The greater the mass of a marble on a roller coaster, the greater the _______________
CONDUCTOR
MOMENTUM
FRICTION
MENISCUS
What is MOMENTUM?
100
How many pairs of chromosomes are in a healthy human body cell?
What is 46 chromosomes?
100
The systematic way to solving a problem used by scientists is known as _______________.
SERENDIPITY
METRIC SYSTEM
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
FORMING A PREDICTION BASED ON OBSERVATION
What is SCIENTIFIC METHOD?
100
Electricity CANNOT flow through which of the following?
SERIES CIRCUIT
PARALLEL CIRCUIT
OPEN CIRCUIT
CLOSED CIRCUIT
What is an OPEN CIRCUIT?
100
What are objects made by people long ago called?
What is an artifact?
200
The tendency of an object to stay in motion unless acted upon by another force is _____________.
GRAVITY
INERTIA
MOMENTUM
NEWTON
What is INERTIA? (NEWTON'S FIRST LAW)
200
Which cell part is used to store waste, water, and food in the cell?
ER
VACUOLES
LYSOSOME
CELL MEMBRANE
What is a VACUOLE?
200
Order the units in the Metric System from smallest to largest.
What is MILLI, CENTI, DECI, unit, DEKA, HECTO, KILO
200
What is the build up of electrons called?
CURRENT ELECTRICITY
STATIC ELECTRICITY
CIRCUIT ELECTRICITYY
FLOWING ELECTRICITY
What is STATIC ELECTRICITY?
200
People of the OLD STONE AGE survived by:
a. GATHERING SEEDS TO PLANT CROPS
b. HUNTING & GATHERING
c. Living in CAVES
d. KILLING ONE ANOTHER
What is b. HUNTING AND GATHERING?
300
A roller coaster is accelerating down a steep hill. What kind of energy is involved?
POTENTIAL
KINETIC
ELECTRICAL
NONRENEWABLE
What is KINETIC?
300
Imagine you had one side of the DNA ladder with the following unpaired bases. What would the opposite side look like?
T T G A A C
What is A A C T T G?
300
If you needed to find the mass and volume of an object to determine density, what two measuring tools would you need?
What is METRIC RULER & TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE or
GRADUATED CYLINDER & TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE?
300
Remains of living organisms from millions of years ago buried deep within the earth are often referred to as
______________?
What are FOSSIL FUELS?
300
Temples built by the Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped were called _____________.
What are ziggurats?
400
A car accelerates from 0 km/hr to 60 km/hr in 4 seconds. What is the car's acceleration?
What is 15 km/hr/hr?
400
If alleles are different forms of specific traits, then a gene is the ________________.
HYBRID OF A TRAIT
GENOTYPE
SEGMENT OF DNA FOR A TRAIT
PHENOTYPE
What is SEGMENT DNA FOR A TRAIT?
400
Use the following scientific question to answer:
How does the brand of sneaker affect the speed of a runner?
What is the independent variable and dependent variable?
IV = brand of sneaker
DV = speed
400
DRAW a schematic diagram of two lamps in a parallel circuit.
What is (diagram with battery, flow of electrons, two parallel lines, one lamp on each line)?
400
An independent city-state in ancient Greece was called a
a. Athens
b. Sparta
c. polis
d. civilization
What is a polis?
500
Which of the following would appear as a diagonally straight line on a distance over time graph?
CONSTANT SPEED
AVERAGE SPEED
MOMENTUM
ACCELERATION
What is CONSTANT SPEED?
500
This is a tool a genetic counselor uses to detect a genetic disorder like Down's Syndrome. What is this tool called AND how does the counselor know that the person has Down's?
What is a KARYOTYPE? AND What is an extra copy of chromosome 21?
500
Describe what a control group is in an experiment.
The group without the variable to make sure the experiment was caused by the variable and not some other factor.
500
Explain what an atom is.
What is the smallest building block of matter?
500
Match the ancient civilization with its legacy:
Civilizations - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome
Legacies: democracy, aqueducts, astronomy, the wheel