RIDDLES Riddle #1 1. Lama single digit number and [am oda. 2. The sum of the digits of my square is equal to me. 3. Mind you I am myself a square. 4. Lam the last digit in the decimal system 5, I determine a nonagon. Who am I? ANSWER: 9 Riddle #2 Tam an organic compound Thave a symmetrical molecule. My functional group enables me to forma crystalline derivative with 2.4- dinitrophenylhydrazine. I do not react with Tollens’ or Fehling’s reagent Thave a carbonyl group that sits right in the middle of the compound, 6. Ifmy backbone consists of five carbons in an open chain, then, Who am I? ANSWER: 3-Pentanone Riddle #3 1. Tam an isotope. 2. As isotopes go, Iam one of the lightest. 3. Taman isotone of 1 4. Lam named for the Greek god of the sun. Who am I? ANSWER: Helium-3 Riddle #4 1. Tam aunique organ in animals 2. My structure can vary among the different animal species 3. Inhumans, other mammals and birds I am divided into four chambers 4. possess four valves that ensure unidirectional blood flow and prevent backflow of blood 5. One of the simplest met 6. ods of assessing my condition is to listen to the sound I produced using a stethoscope Who am I? ANSWER: Heart Riddle #5 » Tam ameasuring instrument ~ In one embodiment of me, lam a liquid: device. I may be made of a u-shaped tube. 4, Thave at least one open end, Who am I? ANSWER: Manometer Riddle #6 1. Tama white, solid, inorganic substance, 2. Tam the only exeeption in the family as far as colour is concerned. 3. Tam made up of a metal cation and a non-metal anion, 4, My metal cation can be found at the til end of the first d-transition series. 5, When my anion combines with a proton a substance which smells like rotten egg is formed. Who am I? ANSWER: Zinc sulphide/ZnS Riddle #7 1. Tama polygon. 2. Lhave a fixed center of symmetry as well as a fixed center of rotation Thave four of everything, sides, angles and vertices, 4. Thave fouraxes of symmety. 5. Tamas regular as any polygon can be, 6. My diagonals are congruent and bisect each other perpendicularly Who am I? ANSWER: Square Riddle #8 1. In the linguistic sense I am the systematic representation of language in written form 2. Inbiology I am the first step of gene expression in which a particular segment of DNA is copied into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase. 3. Tan be measured and detected in a variety of ways 4. Some viruses, such as HIV, have the ability to reverse my process, 5. As opposed to DNA replication, I result in an RNA complement that includes the nucleotide uracil WHO AMI? ANSWER: Transcription Riddle #9 1. Tam the simplest geometrical entity 2. Thave no dimensions as I have no size, 3. However I have coordinates 4. Lam the basic building block of geometrical figures such as lines and segments 5. You can view meas the smallest circle possible 6. Youstill do not get the point? Who am? ANSWER: POINTRiddle #10 7. Tama disturbance that transports energy. 8. Tam atype of wave. 9. [Link] example of me is a mechanical wave 10. [am characterized by oscillations parallel to the propagation direction. Whoam I? ANSWER: Longitudinal wave Riddle #11 Tam akind of test I was first introduced by Gregor Mendel, I can help determine whether a dominant phenotype is homozygous or heterozygous for a specific allele Tam the type of cross that involves breeding the individual in question with another individual that, expresses a recessive version of the same trait Who am 1? ANSWER: Test Cross Riddle #12 1. In physics, Iam one of the fundamental states of matter. 2. To the biologist I am the pale-yellow liquid component of blood. 3. Tnommally hold the blood cells in whole blood in suspension 4. [make up about 55% volume, 5. As a blood product, Iam prepared from blood conations used in blood transfusions. Whoam!? ANSWER: (Blood) Plasma of the body's total blood Riddle #13 L 2 3 4. Tama deviee for energy conversion, 1 operate between two temperatures The efficiency with which I convert energy depends on the temperatures between which I operate | convert energy of disordered motion to an ordered form of energy. Whe am? ANSWER: Heat engine Riddle #14 Tam a four digit number. Tam an even number with even digits My first and last digits are identical My second and third digits are also identical. My first digit is a prime, My second digit is the square ofthe first digit. Who am I? ANSWER: 244? eRe Ee 2IPage Riddle #15, Tam a ternary compound of penta-atomic molecules 2. All the elements in my molecule are non-metals 3. The oxidation state of the central atom, located in my anion is +5. 4. Tam produced on industrial scale by the Oswald Process. 5. My preparation therefore involves, basically, catalytic oxidation of ammonia. 6. Tcontain one ionisable hyd gen Who am I? ANSWER: HNO,/Trioxonitrate (V) acid Riddle 16 1. Tam a collection of some basic statements. 2. All the relevant conclusions and predictions are made from these statements 3. My basic statements are ako referred to as postulates in certain circles. 4. [describe the physical behaviour of all matter with emphasis to gases: Thave five postultes. the last one giving an alternative meaning or definition of temperature. Tam also able to explain Brownian movement. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Kinetic Theory of Matter/Gases_or Kinetic-Molecular Theory of Matter/Gases, Riddle #17 Tama trigonometric measure. Tam associated with a bearing. Tama measure of rotation. T may be right, acute, reflexive or obtuse, My measure is negative if you follow the hand of the clock and positive in the opposite direction. ‘You find me in polygons. Who am? ANSWER: Angle Riddle #18 I 2 3 4. Tam an optical device. Thave a reflecting surface. [ form virtual images of real objects The image I form of anobject is as far behind me as the object is in front of me. ‘Who am I? ANSWER Plane mirror Riddle #19 I 2 Tam a vital association, especially, for terrestrial ecosystem function. I can be contrasted with interspecific competition, in which each species experiences reduced fitness, and exploitation,3. Many of my associations involve species living closely together 4. Avwell-known example of me is the Mycorthizal association between certain plant roots and fungi. Inmy association, two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other WHO AMI? ANSWER Riddle #20 1. Tam ameasuring instrument 2. Lam sometimes used to measure mass 3. But amdesigned to measure force. 4. L operate by Hooke, never by crook. Matualism Who am? ANSWER: Spring balance Riddle #21 1 My name is derived from a Greek word that means heavy. 2. With atomic mass of over 130 most would agree that I ama heavy element 3. Tam ametal discovered in 1808, anda member ofthe Main Group elements, 4. Because of my chemical reactivity, ! donot cccurin the uncombined state in nature. 5. My tetraoxosulphate (VI) salt is a white solid used in the manufacture of white paint 6. The aqueous suspension of the same solid is referred to asa meal in X-ray diagnostic work Who am? ANSWER: Ba or barium (metal) RIDDLE 22 1 Lama field. 2. Lam deseribed by field lines. 3. My field lines are closest together where my field strength is greatest, 4. My field lines have no beginning and no end. 5. Lam electromagnetic. Who am I? ANSWER: Magnetic field Riddle #23 IT have an external point of view. 2 Lamassoctated with polygons even though I am outside the polygon. Tama supplement to the interior angle of a polygon. For atriangle, Lam the sum of the interior opposite angles. Fora square Iam aright kindof angle 6 For any polygon the sum of my siblings is fourright angles. 3 [Page Who am I? ANSWER: Exterior Angle Riddle #24 L Tam an organie compound. 2. My molecules on paper appearas a regular polygon 3. In real practice my molecules have a puckered structure. 4, All my carbon atoms try to maintain the tetrahedral angle. 5. Thave chair and boat conformations. 6. If Tama hydrocarbon of six carbons then, ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Cyclohexane Riddle #25 1. I consist of a complicated system of membranous channels. 2. My membranes are usually interconnected with one another to form a complex network 3. T connect the plasma membrane with the nuclear ‘membrane. 4. Depending on the presence or absence of ribosomes on iy surface, I might me rough or smooth. 5. My rough members are the sites for protein synthesis while my smooth members are the site for the synthesis of lipids and steroids. WHO AMI? ANSWER: Endoplasmic (reticulum) Riddle #26 I. In the broadest sense, I am an organism that is a competitor of humanity 2. It is also possible for me to be a bother or nuisance in ‘one setting but beneficial, or acceptable in another 3. Lamused to referto any prolific animal or plant T could also be a person or thing that iritates, especially by imposing itself when itis not wanted 5. Tam commonly used to refer to any organism that damages crops, injures or irritates livestock or man, or redluces the fertility of land WHO AMI? ANSWER: A Pest Riddle #27 1. Tam associated with simple harmonic motion 2. Lam associated with functions especially with trigonometric functions. 3. for y=sin(x),a am 2x 4. for y=tan(x), Tam x 5. Tam generally an interval after which a function repeats itself 6. I satisfy the relation x=T) = f(x) WHO AMI? ANSWER; Period Riddle #28I ama process in geometry. With me, there is no need for a protractor All you need are compasses and nulers. Tam in the bisection business so far as angles and segments are concemed, 3. Lam what contractors do, Who am I? ANSWER: CONSTRUCTION Riddle #29 1. My name in Greek means self-feeding. 2. Tam an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple substances present in my surroundings. 3. Tcan use light as an energy source, or utilize electron donors as a source of energy 4, Tamthe producer in a faod chain 3. My exampks include green plants, algae and certain bacteria. Who am? ANSWER: Autotroph Riddle #30 Tam a type of electromagnetic radiation, Tam capable of ejecting electrons from atoms Iam produced when energetic charged particles are decelerated, Tam also produced when inner shell electrons in an atom make transitions to lower Levels Who am 1? ANSWER: X-ray Riddle #31 1, Lama solid metal with a difference, 2. Tam not just one metal element but a solid solution of two metal elements, 3. My colour, which is nommally a shade of yellow, depends on the proportions of the two metals 4. One of my constituent elements has the aton number of 29 and atomic mass of 63.5 5. My other element, a blue-white metal has the atomic number of 30 and atomic mass of 65.4 6, Tam used in making all kinds of household items and musical instruments Who am!? ANSWER; Brass Riddle #32 1. Tama natural phenomenon. 2. Although Iam associated with particular substances, 3. Tcan be induced to occur in substances that are not associated with me. alPage 4. Tam associated with the emission of small particles such as electrons and photons from atomic nuclei Who am I? ANSWER: Radioactivity Riddle #33 1, My name does not immediately imply energy change but that is what I am, 2. I could be of negative or positive value. 3. Lam told the more negative [am the more desirable [ am, 4. Those elements on the left of the Periodic Table tend to have my positive values. 5. Imeasure how readily or otherwise an anion can be created from a neutral atom, 6. If Tam usually recorded in kimol! then, Who am 1? ANSWER: Electron a Riddle #34 1, So far as Mathematics and Physics are concerned, Tama force to reckon with Tam credited with the development of Calculus, Tam a great scientist of the seventeen century. Thave several laws to my credit My first name is Isaac. Tam a measure of force. Who am 1? ANSWER:Newton Riddle #35 1. We got our name from a Latin word which means ivided body”. We are among the most diverse groups of animals on the planet We may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of our species reside in the oceans. 4. Our adulls typically move about by walking, flying, or sometimes swimming. Some of our species are regarded as pests by Humans, and there are attempts to control those using insecticides and a host of other techniques. WHO ARE WE? ANSWER: Insects Riddle #36 1. I made an important discovery in 1846 2. The diseovery has been formulated into a Law named after me. 3. My first name is Thomas.4. Imeasured the relative speed with which a gas ina sealed container would leak out of a small hole 5. realized that in relative terms the molar mass is the determining factor. 6. Inrecent times the phenomenon I investigated is mixed up with the process of one gas diffusing into another. Who am I? ANSWER: Thomas Graham Riddle #37 I derive my name from a Greek word whieh means to "to grow or increase" Tam present in all parts of a plant, although in very different concentrations 3. You may referto me asa class of plant hormones 4. Lam the first of the major plant hormones to be discovered 5. L coordinate development at all levels in plants, from the cellular level, through organs, and ultimately to the whole plant 6. Tam commonly refered to as IAA or Indole Acetic Acid WHO AM I? ANSWER: Auxin Riddle #38 Tam a polygon of four sides. My opposite sides are parallel and congruent. My diagonals are congruent but not perpendicular. 