A subatomic particle with a positive charge and a mass of approximately 1 amu.
What is a proton?
100
This force makes an apple fall to the ground.
What is gravity?
100
This type of instrument measures the salinity of water
What is a salinometer?
100
The genetic material that makes you unique.
What is DNA?
100
This shape is the most stable and can withstand the greatest amount of force.
What is a triangle?
200
The type of chemical bond found between atoms in a water molecule.
What is a covalent bond?
200
A device that demonstrates the conservation of momentum and energy using a series of swinging spheres
What is Newton's Cradle?
200
This mineral has a Moh's hardness scale of 1. It was once used in baby powder.
What is Talc?
200
The largest organ in the body
What is skin?
200
This machine contains a series of chain events, each event triggering the next.
What is a Rube Goldberg machine?
300
Graphite and diamond are both composed of this element.
What is Carbon?
300
-273.15˚C, -459.67˚F, and 0 K
What is absolute zero?
300
Obsidian is which type of rock
What is igneous?
300
The four nitrogenous bases in DNA
What are adenosine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine?
300
This arts and crafts compound machine has two soft levers, one fulcrum, and two sharp wedges.
What are scissors?
400
The four states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
400
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
400
This type of mile is precisely one-minute distance on any meridian and is approximately 1852 meters.
What is a nautical mile?
400
This scientist devised a way to categorize every living organism based on its kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species (founder of taxonomy)
Who is Carrolus Linnaeus?
400
This principle states that air underneath an airplane's wings will rise--forcing the airplane to rise-- because of pressure differences.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
500
The rarest naturally occurring element.
What is Astatine? We'll also accept "What is Kanthi?"
500
The different types of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. (Answer at least 5).
What are radio waves, microwaves, infrared light waves, visible, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, and gamma rays?
500
These egg shaped hills are sediment from retreating glaciers.
What is a Drumlin?
500
This Englishman traveled on the SS Beagle, observed volcanoes, and had several disputes with Alfred Wallace.
Who is Charles Darwin?
500
First used as a surgical tool, this material is now used in constructing our many towers, mag levs, and gliders