Earth
Life
Physical
Chemistry
Astronomy
100

When the moon moves in front of the sun.

What is a solar eclipse?

100

The hardened remain of a living thing. Examples include petrified wood and dinosaur bones.

What is a fossil?

100

An object in motion has what kind of energy?

What is kinetic energy?

100
Water in its solid state.
What is ice?
100

The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt.

What is Ceres?

200

What type of volcanoes created the hawaiian islands?

What are shield volcanoes?

200

What pigment is used in photosynthesis?

What is cholorphyl?

200

What type of rock is shale?

What is sedimentary rock?

200

The transformation of an object from solid to gas.

What is sublimation?

200

The change in wavelength when an object is moving away from you

What is red-shift?

300

The movement of water from the Earth's surface, caused by extra-planetary gravitational forces.

What are tides?

300

What do you call bacteria that live in extreme conditions?

What are extremophiles?

300

Which is the weakest force, out of gravity, magnetism, and the weak nuclear force?

What is gravity?

300

What are the building blocks of protons, neutrons, and electrons called.

What are quarks?

300

A rapidly spinning, highly dense star, known for its pulsating electromagnetic emissions.

What is a pulsar?

400

What are puffy white clouds with flat bottoms called.

What is cumulus clouds?

400

A community of plants, animals, and the environment in which they live.

What is an ecosystem?

400
The bending of light.
What is refraction?
400

An atom's loss or gain of elections.

What is ionization?

400

A star whose outer envelope has been blown away by its own powerful radiation.

What is a Wolf-Rayet Star?

500

What causes coral bleaching? 

What are rising sea temperatures? (Global warming is also an acceptable answer)

500

Which type of single celled organism has organelles?

What are protists?

500

What geologic phenomena create oceanic crust.

What is a mid ocean ridge?

500
A chemical equation where the addition of water breaks up a molecule.

What is hydrolysis?

500

How massive would a star have to be (in solar masses) to become a black hole at the end of its life?

What is ten times the mass of the sun?

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