Life, Personal, & Social Science
Water Quality:
Water that is safe to drink
What is potable water?
Astronomy:
A planet orbiting another star
What is an exoplanet?
Machines:
The lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw
What are the six simple machines?
Boomilever:
The opposite of tension
What is compression?
Experimental Design:
This variable is changed within an experiment
What is the independent variable?
The base only found in RNA, not DNA
What is Uracil (U)?
Rocks and Minerals:
The hardest mineral, a 10 on the Mohs Scale of hardness
What is a diamond?
Forensics:
The eight possible blood types for humans
What are A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-, O+, and O-?
Electric Vehicle:
The type of energy a battery stores
What is potential chemical energy?
LWHS Science Olympiad Trivia:
The placeholder name for our team we accidentally kept for the 2024 competition
What was the "Lake Washington Apples"?
The three portions of an insect's body
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
Dynamic Planet:
The number of major tectonic plates on Earth
What is the number 7?
Circuits:
The law describing the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in a circuit
What is Ohm's Law?
Helicopter:
The four fundamental forces on an aircraft in flight
What are lift, drag, thrust, and the force of gravity (weight)?
Bungee Drop:
The ability of a material to resist deformation and return to its original shape
What is elasticity?
Anatomy and Physiology:
The number of chambers in a human heart
What is the number 4?
Remote Sensing - Climate Change:
A class of chemicals formerly responsible and infamous for damaging the ozone layer
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
Chemistry Lab:
A type of chemical reaction where a compound breaks down into its constituent parts
What is decomposition?
Robot Tour:
The use of data from sensors to estimate change in position over time, also refers to a distance measuring tool in your car
What is odometry?
Engineering CAD:
Abbreviated as CAD, any modeling software for (usually) designing in 3D
What is Computer-Aided Design?
Disease Detectives:
Anything an infected individual can touch, upon which can be left a residue of a contagious pathogen
What are fomites?
Astronomy:
The mass limit for a stable white dwarf star, above which it collapses into a neutron star or black hole
What is the Chandrasekhar Limit (1.4 M☉︎)?
Materials Science - Nanomaterials:
Crystals that produce electricity when deformed, and change shape when electricity is applied to them
What are piezoelectric crystals?
Electric Vehicle:
The name for a steering system where the right and left wheels are spun at different rates to turn a vehicle
What is differential steering?
Codebusters:
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What is a Caesar cipher?