Plant Science
What process do plants use to make their own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
What is photosynthesis?
What do you call a proposed explanation and prediction for an observation or phenomenon?
What is a hypothesis?
How may water affect buildings over a long period of time?
What is erosion, rotting wood, corrosion, or mold?
What is the basic functional unit of the nervous system?
What is the neuron?
Which dinosaur is famous for having three horns and a large frill on its head?
What is the Triceratops?
Why are most plants green?
What is chlorophyll/the chloroplast?
What do you call the group that does NOT receive treatment?
What is the control group?
What causes towers to lean (ex. the Leaning Tower of Pisa)
What is an unstable foundation?
Which hormone is released by the pancreas to lower blood glucose levels?
What is insulin?
What do we call scientists who study fossils, including dinosaurs?
What are paleontologists?
Which structure in plant cells helps maintain rigidity and provides support?
What is the cell wall?
What is the variable that is measured as the outcome of the experiment?
What is the dependent variable?
What part of the bridge supports the deck by transferring weight through tension to towers and anchorages?
What are suspension chords?
What hormone released by the adrenal glands is involved in the body’s fight-or-flight response?
What is epinephrine? (also accept adrenaline)
During which geological era did dinosaurs live?
What is the Mesozoic Era?
What is the purpose of roots?
What is to absorb water from the soil?
Why are multiple trials and random assignments used in experiments?
What is to reduce bias?
What do you call the reduction in volume or size of an object or substance due to applied inward (pushing) forces?
What is compression?
Which lobe of the brain is primarily responsible for decision-making, problem-solving, and personality?
What is the frontal lobe?
What type of diet did the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex have?
What is a carnivore?
What openings on the surface of leaves allow for gas exchange and water loss?
What is the stomata?
What term describes a factor other than the independent variable that could affect the results of an experiment?
What is a confounding variable?
What do you call the internal force per unit area within a material that resists an external load?
What is stress?
What term describes the minimum level of stimulation needed to trigger a neural impulse?
What is the threshold?
What event is most widely believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs about 66-67 million years ago?
What is an asteroid?