4. All my angles are congruent 5. Thave the right type of angles, Who am I? ANSWER: Rectangle Riddle #39 Tam a heavenly body Lam visible in the night sky Tama planet Indeed, besides the Moon, | am the brightest object in the night sky. 5. Lam the hottest planet in the Solar System. Who am 1? hepa ANSWER; Venus Riddle #40 We are neighbours. We are a pair of angles. We have a common vertex. We also have a common side between us, On a straight line we are supplementary. Remember we sit next to each other. Pub RA Who are we? slPeg ANSWER: Riddle #41 1, Lama type of disturbance, 2. I propagate through material media. I can transport energy without transporting the particles of the medium, Tcause the particles of the medium in which 1 propagate to oscillate 5. Icause the particles of the medium to oscillate perpendicular to the direction in which I propagate. Who am? ANSWER: Riddle #42 Tam an organometallic compound. Tam also a natural product. I serve as a catalyst in a transformation process. Thave something in common with cytochromes except that our functions are different. 5. Thelp to transform CO: and water into-a carbohydrate 6. Ifmy metal is the second member of Group (ID elements, then, Who am I? ANSWER: Adjacent Angles we + Transverse mechanical wave bene Chlorophyll Riddle #43 1. Tama genus of common saprobic fungi on plants and a specialized parasite on animals. 2. Tam found ona wide variety of organic substrates, 3. I grow as filamentous, branching hyphae that generally lack cross-walls (i.e, coenocytic). 4. My hyphae may forma fluffy mass, which is whitish in colour. 5. Tam commonly referred to as bread mould. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #44 1. Tam a magnetic material 2. Tbecome strongly magnetized in an external magnetic field 3. Lam characterized by a hysteresis loop. 4. My hysteresis loop is thin; 5. Therefore, I am used in electromagnets. Who am I? ANSWER: Soft ferromagnetic material Riddle #45, 1. Tregard myself asa derivative ofa mother compound. RhizopusMy mother compound and I both give effervescence with an aqueous solution of sodium hydrogen trioxocarbonate (IV). 3. The presence of achlorine atom in my molecule makes me a derivative. 4. My mother has a total of 3 carbon atoms. 5. The presence of chlorine in me enhances my ability to ionize, much better than my mother. 6. There are two possible positions but the chlorine in me is positioned on the carbon where its effect is less Who am 1? ANSWER: 3-Chloropropanoic acid (CICHCH:COOH) ij Riddle #46 1, Tama three digit odd number. 2. My digits are just two consecutive integers. 3. My digits are simply binomial coefficients. 4. Tama square of another set of binomial coefficients 5. My firstand last digits are identical and an identity. 6. The sum of my digits is four Who am 1? ANSWER: 121 Riddle #47 1. Tama short, thin filament. 2. Tam found in fungi and in the division Bryophyta, 3. Imay serve either as a feeding organ, or anchor a thallus to its substratum. 4. Tam the principal feeding organ in Rhizopus. 5. In mosses and liverworts T attach the gametophyte to the substratum, WHO AMI? ANSWER} Riddle #48 1. Tama measuring device. 2. Lcome in a variety of designs, butall follow the same basic principle, 3. Types of me include the Bubble, the Mass, the Ganong's and the Darwin's. 4. Tam sometimes known as a transpirometer. 5. Tam used to measure the rate of water loss fiom a plant (transpiration) WHO AMI? ANSWER: Potometer Riddle #49 1. Tama foree field Rhizoid 6 [Page 2. Lam described by an inverse distance potential. 3. Lam always attractive, 4. My sources are massive particles. Who am I? ANSWER: | Gravitational field Riddle #50 1, Tama three digit number between 100 and 200 2. My second digit is the product of two prime numbers, My last digit is the square of an odd prime digit Tam myself an exact square.. The number formed by my first wo digits is a square. 6. The sum of my digits is also an exact square. Who am |? ANSWER: Riddle #51 Thelp to kick out peer pressure, because | hate it But Iam not in the Police service or the military Tam only a scientific law helping gases to maintain order among them, T ensure that unless there is a chemical reaction, each gas retains its belongings or physical property as much as possible when they assemble. Tam particular about individual pressures Tam named after the famous scientist who discovered me and also researched into the composition of matter. Who am I? ANSWER: Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressure. Riddle #52 Iam an experiment in science. Iwas first conducted by Michael Faraday So T am named after him. I demonstrate that electric charge resides on the surface of a conductor. Whoam!? ANSWER: Faraday ice pail experiment Riddle #53, 1, Tama binary compound with triatomic molecules. 2. My constituent elements are non-metallic, 3. Tam formed when my central native element is burnt in air but I can also be prepared in the laboratory by several methods. 4. Tam therefore an oxide, and an acidic gas with a pungent smell dissolve in water to produce an acid that has never been isolated as a pure substance. 6. Sulphur is the central atom in my bent molecule. Who am |? ANSWER: whe 169 + au Bee SO; or Sulphur (I'V) oxide,Riddle #54 1. Tam a polygonal figure and to be precise a quadrilateral. Tam neither a parallelogram nor a rhombus My opposite angles are supplementary Tam normally found ina citele and hence my name. 5. A square is an example of me. Whoam I? ANSWER: Riddle #55 1. Lama biological process. 2. L involve a visible and relatively abrupt change in an animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation, My process is always accompanied by a change of habitat or behaviour. I may be complete or incomplete. The groups of organisms that go through me include some insects, amphibians, molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #56 = Lam atype of arthropod Lama prey fora variety of organisms, including terrestrial vertebrates The evolutionary relationship between me and other animals remain$ unclear 4. Other terrestrial arthropods, stich as centipedes, millipedes. scorpions, and spiders, are sometimes confused with me, 5. Some of my members are pollinators and are essential to the life-cycle of many flowering plant species Who am I? ANSWER: Cyclic Quadrilateral Metamorphosis Insect Riddle #57 1. Tam an organic compound made up of hexa— atomie molecules: 2. Lam not a hydroearbon since I have an oxygen atom in my molecule. 3. Lama colourless liquid, with a boiling point less than 70°C. 4. Although Tam an important raw material in industry and also a good solvent, [ am highly toxic to man. 5. Leould be made by catalytic oxidation of a hydrocarbon, I could also be obtained by the dry distillation of wood. 6. Tam the smallest member in my homologous series that is characterized by the OH functional group Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #58 1, Lama mode of a vibrating string, 2. Lam not the fundamental mode. 3. My wavelength is one-third the string length. 4. Thave five nodes. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #59 1. Tam a unique point in the coordinate plane 2. Allpoints in the plane are determined with respect tome. 3. [separate the positive numbers from the negative cones on the axes 4. Tam ina sensea starting point. 5. Lam the point of intersection of the axes. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #60 1. Tama binary operation on a set of subsets. 2. Mind you there are two of us with quite similar properties. Thave an identity which is quite an empty boast. Tnomally combine two sets to create a largerset. » My name suggests Iam a marriage of convenience Who am I? ANSWER: Union Riddle #61 1. My name was first coined by Theodor Schwvann in the early 19th century 2. He coined my name ftom a Greek word meaning digestion. 3. Tam one of three principal protein-degrading, or proteolytic, enzymes in the digestive system, 4. Tam stored at very low temperatures to prevent autolysis (self-di gestion). 5. Tam secreted in an inactive form known as pepsinogen. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #62 1. Tama common chemical process found in nature, laboratory and industry 2. Tam one ofa set of twins. Methanol (CHs0H). Fifth overtone Origin Pepsin3. Land my twin love each other so much that we are always together. 4. But in any conversation and action we oppose each other. 5. In terms of acquisition of property, while Iam always bringing something home, my twin is rather giving out family property 6. We are visible when hydrocarbons bur in air or rusting of iron is taking place Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #63 1. Tama physical quantity, 2. Lam determined by force and area. 3. Lam measured in pascals. 4. Lam given by the product of modulas and stra Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #64 1. Lama device for energy transformation 2. T operate between two temperatures. 3. Taccept thermal energy at a high temperature and 4. Reject thermal energy at a lower temperature. 5. Ido useful mechanical work in the process. Who am I? ANSWER: Heat engine Riddle #65 Tam the standard unit for angular measure There are 2x of me ina complete circle Tam not measured by degrees Tam the measure of a central angle whose sides intercept an are whose length is the radius of the circle. 5. Lam 180% Oxidation. Stress Who am I? 1 ANSWER: RADIAN . Riddle #66 3 1. Tbelong to the couples’ Fellowship 2. Asa couple we individually make sure we are compatible 4 3. We assist each other all the time 4. Any differences disappear when as a couple a bridge is established between us 5. Asacouple we never can re-establish the love between us once that love fades away 6. Asacoupk weare able to convert chemical 2. energy into electrical energy 3 Who am I? 4. ANSWER: Primary Voltaic cell Riddle 67 5. alPage 1. A tooth ofan animal may have just one or multiples of me. Tam alsoa type of organ in vascular plants, In most vascular plant species I enter into mutualistic association with certain fungi to form mycorthizae 4. can also protect the environment by holding the soil to prevent soil erosion, 5. The radicle is my embryonic part of the seed. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #68 1. Tam abranch of physics. 2. Lused to be thought of as separate branches of physics. 3. Lencompass all the phenomena related to electric charges 4. Lako encompass all phenomena related to electric and magnetic fields. Who am I? ANSWER: Electromagnetism Riddle #69 1. Tama popular inorganic substance Tam not sweet, but I have a bitter and sharp taste You dare not taste me because I will give your tongue a very strong burning sensation Tam a very soluble inorganic substance My solution is used in the production of soap A drop of me ina blue flame will impart a bright orange-yellow colour Who am I? ANSWER: Sodium hydroxide / caustic soda / NaOH. Riddle #70 Tama process that takes place in the angiosperms. Tam anecessiry step in the reproduction of flowering plants, Tam important in horticulture and agriculture, because fruiting is dependent on fertilization, which is the result of me. More commonly, my process requires reliable vectors Who am I? ANSWER: Pollination Riddle #71 Tam arelation which is true for all values of the variable. Tamalso a means of identification, Iam associated with binary operations For union of sets. I aman empty barrel which makes the most noise. For intersection of sets, I am the whole universe Rootwoke For addition of real numbers, 1am nothing to write home about. Who am I? ANSWER: IDENTITY Riddle #72 Tam a rule of association between two sets. Lam definitely a relation. Tam not many to many, and neither am Tone to many. I may however be many to one or one to one. Examples of me may be linear, quadratic or trigonometric Who am I? ANSWER: Function Riddle #73 Iam a multicellular diploid eukaryote. I may bea minute midimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium, could also be a young animal in an early phase of development in the egg or the womb, The science of the formation and development of me 5. is known as embryology. 6 Who am I? ANSWER: Embryo. 7. Riddle #74 1 Tam an organic compound with the elements 8. carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in my molecule, 2 Tam quite rich in furnetional groups. 9. 3. Thave two double bonds and an alkanol in my molecule. 4 Thave a backbone of six carbons in an open chain. 5. My first carbon whieh carries the alkanol functional group is just before the first double bond 6 Mysecond double bond is found on the fourth carbon. What is my systematic name? ANSWER: 2.4-Hexadien-!-ol 24-dien-I-ol Riddle #75 1. Tama particle 2. 1am emitted in certain nuclear reactions. 3. Lam positively charged. 4. Tam called first 5. Thave a mass of 4amu, Who am I? ANSWER: Alpha particle Riddle #76 1. Tama natural phenomenon. 2. Lam associated with waves. 3. Loceur when waves encounter obstacles or apertures, Or Hexa- 5, olPage 4. Tam most pronounced when the wavelength of the wave is comparable to the obstacle or aperture. Who am I? ANSWER: Diffraction Riddle #77 Tam assSociated with the almosphere. Tam supposed to be coloured and I wonder why? I occur because of the love of some substances for the long wavelength portion of the electromagnetic radiation. 4. The same substances allow light and UV radiation from the sun to reach the earth but stop the infrared formed from escaping. 5. The most notorious of the substances is carbon (IV) oxide. 6. My virtual colour is green. Who am? ANSWER: Greenhouse Effect. Riddle #78 Tam a geometry of some sort. Unlike Euclidean geometry, algebraic methods play a prominent role. Tam involved with geometry of straight lines, curves and circles. Key tome is the representation of a point in the plane in terms of coordinates. Thave two perpendicular lines called axes ina point called the origin. Who am I? ANSWER: Coordinate Geometry Riddle #79 Tam a type of fluid, Tam comparable to the blood in certain features, Tam the immediate fluid around the cells of the body. I may pick up bacteria and bring them to nodes where they are destroyed. Tam the fluid) that circulates throughout the lymphatic system Who am I? ANSWER: Lymph Riddle #80 1. Laman inorganic substance 2. My hexa-atomic molecules could exis in the vapour state or solid state 3. In the vapour state Tam supposed to be a covalent compound, 4. My central atom, which is in oxidation state of +5 is an element of Group § or 15 of the Periodic Table. My other five atoms are identical, each with atomic mass of 35.5. 