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Viticulture is a branch of horticulture that studies how to grow grape vines and how best to harvest grapes. The word comes from Latin, and in that language means "vine" or "wine growing". Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

The study of the manners involved in wine drinking., The study of the types of cheese that should be paired with wine., The study of insects known as vites.

All life requires energy, and trees are no exception. Their leaves contain the green pigment chlorophyll, which enables them to convert carbon dioxide and water into energy and oxygen. The energy is stored in the form of sugars and the oxygen is released into the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest is often called the 'lungs of the world' because of the large amount of oxygen its trees provide. This is one of many reasons why we need to preserve our rainforests. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, Argon

The air at sea level (where most of the people on earth live) contains around 78% nitrogen plus 21% oxygen, nearly 1% argon and 0.04% carbon dioxide. For humans, nitrogen and argon are inert. This means that we can't use this gas to keep us alive, but it does not harm us either. As only about 20% of air is oxygen, when we take a breath of about 500mL of air only 100 mL is used by the body. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Nearly 100%, Less than 1%, There is no oxygen in air

Biochemistry is more similar to biology, but contains lots of chemistry too! Chemistry looks at lots of things, but biochemistry deals specifically with chemistry in living organisms ("bio" is Greek for "life"). This means we take questions like "how do we digest food?", "how do our bodies fight illness?", and "how do we stay alive?" and try to answer them from a molecular level. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Physics and chemistry, Astronomy and medicine , Biology and astronomy

Hooke described the cell which is the functional and structural building block for all living things. A bacterium is a very small single-celled organism. An element is a pure substance consisting of only a single type of atom. A molecule is a group of atoms joined together that have no net electrical charge. Difficulty: Average.

 

a bacterium, an element, a molecule

Elvis Presley made shaking his pelvis exciting. The bones of the pelvis are made up of the sacrum, the coccyx, and the ischium. The bone that a person can feel in the pelvic area is the isichium bone. The coccyx is the scientific name for the tail bone and the sacrum joins the pelvis with the spinal cord. The pelvis is rounded so human beings have the ability to stand upright. A man's pelvis is smaller than a woman's pelvis due to the fact that a woman has the ability to give birth.

The radius is a bone located in the lower arm. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Coccyx, Sacrum, Ischium

Our heart pumps blood which needs to be supplied to all other parts of the body. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Liver, Kidney, Intestines

The frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, occipital, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones make up the cranium. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Xiphoid Process, Trapezium, Proximal Phalanges

The liver can be found in the right upper part of the abdomen. It makes a liquid called bile, which helps to absorb fats from the food we eat. The liver removes harmful stuff such as alcohol and drugs from the blood. It makes certain types of proteins, including a protein which helps blood to clot. When there's too much glucose/fuel in the blood, the liver stores the excess as glycogen. Glycogen is changed back to glucose when the body needs it. Vitamins A, D, K and B12 are also stored in the liver. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

stomach, lung, brain

The heart is located almost in the center of the chest cavity. It's closer to the left side. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

the abdomen, the skull, the pelvis

The heart is like a big pump and every time it beats it sends blood throughout our bodies. Each beat sends it further along and when the blood has done its job it comes back to the heart to get a new job to do, before being pumped out again. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Lungs, Kidney, Brain

The ant lion's body features two massive pincers used to grab any insect that falls into the pit. Ant lions are known to even sling sand at any insect that has escaped, in an effort to make the insect slide back down for a second shot.

Ant lion pits feature loose soil (either very fine or sandy) held together with mucus excretions.

Difficulty: Hard.

 

leopard moth, tiger beetle, mole cricket

One of the lesser known scientific names for a bone. It holds the lower teeth in place. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Collar, Spine, Skull

The fibula is opposite the tibia in the lower part of the leg. It is a very thin bone and very easy to break. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Arm, Head, Torso

Botany is the study of the structure and the functions of a plant. You study everything from why a plant is a certain colour to how it makes its own food. If you study a botany degree, you also find out that plants are often given names in Latin!
Zoology is another biological study, though, zoologists specialise in animals. Astronomy is the study of space and plantology is a figment of my imagination! Difficulty: Easy.

 

Zoology, Astronomy, Plantology

Nerves in our bodies carry messages to and from our brain all day. They let the brain know what we are seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing and feeling. The messages travel very fast and the quickest have been measured as travelling at 400 kilometres per hour (250 miles per hour). Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Fat, Muscles, E-mail

The brain does a lot more than just control each side of our bodies, it is the part of us that thinks and remembers. Brains can be different sizes for different people but having a big brain does not make you cleverer, any more than having bigger feet would make you a faster runner! Difficulty: Easy.

 

Each side of the brain controls the same side of the body., Each side of the brain control some of each side of the body., The brain does not have two sides.

The three layers of stomach muscle help the stomach digest mechanically. The muscles contract and relax to make the food churn to break it down into a liquid. The stomach is a bean-shaped hollow organ. By the way, there are three types of muscle: smooth, cardiac, and skeletal. Difficulty: Easy.

