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What country made the first space station, MIR? |
Russia
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What country made the first space satellite, SPUTNIK? |
Russia
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What is a prism?
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A piece of glass that has polished flat sides at an angle with each other.
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What is entropy? |
Entropy is lost energy, such as heat
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What is the outer covering of a cell?
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Cell membrane
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What is the difference between an animal/human cell and a plant cell? |
A human animal cell has a membrane a plant cell has a cell wall.
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Alternating current (ac) VS Direct current (DC)? |
AC moves in both directions, to and from a source, and is also used in appliances that connect to the wall. DC moves only to the destination, also it's used in appliances that are battery powered.
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What is a circuit?
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A complete path of an electric current.
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Why can lemons be used as battery cells? |
They are full of electrolytes, and are high in acid, thus have have an electric charge
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What is an aquifer?
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A body of rock or sediment that stores ground water and allows the flow of groundwater
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What is pollution?
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An unwanted change in the environment caused by substances or forms of energy
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When did Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, was he the first American?
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1969, yes he was the first.
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What is a parallax? |
A parallax is an apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations
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What is genetic dominance?
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It is the tendency of certain dominant alleles to mask the expression of their corresponding recessive alleles
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Name the substance that makes plants cells green?
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Chlorophyll it's also critical to photosynthesis
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What could you use to figure out what genes your children will inherit from you?
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a punnett square
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