IAC 2023-2024 Word Cheat Sheet 10 words

Question 1

____________- water cycle; ____________ is crucial to the water cycle because it is responsible for the formation of clouds.

Answer 1

Condensation

Question 2

______ - Alan Shepard shanked his first shot into a crater, but estimated that his second reached a distance of about 600 feet (183 meters). This happened in ______14 mission

Answer 2

Apollo

Question 3

________ - codon; Since protein-coding DNA is divided into codons three bases long, insertions and deletions can alter a gene so that its message is no longer correctly parsed.

Answer 3

Mutation

Question 4

_____ - chitin; Chitin and chitosan are two related polysaccharides that provide important structural stability to ______ cell walls.

Answer 4

Fungi

Question 5

________ - the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.

Answer 5

Friction

Question 6

____ - The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the ___ Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.

Answer 6

Dogs

Question 7

_________ - vesta ; The giant _________ is almost spherical, and so is nearly classified a dwarf planet. Unlike most known _________, Vesta has separated into crust, mantle and core (a characteristic known as being differentiated), much like Earth.

Answer 7

Asteroids

Question 8

_____ - meninges; Three layers of membranes known as meninges protect the _____ and spinal cord.

Answer 8

Brain

Question 9

_______ - savannah squirrels; The fox squirrel is the largest, and most common squirrel to live in the original savanna / _______.

Answer 9

Prairie

Question 10

________ - unknown prime number; ________ is not a number, and is therefore not a prime number.

Answer 10

Infinity