Science Part 1 Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 70-degree air, a plane traveling at about 1,130 feet per second breaks it
Sound barrier
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Scientists say the Earth has warmed about 9 degrees since the last of these frigid ages
Ice Age
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1987 the Smithsonian celebrated the 300th anniversary of this scientist’s “Principia”
Sir Isaac Newton
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It was this part of his wife’s body that Wilhelm Roentgen X-rayed first
Hand
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1995 scientists in Switzerland created atoms of this substance that may not exist naturally in our universe
Antimatter
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The daphnia, a water flea, is related to this million times larger member of the surf & turf combo
Lobster
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A satellite in a retrograde orbit around the Earth heads in this direction
West/or opposite to the Earth’s rotation
$1500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the 3-dimensional figure that is a set of points all equidistant from the center point
Sphere
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In this process of cell division, unlike mitosis, a cell divides & halves the number of chromosomes
Meiosis
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When your “glands” are sore, they’re busy producing these infection-fighting white blood cells
Lymphocytes
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Piltdown Man, a hoax played on scientists, had a human skull & the jaw of this reddish ape
Orangutan
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A whole lot of shakin’ goes on in this science that deals almost exclusively with earthquakes
Seismology
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atom’s nucleus
Protons
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “smoke hole”, it’s a vent in a volcanic area from which smoke & gases escape
Fumeral
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In contrast to the hydrosphere, it’s the term for the rocky part of the Earth, or its crust
Lithosphere
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The SO in SONAR stands for this word
Sound
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This space station turned 10 in February 1996
Mir
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1882 this inventor opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York
Thomas Edison
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In a car’s steering system, it’s the geared wheel that moves the rack
Pinion
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| To produce this metal using the Bayer Process, you begin with caustic soda & bauxite
Aluminum
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the surface of this innermost planet, the sun appears 2.5 times as large as it does from Earth
Mercury
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this element comes from iris, “rainbow”, & refers to its multi-hued compounds
Iridium
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In computers or audio amplifiers, it’s the process in which part of the output returns to the input
Feedback
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper
Lift
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB
Bacillus
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Graafian follicles of these glands contain the female reproductive cells
Ovaries
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The sun is 333,000 times as massive as the Earth & 1,047 times as massive as this planet
Jupiter
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Two 9-volt batteries in a series circuit produce this many volts of electromotive force
18
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The screw & the wedge are adaptations of this type of simple machine
Inclined plane
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This green plant pigment is also found in algae & in some bacteria
Chlorophyll
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1875 this plant breeder moved to California using profits earned on his potato
Luther Burbank
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s defined as an atom or group of atoms that has an electrical charge
Ion
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A 1991 photo of Gaspra taken by the Galileo probe was the first close-up of one of these minor planets
Asteroid
$1700 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1940s this Nobel Prize winner & vitamin C advocate studied the structure of antibodies
Linus Pauling
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This fossilized resin from prehistoric pines can preserve an insect forever
amber
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Most icebergs in the north Atlantic come from about 20 glaciers on this island’s west coast
Greenland
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Around 1840 chemist John William Draper took the first photograph of this heavenly body
the moon
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Birds & bees perform this transfer of gametes from anthers to stigmas
pollination
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Einstein said measurements of this depend on whether the observer is moving; it’s not absolute
time
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In a month an observer can see 59% of this heavenly body’s surface
Moon
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1996 scientists mapped a large lake on this continent covered by over 2 miles of ice
Antarctica
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When a seed germinates, its radicle breaks out & grows downward to become this part of the plant
Root
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Common types of these organisms combining algae & fungi can be fructose, foliose or crustose
Lichens
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s an insoluble solid that separates from a solution
Chemical precipitation
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1803 Luke Howard coined names for types of them, including cumulus & stratus
Clouds
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Atoms of this lightest element make up about 90% of the universe
Hydrogen
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This element, symbol Ir, is one of the most corrosion-resistant metals known
Iridium
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the branch of physics that deals with light & vision
Optics
$3000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “whip”, they’re the whiplike parts by which certain protozoa move about
Flagellum
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These 2 upper chambers of the heart receive & collect blood from the veins
the atria
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s measured in rads
radiation
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1975 in Texas scientists found fossils of this flying lizard with a more than 50’ wingspan
a pterodactyl
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this dog star, the brightest star in the night sky, is Greek for “scorching”
Sirius
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ
Brain
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Human beings normally have 46 of these in most of their cells
Chromosomes
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This second-lightest metal, symbol K, is so soft it can be cut with a knife
Potassium
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He’s been called the “Father of Modern Rocketry”
Robert Goddard
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| According to his law, resistance in a DC circuit is the ratio of volts to amps
Georg Ohm
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The largest cell is the 3-inch diameter yolk of this bird’s egg
Ostrich
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In Latin this metal is known as aurum
