Little Pieces
The stapes bone is the smallest bone in the human body measuring approximately.11 inches in length. Where in the human body would you find the stapes bone? Answer: the ear
Hairy Situations
Located near the root of human hair follicles, the arrector pili muscles are responsible for what phenomenon? Answer: Goosebumps
Group Effort
What term is used to describe a group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific function, such as muscle or nerve cells? Answer: Tissue
The Hole Issue
What is the name of the theoretical boundary around a black hole, beyond which nothing can escape, including light? Answer: The Event Horizon
Solar Spin
What Italian physicist, sometimes called the father of observational astronomy, ran afowl with the Catholic Church in 1615 because he championed Copernican heliocentrism? Galileo Galilei
All That Glitters
What abundant sulfide mineral’s chemical formula is FeS2 and, due to it’s natural coloring and luster, is commonly called Fool’s Gold? Answer: pyrite or iron pyrite
The Hole Story
What do you call the depression left behind after a volcano explodes and it falls in on itself because it’s magma chamber is empty? Answer: Caldera