6. Tam used in converting alkanoie acids into alkanoyl chlorides. ersectingWho am I? ANSWER: PCI; or phosphorus pentachloride or phosphorus (V) chloride. Riddle #81 Tam plural in nature. Tama set of observations. Tmay also be a set of facts or measurements T may be qualitative or quantitative T may be discrete or continuous. Tam the basis of Statistics. l 2 3 4 5 6. Riddle #82 1. Tama living tissue in vascular plants. 2. Intrees, Iam the innermost layer of the bark. 3. Some of my components include the sieve tube ‘elements and companion cells. 4. Tam concerned mainly with the transport of soluble organic materials made during photosynthesis WHO AMI? ANSWER: Phloem Riddle #83 1. Tam an optical device. 2. Taid the observation of objects that could ‘otherwise not be seen with the naked eye. Tmay be made of a short focal length objective lens. 4. Imay ako havean eye piece 5. Imagnify snall objects. Whoam!? ANSWER: (Optical) microscope Riddle #84 L. Tama aw of nature 2. Tam named for a scientist who performed some of the experiments that led to my discovery 3. Lam alaw of electromagnetisn 4. I deseribe the induced emf in a closed loop. Who am I? ANSWER: Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction Riddle #85 1. Lwasborn in 1627 into a wealthy and influential family. 2. My father, a citizen of the Kingdom of Ireland was the Lord Treasurer. 3. ‘Though Lattended some prestigious school, such as Eton, I never had any formal university ‘education. 4. Through self-tuition [became a foremost scientist and a member of the Royal Society of London 10| Page 5. Lworked hard to invent a pump that could be used te create vacuum, 6. Lam better known for my discovery of the relationship between pressure and volume of gases, at constant temperature. Who am I? ANSWER: (Robert) Boyle Riddle #86 1, Lam a primary tissue of plant roots 2. Lam located at the periphery (most outward) of the root vascular cylinder. 3. In roots of plants I am a unique tissue in that my cells continue to eyele for a long period 4. Lam the site for the initiation of lateral roots and two secondary meristems, the vascular cambium and cork cambium (phellogen) Whoam I? ANSWER: Pericycle Riddle #87 1. Tam a graphical representation of data 2. Lam particularly useful for representing a grouped frequency distribution 3. Rectangles are my main building blocks. The area of a rectangle is proportional to the class frequency it represents. 5. Lean be used to estimate the median or the mode of agiven data, 6. Fromme a frequency polygon can be constructed, Who am I? ANSWER: Histogram Riddle #88 1. Tam an electrical current. 2. Lamoften unwanted 3. Tam produced when a conductor moves in a magnetic field 4. Lam also produced in a conductor lying in a changing magnetic field. Who am 1? ANSWER: Eddy current Riddle #89 1 Tam a rare-earth element, a metal discovered in 1944 but isolated in 1947. In scientific circles, Iam known asa trans-uranium element. My atomic number is 96 and atomic mass 247. Thave 13 known isotopes. all radioactive. Tam perhaps the only element named after two scientists 6. IF these two scientists are French physicists, then Who am I? ANSWER: Curium (Cm) Riddle #90 1 Lam usually line,‘An equilateral triangle has three of me. Fora rectangle, there are two of me. A square has four of me. For your regular quadratic curve, Im just 4 vertical line through the vertex. 6. Lusually dividea geometric figure into two identical parts Who am? ANSWER: Line of Symmetry/Axis of Symmetry Riddle #91 1. Tam modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotie division. 2. [may be a-crack ar abnormal opening ina part 3. Tam also a gap or space between two adjacent teeth in the same dental arch. 4. In herbivores, I am the wide gap between the incisors and the premolars. WHO AMI? ANSWER: Diastema Riddle #92 My name is derived from a Latin word meaning "little 2. Tam a soft tissue found in most animals. 3. [am one of the four fundamental types of tissue present in animals, 4. My cells contain protein filaments of actin and myosin that slide past one another. 5. My tissue funetions are to produce fore and cause motion, either locomotion or movement within internal organs. Who am I? ANSWER: Muscle Riddle #93 1. Tam a statistic but not a casualty 2. Lam not a measure of location or central tendency. 3. Tam a measure of spread or dispersion, 4. Lam not arange 5. Lam rather the square root of a measure of variation, 6. In standard form, [ am a measure of the deviation from. the mean, Who am I? ANSWER: Standard Deviation Riddle #94 1. Tama mechanism for energy transfer 2. In transferring energy, I cause the particles of a medium to move 3. [cannot transfer energy through vacuum. 4. Lama heat transfer mechanism. Who am I? ANSWER: Convection Riddle #95 11| Page 1. My name starts with the same letter as the name of -a country that has won the world cup the highest, number of times. 2. There are six of such elements in the Periodic Table. 3. Lam an exception if-you know them all 4. Lam the only one whose symbol is just one letter. 5. _Lamthe only one which is not ametal 6. Lam the first member of Group 3 or 13, Who am 1? ANSWER: Boron. Riddle #96 1. Tam a phenomenon in which storage space is used inefficiently, reducing capacity of performance and frequently both, 2. Tam often accepted in retum for improvements in speed or simplicity 3. Tama compositional technique in music 4. Tam a common type of vegetative reproduction in plants. 5. In my type of reproduction, an organism involved splits into fragments. Who am 1? ANSWER: Fragmentation Riddle #97 1. Together we constitute an important type of chemical reaction, 2. Inour kind of reaction, reactants and products are always in association. 3. Ifyou write any one of us down on paper one arrow is not enough, 4. We have a beginning but no end. 5, Without us equilibrium point or position will bea mirage. 6. Our forward and backward steps are in motion all the time. Who are we? ANSWER: Reversible reactions. Riddle #98 1, Tam a property of matter. 2. [vary with temperature. 3. For water, [ attain a maximal value at 4 °C. 4. Because my value for ie is ess than that for “water, ie floats on water Who am 1? ANSWER: Density Riddle #99 1. Lam definitely a function. 2. However | am neither your usual polynomial function nora trigonometric function,3. With me, the variable oceursas an-exponent and hence my name, 4. Lam generally associated with fast growth or decay. 5. Anexample of me is fix) = 2. Whaam I? ANSWER: Exponential Function, Riddle #100 1. Tshare a name with a venerable biblical character. 2. [was also born on a day that is popularly celebrated in honor of the birth of another biblical character. 3. But Tam best known for several laws of nature named after me. 4. wrote the Prinsipia, 5. which was published in 1687 6. and which set forth among other things the laws governing the interaction of objects with mass. Who am 1? ANSWER: Isaac Newton Riddle #101 1 My name is derived from the Latin word which means ‘to boil’. 2. Lama Natural process that precedes human history. 3. Thave been used by humans for the production of food and beverages. 4. Louis Pasteur, in a series of investigations, showed that Tam initiated by living organisms, 8. In food processing, I am used to convert carbohydrates, to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeasts, and bacteria. Whoam I? ANSWEI Riddle #102 LL Tam used in set theory as well as in Logic 2. transform statements into altemative and more convenient forms. 3. Essentially Lam two laws in one For sets Texpress the complement of union of two sets as the intersection of their complements. 5. Lalso transform the complement of the intersection of thvo sets into the union of their complements, 6. Thereis something French about me so far asmy name is concerned. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #103 1. Weare siblings 2. We are of the same parentage 3. We have almost identical looks. 4. Our chemical properties do not differ. 5. If wedo step ona weighing scale one after the other no two ofus are likely to register the same weight. Fermentation De Morgan's Laws a2] Page 6. Our differences stem fiom the different numberof neutrons we possess in our respective nuclei Who are we? ANSWER: Isotopes Riddle #104 1. [have perfect covalent bones, 2. Lam an epitome ofan sp' hybridized structure 3. The interesting thing is that I may be regarded asa compound or as a polymer. 4. Lam made up of a single element and I could be colourless, yellow, brown or black. 5. Because I am perhaps the hardest known solid, I am used in the industry for making cutting and arinding tools. 6. In Akwatia, in the Eastem Region of Ghana, people dig everywhere looking for me: Who am I? ANSWER: Diamond Riddle #105 1. Tam a specialized type of cell found in the bodies of all major animal groups except sponges, placozoa, and several other obscure or extinet life forms 2. Texist in a number of different shapes and sizes and can be classified by their morphology and function 3. Tam an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals, 4. Tam highly specialized for the processing and transmission of cellular signals. 5. Typically, I possess a cell body, dendrites, and_an ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #106 1. Tam arigid body motion 2. Withme, the figure and its imageare congruent. 3. Under me, you are what you see even though the sense of an image is reversed. ‘Neuron 4. [produce a mirror image 5. Tam associated with an axis of symmetry. 6. mapa figure one to one onto its image. Who am? ANSWER: Reflection. Riddle #107 Tam a form of electromagnetic radiation. Emitted by exeited atoms, Tam produced when outer shell electrons fall into an inner shell vacaney. 4. My navelngth is nique totheatom fom which Lam produced. 5. Tam given labels such as K, and Ky. Who am I?ANSWER: Characteristic X-ray Riddle #108 1. Tam a four digit even number. 2. represent a year in the second half of the twenty: first century 3. The mumber formed from my last two digits is an exact square, 4. Lam divisible bys. 5. The sum of my digits is 12. Whoam!? ANSWER? 2064 Riddle #109 1. Tam used in the manufacture of potter 2. Tincrease in volume wien I lose fluids. 3. Iset to give a hard solid. When Tam setting I trap a molecule of water between every two of my molecules, 5. Some building block manufacturers add me to the sand and cement mixture so as to produce blocks that are not damaged easily by shock. 6, My name suggests Iive in that city with the Eifel Tower. Who am I? ANSWE Plaster of Paris, CaSO..4H:0 or — 2CaS0,.H.0 or Riddle #110 1. We are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a very broad range of environments. 2. We are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments, where we often ‘outnumber other animals in both individual and species counts. 3. Depending-on the species, we may be beneficial or detrimental to plant health, 4. In the soil ecosystem we can effectively regulate bacterial population and community compostion. Some of our members that are commonly parasiti on humans include Ascaris, hookworm, 6. filarias, whipworms, and pinworms Wha am? ANSWER: Nematoda Riddle #111 1. Lama geometrical figure 2. To be precise I am generally a part of a geometric, figure, 3. Tam associated with lines and circles In the plane, I connect two points with the shortest distance, 5. For line, lama finite portion of the line, 33 [Page ©. A chord of circle divides the interior of the circle into two of me. Who am I? ANSWER: Segment Riddle #112 I 2 3 Tam a well-planned city Thave well labelled streets, running east-west and north-south. Since I do not want toappear traditional, I named my streets using Arabian numerals In terms of apartment allocation ithas been arranged such that those with low body-mass index inhabit in tte houses located in the extreme west or north ‘One well known Russian was my town planner and architect at the same time 6. He got the scientific world to name me as a Table ‘Who am I? ANSWER; Periodic Table Riddle #113 1. Tam a disease caused by parasitic worms. 2. I may infect the urinary trict or intestines of my victims. 3. My Signs and symptoms may include abdominal pain, diarrhoea, bloody stool, or blood in the urine. 4. The parasites that are responsible for the disease are released! from freshwater snails that have been infected 5. Tam commonly known assnail fever orKatayama fever Who am I? ANSWER: Schistosomiasis/Bilharzia Riddle #114 1. Tam a radioactive element. 2. Thave two letters in my chemical symbol. 3. I decay by alpha emission. 4. With a lifetime of about 2300 y. 5. Iwas used in making self-luminous watels and clock dials. 6. Until it was discovered that Ihad been killing the watchmakers. Who am I? ANSWER: — Radium Riddle #115 1. I am a traditional, sustainable method of agriculture which has been practised by indigenous tribes For centuries. T used to be the backbone of agriculture throughout the tropics, 3. But I have been attacked frequently in principle because I am known to degrade the fertility of forestlands of tropical regions. smallholder4. Inmysystem, a plot of land is cleared and cultivated for a short period of time. 5. The cultivator then abandons the plot and allows it to revert to its natural vegetation while he moves ‘on to another plot. Who am? ANSWER: Shifting cultivation Riddle #116 1. Twas discovered by experiment. 