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What are the Five Pillars of Success?

1. Checkin every day.

2. Fill our your stats fully at least five days per week.

2. Do 1.5 hours of prep every day (6 days per week).

3. Maintain an 80% quiz score average.

4. Keep a find-a-way attitude towards hitting your goal score every week.

What are the five Unbreakable Rules of Studying?

1. Never move on to the next question until you can easily teach the last question.

2. Learn the material in a way that you will retain the material.

3. Take all tests and challenges in exact time conditions.

4. Never take the same test or challenge twice.

5. Do not guess on any practice ACT test.

How do you win the Outliers t-shirt?

Check in before noon at least five days per week for at least 11 weeks.

How do you win the Gold Award?

Do at least 1.5 hours of prep each day with no missed days. (You must have an 80% quiz score average by the end of the program to win it.)

How do you win the Foundation Award?

Perfect checkins for the 13 weeks of the program. (This includes all of your days off.)

How do you win the Determination Award?

Have an 80% quiz score average at the end of the 13 weeks of the program.

What does the cell nucleus contain?

The DNA of the cell

What can the cell nucleus be compared to?

the brain of the cell

What does the cell nucleus help control in the cell?

Eating, Movement, and Reproduction

What do chloroplasts do?

They help convert light into energy (photosythesis).

Do non-plant cells have chloroplasts?

No

What does the cell membrane do?

It holds the cell together and controls what goes in and out.

What does DNA contain?

All the genetic information we need to make proteins.

What is another name for messenger RNA?

mRNA

What is "transcription" ?

The process of making RNA from DNA

Where does "transcription" occur?

nucleus

What is the cytosol?

It is the liquid portion of cytoplasm.

What is cytoplasm?

It is the portion of the cell outside the nucleus.

What helps turn the mRNA into protein?

Ribosomes

What is translation?

It is when ribosomes decode mRNA into protein.

What are the two steps of protein sythesis?

1. DNA to mRNA (transcription)

2. mRNA to protein (translation)

What are proteins made of?

Amino Acids

What are two main types of nucleic acids?

DNA and RNA

At what temperature does water freeze and boil (in Celsius)?

0 and 100.

What does the PH scale measure?

It measures how acidic or basic a substance is.

At what PH level is a substance considered acidic?

BELOW 7

At what PH level is a substance considered basic?

ABOVE 7

At what PH level is a substance considered nuetral?

AT 7

What three types of particles are atoms made of?

protons, neutrons, and electrons

What kind of charge do protons have?

Positive

What kind of charge do neutrons have?

Neutral

What kind of charge do electrons have?

Negative

What kinds of charges repel each other?

Like charges repel each other.

What kinds of charges attract each other?

Opposite charges attract.

At what degrees (in celcius) is water a solid, liquid, and gas?

0 Celsius and below, water is a solid. 0 to 100, water is liquid.

At 100 and above, water is a gas.

What is the density formula?

Density = mass/volume

Do dense or less dense objects sink?

Dense objects sink.

What density principle must be true for an object to float in a liquid?

The object must be less dense than the liquid

What is a solvent?

A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances. Ex: 2012a:14

What is a simple understanding of the word velocity?

speed

What is a simple understanding of the word viscosity?

How thick something is.

What is magnitude?

Size (2013 D: 5)