Light and Matter
Thermal Energy
Dynamic Earth
Cells and Human Body Systems
Weather and Climate
100

This is the name of the character who was on one side of a two-way (or one-way) mirror at a police station

Who is Mr. Bean?

100

Water vapor, Oxygen, and Argon are examples of this state of matter

What is gas?

100

This is the approximate age of the Earth

What is 4.6 billion years old?

100

True or false: Animal cells have fixed, rectangular shapes

What is false? Animal cells are irregular, round, or oval in shape.

100

Also known as the hydrologic cycle, this is the continuous circulation of water in the Earth-atmosphere system

What is the water cycle?

200

These are the colors that are reflected from a piece of white paper

What are all the colors or ROY G BIV?

200

The type of heat transfer that involves direct contact

What is conduction?

200

The rock type formed by years and years of sediment compacting (pressing) together and becoming cemented

What is sedimentary?

200

This organelle contains chlorophyll and acts as tiny solar panels inside a plant cell

What are chloroplasts?

200

Meaning "the boy" in Spanish, this climate phenomenon involves warmer-than-usual water in the Pacific Ocean

What is El Nino?

300

This is a tool of science that can separate the colors of the visible light spectrum

What is a prism?

300
The three main states of matter (in alphabetical order)

What is gas, liquid, solid?

300

What Earth's mantle is mostly made of

What is liquid magma?

300

This human body system transports oxygen-rich blood around the body 

What is the circulatory system?

300

This word, which we've also seen in our Dynamic Earth and Thermal Energy units, involves warm air at the equator rising, and cold air from the poles sinking

What is convection?

400

The type of objects that block light entirely...preventing light from transmitting through them

What are opaque objects?

400

Heat added or removed...Condensation

What is removed?

400

Of humans appearing, mammals appearing, or fish appearing...the one that occurred first

What is fish appearing?

400

This is the primary (main) organ of the integumentary system

What is skin?

400

This is the name of the governmental agency that can predict where, how, and when storms will occur.  

What is the SPC or Storm Prediction Center?

500

The name for all the light energy in our Universe

What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?

500

The phase change that involves a substance gaining energy and changing phases from a liquid to a gas

What is evaporation?

500

The type of plate boundary that causes a rift valley to form

What is divergent?

500

This two-word organelle is like the cell's post office...it sends modified proteins and lipids back to their correct destinations

What is the Golgi apparatus?

500

This type of weather front is associated with precipitation (rain or snow) and cumulonimbus or nimbostratus clouds. 

What is occluded? 

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