JV - Science Flashcards
Science (Physical Science): What type of reaction releases heat?
Exothermic (also accept Exergonic)
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What type of cells can change into many other types of cells, and, for this purpose, are useful in many medical treatments?
Stem Cells
Science (Chemistry): What term is given to the relative tendency of an atom to attract electrons to itself when bonded to another atom?
Electronegativity
Science (Physical Science): What is the term for the number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time?
Frequency
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart. What carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the tissues?
Arteries
Science (Chemistry): What type of reaction is aluminum phosphate plus potassium yielding potassium phosphate plus aluminum?
Single Replacement
Science (Physical Science): What is the tendency of any object to resist a change in its state of motion called?
Inertia
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What structure connects the placenta to the fetus?
Umbilical Cord
Science (Chemistry): What is the state in which electrons are at their lowest possible energy level?
Ground (State)
Science (Physical Science): What is the term for a material that is a poor conductor of heat and electricity?
Insulator (also accept Insulation)
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What term refers to a change in a gene that produces a changed inherited trait?
Mutation
Science (Chemistry): Who is given credit for the development of the Atomic Theory?
John Dalton
Science (Physical Science): What are the dissolved molecules in a solvent in a given solution?
Solute
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What is the term that describes the growth of plant organs in response to the stimulus of sunlight?
Phototropism
Science (Chemistry): In chemistry, what name is given to the solid that separates out of a solution?
Precipitate
Science (Physical Science): What is the vector quantity for speed?
Velocity
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What is the type of hibernation that occurs during the summer?
Estivation
Science (Chemistry): How much volume, in liters, would .5 mol of gaseous peanut butter and jelly sandwiches occupy at STP?
11.2 L
Science (Physical Science): Define the measure of the gravitational force acting on an object.
Weight
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What taxonomic category level is above the class level?
Phylum
Science (Chemistry): In stoichiometry (stoy-kee-YAH-mih-tree), what are the numbers preceding participants in a reaction that show their molar ratios?
Coefficient
Science (Physical Science): Who is credited for creating the first periodic table?
(Dmitri) Mendeleev (men-dih-LAY-ev)
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What name is given to a solution that resists a change in its pH even when a strong acid or base is added to it?
Buffer (also accept Buffered Solution)
Science (Physical Science): Name the natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
Fossil Fuel
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What is the term given to the length of time from conception to birth in mammals?
Gestation Period
Science (Chemistry): What is the name given to elements that have different forms such as oxygen gas and ozone gas?
Allotropes
Science (Physical Science): What is the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value?
Half-life
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Name the scientist often called “The Father of Modern Genetics” for his study of pea plants.
(Gregor) Mendel
Science (Chemistry): Name the rapid combination of oxygen with another substance producing light or heat.
Combustion (also accept Burning)
Science (Physical Science): What type of heat transfer occurs through a solid or stationary fluid?
Conduction
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What is the name for the fluid that surrounds the developing embryo in mammals, birds, and reptiles?
Amniotic (Fluid)
Science (Chemistry): Which letters designate the first four energy levels of an atom?
S, P, D, F
Science (Physical Science): What type of rocks undergo a physical change due to extreme heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Mitochondria has been widely called the powerhouse of the cell for its large role in the production of what high-energy molecule?
ATP
Science (Chemistry): Convert 15 degrees Celsius to Kelvins.
288 Kelvins (do not accept 288 Degrees kelvin, Kelvins are not measured in degrees)
Science (Physical Science): What is the geological term for hardened tree sap?
Amber
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What structure in plant cells regularly occupies up to 90% of the total volume of the cell?
Vacuole
Science (Chemistry): What type of mixture has a uniform composition throughout?
Homogeneous (huh-MAH-jin-iss)
Science (Physical Science): What is the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs called?
Troposphere
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What bone touches no other bone in the human body?
Hyoid
Science (Chemistry): Which measure shows how exact a measurement is, regardless of how close it may be to the true value?
Precision (do not accept Accuracy)
Science (Physical Science): What do you call a material that can be broken down by living things into simpler chemicals?
Biodegradable
Science (Biology/Anatomy): In biology, what is the largest number of organisms a given environment can sustain?
Carrying Capacity
Science (Chemistry): The number of which subatomic particle in the nucleus of a substance identifies which element it is?