Gold
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On a weather chart this line connects places that have the same barometric pressure
Isobar
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On June 29, 1994 the temperature reached 125 degrees in Laughlin, the highest ever recorded in this state
Nevada
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This organ removes excess glucose from the blood & stores it as glycogen
Liver
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Proxima Centauri is the second-closest star to the Earth; this is the closest
The sun
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The constellation Taurus, not Cancer, contains this famous nebula
Crab Nebula
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Arteries branch off into arterioles & these join to form veins
Venuoles
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Often quite expensive, it’s considered the strongest natural fiber
Silk
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This gray metal is used in spark plugs & x-ray tubes as well as filaments
Tungsten
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The boundary between the mantle & this layer is called the Mohorovicic Discontinuity
Crust
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These 2 ducts lead from the ovaries to the uterus
Fallopian tubes
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1920s, Julius Nieuwland polymerized acetylene, added chlorine atoms & created this synthetic rubber
Neoprene
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On July 10, 1996 scientists released close-up photos of Ganymede taken by this space probe
Galileo
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1993 Eugene & Carolyn Shoemaker & David Levy discovered a highly fragmented one of these
Comet
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This gas, symbol Xe, is used in stroboscopes & high-speed camera flashes
Xenon
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Nearly twice as sweet as sucrose, this fruit sugar is the main sweetener in honey
Fructose
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An archipelago is a group of islands & this is a ring of coral islands like Bikini in the Pacific
Atoll
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Developed by Edward Jenner, the first true vaccine was designed to protect against this disease
Smallpox
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| They’re the 2 lines of latitude lying 23 1/2 degrees north & south of the Equator
Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This ninth planet’s unusual orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun than the eighth planet
Pluto
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the amount the air can hold at that temperature
Relative humidity
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A parasitoid differs from a parasite in that this eventually happens to its host
It dies
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The acceleration of falling objects varies from place to place because of variations in this force
Gravity
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the property of a body that opposes an electric current moving through it
Resistance
$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Not long after its development, Robert Boyle renamed the Torricellian Tube this
Barometer
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These respiratory organs of aquatic animals occur in oysters & some insect larvae as well as in fish
Gills
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Used to control glaucoma, a trabeculectomy is a procedure that reduces pressure in this organ
Eye
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The number of these dark patches visible on the sun’s surface varies from a few to several hundred
Sunspots
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A phrase used to remember this planet’s main moons is “Met Dr. Thip”; Titan is the second T
Saturn
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This drug marketed as Motrin was patented in Great Britain in 1964
Ibuprofen
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1857 James Clerk Maxwell concluded that its rings were made of small, unconnected particles
Saturn
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This “project” to develop a fission bomb was established in August 1942
The Manhattan Project
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Lithium is the lightest element that occurs in this state of matter at room temperature
Solid
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| For the radioactive isotope Actinium-227, it’s 21.8 years
Half-life
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This British baron pioneered antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid for sterilization
Joseph Lister
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Magnetism occurs most strongly in 3 elements: nickel, cobalt & this
Iron
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1665 Robert Hooke described & named this structural unit; bacteria have only one
Cell
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1698 Thomas Savery designed the first practical engine to run on this power
Steam
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This blood protein now comes in alpha, beta & gamma types
Globulins
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Simple machine Archimedes would use to “move the Earth” if you gave him a firm spot on which to stand
Lever
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Hirsutism is having more than the normal amount of this
hair
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This 4th letter of the Greek alphabet is used to describ a high-speed aircraft wing type
delta
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The focal length is the distance from the center of one of these to the focal point
the lens
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When astronomers got a close-up look at this object in 1985-86, its nucleus looked like a big potato
Halley’s comet
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This term refers to the warm periods within ice ages; we’re in one of those periods now
interglacial
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This form of oxygen, O3, is a major source of air pollution
ozone
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1865 this chemist saved the French silkworm industry by eradicating pebrine disease
Pasteur
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In this “effect” first described in 1842, the pitch of a train whistle seems to change as it moves
the Doppler effect
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| His experiments with light, including those with prisms, were published in his 1704 book “Opticks”
Isaac Newton
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Crookes tube, used to study these rays, led to the creation of the TV picture tube
cathode rays
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Almost the entire mass of an atom is contained in this central portion
Nucleus
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1914 she became head of the Paris Institute of Radium
Marie Curie
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| They’re the tiny threadlike structures that carry the genes - you have 23 pairs
Chromosomes
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Organic chemistry specializes in compounds that contain this element
Carbon
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| His discovery of energy quanta earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics
Max Planck
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the more common name for sodium chloride
Salt
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Foxglove is an example of this type of plant that completes its life cycle in 2 years
Biennial
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After the sun & moon, this planet is the brightest object in the sky
