SciOly Flashcards

Cartilage is composed of

Calcium Deposits

What are the 3 main types of bones

Long, Short, and flat

Dermatitis is…

Inflammation of the skin

What is the Disease Detective event about?

Answering questions about disease, injury, and health

An epidemic is when…

a disease is present at either a higher rate in the population, is more dangerous, or both

A pandemic is when..

when a disease spreads to more than on population

The CDC is…

the Centers for Disease Control prevention

antibodies bind to proteins called …

Antigens

Why does magma rise and eventually leave volcanoes?

Magma is less dense than the surrounding rock, so it rises

Volcanic mountains are associated with…

Convergent plate boundaries

What is plaintext?

Text before it has been encoded; readable information yet to be encrypted

What is ciphertext?

A form of encryption often involving an algorithm or key that leaves information in an unreadable state but is able to be reverted

What is a key?

A form of encryption; letters are "shifted" forward or backward in the alphabet to create a new encrypted phrase, then shifted back to decrypt

What is PH paper used for?

To determine if a substance is an acid or base

What causes fingerprints to be left behind when we touch things?

Natural sweats and oils in the skin

Energy flow in an ecosystem is not cyclic because energy is…

converted to many kinds of useful energy

Ecology is best defined as the study of…

organisms as they interact with other organisms and with their physical environment

The number of individuals per unit area or volume is the…

population density

The pattern dispersal of individuals within an area is the…

population distribution

The factors that determine if an organism can live in an area are…

limiting factors

The largest communities on land are called…

biomes

Morphogenesis refers to…

all changes that involve growth, molting, or maturation

All insects belong to ………….. phylum

Arthropoda

The factor that changes through the experiment is called an…

independent variable

How many independent variables should an experiment have?

Only 1

An instrument used to measure wind speed is called an…

anemometer

In which ocean basin would you find a circulation pattern described as the Walker Circulation?

Pacific Ocean

What is a part that the viewer looks through in a microscope?

Ocular

The prefix giga refers to…

100000000 (10^8)

Bacteria are…

Single celled, prokaryotic organisms

Growing bacteria in a closed container with a fixed amount of medium is referred to as…

Bacterial Culture

Viruses can infect all of the following except

Bacteria

What are the 2 main subfields of optics

Geometric and Physical

The banding of light when it passes through on medium to another is …

Refraction

When preforming simple chromatography, what is the mobile phase

The solvent

You have a beaker full of large rocks, gravel, and sand. What technique should be used to separate this mixture

Sieving

What type of gas must be used in gas chromatography

Inert gas

The tip of Ursa Minor is famous for which star

Polaris

In general the brightest star in a constellation is denoted a …

primary star

What 2 elements are stars mostly composed of

Helium, Hydrogen

What are the types of galaxies

Spiral, elliptical, and irregular

During the reach for the stars event you may be given star charts…

from any location and any season but always midnight

What is a planimetric map

A map that does not include elevation data

What do hachures on a contour indicate?

A steep incline an increasing elevation

What is the body system that controls blood circulation

Circulatory System

What does DNA stand for?

deoxyribonucleic acid

What is a virion?

the complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell, with a core of RNA or DNA and a capsid.

What is the lithosphere?

the solid, outermost layer of the Earth, made up of the crust and the brittle upper portion of the mantle.

What is the asthenosphere?

A mechanically weak and ductile region of the Earth's upper mantle, located beneath the lithosphere

What is chromatography?

Chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components.

What is polymer testing?

The process of analyzing and characterizing the properties of polymeric materials, including synthetic, natural, and biobased polymers.

What is commensalism?

A symbiotic relationship between two species where one species benefits from the other without harming or benefiting it.

What is mutualism?

A type of symbiotic relationship between species where both species benefit from their interactions.

What is parasitism?

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

What are biospheres?

The part of Earth that contains all life and the areas where life can exist.

What is an estuary?

a partially enclosed body of water where fresh water from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean

What type of animals belong to the cnidaria phylum?

includes soft-bodied stinging animals such as corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish

What type of animals belong to the Arthropoda phylum?

include insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and barnacles

True/False: Insects are the only invertebrates that can fly

True

What is a hypothesis?

a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation

What is an apparatus?

the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose.

Along a front, which air is always forced up?

warmer, less dense air

What is a ceilometer?

a device for measuring and recording the height of clouds

What is a barometer?

An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure

What is centrifuging?

separate food particles of different densities (e.g. cream from milk)

What is sieving?

particles are passed by mechanical shaking through a series of sieves of known and successively smaller size

What is magnetization?

Converting a magnetic material into a magnet

What is sedimentation?

When runoff deposits sediment into water ways, leading to a decline in water quality by blocking sunlight.

How do you tell which way a river is flowing on a topographic map?

Whichever way the v-shapes are pointing that's the direction of the water flow.

What do contour lines that are spaced close together mean?

The mountain is steep in the area.