Entrance Exam (STEM)

• Organisms that can make its own food are called

  autotrophs
• These are organisms that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material

  SCAVENGERS
• Organisms that cannot make their own food and must feed on other organisms

  heterotrophs
• Organisms that break down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms

  DECOMPOSERS
• The simplest feeding relationship that scientists use to show how matter and energy move through an ecosystem

  FOOD CHAIN
• All food chains in an ecosystem

  FOOD WEB
• Nutrients move through the biosphere in a series of physical and biological processes

  BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE
• It is the movement of water from the atmosphere to the Earth and back to the atmosphere

  WATER CYCLE
• The process in which nitrogen from the atmosphere is converted into a form that can be used by living organisms

  NITROGEN FIXATION
• The process in which bacteria from the soul break down nitrogen compounds into free nitrogen

  Denitrification
• Animals that have a backbone fit into which category

  VERTEBRATES
• A part of the metric system of VOLUME

  Milliliter
• Robert Fulton is known as the person who commercialized which method of transportation

  STEAMBOAT
• On the periodic table of elements, what does "O" stands for?

  Oxygen
• Geometry is the study of...

  SHAPE
• Mathematician who specializes in the field of geometry

  GEOMETER
• Which planet in our solar system is closest to the sun?

  MERCURY
• Very basic machine that consists of rope and a wheel

  PULLEY
• Which basic force is vital for keeping planets in their orbits?

  GRAVITY
• What is the fastest land animal on Earth?

  CHEETAH
• What tool do you use to measure temperature?

  THERMOMETER
• What's the name for a very common biological catalyst?


  Enzyme
• Who invented a device called phonograph?

  Thomas Edison
• Weather phenomenon causes the most deaths annually across the United States?

  Heat
• Object that's moving in a straight line will likely keep moving.

  INERTIA
• In a destructive symbiotic relationship, a parasite causes much harm to?

  HOST
• Items that Benjamin Franklin invent?

  Bifocal Glasses
• What's the name of force that causes resistance when two surfaces slide against one another?

  Friction
• In the realm of statistics what's an "outlier" ?

  An outlier is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a dataset.
• What sort of creatures would you find in the class named Aves?

  Birds
• Seismology is the study of?

  Earthquakes
• The Wright brothers are credited with inventing which technology?

  Airplane
• What did Guglielmo Marconi invent?


  Radio
• What's the number on the bottom of a fraction?

  Denominator
• What's the hottest place on or in all of Earth?

  Inner Core
• What are the rays of the sun that cause human skin to burn?

  Ultraviolet Rays
• What's the term for coplanar lines that never intersect?

  Parallel
• What is the fastest animal in the entire world, including land, sea and air?

  Peregrine Falcon
• In eukaryotic cells, which organelle stores most of the cell's genetic material?

  Nucleus
• Which pair of atoms will share electrons when a bond is formed between them? 

  Valens electrons (N and O)