2. Tam named for the scientist who discovered me. 3. His name isalso given to-the unit of an electrical quantity 4. Although am called a law, 1am not universal law because. 5. Laman empirical law 6. Tonly apply in those instances when current is proportional to potential difference. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Ohm’s law Riddle #117 1. You cannot part with me without measuring a volume, Consistency and accuracy are my hallmarks. T detest guess work. Lwork with solutions better than solids and gases Graduated glassware such as pipettes and burettes are my foot soldiers. 6. A colour indicator of some sortis a must in my make-up. Who am? ANSWER: Volumetric Analyses Riddle #118 I 2 3, Tam in the shuffling business in relation to playing, cards. 1am in the business of arranging. objects. | come into play when books are assembled ona shelE. Fora group of objects, you get different ordering of me. Numerically, Lam represented by the expression nPr. Part of me is @ mutation per chance. Who am I? ANSWER: Permutation Riddle #119 1, Simply Tam a line segment. 2. Idefine the size of a circle. 3. Tama segment fom the center to the cireumference. 4. Length wise, 1am halfthe diameter. 5. Tam the shorter of the two long bones of the lower arm of vertebrates Who am I? ANSWER: Radius Riddle #120 1. Lbelong to a line of nobilities. 1a|Page 2. Incou kingdom we go by our common names and not titles, 3. We are not sociable so quite often we donot know ‘what is going on in our kingdom, 4. Tama colourless and odourless gaseous element ‘with atomic number 18. 5. Tam about twice more soluble in water than nitrogen gas. 6. I constitute about 0.94% of the earth's atmosphere. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Argon Riddle #121 I T can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light 2. T have been found to be present widely in the environment 3. Tam often classified as a point source or nonpoint source 4. Many nations worldwide have enacted laws to regulate various types of me as well as to mitigate the adverse effects of me. 5. Tam the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change Who am I? ANSWER: Pollution Riddle #122 1. Tshare a name with a biblical character 2. An SI unit is named after me 3. for my pioneering work on heat 4. which established a now well-known principle of thermodynamics. 3. Tam Prescott. Who am I? ANSWER: (James Prescott) Joule Riddle #123 1. Tam nomnally rectangular, but moclem forms of me can be circular, irregular, or other shapes. 2. To the ecologist, Iam an indispensable tool 3. Lam used to mark off at random, a physical area to isolate a sample. 4. Tam therefore suitable for sampling plants, slow- moving animals, and some aquatic organisms. 5. Tam popularly known by my use to determine the percentage of vegetation and animals occurring ‘within a marked area, Who am I? ANSWER: —Quadrat Riddle #124 1. Tama chemical process encountered both in the laboratory and in industry 2. Despite my numerous services to man, 1am not tolerated athhome. 3. If Lwere human I would be expected to invest in large stocks of glues because I join molecules up.4. For my services I demand a small molecule for ‘every joint made by me. 5. One of my useful synthetic produets is nylon. 6. Maybe am alsa a source of environmental pollution Who am? ANSWER: Condensation Polymerisation Riddle #125 1. Tam a heatengine. 2. Likeany heat engine, I convert thermal energy into ‘mechanical energy. Tam a type of internal combustion engine. Thave a turbine for compressing air, Talso have a nozzle where hot gases are ejected and thrust is developed, 6. Tama prime mover for airliners, Whoam I? ANSWER: Jet engine whe Riddle #126 eee ‘You will find me in a plane. Tama closed geometric figure bounded by line segments, Tam a regular kind of fellow. Thave as many segments as angles. My interior angles are congnient and so are my segments, The measre of my exterior ange is(360hn)° Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #127 1 Regular Polygon I derive my name from a Latin word meaning exemption from military service, tax payments or other public services. My concept has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. involve both specific and nonspecific components. could be acquired either artificially. or naturally. Tam the capability of the body to resist hamaful microorganisms or viruses from entering it ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Immunity Riddle #128 1. Taman undesirable response to a request. 2. Tam important in photo graphy. 3. Lam the reverse image which is restored by developing and printing 4. Lam anadditive inverse of a positive real number. 5. The charge of an electron is an example of me. ©. exist on one half ofthe number Line to the left of the origin Who am I? ANSWEI Neg: Riddle #129 1. Tama property of fundamental particles 15| Pace am used to classify particles into one of two categories. 3. You probably think of a top when you think of me. 4. Lean have integral or hal integral values, 5. Forelectrons I have a value of half. Who am 1? ANSWER: Spin Riddle #130 1. Lhave two natural isotopes and three artificial ones. 2. Ofall theelements Ihave the lowest melting point. 3. My liguid does not solidify even at absolute 6. Ri 1 temperature zero unless there is external pressure. Tam found everywhere in the universe except in the atmosphere of the earth Tam used as a gas shield for are welding. In Ghana and elsewhere 1am extensively used in filling ceremonial balloons. Who am I? ANSWER: Helium jddle #131 In many cases, terms such as disorder, morbidity and illness are used interchangeably with me. Tam often taken as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. My name broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body. Tam a particular abnormal, pathological condition that affects part or all of an organism. Death due to mes calfed death by natural causes. Who am I? ANSWER: Disease Riddle #132 L Tam a type of Arithmetic. 2. Essentially, Tam concerned with division of integers by a modulo. 3. Ideal with the remainders after such division 4. Ihave application to time in clock systerss. 5, Tam used in scheduling and determining market days. Who am I?) ANSWER: Modular Arithmetic Riddle #133 1, Lam an experiment. 2. Iwas conducted by Fletcher and another physicist, who goes by Robert 3. I demonstrate that electric charge is quantized, 4. Lam conducted with small charged particles of o 5. That are introduced into the electric field between two parallel plates. Who am I? ANSWER: Millikan Oil Drop ExperimentRiddle #134 1. Leanpot tell you when Twas born but Iam very old, indeed more than 300 million years old. 2. Lam blackorbrown 3. Tam found in almest all the continents in the world 4. Lam assolid used as fel 5. When] am destructively distilled, a number of gases and a thick black liquid are obtained 6. Coke is the resicue after [have been destructively distilled Who am? ANSWER: Coal. Riddle #135 1. Tam a semiconductor device. 2. Tam composed of both p type and n type semiconductors. 3. And Thave a pn junction. Light of appropriate wavelength falling on my pn junction generates electrons and holes. 5. In this manner, I convert light into electrical current, Who am I? ANSWER: Photodiode Riddle #136 1. Tam an important molecule used in many biochemical reactions Thave two main components. Tam referred to as the "Hub of Metabolism”. In 1963 Konrad Bloch and Feostor Lynen were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries linking me and fatty acid ‘metabolism. My main function is to convey the carbon atoms within the acetyl group in me to the Krebs cycle to be oxidized for energy production, Whoam!? ANSWEI Riddle #137 1. Tam an organie compound 2. My moleuales are made up of 14 atoms from three different elements 3. Lamnota natural product but usually obtained from natural sources 4. Tama constituent of some natural esters 5. Tam obtained when fats and vegetable oils are 2 3 4. Acetyl coenzyme A or acetyl-CoA saponified. 6. Tama colourless, viscous liquid Who am I? ANSWER: Glycerol / Glycerine / 1,2.3-propantriol Riddle #138 1. Lam ina way a pat ofa circle, 2. Lamnetanare, 3. You will find me inside the circle. 4. Tam bounded by an are and a chord of the cirele 16| Page 5. If] were in the militury, I will be an officer. 6. Tam the larger section of a circle bounded by an are and a chord Who am I? ANSWER: Major Segment Riddle #139 1. My name is derived ffom a Turkish word which means "to be curdled or coagulated or to thicken" 2, By most accounts I was created by Central Asian people. 3. Inancient Indian records, the combination of me and honey is called "the food! of the gods. 4. Tam produced by bacterial fermentation of milk, ‘commonly cow milk. In order to offset my natural bittemess, [am sold sweetened, flavored or in containers with fruit or fruit jam on the bottom. ‘Who am'l? ANSWER: Yoghurt Riddle #140 1. Lam amathematical instrument. 2. Partof me isa tractor. 3. Lam semi-circular in appearance 4. Tamused to construct and measure angles in the plane. 5. Tmeasure by degrees. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Protractor Riddle #141 1. Tam only a theory 2. Lhave been used over and over without any failure. 3. Through me Scientists are able todo what X-ray diffraction machines are meant to do. 4. Lassist Scientists to predict ordescribe the shape of molecules, Tam able to mixup electron clouds of different shapes and energies. 6. As usual hybrid vigour is the winner. Who am I? ANSWER: Hybridization Riddle #142 1. Lama helical object. 2. Other than my helical shape, I have nothing in ‘common with DNA, 3. Ica produce magnetic fields. 4. The magnetic field I produce has a strength proportional to the current I carry. 5. Tean produce a nearly uniform magnetic field ‘when Tam made very long and wound with tight soils. ‘Who am I?ANSWER: Solenoid Riddle #143 Iwas first demonstrated theoretically. 1 2. But countless experiments affirm my validity. 3. I desoribe the radiation emitted by a heated object 4. Tama law. 5. Thatrelates the temperature of an object and the wavelength for peak emission from the object. ‘Who am 1? ANSWER: — Wien's displacement law Riddle #144 1. Tam the oldest of all lineages of land plants 2. Tam believed to be a vital link in the migration of | plants from aquatic environments onto land. 3. Tam also a traditional name used to refer to all land plants that do not have true vascular tissue. 4. Thave a life cycle with alternation of generations, 5. produce enclosed reproductive structures. ©, I produce neither flowers nor seeds, but 1 reproduce via spores. Who am I? ANSWER: Bryophyte Riddle #145 Tama binary compound of triatomic molecules. 2. My constituent elements are both non-metals. 3. Tam not as sociable as my younger sibling, 4. We both suffer from a form of physical deformity, that is, we have bent backs. 5. [tend to form insoluble. mostly black or brown precipitate with metal cations in solution. 6. You may like everything about me but not my offensive, rotten-egg odour. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #146 Iydrogen sulphide/HyS I may be direct or indirect l 2. Implications are a part of me. 3. Tam nota theorem, 4. Tam indispensable in mathematical logic, 5. Tam the process of establishing a theorem. 6. Tama sequence of statements leading to a final statement called the conclusion. Who am? ANSWER: Proof Riddle #147 Tam a form of energy. Although I am associated with the configuration of particles. 3. Thave nothing to do with gravity. 4. Tamassociated with deformations. 17 [Page 5. I describe the energy stored in a deformed ideal spring. Who am I? ANSWER: Elastic Potential Energy Riddle #148 1. occur abundantly in the biosphere. 2. Lam widely distributed in locations populated by “bacterial host 3. Thave played an important role in laboratory research in the 20th century 4. Lam commonly known as bacterial virus. 5. Lam a virus that infects and replicates within a bacterium. Who am 1? ANSWER: Bacteriophage Riddle #149 1. Lam a triple of integers. 2. Lam closely associated with right angle triangles. 3. I represent the lengths of the legs and + +hypothenuse of such triangles 4. Tam asolution of the Pythagorean equation x? +? = 7 and hence my name. 5. Examples of me are (3, 4. 5) and (5, 12, 13). Who am I? ANSWER: Pythagorean Triple Riddle #150 1. Generally Lama very desirable processbut I can be destructive too. 2. Tam able to break up big molecules into small ones. 3. Taman applied science mankind has practiced for centuries 4. Tdo not act alone, I need the assistance of some micro-organisms Heat is one of my by-products but this always goes to waste, 6. Without me where will be the much loved club beer and star beer or gari? Who am 1? ANSWER: Fermentation Riddle #151 1. Lam believed to have evolved from simple sacs of the ‘oesophagus. Thave a soft. sponge like texture. 3. In most ffogs and other amphibians I am simple and balloon-like in structure, 4, In humans, I am located in two cavities on either side of the heart 5. Medical tems related to me often begin with the prefix pulmo. 6. Tam the essential respiration organ in many air- breathing animals. Who am 1? ANSWER: LungRiddk 1 2 le #152 Tam a chemical process Thave many industrial applications. Teamot be engaged if there is no source of electrical power. Thate alternating current since itmakes me toil for nothing. Tam used extensively to produce jewellery, ‘omaments and house-hold items, 6. Faraday enunciated two laws regulating my ‘operations Who am I? ANSWER: Electrolysis Riddle #153 1. Tam a unique point ona curve. 