Life Sciences
(Anatomy and Physiology)
Which primary organ system is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body to deliver oxygen and nutrients?
What is the Cardiovascular (or Circulatory) System.
(Solar System)
Which planet in our solar system is known for having the most extensive, bright, and easily visible ring system?
What is Saturn
(Ping Pong Parachute)
What is the main goal of the Ping Pong Parachute event?
What is to keep the ping pong ball and parachute aloft in the air for the longest amount of time.
(Crime busters)
What unique human biological pattern, left behind by oils on the skin, is most commonly collected at a crime scene to identify a suspect?
What is Fingerprints
(Roller Coaster)
As a roller coaster vehicle sits stationary at the very top of its highest hill, what form of mechanical energy is at its maximum?
What is Potential energy
(Disease Detectives)
If an outbreak of food poisoning occurs at a school, what is the term used for the first patient identified with the illness?
What is Index case/ Patient Zero)
(Rocks and Minerals)
What geological scale uses numbers from 1 to 10 to rank the scratch resistance and hardness of various minerals?
What is Mohs Hardness Scale (will accept "hardness scale")
(Experemental Design)
In a scientific experiment, what is the term for the specific variable that the scientist deliberately changes or manipulates?
What is independent variable
(Food Sciences)
What is the chemical symbol for common table salt?
What is NaCl
(Elastic Launched Gliders)
What aerodynamic force must a glider's wings generate to overcome the downward pull of gravity?
What is Lift
What term describes an organism that can make its own food using sunlight through the process of photosynthesis?
(Ecology )
What is a(n) Producer/Autotroph
(Remote Sensing)
What color does healthy vegetation typically appear in standard false-color infrared images?
What is red?
(Write it Do it)
When the "writer" is describing a structure for the "doer" to build, why is it crucial to use specific directional terms (like "top-right corner") instead of generic words like "here" or "there"?
Because the "doer" cannot see the original structure and needs unambiguous instructions
(food science)
What type of carbohydrate is standard household table sugar chemically known as?
What is Sucrose
(Boomilever)
When a boomilever is attached to a testing wall and loaded with a heavy bucket, what kind of force is pulling and stretching its top chords?
ex:force of gravity, force of normal, force of tension, force of friction)
What is force of tension
(Heredity)
If a plant with two dominant tall alleles (TT) is crossed with a short plant (tt), what percentage of the offspring will be tall?
what is 100%
(Dynamic Planet)
What type of tectonic plate boundary occurs where two plates are moving away from each other, such as at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
(ex: Covergent Boundaries, Divergent Boundaries, Transform Boundaries)
What is Divergent boundary
(Machines)
A crowbar, a seesaw, and a wheelbarrow are all variations of which type of simple machine?
What is a lever
(Hovercraft)
According to Newton's Laws of Motion, a hovercraft moves forward because the air pushing backward creates an equal and opposite forward reaction. Which law is this?
(can be stated (ex: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd) or discribed)
What is newtons 3rd law
(Scrambler)
A Scrambler transport vehicle is powered entirely by the energy stored in a falling mass. What force accelerates the mass downward?
What is Gravity
(Entomology)
Insects belong to which massive phylum of animals, characterized by having jointed appendages and an exoskeleton?
what is arthropods
(Meteorology)
What fast-moving, high-altitude currents of air circulate above the Earth and heavily influence weather patterns?
What is Jet streams
(Codebusters)
In a simple Caesar shift cipher with a shift of +1, what would the letter "A" decrypt to?
What is "B"
(Circuit Lab)
In a simple electric circuit, if one light bulb burns out and all the other bulbs immediately go dark, how are the bulbs wired?
What is in series (Series circuit)
(Ping-Pong Parachute)
What upward force exerted by the air acts against a deployed parachute to slow down its descent?
What is Air resistance (or Drag)