Which US national park contains Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous states?
Answer
Sequoia National Park
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Which US national park preserves a large area of petrified wood from the Triassic period?
Answer
Petrified Forest National Park
Which national park in Greenland is the largest in the world by area?
Answer
Northeast Greenland National Park
Which Canadian national park is the largest by area, covering over 44,000 km²?
Answer
Wood Buffalo National Park
Which US national park is the most visited, with over 12 million annual visitors?
Answer
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Which New Zealand national park, established in 1887, is a dual World Heritage site?
Answer
Tongariro National Park
Which national park in Canada is the oldest, established in 1885?
Answer
Banff National Park
Which national park in Tanzania is famous for the Great Migration of wildebeest and zebras?
Answer
Serengeti National Park
Which national park contains the world's largest tree by volume, the General Sherman tree?
Answer
Sequoia National Park
Which national park in Florida is known for its mangrove forests and alligators?
Answer
Everglades National Park
Which national park is located entirely north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska?
Answer
Gates of the Arctic National Park
What is the name of the first stable compound formed in the Calvin cycle after CO2 fixation?
Answer
3-phosphoglycerate
What type of photosynthesis does not produce oxygen?
Answer
Anoxygenic photosynthesis
What blue pigment in cyanobacteria is used for photosynthesis?
Answer
Phycocyanin
What accessory pigment gives red algae their red color?
Answer
Phycoerythrin
What is the cellular location of the light-dependent reactions in a chloroplast?
Answer
Thylakoid membrane
In C4 plants, in which type of cells does the Calvin cycle occur?
Answer
Bundle sheath cells
What enzyme fixes CO₂ in the mesophyll cells of C4 plants?
Answer
PEP carboxylase
What three-carbon sugar phosphate is exported from the Calvin cycle to the cytoplasm?
Answer
Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate
Which enzyme catalyzes the regeneration of RuBP in the Calvin cycle?
Answer
Phosphoribulokinase
What process protects plants from excess light by dissipating heat?
Answer
Non-photochemical quenching
Which photosystem has a reaction center that absorbs light at 680 nm?
Answer
Photosystem II
What enzyme catalyzes the reduction of NADP+ to NADPH in the light reactions?
Answer
Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase
Which pigment class gives autumn leaves their yellow and orange colors?
Answer
Carotenoids
What organic acid is stored in vacuoles of CAM plants during the night?
Answer
Malic acid
What type of leaf anatomy is characteristic of C4 plants?
Answer
Kranz anatomy
What is the name of the process where Rubisco fixes oxygen instead of carbon dioxide?
Answer
Photorespiration
What protein complex splits water molecules in the light reactions?
Answer
Oxygen-evolving complex
Which group of plants fixes carbon dioxide at night?
Answer
CAM plants
What is the first stable product of carbon fixation in C3 plants?
Answer
3-phosphoglycerate
Who won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the carbon fixation cycle?
Answer
Melvin Calvin
Which photosynthetic pathway do corn and sugarcane use?
Answer
C4 photosynthesis
What is the name of the strait between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra?
Answer
Strait of Malacca
What is the name of the sea that lies between Turkey and Greece?
Answer
Aegean Sea
What is the name of the ocean current that brings warm water to the west coast of Europe?
Answer
North Atlantic Current
What is the name of the sea to the north of Alaska?
Answer
Beaufort Sea
What is the name of the deep-sea trench that is the second deepest on Earth?
Answer
Tonga Trench
What is the name of the strait connecting Baffin Bay to the Labrador Sea?
Answer
Davis Strait