Magnetism
Every magnet has two of these opposite ends, which are always labeled North and South.
What are poles?
When an electric current flows through a wire, it automatically creates an invisible one of these around the outside of the wire.
What is a magnetic field?
Electricity is primarily generated by the flow of these tiny, negatively charged subatomic particles.
What are electrons?
This native tongue is the primary language of instruction in Greenland's schools, while Danish is taught as a second language.
What is Greenlandic? (Acceptable: What is Kalaallisut?)
This gas giant, famous for its massive swirling storm known as the Great Red Spot, is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This common element, represented by the chemical symbol Fe, is the most well-known and widely used magnetic metal.
What is iron?
Found in everything from desk fans to full-sized Teslas, this rotating machine uses electromagnetism to convert electrical energy into mechanical motion.
What is an electric motor?
Materials like copper, gold, and water that allow electric current to flow through them easily are known by this term.
What are conductors?
Education in Greenland is compulsory for all children between the ages of 6 and 16, adding up to this many years of mandatory schooling.
What is 10?
Despite being second from the Sun, this is the hottest planet in our solar system due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere.
What is Venus?
This everyday navigational instrument works because its freely rotating needle aligns itself with the magnetic field of the Earth.
What is a compass?
Often seen as cylindrical metal cans on utility poles, this device relies on electromagnetic induction to "step up" or "step down" the voltage of an electrical circuit.
What is a transformer?
Named after an Italian physicist, this is the unit of measurement used to describe the "pressure" or potential difference pushing electricity through a circuit.
What is a volt (or voltage)?
To get a degree without leaving the territory, students attend Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland, located in this capital city.
What is Nuuk?
This torus-shaped region of space, located roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, contains millions of rocky remnants from the early solar system.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
You can create this temporary type of magnet by wrapping a conductive wire around a metal core and passing an electric current through it.
What is an electromagnet?
In 1831, this pioneering British scientist discovered electromagnetic induction by proving that moving a magnet through a coil of copper wire generates electricity.
Who is Michael Faraday?
While Thomas Edison famously championed Direct Current (DC), Nikola Tesla advocated for this type of current, which periodically reverses direction and became the standard for modern power grids.
What is Alternating Current (AC)?
Because of the country's vast size, older students from small, remote villages often have to live in these government-funded accommodations in larger towns to complete their education.
What are boarding schools? (Acceptable: What are pupils' homes / continuation schools / dormitories?)
Demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, this icy world resides in the Kuiper Belt and features a large, heart-shaped glacier on its surface.
What is Pluto?
Heating a permanent magnet above this specific critical temperature—named after a famous French physicist—causes it to lose all of its magnetic properties.
What is the Curie point (or Curie temperature)?
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell unified the forces of electricity and magnetism when he published a famous set of this many fundamental mathematical equations.
What is four? (Acceptable: What are Maxwell's equations?)
This fundamental scientific law states that the current passing through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points, usually expressed by the equation V = I x R.
What is Ohm's Law?
Implemented in 2003, Greenland's major education reform modernized teaching and is known by this native word translating to "The Good School."
What is Atuarfitsialak?
This theoretical, massive spherical shell surrounding our entire solar system is believed to be the home of billions of long-period comets.
What is the Oort Cloud?