Protons
Science (Physical Science): What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to earth called?
Troposphere
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What term is defined as the specific sequence in which organisms obtain energy in an ecosystem?
Food chain, food web, or food pyramid
Science (Chemistry): Give the term used to describe a solution of a metal in another metal.
Alloy
Science (Physical Science): Name 3 of the 4 layers of the earth.
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, and Crust
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Identify the astronomical term for the nuclear explosion of a giant star.
Supernova
Science (Chemistry): What type of chemical reaction is shown in the following generic equation: A plus BX yields AX plus B?
Single Replacement (also accept single replacement)
Science (Physical Science): Which rock, common in Kansas, is formed from calcium carbonate and is commonly used in the making of cement?
Limestone
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Name the two bones that compose the human forearm.
Radius and Ulna
Science (Chemistry): What is the pH of pure water?
7
Science (Physical Science): What is the name of the interaction of the Earth’s magnetic field with the wind of electrically charged particles from the sun?
Aurora
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Which cell organelle only exists in plants and uses sunlight to make food in photosynthesis?
Chloroplast
Science (Chemistry): What is the term for a substance that lowers the activation energy of a reaction, which often ends up speeding up the reaction?
Catalyst
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What type of symbiotic relationship is characterized by one organism being harmed and the other benefitting?
Parasitic or parasitism or parasite
Science (Chemistry): What is the maximum number of electrons that can occupy the second energy level?
Eight
Science (Physical Science): Name the type of chemical reaction in which a complex substance breaks down into two or simpler substances.
Decomposition (Reaction)
Science (Biology/Anatomy): If pink flowers are dominant over white and you cross a homozygous pink plant with a plant producing white flowers, then what are the chances you will produce a plant with pink flowers?
100% or 4 of 4
Science (Chemistry): What is the name of the principle that states that it is impossible to know both the position and momentum of a particle?
Heisenburg Uncertainty (Principle)
Science (Physical Science): What quantity gives a relative measure of the average kinetic energy of molcules?
Temperature
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Name the scientist who wrote “I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.”
(Charles) Darwin
Science (Chemistry): What type of molecule has one region which is negative and another region which is positive?
dipole
Science (Physical Science): What is the vibration of an object at its natural frequency?
Resonance
Science (Biology/Anatomy): What part of the body is associated with the term nephrology?
Kidneys
Science (Chemistry): What is the formula for Calcium Chloride?
C A C L 2
Science (Physical Science): Name the term for the ability of plants or animals to restore or replace lost tissues.
Regeneration
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Name the organ, in the digestive system of earthworms and birds, modified for grinding food.
Gizzard
Science (Chemistry): What is the chemical formula for sodium hydroxide?
NaOH
Science (Physical Science): Give the name of the porous rocks, sand, or gravel that contain ground water.
Aquifer
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Calculate the percentage yield of a chemical reaction if the actual amount of product produced is 23 grams and the theoretical yield is 25 grams.
92%
Science (Chemistry): What type of molecule has one region which is negative and another region which is positive?
Dipole
Science (Physical Science): Name the scientist known for his law of partial pressures.
(John) Dalton
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Name two of the four lobes that each hemisphere of the human cranium is divided into.
frontal (lobe), occipital (lobe), temporal (lobe), parietal (lobe)
Science (Chemistry): What is the name of a group of covalently bonded atoms that act like a single ion when bonded to a metal in an ionic compound?
Polyatomic (Ion)
Science (Physical Science): What is the common name for the debilitating disease called ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)?
Lou Gehrig’s (Disease)
Science (Not Biology Oops): Give the name for the polyatomic ion N O three with a negative one charge.
nitrate (do not accept nitrite or nitride)
Science (Chemistry): What is the volume of a mole of any gas under STP conditions?
22.4 Liters
Science (Waaaaaves): What is the term for the pattern produced by two waves meeting in such a way that the crests overlap resulting in an increase in the amplitude?
Constructive Interference
Science (Chemistry): Give the formula for hydrochloric acid.
HCl
Science (Physical Science): Name two of the four planets in the solar system currently surrounded by at least one ring
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Science (Biology/Anatomy): Name the taxonomic classification between phylum and order.
Class
Science (Chemistry): List the letters that designate the different energy sublevels of an atom
s, p, d, f