 

it is surrounded by lymph nodes, it is made up of cardiac muscle, it is made up of bones

Plant cells have larger vacuoles than animal cells, although they both do the same thing. Vacuoles are like the storage for the cells. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Cells don't have vacuoles., The doors and protection of a cell., The place the proteins are made.

We bite it with our teeth of course. There are four types of teeth, the big ones at the front are called incisors, the pointy ones beside those are called canines (because they look like dogs' teeth), the little ones after that are called premolars and the big ones that crush are molars. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Tongue, Palate, Tonsils

Plants are called lungs of nature. They are called so because they use carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere (thus purifying the atmosphere from excess carbon dioxide) and release oxygen gas which is used by human beings during respiration. Difficulty: Hard.

 

stomach, heart, liver

Breathing involves inhaling and exhaling only. It does not involve organic molecules. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Breathing, Eating, Making Food

When you were born you had over 300 bones. Some of these joined together as you grew older. By the time you are an adult, you will have only 206 bones in your skeleton. Difficulty: Easy.

 

58, 156, 509

Most of the vineyards in the world are found between the latitudes of 30° and 50° in each hemisphere. This is mainly because of the climate in these areas. In the summer, the days are sunny and warm, conditions that help grapevines grow. In the winter, it gets cold, but not too cold, resulting in conditions that help grapevines to rest without damage from freezing weather. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Viticulturists find that the soil for their grapevines is best in these areas., Viticulturists find that there are no insects that attack grapevines in these areas., No reason, it is just a coincidence.

Ingestion is the process of intaking of food from the mouth. Digestion is the process of digesting the food, where the complex food gets broken down into simpler molecules. Absorption is the process of absorbing nutrients from the digested food. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Digestion, Absorption, Egestion

A centrifuge is a machine that holds lots of blood specimens at one time. When you turn it on, it spins the blood tubes very fast (about 3000 revolutions, or turns, per minute). This causes the heavy parts of the blood to move to the bottom of the tube while the watery part of the blood (the lighter part called plasma) stays near the top. This is important as the plasma is used for some tests and the cells for others. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Microscope, Auto-analyzer, Flow cytometer

When we breathe, the air nearly always enters our nose where hairs called cilia trap dust, pollen, mould and other environmental contaminants. The nose also moisturises and warms the air before it reaches the lungs. If the mouth is used for breathing none of these things happen but the distance to the throat is shorter and wider so air can reach the lungs quicker if needed. Difficulty: Easy.

 

It does not matter which way the air gets to the lungs, It is quicker when it goes through the nose, It is less painful when air enters the lungs from the nose

The heart is the first organ that is formed in our bodies. It pumps the blood that carries nutrients to the entire body and also transports waste our body does not need. The average human heart beats about 100,000 times a day, sending 2,000 gallons of blood surging through the body, in over 60,000 miles of blood vessels. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

pancreas, appendix, gallbladder

An organ is made up of different kinds of cells working together. The skin is the largest; it keeps out germs and keeps in moisture. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

heart, liver, brain

DNA is made up of genes, which help to determine what we look like (e.g. whether we have blue or brown eyes, blonde or brown hair, whether we are short or tall etc.). This important molecule is stowed away in a compartment known as the nucleus of a cell. Though many think of genetics when talking about DNA, biochemistry is also important to understand how DNA interacts with other parts of the cell to do its job. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Bone, Serum, Enzyme

These letters are called bases or nucleotides. The letters are initials for the nucleotides adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. Difficulty: Easy.

 

B, D, C

Anton van Leeuwenhoek used glass lenses to inspect cloth. He used this knowledge to make the first microscope, an instrument that could magnify the microscopic world 270 times their actual size. The other three scientists were very special and each invented many items but none of them worked with microscopes and microorganisms like Mr van Leeuwenhoek. Difficulty: Average.

 

Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison

There are two feet on the human body. The foot has seven ankle bones in each foot. The five toe bones are known as the tarsals. The calcaneus is the largest bone in the ankle and is also known as the heel bone.

The patella is the scientific name for the knee cap. The patella is the largest joint in the human body and carries half the weight of the body. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Calcaneus, Cuboid, Tarsals

The mandible is the human jaw bone. It is the strongest bone in the face. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Malleus, Incus, Stapes

My hungry son used to say, "It takes a scapula to turn a spatula, would you make me some pancakes, please?" Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Ulna, Incus, Mandible

Usually, a person's heart is the size of their clenched fist. If a person has heart trouble, the heart may be bigger than usual. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

The size of a pea., The size of a watermelon., The size of a beach ball.

We get oxygen from breathing. As we pull the air into our lungs, our blood cells move by and collect the oxygen from our breath and they drop off carbon dioxide for us to breathe out. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Helium, Carbon Dioxide, Neon

Dolphins belong to the order Cetacea (which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises), and the suborder Odontoceti which means "toothed whale." All organisms are classified by Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species. This helps scientists all over the world identify different organisms, and be able to compare species in different locations. Difficulty: Hard.

 

seals, sharks, none of these animals

The stirrup is the smallest bone in the body. Difficulty: Average.

 

Nose, Thigh, Foot

The humerus connects off the clavicle (collar bone). The humerus is next to the "funny bone" which is really a nerve. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Leg, Head, Torso