First Exam:
What is the deepest part of the ocean?
What is the highest mountain peak on earth? in North America?
What is the highest point in Hawaii?
What is your favorite color?
What is the southern-most point in the US?
What proportion of the atmosphere is below you at 10,000 ft elevation?
What is the name of the vessel on which Darwin served as naturalist on a five-year voyage around the world?
What are the four colligative properties of solutions?
Why do solutions behave this way?
How much does a liter of water weigh?
What is the freezing point of water? the boiling point?
At what temperature is water most dense?
Where are the Sandwich Islands?
What is the airspeed velocity of a European swallow?
What are the English, Hawaiian, and scientific names of the Hawaiian state fish?
What are the five kingdoms of organisms?
Briefly (using an equation) describe the relationship between the wavelength of a photon and its energy.
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
What is Avogadro's Number?
Why is the periodic table periodic?
Who was Hawaii's most important King?
Who is Hawaii's most important goddess?
How does natural selection act to produce adaptation?
Briefly distinguish between the abiotic, biotic, and social environments.
Briefly describe the process of plate tectonics.
What European first "discovered" the Hawaiian Islands, and when?
Approximately when did polynesians first colonize the Hawaiian Islands?
What is the specific heat capacity of water?
What is the specific heat of vaporization of water?
What is the specific heat of fusion of water?
What are the three hazards of the Fire Swamp?
Who is the greatest swordsman that ever lived?
Who is the greatest naturalist that ever lived?
What is the most famous Hawaiian phrase or word?
What is the first law of thermodynamics? What is the second law of thermodynamics?
What is the density of seawater?
What is the density of fresh water?
Who called earth a "primitive and tasteless planet"?
What are the three types of rock?
Approximately how many endemic bird species occupied the Hawaiian Islands before the arrival of humans?
Name the classes of vertebrates, and briefly describe their idstinguishing characteristics.
Briefly describe the process of adaptive radiation.
What is the "biological species concept"?
What is the most speciose class of animals?
Briefly describe the distinguishing characteristics of the major phyla of invertebrate animals.
What are the diagnostic characteristics of the Phylum Chordata?
What are the two types of lava found in Hawaii?
What does the Hawaiian word mahalo mean? Mauka? Makai?
Briefly distinguish between the abiotic, biotic, and social environments.
Briefly distinguish between fishes and tetrapods.
To what phylum of animals do corals belong?
What are the planets of our solar system?
Why should you not eat sashimi?
What are the two types of volcanoes? Of which should you be most afraid?
Who is the greatest living naturalist?
Briefly discuss the relationship between the size of an organisms' body, its surface area, and its volume.
Briefly describe the geographic and microgeographic distribution of coral reefs. Why do they exhibit this pattern of distribution?
Who were the twelve companions in exile of the great Thorin Oakenshield?
Name the seven dwarves.
Name the twelve disciples.
Name Santa's eight reindeer.
What are the seven deadly sins?
What are the ten commandments?
Pick a number between 1 and 10. Multiply by 9.
If your product is a two-digit number, add the two digits together. Subtract
5. The number you got corresponds to a letter in the alphabet. Think of
a country whose name begins with that letter. Think of an animal whose
name begins with the LAST letter of the name of the country. Think of a
color that begins with the LAST letter of the name of the animal.