2. Strange things happen at me. 3. Mind you I am not a stationary point 4. The second derivative vanishes at me 5. Tam ina way a boundary point 6. At me the shape of a curve changes suddenly from ‘curving up to curving down or vice-versa. Who am? ANSWER: Point of Inflexion Riddle #154 |. Tam one of the variables that describe the state of a as. 2. Tima measreof the energy density of an ideal ‘as. 3. Tam proportional to the mean-square speed of the molecules of an ideal gas. 4. Tamalso proportional to the density and ‘temperature of an ideal gas, 5. Thave such units as torr and bar. Who am? ANSWER: Pressure Riddle #155 1. Tam ina way triangle. 2. However Ihave no segments or angles to boast of. 3. Strictly [ama triangular array of integers. 4. Each row is symmetric and begins and ends with | 5. My members are binomial coefficients. 6. My name suggests I am someone’ s triangle. Whoam? ANSWER: Paseal’s Triangle Riddle #156 Il 2 3. ‘We are members of the genus Apis. ‘We are known to communicate through many different chemicals and odours, ‘We also use specific behaviours that convey information about the quality and type of resources in the environment, and where these resources are located. ‘We are generalist floral visitors, and will pollinate a large variety of plants, 18 | Pace 5. We live in colonies where the workers among us sting intruders as a form of defence. Who are we? ANSWER: Honey bees Riddle #157 1. If Iwerea child I would have just graduated from ‘a nursery sehool and starting 4 new phase of my education. But | am nota child but an inanimate system. Thave three distinct parts, working in harmony, Tusually have a bridge not for humans but for electrons. 5. Leonvert imeversibly chemical energy into electrical energy. 6. One of my names suggests I am a citizen of the most south-easterly region of Ghana. Whoam I? ANSWER: Primary Voltaic cell. Riddle #158 1. Tam a property of the constituents of matter. 2. Lam not mass, 3. Butall particles that have me also have mass, 4. Although not all particles that have mass also have 5. I distinguish a positron from an electron, a proton from an anti-proton. Who am 1? ANSWER: Electric charge Riddle #159 1. Lam distinguished by my electrical conductivity Which increases as temperature increases. Tam a type of semiconductor material Lam not intrinsic. Ian be made by introducing controlled amounts of a trivalent element into silicon. 6. Thave more holes in my valence band than electrons in my conduction band. Who am I? ANSWER: P-type semiconductor Riddle #160 1. Laman exponent or a power. 2. Lam often described as natural, binary or common according to my base. 3. Before calculators I was of much use in ‘computation. 4, For the exponential N= a¥,to base a, | am x 5. In my common form for 10, 1am | and for 100,1 am2. Whoam I? ANSWER: Logarithm Riddle #161 Lconsist of two types of cells. 2. One cell type is almost isodiametric in shape whereas the other cell type is tall and axially oriented,3. Tam found in dicots and gymnosperms but net in monocots, 4. Lam acylinder of unspecislized meristems cells that divide to give new cells which then specialize to form secondary vascular tissues. Tam located between the xylem and the phloem in the stem and root ofa vascular plant. Who am? ANSWER: Riddle #162 1. My early formal education was restricted to reading, writing and arithmetic 2. Twas the third of foursiblings. 3. From age 14, and for 8 years, serving as an apprentice ofa local bookbinder, I educated myself bby reading widely about science subjects. 4. Fromage 22, and employed asa chemical assistant ‘of Davy Humphrey, his wife and other scientists, 1 learned enough science to be able to carry out research on my own. ‘Atage 39, Tbecame Professor of chemistry atthe Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, England. 6. Tamcredited with the two laws in Electrolysis, Who am I? ANSWER: Vascular cambium Michael Faraday. Riddle #163 1. Thereis nothing special average kind of guy. 2. Tama straight line associated with curves, 3. Lamnot a chord or a tangent. 4. Lam at loggerheads with respect to the tangent in terms, of direction, 5. The truth is that | am always perpendicular to a tangent. Who am I? ANSWER: Normal Riddle #164 1. Lam a type of force. 2. Whenever | am pre: changes. 3. My value for a moving particle depends on the ppath of the particle 4. Tam zero for motion along a straight path. My magnitude is proportional to the square of speed, Who am? ANSWEI Riddle #165 1. Tam an organic compound made up of atoms from ‘three different elements, carbon, hydrogen and ‘oxygen, jout me and Lam your t, the velocity of an object Centripetal force 19 | Page 2. Lam an aromatic compound with benzene asmy nucleus, 3. Thave two interesting functional groups. My reaction with sodium hydroxide will lead to deprotonation and hydrolysis, 5. One product of hydrolysis, the smaller one is the ethanoate ion, 6. If Tam a benzoic acid withan esterified phenolic ‘group in the ortho position, Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #166 L. Th anatomy my name can referto any flat structures 2. Generally, Iam used to refer to a dome-shaped structure of muscle and fibrous tissue. 3. [possess a series of apertures permitting the passage of structures. 4. perform an important function in respiration, 5. During inhalation, I contract thus enlarging the volume of the thoracic cavity. 6. In mammals, I separate the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity Who am I? ANSWER: Aspirin or Acetyl salicylic acid phragm Riddle #167 1. T possess only four pairs of chromosomes: three pairs of autosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes. 2. Lwas among the first organisms used for genetic analysis 3. Lam even a better subject for genetic studies than the garden pea. 4. The hypothesis that genes are on the chromosomes: ‘was substantiated with me as the subject of the experiments, Untortntely, Tam commonly considered a pest ‘due to my tendency to infest habitations and establishments where fruit is found, Who am 1? ANSWER: Drosophila (melanogaster) \ Fruit fly Riddle #168 1. Tam a component of a measuring instrument, 2. Thave a central electrode. 3. Which is surrounded by a cylindrical cathode 4. Leontain an inert gas in which an electron avalanche is generated. 5. In response to absorption of radiation in my active volume. 6. Lam frequently paired with a counter Who am 1? ANSWER: Geiger-Mueller tube Riddle #169 1. Tama binary, covalent compound.2. Thave tetra-atomic molecules from two non metallic elements 3. Tam quite popular as a compound from many angles. 4. Lam the most favorite choice ifa chemistry teacher ‘wants an example of a weak family member of Bronsted-Lowry or even the Lewis family. 5. accept protons but not too eagerly or strongly 6. Thave a trigonal pyramidal shape with nitrogen as my central atom. Who am I? ANSWEI Ammonia (NH) Riddle #170 1. Lam simply a line of great importance to “Arithmetic. 2. Tam the geometry of a number system. 3. Each point of me represents a number, 4. Tam characterized by a unique point that separates ‘the numbers into positives and negatives. 5. Any number rational or irrational can be found on Who am I? ANSWER: Number Line Riddle #171 1. We live in that famous city designed and builtby ‘that Russian architect 2. We live on the 4 avenue. 3. We are twins, with slightly different body-mass indices. 4. Despite the same parentage we have completely. dlifferent looks and different abilities. 5. Whilst one of us is soft and very agreeable, the ‘ther is hard and uncompromising 6. 6 and I2are our favourite numbers. Who are we? ANSWER: Allotropes of earbon Riddle #172 1 My name represents the Latin word for “little rin 2. In mathematics | am aring-shaped object, especially a region bounded by two concentric circles. 3. Inmushrooms Iam the ring-like remains of a ‘membrane (called a vell), found around the stipes of certain basidiomycetes. 4. My presence or absence is often used to identify the species of an individual mushroom. 5. In Ferns, am a row of specialized cells of the sporangium responsible for opening the sporangium and dispersing the spore, Who am? ANSWER: Riddle #173 1. Tama three-dimensional geometrical figure. Graphite and diamond OR Annulus 20| Pace 2. I normally siton a polygonal base. 3. Thave faces which are triangular in shape. 4. Anexample of me is a tetrahedron. 5. My triangular faces meet in a common point, the vertex. 6. Anextreme example of me is a cone. Whoam I? ANSWER: Pyramid Riddle #174 1. Lam atype of solid. 2. Lamdistinguished by my electrical conductivity sand how it behaves with temperature 3. Atabsolute zero, Ihave a full valence band and ‘an empty conduction band. 4. Thave such a large energy difference between my conduction and valence bands that. 5. Atroom temperature, there are hardly any electrons in my conduetion band, Who am I? ANSWER: Insulator Riddle #175 1. Lam an experiment conducted in the 1910"s 2. By two gentlemen whose names I bear. 3. Electrons accelerated through a low-pressure vapour cell produced a current with maxima and minima as a function of accelerating voltage. 4. Inthis way, I demonstrated that electrons undergo inelastic collisions with atoms only at particular electron energies. 5. Proving that atomic energies are quantized Who am I? ANSWER: Frank-Hertz experiment Riddle #176 1. Tam alinear function, 2. Lusually represent profit, cost or loss. 3. Myextreme values are much sought after in bussiness 4. Lam of much importance in Linear Programming. 5. My name indicates that I am the objective of Linear Programming Who am? ANSWER: Objective Function Riddle #177 1. Lam formed during embryogenesis, along with the root and shoot meristems. 2. Lam therefore present in the seed prior to ‘germination. 3. In young seedlings of dicot plants I am photosynthetic and functionally similar to leaves, 4. ‘The number of me present, is one characteristic used by botanists to classify the angiosperms 5. Lam also present in seedlings of gymnosperms, except that Iam often variable in number6. Plants with seeds that contain two of me are termed dicotyledons Riddle #182 1, Lam closely associated with solids. Who am 1?) 2. However, there is an important class of liquids ANSWER: — Cotyledon with which Tam also associated. Riddle #178 3. Some of these liquids are used in modem Tama hydrocarbon and a flly saturated one information display devices, ‘The number of carbons in my molecule is a 4. Lam lattice with basis. square of a prime number 5. Tam a regular repeating pattem of atoms or 3. Thave a straight backbone, not bent and not wi paectes branched ANSWER: Crystal 4. Tam gaseous at room temperature and standard pressure Riddle #183 1. Tam a group of lines in the spectrum of an atom. 5 } 6. Flam a major component ofthe LPG used as | > 1am described by a term formula that was a souree of fuel in Ghana then 3. My series limit as given by the Rydberg formula is ‘Who am I ‘one-quarter the Rydberg constant ANSWER: — Butane 4. Lam the only group of hydrogen stom spectral Riddle #179 lines with visible wavelengths. 1. Partofmeisa meter. 5. My fist term corresponds to a red wavelength 2. Lamessentially a distance measure. Who am I? 3. Foracircle Iam the circumference. ANSWER: Balmerseries (or Balmer lines) 4. Fora rectangle Iam given by P = 2(L. +W)) Riddle #184 5. Basically I'am the distance around curve ora 1. 1am used to describe various features or structures plane geometric igure in organisms. Who am? 2. Inthe brain. Tama stallc-like structure composed ANSWER: Perimeter of white matter, connecting various regions of the brain Riddle #180 3. In fishes, lam the narrow part of the body to which 1. Iwas an English physician and scientist the tail attaches, 2. My work is said to have *: 4, Lam also used to refer to a stalk supporting an ‘work of any other human’ animal organ, such as the eyestalk of a lobster. 3. In 2002, [ was named in the BBC's list of the 100 5. But Lam commonly used to describe a stalk Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. supporting an inflorescence. 4. Tam offen called "the father of immunology”, Who am I 5. Iwas the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, as my ANSWER: Peduncle ‘experiments opened the pathway of diseoveryot | Riddle #185 ‘the immune system. 1, Tam asudden digression or change of course. Who am? 2. Lam atrigonometic ratio involving the legs of a ANSWER: Edward Jenner right angle triangle. 3. Tam the part of a survey line that is straight Tam a straight line touching a curve without crossing it, Riddle #181 5, Asa ingonometrc entity, 1am the ratio 1. Taman inherent character of a substance very “opposite/adjacent” familiar to you Who am 1? 2. Diamond snd sestae sipposed have ie sme ANSWER: Tangent ait as Thave Riddle #186 3. Thave a sibling, a character that cannot withstand stress especially when it is under Fire 1. Loccur in the uncombined state in most meteorites 2. Man and I became friends more than 4000 years 4. impart stability t this familiar substance 2 5. With me soaps do not lather well ago 6. Boiling cannot expel me either 3. Lam a metallic element present in several ores Who aml? To be extracted from my ores there has to be a ANSWER: Permanent Hardness of Water reduction reaction 2a] Page‘When I am freshly out ofthe furnace Iresemble a pig 6. When my carbon impurity is reduced to 1S percent or below I call myself steel Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #187 1. Lama basic unit used in computer science. 