Venus
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The pH in pH scale stands for the “potential of “ this element
Hydrogen
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In geometry it’s a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides; in anatomy, it’s the smallest wrist bone
Trapezoid
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Drumlins are elongated, elliptical hills formed at the edges of these moving ice masses
Glaciers
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Elements are arranged in order of their atomic numbers on this table
Periodic Table of Elements
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This yellow element is found in gunpowder & matches & is used in vulcanizing rubber
Sulphur
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 2 bacteria, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus & Streptococcus Thermophilus, turn milk into this
Yogurt
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Named after its 19th century inventor, this pendulum demonstrates the Earth’s rotation
Foucault’s Pendulum
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Among alkaloids found in plants, this stimulant is found in coffee or tea
caffeine
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You may not need a high IQ to know IQ stands for this
intelligence quotient
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Name for the process a caterpillar goes through to become a moth
metamorphosis
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When cocci live in pairs, they’re called diplococci; in clusters, staphylococci; in chains, this
streptococci
$700 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Next in length on the scale of geological time: age, epoch, period, era…
eon
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the organisms this process kills in milk
Pasteurization
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Like humans, the Red-vented Bulbul bird needs a dietary source of this vitamin, also called ascorbic acid
Vitamin C
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Boiling bones & hides converts the protein collagen to this foodstuff
Gelatin
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Horseshoe crabs & coelacanth fish are considered living ones of these
Fossils
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Quarks have six known ones of these, which is far short of Baskin-Robbins
flavors
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Ferrovanadium is an alloy of vanadium & this metal
iron
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The horny casing of the toes of ungulates is called this
hooves
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1990 this space telescope provided the first picture of Charon as completely separate from Pluto
the Hubble telescope
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He outlines his 3 laws of motion in “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”
Sir Isaac Newton
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Fusion, the change of a solid to a liquid state, is more commonly called this
melting
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This heavenly body’s prominences include dark filaments & clouds of gas
The Sun
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In botany there are 4 flower parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these
Pistils
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You have many sweatglands, but only this number of lacrimal glands
2
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The highest jet streams occur in this layer of the atmosphere that begins 10 miles above the earth
Stratosphere
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| There are 3 types of RNA: transfer, ribosomal & this
Messenger
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Formulated NaCl it’s the chemical name for common table salt
sodium chloride
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Of the 3 basic states of matter, only this one, when unconfined, tends to expand indefinitely
gas
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for the time it takes a radioactive substance to decay to 50% of its original quantity
half-life
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In biological classification this comes between family & species
genus
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32° & the boiling point is this
212° Fahrenheit
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In breathing it’s the gas you expel to the atmosphere
Carbon Dioxide
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Erosion from these created fjords & drumlins
glaciers
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Scientist John Dalton suffered from the red-green type of this
Colorblindness
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The surfaces of this type of element can be anodized
Metal
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He discovered that if nitroglycerin was absorbed by an inert substance, it wouldn’t explode from shock
Alfred Nobel
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This is the formulation of the Einstein equation
E = mc2
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This is the permanent removal of unwanted hair by destroying its roots with electric current
electrolysis
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This pole star is the brightest one in the constellation Ursa Minor
Polaris
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This synthetic metallic element is named for scientists Marie & Pierre
curium
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Estimated temperatures on this planet range from 950° F. on the sunlit side to -346° on the dark side
Mercury
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the element whose atomic weight is closest to its atomic number
hydrogen
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Inventors of these include Georges Leclanche, Gaston Plante & Alessandro Volta
batteries
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Life here was the subject of the 1965 book “World Without Sun”
the sea
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After 1,400 orbits it fell back to Earth January 4, 1958 & burned up
Sputnik
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1977 the U.S. banned these that used freon as the propellant
spray cans
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An astroblame is a scar on the Earth’s surface caused by one of these
a meteor
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These warm, dry winds can raise the temperature at the base of the Rockies as much as 40º F. in 1 hour
the Chinooks
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “body”, it’s a free-moving cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte
a corpuscle
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 2nd U.S. suborbital flight, his Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank in the Atlantic upon splashdown
Gus Grissom
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 2 isotopes of the same element differ in the number of these subatomic particles
neutrons
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Measured in ohms, it’s the R in Ohm’s law, V=IR
resistance
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Next in the sequence: pentagon, hexagon, heptagon…
octogon
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the time it takes this largest planet to go once around the Sun, Earth has gone around 12 times
Jupiter
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A good electrical insulator, this yellowish resin produces a charge of static electricity when rubbed
amber
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Isaac Newton found the strength of this depends on 2 things: mass & distance
gravity
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This most malleable metal can be beaten into sheets 1 ten-thousandth of a millimeter thick
gold
