Water Filters
Water is comprised of 2 chemicals. What is the formula for water?
H2O
How many pairs of parallel sides does a trapezoid have?
One
If the AQI is over 200 it is in the red zone. This means the air quality is what?
Unhealthy (bad)
What state usually has the most earthquakes?
California
What is a sprite?
A character created and used in a computer program.
What can people do to decrease the amount of water pollution in lakes, rivers and streams?
Don't litter, recycle, clean up spills in the water
The axis that runs along the bottom of a coordinate plane is called what?
The x-axis
If people breathe in too much bad ozone, you may cause problems if you have one of these conditions.
Lung cancer, asthma
We used the seismic explorer to measure the magnitiude of which natural disaster?
Earthquakes
What block of code would you use to make a Sphero move forward or backward?
Roll
What do you do to change water from a liquid to a gas?
Boil it
Is a triangle considered obtuse or acute if one of the angles is greater than 90 degrees ?
Obtuse
We used the website AirNow.gov to check air quality each day. What color ozone means good air quality?
Green
Name 3 types of natural disasters.
Volcanos, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes.
Name an example of what you can program a Sprite to do.
You can change a Sprites costume, make it speak by adding the say block or make the Sprite speak when clicked by creating an event block.
When the class created their water filters, what materials were used? (name 3)
Rocks, screen, cloth, sand, cotton balls, coffee filters.
When measuring length with a ruler, what are the units of measurement in customary units?
inches, feet, yards
This is a layer around the earth that protects us from the sun's burning rays. We should protect it or we may cause more global warming.
The Ozone Layer
What is the type of instrument (we made one) that measures the size (magnitude) of an earthquake?
Seismograph
Name something you can do with a sprite to change its location in the program.
Change the numbers or click the pin in the location block.
When the class tested their water filters, they may not have produced clean water. What part of the Engineering Design process did we do to make the water filter better?
Improve
What is the total volume of a 3-D shape with measurements of 12 in. x 14 in. x 6 in.?
1,008 in.cubed
These are very small particles in the air that come from natural sources like wildfires, and human sources like car exhaust.
Particulate Matter (PM)
What is the area called where most earthquakes and tsunami's occur?
The Ring of Fire
The steps used to create code or describe how to do a task is called what?
An algorithm.