2. Lam often arranged into tree structures known as, binary trees. 3. In communication networks Lam either a connection point, a redistribution point or a communicatzon endpoint. 4. The mtevals on the stem of plants between meand others of my kind are called inter nodes. 5. Tam the region of a stem where leaves are attached. Whoam I? ANSWER: Riddle #188, 1. Taman emission proses. 2. Toccur only in the presence of photons. 3. Lama process in which photons are emitted. 4. For every photon already present, I generate a new photon Tenure that the photon generated is coherent with ‘the photon whose presence caused the emission, 6. Teanthus be used to construct a light amplifier. ‘Who am 1? ANSWER: Stimulated emission Riddle #189 1. Tama quadrilateral 2. have a pair of parallel but non congruent sides. 3. [have a pair of congruent but non parallel sides. 4. have two pairs of congruent adjacent angles. 5. If were a triangle, | would be isosceles Who am? ANSWEI Riddle #190 1. Tam a chemical 2. My name appears to be a generic name for the whole family. 3. Thave ametal anda non-metal as my constituent ‘elements. 4. My constituent elements are very harmful to man bbut Lam harmless, 5. If I werea British citizen I would probably be a member of House of Commons. 6. Without me most of your foods wil be tasteless, Who am? ron Node Isoseeles Trapezium ANSWEI Sodium Chloride or NaCl or Common salt Riddle #191 1. Tam an important member of the Main Group elements, 22 | Page Indeed I am one of the metals inthat group with a silvery-white colour. Tecan exist in three allotropic forms. am resistant to most of the comman reagents. Tam therefare used in electroplating sheets of steel in the industry for the manufacture of food containers. 6. combine with copper to forma popular alloy used by sculptors. Who am 1? ANSWER: Tin or Sa Riddle #192 I may be a line segment or anumbsr or asstatistical measurement 2. Tseem to have something to do with the midpoint or the middle term ina statistical data, 3. Fora triangle, I am a line segment from a vertex fo the midpoint of the opposite side. 4, Fora set of data, I am the middle term when the data is ordered, 5. Tamalso the second quartile for a distribution Who am I? ANSWER: Median Riddle #193 1. Imay be an electrical deviee or structure on certain groups of organisms. 2. Asan electrical device I convertelectric power into radio waves, and viee versa 3. In arthropods, Iam connected to the front-mast segments 4, Tam present in all insects: however I may be greatly reduced in the larval forms. 5. Insects beara pair ofme whereas crustaceans bear two pairs of me 6. Lam the primary olfactory sensor of insects Who am I? ANSWER: Antenna Riddle #194 1. Tam synonymous with simplicity. 2. approximate motion about an equilibrium point 3. Lam described by anequation that contains a tem that is linear in displacement. 4. Thereis harmony wherever I am found. 5. Lama motion whose direction opposes the agent causing it Who am 1? ANSWER: Simple harmonic motion Riddle #195 1 2 3 4 Tama vector but a rather strange one. ‘As a vector I have no length to boast about. Really I have no direction At the same time I have an infinite number of directions.5. In the coordinate plane, you can loeate me at the origin, 6. Lam the identity For vector addition, Who am I? ANSWER: Zero Vector/Null Vector Riddle #196 1 Tama common phenomenon in coastal waters and other aquatic systems. 2. My name means welLnourished. 3. Although | am commonly caused by human activities, 1 can allso be a natural process. 4, When my effets are undeszable T may be considered a form of pollution 5. Larise from the oversupply of nutrients, which induces explosive growth of plants and algae. 6. I lead to the reduction in concentration of dissolved. ‘axygen in water bodies and a range of other effects reducing bio-diversity Who am I? ANSWEI Riddle #197 1. Twas born in 1859 in Sweden and received a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1903, 2. My ancestors were famers but my father and one uncle decided to go into academia, 3. I discovered inmy childhood that I was gifted in arithmetical calculations. 4. entered University of Uppsala in 1876 to study mathematics, physies and chemistry 5. I dic not like the place much as facilities for practical physios were lacking and so I left to go and work under a Professor at the Swedish Acaclemy of Sciences 6. Lwrote a thesis on electrolytes, including acids and bases for which reason the first theory of acids and bases was named after me. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #198 1. Lam a property of matter. 2. For some materials, I decrease when temperature is increased 3. For most metals, I decrease as temperature is decreased. Atsuffieiently low temperatures, I ean vanish. “A state in which Tam zero is called superconducting, ‘Who am ANSWER: Resist Riddle #199 1. Lama specialized stem, leaf or petiole. 2. Lean be formed from modified shoots, modified leaves, or auxiliary branches. 3. Ido not havea lamnina or blade, but I ean photosynthesize. Eutrophication (Svante) Arrhenius, ae 23 [Page 4, Lam aspirally coiling sensitive organ that serves to attach a climbing plant to its suppor. 5. In some parasitic plants, Lam guided by airbome chemicals, and only twine around suitable hosts. whoam 1? ANSWER: Tendrils Riddle #201 1, have units of kimol 2. Tam a characteristic property of chemical substances, 3. You can tell the stability of substances by a close lok at me. 4. Lam associated with synthetic or transformation reactions. 5. Whenit issymthesisI am not just interested in any kind of synthetic reaction. 6. The synthesis should invalve the elements ofthe substance in their standard states. Whoam I? ANSWER: Standard Enthalpy of formation / Standard Heat of Formation Riddle #202 1. Lamthe path of a moving object: 2. Sol ama trajectory. 3. Geometrically, 1am a conic section 4, Lam the tnjectory of an object moving with constant speed. Hut whose velocity ent const Tam the path ofan object whose distance from a fixed point is fixed, Who am 1? ANSWER: Circular trajectory (or circle) Riddle #203 1. Tama four digit number, Tam what is called a palindromic number 3. Whichever direction you read me, forward or backward, the value is the same. 4, My first digit is an odd square andso ako ismy last digit. 5, My second digit isan even cube and so is my third digit. 6. The sum of my digits is 34 Who am I? ANSWER: 9889 Riddle #204 1. William Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar uses me to describe Cassius ill-tempered nature. 2 But T am an organ found in virtually all vertebrates. 3. In humans, Iam brownish in colour and located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.4. play important roles in regard to red blood cells and the immune system. 5. Tam the organ that is responsible for purifying the Iblood as well as storing blood cells. Who am? ANSWER: Riddle #205 1. Lam clowly associated with energy. 2. But Lam not energy itself 3. I characterize regions of space in which electric fields exist 4. My negative gmdient equals electric field strength. 5. Tama measure of the work done in moving a unit positive charge from a reference point to a field The spleen point. ‘Who am ANSWER: Electric potential Riddle #206 1. Tama diagram for illustrating a frequency distribution. Tam nota histogram. ‘Neither am La line chart or a bar chart. My mme suggests something edible. Tam circular in shape with frequencies reduced to angular measures. 6. Tam the eible chart when Who amt? ANSWER: Pie Chart Riddle #207 1, Tam an inorganic salt. 2. Tam soluble in water, ethanol, methanol and ppropanone. 3. Tpossess a metal cation and a complex anion 4. My anion is made up of another metal and oxygen 3 Apart from being a powerful oxidizing agent, [an bbe used as a disinfectant at home. My characteristic purple colour is due to this my ‘complex anion. Who am I? ANSWER: KMn0) or Potassium tetraoxopermanganate (VII) Riddle #208 1. Lama two terminal device commonly found in a physies laboratory. 2. Tam used for measuring an electrical quantity. 3. In my digital version, I display readings that change sign when my terminals are interchanged. 4. Whena charged capacitor is connected across my terminals, I givea reading that decreases relatively slowly with time. 5. Showing that I have a high internal resistance. Who aml? ANSWER: Voltmeter Riddle #209 2 2alPage 1. T measure change of one variable with respect to another variable. 2. For motion, I may be speed or velocity, and acceleration. 3. Tam mathematically obtained by differentiation. In achemistry laboratory, [am associated with a chemical reaction 5. Essentially, Iam a mate and change is my objective. Who am I? ANSWER: | Rate of Change Riddle #210 1. Lam used to refér to the positional arrangement of the parts of a flower within a flower bud before it has, opened. 2. Tam also awidely used strategy across all foms of hypometabolic organisms. 3. Tam used to describe the state of inactivity in certain invertebrates and vertebrates, 4. take place during times of heat and dryness. 5. Lam characterized by inactivity and a lowered ‘metabolic rate, which is entered in response to high temperatures and arid conditions. Who am I? ANSWER: Acstivation Riddle #211 1. Ifyou have my qualities it means you are strong and firm, 2. Without me how could industrialization in the 20) and 21" Centuries have been possible? 3. But Lam amere solution. And Tam a solution of a kind because both my solvent and solute are solids. 5. If Teontain a certain percentage of carton then | am supposed ta be mild. 6. Electroplating me with chromium produces a material that can be used for making cutlery and utensils, Who am I? ANSWER: Steel Riddle #212 1. Tn my natural state Tam gaseous. made up of two different elements 2. Thave twopi bonds in my molecule 3. In my pure form, lam colourless and odourless 4, Lamrelatively non-polar because of my structure. 5. Despite this Tean ensily be compressed, going from the ‘gaseous state straight into the solid state 6. My solid form has a nick-name * Dry-Ice” Whoam I? ANSWER: CO; or carbon (IV) oxide Riddle #213 1. Lam aprinciple ‘That describes the behavior of fluids, Tam responsible for operation of hydraulic machines, 34. My name contains the name of an SI unit. 5. specify how apressure change is transmitted in a fluid. Who am? ANSWEI Paseal’s principle Riddle #214 1. Thave different types. 2. Imay be considered natural, whole, positive or negative, 3. Lam the basie building block of Mathematics. 4. Lamaften considered reasonable or rational as, well as crazy or irrational. 5. [may be terminating or repeating 6. Youcan locate me on a line bearing my name. Who am? ANSWER: Real Number Riddle #215 1. Lwas bom to” Catholic family of a poor tanner. 2. [lived at the time when microbiology was the subject of controversy 3. Twas an average stedent in my early years, and not particularly academic, as my interests were fishing and sketching, 4. Although I made groundbreaking experiments, my reputation became associated with various, controversies, 5. established that fermentation is the result of microbial activity who am 1? ANSWER: Louis Pasteur Riddle #216 L In the plane, there are two of us 2. Together we define the coordinates of a point in the plane. 3. Tamnumber2 in the ordered pair 4° Lam normally represented by the letter y, 5. L represent the distance of a point from the x-axis. 6. Lam the y-coordinate of a point in the plane. Who am? ANSWER: Ordinate Riddle #217 1. Lam different numbers on different scales but 1 represent the same point. 2. Onone scale I am 671.7: 3. Onanother I am 212 4. Tama reference point on a temperature scale 5. Tam the temperature of pure water boiling at normal atmospheric pressure. Who am I? ANSWER: Upper fixed point Riddle #218 1 I was the eldest son of a provincial lawyer and royal. official. who lost his position in the French Revolution of 1789, 25 | Page Twas born in 1778, and therefore grew up during both the French and Chemical Revolutions, analyzed the compositions of Earth's atmosphere at different altitudes. I discovered the element Boron, when some of my colleagues and I were working on a project. Two gis laws, ane about variation of volume of a gas ‘with temperature at constant pressure and a second one about ratio of combining gases were attributed to me. 6. requested that the Law about variation of volume with temperature be attributed to Jacque Charles because I used much of his unpublished data from 1787. Who am I? ANSWER: Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis) Riddle #219 1 Tama form of asexual reproduction. 2. Lam sometimes used inaccurately to describe reproduction modes in hermaphroditic species. 3. Lam seen to occur naturally in aphids, nematodes, and some other invertebrates, as well as in many plants, 4. A form of asexual reproduction related to me is gynogenesis 5. Tam the form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization. Who am I? ANSWER: | Parthenogenesis Riddle #220 1. Lama metabolically active tissie composed of several types of cells 2. Leome ima variety of shapes and sizes and have a complex intemal and extemal structure 3. I sonsist of living cells embedded in a mineralized ‘organic matrix. 4. Lam lightweight yet strong and hard, and serve multiple functions 5. Inthe human body, my smallest form is the stapes in the middle ear 6. Unfortunately Tam affected by a number of diseases, including arthritis, infections, osteoporosis and tumours. who am? ANSWER: Bone Riddle #221 1. Tam a radioactive 5ttransition element and therefore belong to the Actinide series. Thave 13 known isotopes. 