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This element whose symbol is Zr is alphabetically the last element
zirconium
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Portland type of this substance is limestone & shale heated until almost fused, then ground
cement
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This term can mean active by day, or happening every day
diurnal
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the third century B.C. this “principled” Greek showed the value of pi was between 223/71 & 220/70
Archimedes
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This is the name of our own galaxy
the Milky Way
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This element is called natrium in Latin, hence its symbol Na
sodium
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Magnifications of up to one million times can be achieved with this type of microscope
an electron microscope
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This sugar, C12H22O11, occurs in the milk of all mammals
lactose
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Many of the gems sold as topaz are actually the citrine variety of this stone
quartz
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In metric measurement, 10 millimeters equal 1 of these
a centimeter
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Boyle’s Law says normally if you double the pressure on a gas, the volume decreases by this amount
one-half
$1100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1973 it became the first comet studied by men in space
Kohoutek
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| One mole of any substance always has the same number, 6.022 x 1023 of these
atoms
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar
shellac
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Psychologists refer to this sense as olfaction
smell
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The length of this on Jupiter is less than 10 hours
the day
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Palynology seeks knowledge about past plant distribution by studying grains of this
pollen
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Consisting of 3 atoms, water is an example of a triatomic one of these units
a molecule
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| American Arthur Compton’s work proved the existence of these “particles” of light
photons
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| by definition an anaerobe is an organism that lives in an environment free of this element
oxygen
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the core from this part of the earth
the mantle
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element
silver
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere
the lithosphere
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1979 it was discovered that this genetic structure spirals to the left, not to the right as once believed
DNA
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down
Magnetic North Pole
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this
Spin on its Axis
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Greek for “number”, it’s the science of numbers
arithmetic
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round; and this type is muscular
Mesomorph
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus and tested
amniocentesis
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When light is passed thru a prism, it produces this spread of colors
Spectrum
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the branch of chemistry that deals with carbon compounds
Organic Chemistry
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| All lines of longitude are measured east or west of this line
Prime Meridian
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Big Dipper is part of this constellation
Ursa Major
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The most important source of uranium & radium is this mineral ore
Pitchblende
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Invented by Edwin Land, it was the first instant camera
Polaroid Camera
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When Henry Cavendish discovered this lightest-known element, he called it inflammable air
Hydrogen
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Galileo is said to have done gravity experiments by dropping weights from this tower
Leaning Tower of Pisa
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In ancient times, lodestone was used as a form of this instrument
Compass
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A positive ion is formed when an atom loses one or more of these
Electron
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1985 a hole was discovered in the ozone layer over this continent
Antarctica
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Just using flour & water gives you unleavened bread; add this fungus to leaven it
yeast
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Meaning “without water”, it’s one type of barometer
aneroid
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Miranda, a moon of this planet, was the 1st not named after a god or spirit
Uranus
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says you can figure out a particle’s momentum or this, not both
its position
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In computerese, a “vaccine” is a program that seeks out & destroys these
Computer viruses
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A compass points toward this north pole
Magnetic North Pole
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Varieties of these simple plants include red, brown, green & blue-green
Algae
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist
Ivan Pavlov
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The most abundant metal on Earth, when it was discovered in 1820 it was worth more than gold
Aluminum
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A simple one of these consists of a small weight swinging to & fro on the end of a string
Pendulum
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The process by which a substance changes from liquid to a gas is called this
Vaporization
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The planets that are smaller than Earth are Mercury, Venus & these two
Mars & Pluto
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An LED; it’s used for displaying readings on digital watches & calculators
Light Emitting Diode
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When this scientist discovered oxygen, he called it dephlogisticated air
Joseph Priestley
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| If something’s described as effervescent, it means it has a lot of these
Bubbles
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Kill an insect & you’ve committed insecticide; kill the mildew in your shower & you’ve committed this
Fungicide
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This sedimentary rock, “Creta” in Latin, was formed from marine life during the Cretaceous period
Chalk
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This mineral comes after No. 9, corundum, on the Mohs scale
Diamond
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Abbreviated “pc”, it’s a unit of distance used in astronomy equal to 3.21 light years
Parsec
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The mother of a mule
Horse (Mare)
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s another name for your coccyx
Tailbone
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Union Carbide makes this common car additive that contains ethylene glycol
Antifreeze
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb
Millibar
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity
Pierre Curie
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The only substance known to ancient man in solid, liquid & gas form
Water
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Most of the world’s supply of this light gas comes from natural gas fields in the U.S.
