Loaded Questions 3/2/23 - Science
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Happy Thursday everyone! A fun science set today, something for the whole family (assuming your family is a STEM loving crowd). I hope you have a great weekend ahead, and good luck on any Zoom games you got soon!
1. What Swedish physicist-scientist (1859-1927) names a formula that determines the temperature dependence of reaction rates, and also proposed the first chemical definition of acids and base? He became the first Swedish Nobel winner, and was director of the Nobel Institute until his death.
2. As a B cell matures, it turns into one of two types of cells. Name those types of cells.
3. Used in physics and engineering, what type of approximations use values of the main trig functions? Using this, sin(theta) can be approximated as just theta.
4. In biochemistry, what does ATP stand for?
5. What thin layer in a large body of water where temperature changes more drastically with depth?
6. What is the specific heat capacity for water?
7. What loop of circulatory anastomosis that supplies blood to the brain is named for an English physician?
8. Discovered in 1994, what is the name also given to the exoplanet known as PSR B1257+12 A, found in the constellation Virgo, and is considered the least massive planet known?
9. Also called the paleomammalian cortex, what system in the brain regulates emotion, behavior, and long-term memory?
10. The world's largest carnivore is the southern...what?
11. Found in the constellation of Centaurus roughly 5000 light years away, the coldest known place in the universe (measuring at 1 degree Kelvin) is a nebula named for what type of shape? Appropriately, Centaurus is a southern constellation.
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1. What Swedish physicist-scientist (1859-1927) names a formula that determines the temperature dependence of reaction rates, and also proposed the first chemical definition of acids and base? He became the first Swedish Nobel winner, and was director of the Nobel Institute until his death.
Svante Arrhenius
2. As a B cell matures, it turns into one of two types of cells. Name those types of cells.
Memory cell, plasma cell
3. Used in physics and engineering, what type of approximations use values of the main trig functions? Using this, sin(theta) can be approximated as just theta.
Small-angle approximation
4. In biochemistry, what does ATP stand for?
Adenosine triphosphate
5. What thin layer in a large body of water where temperature changes more drastically with depth?
Thermocline
6. What is the specific heat capacity for water?
One calorie / gram degree Celsius
7. What loop of circulatory anastomosis that supplies blood to the brain is named for an English physician?
Circle of Willis
8. Discovered in 1994, what is the name also given to the exoplanet known as PSR B1257+12 A, found in the constellation Virgo, and is considered the least massive planet known?
Draugr
9. Also called the paleomammalian cortex, what system in the brain regulates emotion, behavior, and long-term memory?
Limbic system
10. The world's largest carnivore is the southern...what?
Elephant seal
11. Found in the constellation of Centaurus roughly 5000 light years away, the coldest known place in the universe (measuring at 1 degree Kelvin) is a nebula named for what type of shape? Appropriately, Centaurus is a southern constellation.
Boomerang Nebula