3. My most important isotope undergoes nuclear fission with slow neutrons, 4. Lam therefore an important power source for nclear reactors and weapons,6. 5. Lam the second trans-aranium element to be discovered and named after a member of the solar system. 6. Ifyou see my symbol you may think that 1am a citizen of Pusiga, Who am I? ANSWER: Plutonium (Pu) Riddle #222 1. Tam a property that waries from point to point on earth, 2. Talso vary with time 3. Lama property of the terrestrial magnetic field 4. arise because the magnetic and geographic north poles of the earth do not coincide. 5. Tam the angle between the magnetic north pole and the geographic north pole. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Declination Riddle #223 1. Tam the primary building blocks of integers. 2. For the decimal number system, I range from 0, 1, [Link] to 9. 3. For the binary number system, Iam either 0 or 1 4. In another context, | am a finger or a toe. 5. Ina way, Idefine the modem computer age. Who am I? ANSWER: Riddle #224 Lam a transport mechanism. | can transfer energy through material media Lam effective in both liquids and solids. transfer energy without the transfer of material particles, ofa medium. So am able to transfer enemy through vacuum. | transmit energy in the form of waves. Digit Who am I? ANSWER: — Radiation Riddle #225 |. Tam asolid geometric figure, 2. Lam apolyhedron 3. [have eight triangular faces and twelve edges. 4. Lam formed by joiningtwo congruent square pyramids base to base. 5. Lam in the octo business and Iam a polyhedron Who am 1? ANSWER: Riddle #226 1. Tbelong to a family of techniques, namedas ifthe colourless do not belong. 2. Tand the rest of the family constitute a general method for separating mixtures. 3. Whenany of usis in operation, there isalways one ‘kind of competition or the other among the ‘constituents of the mixture being separated, Octahedron 26| Pace 4.1, just like the others, moving phase. 5. The competition or the race involves electrostatic ‘or physical adsorption or partition. 6. In my case different ions in the mixture compete for ionic sites on the stationary phase. Who am I? ANSWER: Ion Chromatography Riddle #227 1. Tama biological process. 2. Lean be thought of in a general sense as anything expanding into greater being from a small existence. 3. The absorption of water, the passage of time, chilling, warming, oxygen availability. and light exposure may all operate in initiating my' process. 4, Lcanalso be used to refer to the emergence of cells from resting spores. 5. The most common example of me is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, who am 1? ANSWER: Riddle #228 1. represent different things in different contests. 2. Lam aset of values taken by a function or a variable 3. In Statistics I am the difference between the largest ‘and smallest measurements. 4. Tam open land on which farm animals graze. 5. Lam alsoan area in which a species of organisms. live. 6. 1am the union of mountains and hills extending over some distance. Who am I? ANSWER: Range Riddle #229 1. Tama naturally occursing compound belonging to a renowned family of compounds, 2. Lam a white solid, but appear yellowish when contaminated with impurities, 3. Among my family members, I was the first to be discovered, structurally characterized and synthesized in the laboratory. 4. Lam supposed to be a vital amine but chemically aman organic acid nota base, which is a sontradistion, 5. Tam used as a food preservative, a flour improver in bakeries and an animal food additive. 6. Lam the major component of the citrus family or fruits. Who am 1? ANSWER: Vitamin © or Ascorbic avid Riddle #230 1. Tam a central idea in evolutionary theory 2. Lam aproperty, not of an individual, but of a class of individuals, have a stationary phase and a GerminationI canbe defined either with respect toa genotype ‘or toa phenotype ina given environment. In either case, I describe the ability to: both survive and reproduce. Without differences in me natural selection cannot act and adaptation cannot occur. 6. Tamoften defined as. tendency or probability, rather than the actual number af offspring. Who am? ANSWER: (Biological) Fitness Riddle #231 1. IFT were part ofa building, I would be the basic units that are assembled into a wall 2. But Lam not part of a building, even though you may find me at building construetion sites, 3. Tam a simple machine. 4. [comprise two sets of pulleys linked by a single string, 5. Thave an ideal mechanical advantage that is sletermined by the number of string sections supporting the load bearing pulley system. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Block and tackle Riddle #232 1 ‘am a phenomenon that occurs at the boundary ‘between two media, 2. Toccur when a wave encounters the boundary ‘between the media, 3. Tretum the incident wave back into the medium of incidence, 4. In doing so,1 do not permit transmission of the ‘wave into the other medium, 5. Tonly eccur for a limited range incidence angles. 6. And only when the wave speed in the medium of incidence is smaller than the wave speed in the ‘other medium. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Total intemal reflection Riddle #233 1, Tam a process of interbreeding between individuals. 2. Thave many and varied impacts on the process of speciation, 3. I may slow or reverse differentiation by allowing, gene flow and recombination, 4. Plants go through my process much more frequently and successfully than animals do. 5. Offsprings produced through me may be fertile, partially fertile, or sterile. Who am I? ANSWER: Hybridization Riddle #234 1. Thave no fixed value as I have the tendency to change or vary. 2. Tamrepresented by symbol such as x or y whieh symbol represents a value. 27| Page 3. Imay be dependent or independent 4. Lamthe building block for function notation. 5. For the function y = ffx), xis independentand yis dependent Who am I? ANSWER: Variable Riddle #235 1. Lama dtransition metal. 2. Lwas used by the pre-Columbian Indians of South America. 3. Twasnot noticed by any Westem scientists until 1735 4. Ido occur freely in mature but sometimes, Tam found in deposits of gold-bearing sand. 5. Lam dense, malleable, ductile and very resistant to sorrosion: that is why [am used in making jewellery, wires, electrical contact sets and laboratory vessels. 6. My name originated from a Spanish word meaning “silver-like”” and I have an atomic number 78. Who am 1 ANSWER: Platinum Riddle #236 1. Locour widely in animal tissues and also ina few plants and algae. 2. Lam therefore a natural product and can exist in nature asa free compound or as ester of fatty acids 3. To humans Iam part of their diet but I can be synthesized in the liver 4. As partof the blood of animals, I belong to the general class of lipoproteins. 5. Asa complex of a protein, I am used in building up cell membranes. 6. Too much of me in the blood though may lead to the narrowing of blood vessels or arteries. 7. Lama precursor of bile acids, sex hormones and a source of vitamin Ds. Who am 1? ANSWER: Cholesterol Riddle #237 1. Lam atype of force that acts on charged particles. 2. Lact on stationary charges. 3. Tact on moving charges as well. 4. am named for the scientist whose name is also given to the phenomenon of length contraction. 5. Thave two parts: an electric part and a magnetic part. Who am? ANSWER: Lorentz force Riddle #238 1. There are three of us and you may view us as the three musketeers 2. Weare associated witha frequency distribution. 3. Weare not the mean, mode or median,4. Together we divide a distribution into four equal arts There is fist. a secondanda third 6. The second one is literally the middle term of a distribution. ‘Who are we? ANSWER: Quarles Riddle #239 I. IfT were an animal people would refered to me as nocturnal because I normally occur in the night. 2. Tam not an animal buta simple biological process ‘that does not occur in the world of animals. 3. I result in the production of fluid that may contain a variety of organic and inorganic compounds, mainly sugars, and potassium. 4. Because of this, people sometimes confuse the fluid with dew, which condenses from the atmosphere onto the surface of plants. 5. Tam most noticeable when transpiration is suppressed and the relative humidity is high, such as during the night. 6. Tam used to refer to the drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants, such as grasses. ‘who am? ANSWER: Guttation Riddle #240 I. My name suggests I am a vertical distance. 2. But I nced note vertical. 3. Idescribe the position of a virtual image. 4. Lam the illusion that a clear pool of water is shallow. 5. Teanbe used with the true depth of transparent liquid to determine the refractive index of the ligated ‘Who am? ANSWER: Apparent depth Riddle #241 1. Tam used in many disciplines and subjects, 2. Tam used to refer to the genus of the chastal deer, 3. In Physics, ama line of rotational symmetry in an ‘optical system, 4. Inmathematics I am lines used in a Cartesian ‘coordinate system, 5. Inanatomy Tam the second cervical vertebra(C2) ‘of the spine. 6. My prominent festre isa toot-tike proestion called the odontoid process. ‘Who am!? ANSWER: Axis Riddle #242 1. Thave astraight backbone of a chain of carbons. 2. Thave nothing more than carbonsand hydrogens in my molecule. 28 | Page 3. L react readily and separately witha mole each of | bromine in trichloromethane and cold, dilute and neutral KMnOs solution both with drastic physical changes. 4. IF Lwere a fully saturated compound I should be entitled to 16 hydrogen atoms in my molecule but 1 am not, 5. [have a total of seven carbons in my molecule. 6. My active functional group is located between the last but one and the last but two carbons from one end of the chain. Who am I? ANSWER: — 2-Heptene or hept-2-ene Riddle #243 1. Lam apartofa circle 2. To be precise Lam an are ofa circle. 3. Lama junior part of a circle 4. Laman are of circle whose length is less than half the circumference of the circle. 5. Asanarg, I playa minor role so to speak. Who am 1? ANSWER: — Minor Are Riddle #244 1. [represent exact likeness inshape about a line, axis point ora plane. 2. Locour if one half ofa figure can be rotated or reflected onto the other. 3. In Biology, I am the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. 4. Toocur offen in nature, and plants and animals exhibit me, 5, Geometrical figures such as isosceles triangle and equilateral triangle reflect me, 6. The quadratic curve isa good demonstration of me, Whoam I? ANSWER: Symmetry Riddle #245 1. Lam a red inorganic compound with a melting point of 196°C. 2. Lamalsoan acidic oxide witha metal and oxygen ‘as my constituent elements. 3. Lama powerful oxidizing agent, especially to ‘organic compounds. 4. Since Tam an anhydride, I dissolve in water to give 1 very strong acid which is also a powerful oxidizing agent. 5. It isnot surprising because my metal is in oxidation state of +6. 6. Stzel electroplated with my metal has a bright appearance and is more resistant to corrosion. Who am 1? ANSWER: —CrO; or Chromium (WI) oxide Riddle #246In the early classification schemes, we were regarded as a "natural" group. 2. There are more than 1000 extant or currently living species of me. 3. Conifers are by far my largest living group. 4. Ourname literally means naked seeds. 5. Together with angiosperms we compose the spermatophytes or seed plants, Who are we? ANSWER: Gymnosperms Riddle #247 1. Tama process in which electrons are emitted 2. Teisusually arranged that I emit electrons into an evacuated space. | am facilitated by the application of an electric potential to my emitting element. ‘The greater the potential gradient near an emitting ‘element, the more effective itis. So an electron emitter that is based on me is ‘usually made into a sharp point T operate at both high and low temperatures. Who am ANSWER: Field emission Riddle #248 To the Jewish Lam a series of traditions associated ith major life events in Judaism. To the systems engineer, | am an examination of a system that addresses all phases of its existence. To the software developer I am an object in object-oriented programming. In business, Iam the stages in the lifespan of a commercial or consumer produ. In Biology I am the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from birth to reproduction ending with the generation of the offspring. Who am? ANSWER: Lifecycle Riddle #249 Bep Tama physical constant that governs one of the fundamental interactions in nature. ‘The interaction I govern is a long range one; Whose effects extend over astronomical distances. My value is small and the interaction I governs weaker than the other long range interaction of nature. | determine the strength of the interaction between particles with mass. Who am? ANSWER: Gravitational constant Riddle #250 1 2 Tam an element that bas been known to mankind since the 18" century (1790). Tam the only metal that can burn ina pure nitogen atmosphere. pol Pace 3. Lam present in meteorites and was also found in the rock samples brought from the moon by Apollo 1 and the subsequent missions. 4. I got my name from one of the Greek god's, which means ‘enormous strength’. 5. IF Iwere the chief component of the Titanic Ship. the ship would not have sunk in the Atlantic Qcean in 1912. 6. Lam amember of the first transition series of the Periodic Table, indeed the second Who am I? ANSWER: Titanium Riddle #251 1. Lam anend point 2. Tam the highest point of a body part such as a skull. 3. Lam a point on a polyhedron shared by 3 or more faces: 4, Lam the intersection of the adjacent sides of a polygon. 