Science Part 2 Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This inert gas alters your voice because sound travels more than twice as fast in it as in air
helium
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Lignin, a substance in wood, changes when exposed to oxygen; that makes white paper turn this color as it ages
yellow
$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue as she and Kelly demonstrate a potato gun.</a>) A potato gun demonstrates Boyle’s Law using a simple tube & a stick; pushing the stick reduces the volume of air and increases this 8-letter term, making the potato go ballistic
pressure
$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Slow-motion video shows this bug evading a swat in 250 milliseconds; for 240 of those, it’s repositioning itself to jump
a fly
$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise
dextrose
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| They’re also called erythrocytes
red blood cells
$3200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this noble gas is from the Greek for “new”
neon
$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Haber process uses nitrogen & hydrogen to synthetically produce this pungent gas
ammonia
$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays a chemical formula on the monitor.</a>) When acetic acid in vinegar reacts with CaCO3, this compound in the eggshell, bubbles of CO2 form in the vinegar & dissolve the shell, leaving just the membrane
calcium carbonate
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This unit of pressure is equal to about 14.7 pounds per square inch or 1 bar
one atmosphere
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In November 2009 science news, a NASA probe found water here, & not a little bit, either
the Moon
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) The flame appears to be underwater, but actually the water is cooling the candle’s outer layer, preventing the wax from burning, because it can’t do this, from the Latin for “to disperse to vapor”
evaporate
$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| About 65% of iron in humans is in the form of this, which transports molecular oxygen from the lungs through the body
hemoglobin
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) The keys weigh much more than the paper clips and fall to the ground, but a pencil acts as this support, pulling the clips sideways, where gravity & friction stop the keys’ descent
a fulcrum
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the largest number in the Fibonacci sequence that’s also a day in a month
21
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A hemodialyzer is a medical device known as an artificial this organ
a kidney
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) An egg sinks in tap water, but in saltwater, the egg gains this, defined as the upward force of a liquid on an object less dense than itself
buoyancy
$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The second law of thermodynamics says that this will of its own accord only move to a colder object
heat
$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) When you press the nozzle of an aerosol can, the contents are pushed out by pressurized gas; the gas is called one of these, a general term for chemicals that create thrust
a propellant
$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This division separates Saturn’s rings & is named for the man who spotted them in 1675
the Cassini division
$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The word rubber comes from the discovery that the stuff could be used to rub out marks made with this
pencil
$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| As it’s caused by a lack of niacin, pellagra is termed this type of deficiency disease
vitamin deficiency
$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In parts of the Caribbean, these are on a diurnal cycle: one high, one low a day, that’s it
tides
$2500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s a substance that conducts current; sodium & potassium are 2 of the ones Gatorade restores to your body
an electrolyte