BRAIN test
This week it’s a scientific alphabet soup.
1. What “A” is the name for blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart?
2. What “B” is the study of projectiles (for example rockets) and their flights?
3. What “C” is the gaseous envelope of the sun that is normally visible during a solar eclipse?
4. What “D” is the more common name for the medical condition pityriasis capitis?
5. What “E” is an alkane with two carbon atoms that falls between methane and propane?
6. What “F” is the process where uranium or plutonium splits into two smaller atoms?
7. What “H” is the offspring of two different species that is normally sterile?
8. What “I” is the term used to describe the mathematical function which is loosely the reverse of derivatives?
9. What “K” is a scientist who first discovered the three basic laws of planetary motion?
10. What “L” is an element found in batteries and in bipolar medication that is situated immediately below hydrogen on the periodic table?
11. What “M” is a type of force that is measured in teslas?
12. What “N” are fierynecked, Mozambican, speckled and rufouscheeked all types of (clue: they are birds, pictured)?
13. What “O” is a doctor that specialises in diseases of the bones and joints?
14. What “P” is the fastest bird in the world; it can reach maximum speeds of nearly 400km/h?
15. What “R” is the heaviest of the noble gasses?
16. What “S” is a junction between two individual nerve cells? It consists of a tiny gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
17. What “T” in geometry is the word used for a straight line that passes the outside of a circle and touches the circle at one point?
18. What “V” is the correct name for the changing of a liquid into a gas?
19. What “X” is the vascular tissue in plants which conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root and helps to form the woody element in the stem?
20. What “Z” is the name of the single cell that forms when a sperm fertilises an egg?
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