5. Foran angle, | am the origin of the two rays forming the angle. Who am 1? ANSWER: Vertex Riddle #252 1. Tam a self-product 2. Lama plane figure of regular shape having four sides. 3. My area issomehow myself. 4. My area is a? and my perimeter is 4a 5. Tam applied to matrices as well as pyramids, 6. Tam also an L-shaped ora T-shaped instrument used for drawing or measuring a right angle. Who am I?” ANSWER: A Square Riddle #253 Tama phenomenon that was discovered by a German physicist whose name I bear. T canbe used for converting thermal energy into electrical energy. Tam observed with two dissimilar conductors and Toccur in the presence of a temperature gradient Tam the phenomenon that underlies the operation of a thermocouple. Who am I? ANSWER: | Seebeck effect Riddle #254 L 2 Tam a class of compounds that occur in both ‘multicellular and in unicellular organisms, Even though Iam defined functionally, but not structurally, I may have diverse chemical structures. My synthesis may occur in specific tissues of endocrine glands or in other specialized cells4. This synthesis occurs in response to specitic biochemical signals induced by a wide range of regulatory systems. 5. Lam wed to communicate between organs and tissues, to regulate physiological and behavioural activities. Who am? ANSWER: Rida le #255 = Lwasborn on March 30", 181] to German parents in Gottingen, Germany. 2. My father was a Professor of Modem Languages and Head Librarian at the University of Géttingen. 3. [entered University of Gottingen in 1828 and took to the sciences, reading Chemistry, Physies, Mathematics and some Geology and Botany 4. After obtaining a PhD in 1830 at the age of 19, I toured chemical laboratories in Europe to study chemical techniques. In 1833 at the age of 22, I started working as a Chemistry lecturer in my alma mater, 6. My intense interest im the analyses of elements based on colour they produce in a flame, led me to invent a suitable gas bumer that gives a colourless flame. Who am? ANSWEI Riddle 250 7. Laman integer. 8. Myssmallest value is 1 9. My largest known value isrelatively small, less than 120. 10, 1 describe a nuclide. 1. T distinguish hydrogen from helium from lithium from beryllium and so on Who am? ANSWER: Atomic number Hormone + (Robert) Bunsen, RIDDLE 257 1. Lam Greek in origin 2. Among my proponentsare Aristotle, Plato, Euclid and Pythagoras. 3. My mme suggests Ihave something to do with the earth by way of measurements, 4. Tam a branch of Mathematics. 5. In my basic fom, Iam concemed with points, lines and planes. Who am? ANSWER: GEOMETRY RIDDLE 258 L.-T am a hydrocarbon. 2. Lam fully saturated. 3. [havea straight backbone. 4. ‘The number of carbons in my molecule is an odd number which is also-a square of an odd_ prime umber. 30| Page 5, Ifthe number of hydrogens in my molecule isan exact ‘multiple of 10, then Who am 1? ANSWER: RIDDLE 259 1. Tam a globe shaped structure 2. Lam surrounded by a socket. 3. My name means to measure or estimate roughly by sight 4. Tam also wed to refer to an overhead light fixture that is mounted on a swivel in-a recessed socket so the light can be directed in any direction. Tam covered externally by the eyelids Tam the ball-shaped capssile containing the vertebrate eye WHO AMI? ANSWER: Eyeball RIDDLE 260 1. Owing to my size and distinctive structure, Iwas one of the first organelles to be discovered and observed in detail Tam found in most eukaryotic cells Iwas discovered with the help of special staining techniques. 4, However, my structure was only revealed by the electron microscope 5. I consist of a stack of flattened membrane-bound sacs called cisternae 6. Iwas discovered by an Italian physician, Camillo Golgi, during an investigation of the nervous system WHO AMI? ANSWER: Golgi Apparatus! Golgi Body/Golgi complex’Dictyosome RIDDLE 261 1. Toperate on the basis ofan effect that is sometimes undesirable. Nonane (C:H)) 2. Tam however very useful 3. You may find me in electronic appliances and electrical installations. 4. Tuse mutual inductance to desirable effect 5. [transform voltages in altemating circuits. Who am I? ANSWER: Transformer RIDDLE 262 1. Taman inorganic substance 2. Imay be produced when a certain metal is bunt in excess air 3. I dissolve in waterto give a solution which turns red litmus blue 4. The metal from which [am formed is never found in nature in the uncombined state5. That metal is the eighth most abundant element in the earth's crust with atomic number 12 Who am I? ANSWER: RIDDLE 263 Tama property of geometrical figures. Two figures with me fit exactly on each other Asan example, two circles with the same radius satisfy me. Two line segments with same length satisfy me. I represent equality in size and shape. For triangles, recall ASA, SSS, SAS. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: Congruence RIDDLE 264 1. Lam found in warm habitats that range from rain forest to desert conditions 2. [belong to a family that was divided into two subfamilies, by Klaver and Bohme in 1986. My skin has a superficial layer which contains pigments, 4. Thave two superimposed layers within my skin that control my colour and thermoregulation. 5. Ifmy tongue was a car, it could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 1/100th of a second 6. My species come in a range of colours, and many of my species have the ability to change colours. Who am I? ANSWER: Chameleon RIDDLE 265 1. Tam a property of a substance that is known to and used by all 2. Thate temperatures higher than ambient temperatures I am attributed to certain non-organic ions present ‘My name suggests I can hardly be persistent I can cause you to spend on soaps for your laundry and other related activities. Who am I? ANSWER: RIDDLE 266 1. Tama line segment 2. Teonnect two points on acurve, 3. Lam more popularly associated with a circle, 4. You can strike me. 3. Tamalso a harmonious combination of musical notes. ‘Who am I? ANSWER: A Chord. RIDDLE 267 7. Lam an element. 8. Lexistas molecules. Magnesium oxide (MgO) Temporary Hardness of water 31| Page 9. In the earth's atmosphere or crust you would hardly find me in the free state. 10. The irony is that I'am the most abundant element in the entire universe 11, [form an explodsive mixture with the second most abundant gas in the earth's atmosphere. 12. My atomie number is | and it is believed most elements are derived from me. Who am I? ANSWER: Hydrogen (gas or element) RIDDLE 268 1. Mynameisin two parts, 2. The first part represents.a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text. The second part refers toa type of decomposer 4. Lam mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris. Characteristically. | produce bracket-shaped or occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks. 6. Toften grow in semi-circular shapes, looking like trees of wood. Who am I? ANSWER: Bracket Fungi RIDDLE 269 Pemendiculars are my dwelling place. It scems there is something right about me Tam formed from two perpendicular line segments or rays with a common vertex. 4, Whena straight angle is bisected there are two of me. 5, Ofcourse I am an angle. 6. My radian measure is half of a pie. Who am I? ANSWER: RIDDLE 270 Tam a property of'a substance. I characterize phase changes. My SI unit is joule per kilogram. Tam the thermal energy required for the isothermal phase change of unit mass of substance, Who am I? ANSWER: RIDDLE 271 1. While my father’s ancestors were all farmers, I decided to stay in the classroom and lecture rooms. Iwas born in Sweden. My love for mathematics ended me in University of Uppsala to study physical sciences. Right Angle Specific latent heat4. I worked under a Professorin the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Though I wrote a thesis on electrolytes Iam better known fora Theory of acids and bases Who am? ANSWER: (Svante) Arthenius RIDDLE 272 1. Lama three digit number between 300 and 400. 2, The sum of my digits is 15, 3. All my digits are prime numbers. 4. My digits are consecutive odd numbers 5. My middle digit is the average of my first and last digits, Who am I? ANSWER: 357 RIDDLE 273 1. Taman organic compound 2. My molecules have only carbon and hydrogen atoms 3. My shape can be used to illustrate the perfect tetrahedral shape 4. Tama hydrocatbon with only one carbon in my molecule 5. Tama gas obtained from natural sources and therefore called Natural Gas Who am I? ANSWER: RIDDLE 274 1. Tam a type of magnetic material Tama linear material: That is, my magnetization varies linearly with magnetic field, 4. Thave negative susceptibility. 5. Tam repelled by the poles of a strong magnet. Who am I? ANSWER: Diamagnetic material RIDDLE 275 Tama material of natural or synthetic origin I may be applied as a solid or liquid, Tam applied to soils or to plant tissues (usually leaves) to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants. 4. Tam classified acconfing to whether I provide a single nutrient or provide two or more nutrients 5. Tam commonly used for growing all crops, swith application rates depending on the soil fertility, 6. Tam known to be the main contributor to the eutrophication of fresh water bodies Methane (CH) 3 2 32| Page WHO AMI? ANSWER: Fertilizer RIDDLE 276 1. If Tand my friends were boxers, we would belong to the heavy weight division, We are mainly organie substances with big molecules, 3. Our bodies do not hate repeated units, in Fact we love them. Weare formed from the combination of many small units. 5. We may be classified as Addition or Condensation depending on the chemistry of the combination of the units Who are we? ANSWER: RIDDLE 277 1. Tama trigonometric ratio 2. To be previse I am the reciproeal of a trigonometric ratio, 3. Lam the co- of a trigonometric ratio. 4. For 45% lam 1, 5. For 0°,1 am undefined. 6. For 90°, lam nothing. Who am I? ANSWER: Cotangent RIDDLE 278 1. Tam asub-cellular structure 2. Lam found predominantly in protists and in unicellular algae 3. My number per cell varies, depending on the species 4. Las previously known as pulsatile 5. Lact as part of a protective mechanism that prevents the cell from absorbing too much water and possibly lysing through excessive internal pressure. 6. Asmy name suggests. I expel water out of the cell by contracting. Who am I? ANSWER: Contractile vacuole RIDDLE 279 1. Tama property ofa solid material. 2. operate by Hooke, never by crook 3. I characterize elastic deformations, 4. Lam quite Young. Who am I? ANSWER: RIDDLE 280 1. We live in all the world's oceans. in fresh water, and on land, Polymers Young's modulus2. We are generally covered with a thick ‘exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws. 3. We are decapod crustaceans 4. We make up about 20% of all marine ‘crustaceans caught, farmed, and consumed worldwide 3. The mode of articulation of our legs makes a sidelong gait more efficient than forward ‘movement We typically walk sideways, a behaviour which gives us the word crabwise ‘Who are we? ANSWER: Crabs RIDDLE 281 1. Part of me can be found ina chemistry lab by combining different elements 2. Tama combination of two inequalities, 3. My solution set is the intersection or union of two sets 4. Anexample of me is *2x+1> 5 and3x <25. 5. Tasolve me, solve the component inequalities and find their intersection or union as appropriate. Who am? ANSWER: Compound Inequality RIDDLE 282 Tam a hydrocarbon My carbons are in a ring My molecular formula would also suggest a straight chain hydrocarbon with one triple bond 4. My number of carbons is a product of two prime numbers $. Thave something in common with benzene Who am |? ANSWER: RIDDLE 283 1. Tama field. 1 am described by field lines. . My field lines are closest together where my field strength is greatest My field Lines originate and temninate on point sources and point sinks My point sources are positive and my point sinks are negative electric charges. Who am? ANSWER: Electric field wi Cyclohexene 33| Page RIDDLE 284 1. In the scientific method, Iam an empirical procedure, 2. Tam used to verify. refute, or validate a hypothesis. I provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outeome occurs when particular factor is manipulated. 4. vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedures and logical analysis of the results 5. Researchers also use me to test existing theories or new hypotheses to support or disprove them, Who am i? ANSWER: RIDDLE 285 1. Tam a collection of some basic statements. These are described as postulates by scientists. For gases at ordinary temperatures and pressure, 1 do not acknowledge the presence of their units, molecules oratoms. 4. Lam able to explain why gases exert pressure. 5. If only begin to sce the sizes of the molecules or atoms of gases when the gases are under very high pressures or at very low temperatures, then Who am I? ANSWER: Kinetic Theory of Matter/Gases or Kinetic Molecular Theory of MatteriGases. RIDDLE 286 1. Tam a type of material frequently used in electronic devices. 2. Lam semiconducting. 3. _Imay contain two types of charge carriers— electrons and holes: 4. But [have a larger concentration of electrons than of holes 5. Who am I?) 6. ANSWE! RIDDLE 287 My name suggests I soxt out things, Experiment N type semiconductor 1 2. At stationary points I yield zero. 3. Lam used to derive 4. L yield the gradient function 5. Tam the process for determining the gradient of the tangent to a curve. Who am I? ANSWER: _ Differentiation RIDDLE 288 1. Tam an element discovered in 1826 2. Lam one of those elements whose smallest units are not atoms but molecules 3. Thavea boiling point of about S7C