Rudolph & his Reindeers
Santa’s reindeer need lots of energy to fly! What is the main molecule animals use for energy in their cells?
ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
What process causes water vapor in the air to turn directly into ice, skipping the liquid phase, to form frost or snowflakes?
Deposition
Santa's sleigh travels at a constant speed of 10 m/s. If it takes him 5 seconds to cross a rooftop, how long is the rooftop?
50 meters (Distance = speed x time)
Burning candles releases energy in the form of heat and light. What type of reaction is this
Exothermic. Combustion
The tradition of decorating Christmas trees originated in which country?
Germany
Reindeer are well-suited to the Arctic biome. What type of adaptation is their thick fur?
Structural adaptation
Why can we melt ice on roads during winter using salt.
Salt lowers the freezing point by disrupting the hydrogen bonds in water, making it harder to freeze.
To visit every house in the world in one night, Santa's sleigh must move faster than sound (343 m/s). What happens as he breaks the sound barrier?
Sonic Boom.
You accidentally burnt your holiday cookies into inedible black disks! What element primarily makes up the black char left behind?
Carbon
Name 3 of Santa's 9 Reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Donner, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Prancer, Vixen, and Rudolph!
Dasher and Dancer are digging through the snow to find food a tasty lichen snack. What behavior are they exhibiting.
Intraspecific competition
Earth’s magnetic field directs solar particles toward the poles, creating...
Auroras
Santa is squeezing down the chimney to deliver a sack of balloons. As he compresses the sack, the pressure inside increases. According to the gas laws, what happens to the temperature of the gas inside the balloons?
What is the temperature increases (Gay-Lussac's Law)
You notice that the ice cubes in your holiday punch float rather than sink. Why does ice float in liquids like water?
Ice floats because it is less dense than liquid water. When water freezes, its molecules form a crystalline structure that takes up more space, making it less dense.
Finish the lyrics:
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around...
the clockk
Animals like reindeer have thick fat layers for insulation. What’s the scientific term for this fat layer?
Blubber
Santa uses magic reindeer to deliver gifts instead of fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels releases what into the air?
CO2. A greenhouse gas.
If Santa were to travel at near the speed of light (300,000 km/s), how would time change for Santa compared to observers on Earth?
Time dilation. Time slows down for Santa relative to Earth, according to Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Yeast helps your cinnamon roll dough rise by breaking down sugars. What type of process is this, and what gas does it release?
Fermentation, which releases carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚).
The tallest Christmas tree ever displayed was in Seattle, Washington. How tall was it?
67 m!!
Santa gives his reindeer protein-packed treats to fuel up for their flight. In which organ does the majority of protein digestion occur and with what enzyme.
Stomach. Proteases.
The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Why does this happen?
Earth's axial tilt positions the Northern Hemisphere farthest from direct sunlight.
Santa claims his sleigh can go from 0 to 100 m/s in 0.1 seconds. What is the approximate acceleration in g-forces (g=10 m/s^2)? Could a human survive this?
Roughly 100 G's. Humans can survive max of 46.2 G’s and therefore wouldn't be able to survive this.
When you try to mix cocoa into water to make hot chocolate, the water just beads off. What property of cocoa is this exhibiting?
Hydrophobicity. Cocoa is hydrophobic, meaning it repels water.
In what year was "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey released?
Oct 28,1994.