Biology Vocabulary
Biology Concepts
Earth & Space Science Vocabulary
Earth & Space Science Concepts
Miscellaneous Science
100
This is the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What is "mitochondria?"
100
True or False: Everyone is born with different DNA.
What is False?
(Identical twins are born with the same DNA to start.)
100
This is what "revolution" means, in Earth Science terms.
What is something like "moving around the Sun"
OR "orbiting around the Sun"
OR "taking a path to make a complete loop"
OR "the motion to complete a period?"
100
True or False: The Earth and the Moon both revolve clockwise in their respective orbits.
What is False?
[They both revolve counterclockwise in their orbits.]
100
There are four Jovian planets, also called the Gas Giants. Name one.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune?
200
All life sharing a common ancestor is one of the foundations of this scientific theory.
What is evolution?
200
This is what we call the strong, dark green border of a typical plant cell.
What is the cell wall?
200
This is what "heliocentric" means.
What is something like "the Sun is the center of this system?"
200
The hottest stars known to mankind are a shade of this color.
What is blue?
200
An atom is made of mostly _______.
What is empty space?
Or what is void?
300
Often called or lumped in with the concept of "survival of the fittest," this two-word phrases emphasizes that traits which help an organism fit its environment let it live longer and have more offspring.
What is natural selection?
300
A person with Type A blood & a person with Type B blood reproduce (see below) and have a child. This is the percent chance that this child will have Type O blood.
What is 25%?
300
This is what "terrestrial planet" means.
What is "a rocky planet"
OR what is "a planet with a solid crustal surface"
OR what is "one of the four planets closest to the sun?"
300
When the moon blocks the view of the Sun as seen on Earth, we experience this phenomenon that shouldn't be directly stared at without protection.
What is a solar eclipse?
300
This is what is studied in forensic entomology.
What are insects?
Or what are bugs?
400
This is the maximum number of individuals of a particular species that a specific environment can sustainably support over time without harming the habitat.
What is carrying capacity?
400
This is the name of the organelle labeled 1.
What is the nucleus?
400
This is what we call a 23.5 degree line of latitude, which has the sun appear directly overhead on one of the solstices. It's no coincidence the degree amount is the same as that of the Earth's axis.
What is a "tropic?"
(more specifically, the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn)
400
These are the two elements that make up the majority of the mass of stars.
What are hydrogen (H) and helium (He)?
[Half-credit if only one is given]
400
An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion at a constant speed and in a straight line, unless an unbalanced outside force acts on it. This is Newton's First ___________.
What is law of motion?
500
This is a visual grid diagram used in biology to predict the probability that offspring will inherit specific genetic traits from their parents, at least through Mendelian inheritance patterns.
What is a Punnett Square?
500
This is the longest type of cell in the human body. (Hint: Think of the different bodily systems.)
What is a nerve cell?
Or what is a neuron?
500
This is the time & location in which the Earth is closest to the Sun, which occurs at some point with the first week of January.
What is "perihelion?"
500
This is why the Sun's gravitational pull does not completely overwhelm or overshadow the Moon's effect on tides.
What is something akin to "the Sun is too far away?"
OR What is "the Sun is much further away than the Moon?"
500
The pleasant smell of rain hitting dry ground, driven by geosmin (a chemical produced by soil bacteria) and ozone created by lightning splitting oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, is called this word.
What is petrichor?