Key Facts
What year did Chrisopher Columbus sail to the Americas?
Bonus 100 points: Who funded his journey?
1492
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
What are the order of the planets from the Sun?
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and, if you'd like, Pluto
What are the three particles of an atom?
Protons, neutrons, electrons
With what simple machine do you trade distance for force?
An inclined plane, or ramp
Recite Galileo poem
Recites
Why did Martin Luther nail the 95 Theses to the door?
He did not agree with the practices of the Catholic church, especially about selling indulgences
What makes Mars red?
The iron in its soil
What particle in an atom has a negative charge?
Bonus:
What part of the atom are they a part of?
Electrons
Electron clouds
Name as many simple machines as you can (100 points for each)
Inclined planes
Levers
Wedges
Pulleys
Wheels and Axles
Why were slaves brought to the Americas?
To work sugar plantations; later tobacco and cotton
Who invented the printing press?
What did the printing press do for the world?
Johannes Guttenburg
Made info travel faster; could collect knowledge and build on it; Bibles
Recite "The Lifecycle of a Star" poem
(Recites poem)
What is a molecule?
Two or more atoms combined
Why is something the color that it is?
It absorbs all the colors except for the one it reflects
Why was Galileo put under house arrest?
The Catholic church thought his discoveries were heretical
Who was Bloody Mary?
Why was she "Bloody"
Queen Mary I, Elizabeth's half-sister, and King Henry VIII's daughter with Catherine of Aaragon.
She killed Protestants
What makes Venus so hot?
Runaway Greenhouse Effect
Recites poem
100 extra for each additional
Radio, ultraviolet, infared, microwave, x-ray, gamma ray
What is friction?
A force that slows something/opposes a moving object
What did Japan do for hundreds of years?
Withdrew from the rest of the world, practicing isolationism
How does the Sun create heat?
Fusion (turning hydrogen into helium)
Recite the Atom poem
Recites poem
What is momentum?
The mass and acceleration of something. The more mass and/or more acceleration, the harder it is to stop
What is inertia?
The tendency for an object to continue doing what it is doing