What is Olympus Mons
400
The theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level
What is quantum theory
400
The man who discovered that the universe was expanding and discovered the 1373 Cincinnati asteroid
Who is Edwin Hubble
500
The pair of cells that surround the stoma and regulate the gas exchanges of the plant.
What is guard cells
500
a very bright object in space that is very distant and gives off very powerful radio waves
What is quasar
500
the southerly of the two super continents that made up Pangaea
What is Gondwana
500
The law that states that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers and that the speed of light in a vacuum is always the same no matter the speed of the observer
What is Einstein's law of relativity
500
The man who invented the first device to detect radiation and worked alongside Rutherford