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This type of energy is often called "stored energy" or the energy of position.

What is Potential?

200

This is the phase where the Moon is positioned between the Earth and the Sun, making it appear invisible from Earth.

What is New Moon

200

Often called the "powerhouse" of the cell, this organelle creates ATP through cellular respiration.

What is Mitochondria?

200

In a food chain, these organisms (like plants) get their energy directly from the sun.

What is Producers

200

This is the name of the underwater city where Spongebob and his friends live.

Bikini Bottom

400

As a roller coaster begins its descent from the highest hill, its Potential Energy is rapidly converted into this type of energy.

What is Kinetic?

400

When the visible part of the Moon is growing larger each night, it is described by this term.

What is Waxing

400

Daily Double This jelly-like substance fills the cell and surrounds the organelles.

What is Cytoplasm?

400

This is the transfer of thermal energy through direct contact between two objects.

What is Conduction

400

Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State," but it is also home to this, the world's longest known cave system.

Mammoth Cave

600

This is the primary factor—alongside mass—that determines the amount of Gravitational Potential Energy an object has.

What is Height

600

This specific moon phase occurs when exactly half of the side facing Earth is illuminated, occurring about a week after a New Moon.

What is First Quarter

600

Unlike animal cells, plant cells have these two unique structures for support and food production. Name 1

For 100 Pts The Other Team Can Name Another

What is Cell Wall/Chloroplast

600

In a cell, the "brain" or control center that holds genetic material is called this.

What is Nucleus

600

In the show Stranger Things, this is the name of the dark, parallel dimension that mirrors our world.

The Upside Down

800

If two cars are traveling at the same speed, but Car A has twice the mass of Car B, Car A has this much more Kinetic Energy.

What is 2X (Double)

800

It takes approximately this many days for the Moon to complete a full cycle of phases. (From one full moon to the next)

What is 29.5 

800

This thin, flexible outer layer controls what enters and leaves the cell to maintain homeostasis.

What is Cell Membrane

800

This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

What is Conservation of Energy

800

This "King of Rock and Roll" was born in Mississippi but is famously associated with his Graceland estate and his start in the South.

Elvis Presley

1000

Use the formula KE=1/2m*v^2 to determine which has a greater impact on Kinetic Energy: doubling the mass or doubling the velocity.

What is Velocity?

1000

A "Waning Gibbous" comes immediately after this fully illuminated phase.

What is Full Moon

1000

These are the small structures within a cell that perform specific functions, similar to how organs work in a body.

What are Organelles

1000

In an energy pyramid, only about this percentage of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next.

What is 10%

1000

This famous Kentucky-born president led the United States during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

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