What name is given to wood whose normal cells have been replaced with mineral deposits?

Pollination by birds is called:

Unlike rodents, the rabbit has how many incisor teeth?

What percent of fire-related deaths are due to smoke inhalation rather than burns?

To what familiar fruit is the plantain similar?

How many men have walked on the moon?

The fastest-running terrestrial animal is:

In what country do the greatest number of tornadoes occur?

Which sea is the saltiest natural lake and is also at the lowest elevation on the face of the earth?

The scarab, worshipped by the Egyptians, is what type of beetle?

As you go down into a well, your weight:

What invention in about 1450 A.D. revolutionized communication and the world?

What mammal lays eggs?

Linseed oil comes from what plant?

Bees must collect nectar from approximately how many flowers to make 1 pound of honeycomb?

Albacore is a type of:

The only species of cat that lives and hunts in groups is:

Linen is made from what plant?

What is arachnology?

What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?

What nocturnal animal group makes up one-fourth of all mammals species?

What is the name of the whale that has a long protruding tusk?

How many time zones are there on Earth?

What land mammal holds the record for the greatest age?

What is the better known name for the deadly poison prussic acid?

What is the rest mass of a photon?

What yellow metal is an alloy of copper and zinc?

What is the name given to the process, discovered by Goodyear, of adding sulfur to heated rubber?

Used primarily in fertilizers, which element is never found free in nature even though it makes up about 2.5% of the earth's crust?

What element, whose symbol derived from the Latin for "liquid silver", has been found in Egyptian tombs from 1500 B.C.?

What poisonous alkaloid is extracted from tobacco leaves and widely used as an insecticide?

What is the name for steel alloyed with chromium?

Table sugar, from sugar cane or beet, is what type of sugar?

Which prefix is often used with scientific terms to indicate that something is the same, equal or constant?

The study of phenomena at very low temperatures is called:

The branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of disease as it affects a community of people is called:

The study of how people use tools to perform work and how people physically relate to their working environment is called:

Name the first woman to travel in space.

What famous scientist and inventor participated in the invention of the Aqua-Lung?

Superconductivity is a material property associated with:

Who was the marine biologist and author of Silent Spring who was one of the first people to warn of the dangers of pesticides like DDT?

If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily it is called:

What is the name given to the invasion of warm surface waters off the Peruvian coast that has been identified with strange climactic effects in recent years?

Occasionally, a bad cold will cause a decrease in a person's hearing ability. What is the name of the tube that becomes blocked to cause this problem?

Name the general type of mammal that gives birth to undeveloped young that are kept in pouches.

In a musical instrument that produces a fundamental note, what would the wavelength of the second harmonic be relative to the fundamental?

In which country was a method for making rust-resistant iron discovered in the fifth century B.C.?

Cystitis is the infection of which of the following?

What is the subdivision in the Plant Kingdom comprising over 20,000 species of Mosses and Liverworts?

Name the medical term given to the inflammation or infection of the mucous membranes of the nose.

Car catalytic converters cause the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons which result from incomplete combustion to be converted into what two substances?

At room temperature, most elements are in which phase of matter?

The per capita birth rate of a population is known as its:

The science of weights and measures is called:

Which of the following is primarily composed of calcium carbonate?

What compound is a common component of air pollution, but is essential in the upper atmosphere to protect life on earth?

Water flows through a horizontal pipe at a constant volumetric rate. At a location where the cross sectional area decreases, the velocity of the fluid:

What radioactive element is routinely used in treating hyperthyroidism, and in reducing thyroid activity?

What is osteoporosis?

Yeast, used in making bread is a:

The Statue of Liberty is green because of:

The word atom is from a Greek word meaning:

Name the famous mathematician/physicist who was born in the year Galileo died.

Members of the order Apodes, these elongated slender fishes are without pelvic fins and in some species lack pectoral or median fins. What is a shark's skeleton made of?

Identify the Earth's largest INVERTEBRATE animal.

What creature do the Galapagos Islands take their name from?

What is the only venomous British snake?

What is shed when you desquamate?

What are the only places that dogs have sweat glands?

What body function are rats unable to do which makes them extra vulnerable to poison?

A cyclone is an engineering device that is used to

Electric power is less expensive at night because:

Name THREE techniques for removing particulates from flue gas produced from the combustion of coal.

In electronic circuits, what name is given to a frequency discriminating network designed to select or pass certain bands of frequencies with low attenuation and cause very high attenuation to other frequencies?