Chemistry Basics
What two things does matter have?
What is volume and mass?
A push or pull on an object
What is force?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Challenge a team to a battle... of multiplication facts. Send up your swiftest player.
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It is energy in motion.
What is a kinetic energy?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Place the 19 timeline cards in chronological order.
If you fail, the team with the lowest score gets a try!
A circular path that starts and finishes at the same place
What is a circuit?
* For bonus points: Make a U.S. history connection to the term "circuit."
Water wells, elevators, and window blinds are examples of this type of simple machine.
What is a pulley?
What are the three states of matter?
What is a solid, liquid, gas?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Speaking of states, challenge a team to a battle! Sing the 50 states song. The most impressive performance wins the points!
A force that holds back the movement of an object
What is friction?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Challenge a team to a battle of noun volleyball.
How we describe a material that scatters light, making it difficult to see clearly through it.
What is translucent?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Challenge a team to a battle of adjective volleyball.
A black rock made up of iron and oxygen
What is a magnetite?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Correctly answer all 50 of the states and capitals flashcards.
If you fail, the team with the lowest score may try!
A belt that turns more than one wheel
What is the drive belt?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE:
Each team has 2 minutes as many presidents as they can. The most correct answers wins the points.
A substance whose ph is lower than 7. It is sour, ruins metals, and conducts electricity. Examples include lemon and vinegar.
What is an acid?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
You must challenge a team to a battle! Both teams must form a choir and sing the linking verb song. The most impressive performance wins the points!
The maximum speed an object can fall; the speed limit for falling objects
What is terminal velocity?
Examples are hydropower, biofuels, geothermal, wind power, solar power, hydrogen.
What are sources of renewable energy?
A circuit that has more than one resistor, with the electricity taking multiple paths through the resistors.
What is a parallel circuit?
*For bonus points: What is the advantage of a parallel circuit?
Stairs are an example of this type of simple machine
What is an inclined plane?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Challenge a team to a battle! Use the materials on the table to build an invention. Be ready to explain the problem and solution. Best invention wins!
Consider the Periodic Table of Elements. This is the term used for the number of protons an atom has.
What is the atomic number?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
The words to the Preamble of the Constitution are in the bag. Find the first 6 cards and place them in order. Can you find the first 14 cards?
If you fail, the team with the lowest score gets a try!
The law that says something at rest or in motion in a straight line prefers to stay that way unless something forces it to move or stop moving
What is Newton's First Law of Motion (Inertia)?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
The beginning of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is in the bag. Find the first five cards and place them in order. Can you place all the cards in order?
If you fail, the team with the lowest score gets a try!
A moving vibration that produces a sound.
What is a sound wave?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Each team send up your best speller for a spelling bee. Last man standing gets the points.
Tiny areas on magnets made up of billions of tiny magnets
What are domains?
An ax is an example of this type of simple machine
What is a wedge?
An atom that has lost or gained an electron
What is an ion?
A force that acts on a body moving in a circular path and is directed toward the center around which the body is moving
What is centripetal force?
Heat that can travel through empty space.
What is radiant heat?
A temporary magnet where the magnetic field is generated by an electric current and disappears when the current is turned off
What is an electromagnet?
A lever that has the load between the fulcrum and the effort. Example, our marshmallow catapults.
What is a second class lever?
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!
Place the cards in the correct order to quote the Declaration of Independence.
If you fail, the team with the lowest score gets a try!