Helium
$1800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Launched by the Soviets in 1957, the 1st living creature to orbit the Earth was one of these
Dog (Laika)
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Some hemophiliacs spend over $50,000 per year on Factor VIII which does this for the blood
Allows it to Clot
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Science took a leap forward when physicist Max Planck devised this theory about light
Quantum Theory
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After about eight weeks, a human embryo develops into this
a fetus
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| At about 63,000 ft. at normal body temperature, blood will do this
boil
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Because they are never found in chemical compounds, the noble gases neon, argon & helium are called this
the inert gases
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for the blood vessels which take the blood from the heart
arteries
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the scientific categories, Americans have won 142, or 38%, of these awards 1st given in 1901
Nobel Prizes
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Hubble constant tells how fast the universe is expanding since this “noisy” event occurred
the Big Bang
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A metal that is “ductile” can be pulled into this while cold & under pressure
wire
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Poor amoebas! They reproduce by doing this
dividing (splitting in two)
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Vegetable dye that turns red in acid solutions & blue in alkaline solutions
litmus
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Distilled from liquid air, this gas is used to produce a bright reddish light
neon
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| To cure Parkinson’s, scientists are now trying cell grafts in this part of the body
brain
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This British physician has been called the “Father of Immunology”
(Edward) Jenner
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist
Pavlov
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Though pleasant to kiss under, this plant is poisonous to eat
mistletoe
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Cryobiologists are interested in doing this to living matter to preserve it for future use
freezing
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one
a cell
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these
atoms
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for creatures like vultures or hermit crabs that eat carcasses & refuse
a scavenger
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Days & nights are always 12 hours long there
the equator
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| If you’re studying mensuration, you’re studying this
measurement
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| One who’ll give you blood or the kidney off his back
donor
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Around for 400 million yrs., there are now more than 2,000 species of these pesty cricket cousins
cockroaches
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Intact DNA was recently extracted from one of these ancient “royal relics”
mummy
$1800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Tracking these, coast guard rates them as bergy bits, growlers, small, medium, & large
icebergs
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Land animal with the largest teeth
the elephant
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| “Diffraction” refers to the way it bends
light
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 2 primary ferrous metals
iron and steel
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Natural vanilla flavoring comes from this tropical flower
the orchid
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Stratigraphy is a branch of this science
geology
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A typical snowflake has this many sides
six
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Common element whose refined forms include pig, cast or wrought
iron
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After length, width & depth, the 4th dimension
time
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Type of organism that lives off of another, contributing nothing
a parasite
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Shattering sound that accompanies breaking the sound barrier
a sonic boom
$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A sound’s repetition by reflection
an echo
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He originated “The Origin of Species”
Charles Darwin
$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Singular form of the word “bacteria”
bacterium
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Negative particle that orbits an atom’s nucleus
an electron
$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Cytology is the study of these biological building blocks
cells
$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Fahrenheit equivalent to 0º Centigrade
32
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You might have to put F. Lee Bailey on one to admit he had a show about one
a lie detector
$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The science which deals with the motion & behavior of bullets
ballistics
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| What you’re “stuck with” boiling down collagen, softening it with hot water & letting it swell
glue
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler
Paul Revere
$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The mammal that holds the record for the longest lifespan
man
