Substances
Elemental Structures
Natural Resources
Synthetic Materials
Severe Weather
Challenge
100
This metal is a liquid at STP.
What is mercury (Hg)?
100
gas
100
Plastic is made from this substance, which is also an energy resource.
What is petroleum (oil)?
100
The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
What is recycling?
100
What two things are needed to form a tornado?
What is hot ground and cold atmosphere?
100
This brittle, shiny metalloid is used to harden lead and is named after the Greek word for “moon.”
What is selenium (Se)?
200
This silvery alkalai metal bursts into flames if it touches water.
What is sodium (Na)?
200
Solid, liquid, or gas?
solid
200
This natural resources is made out of a combination of highly weathered rock and dead plants.
What is soil?
200
A secondary product made during the manufacture or synthesis of something else; an unintended result of a process.
What is a byproduct?
200
Hurricanes get their energy from this type of "fuel."
Warm Ocean Water
200
A group off radioactive elements that are not used for many things by humans. All of them have an atomic number higher than 95.
What are the synthetic elements?
300
This gas, the lightest of all elements, was once used in airships but is highly explosive.
What is hydrogen (H)?
300
Where will pressure be the highest in this picture?
At the maximum depth.
300
Wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal power plants are usually said to be this type of energy resource, because their supply is not limited in a typical human lifespan.
What are renewable resources?
300
A lightweight and non-magnetic metal used for many purposes, including cans, window frames, the metal case for most consumer products.
(it's the metal you come into contact with the most often)
What is aluminum?
300
These tiny, jagged pieces of rock and glass can damage plane engines and lungs.
What is volcanic ash?
300
Scientists use this scale (from 0 to 5) to measure tornado intensity based on damage.
Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale
400
This slightly acidic liquid, chemical name dihydrogen peroxide, is responsible for more human deaths per year than any other liquid element or compound.
What is water (H2O)?
400
Where will pressure be the highest in this picture?
At the bottom of the wide part.
400
Fossil fuels are typically found where these have been buried.
What are ancient rain forests, coral reefs or swamps?
400
A common type of flexible plastic used to make plastic bags.
What is polypropylene?
400
A fast-moving, deadly cloud of hot gas and volcanic matter.
What is pyroclastic flow?
400
The amount of force that Earth's atmosphere exerts on 1 square meter on the surface of Earth.
What is 101,325 Newtons?
500
This rare and heavy noble gas is radioactive and can build up in basements.
What is radon (Rn)?
500
The two types of chemical bonds.
What are ionic and covalent?
500
The ability of a material to allow fluids to pass through.
What is permeability?
500
A product that is found in nearly every processed food and is farmed from trees that are planted at a huge scale in Indonesia, resulting in deforestation.
What is palm oil?
500
This is the most dangerous part of a hurricane: a wall of water pushed onto land.
What is storm surge?
500
This is the name of the type of factory that turns crude oil from the ground into a variety of useful products.
What is an (oil) refinery?