Electricity and Batteries
Microbiology
CSL Trivia
Weather Balloon
Coding
100
The name of a battery powered by bacteria
What is a microbial fuel cell? or What is an MFC?
100
The name of the bacteria from Lake Onedensis that was used to produce electricity in our bacteria batteries
What is Shewanella Onedensis?
100
This snake is a ball python named after a famous Harry Potter character
Who is Severus?
100
The force that allows boats to float on water as well as weather balloons to float in air
What is buoyancy?
100
This Italian company makes the mini-computer boards we used during our coding lesson.
What is Arduino?
200
The form of energy produced by a flow of electrons in batteries
What is electricity? or What is electrical energy?
200
This gas makes up 21% of our atmosphere and was pumped into the cathode of our bacteria batteries to maintain aerobic conditions
What is oxygen?
200
This bearded dragon is super lazy and was mistakenly given a traditionally male-identifying name.
Who is Diego?
200
The gas added to party balloons that makes them float. The same gas that allows people to distort their voice if it is inhaled.
What is helium?
200
This low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse has the same namesake as a popular dessert consisting of a rolled pastry crust and berry filling.
What is Raspberry Pi?
300
The name of either the positive or negative terminal of a battery
What is an anode? or What is a cathode?
300
The side of the bacteria battery that we added bacteria to. Also, the negative terminal of the battery.
What is the anode? Or what is the brush anode?
300
This popular model of car was founded in America. It is the same model of car that the CSL van is.
What is Chevy? or What is Chevrolet?
300
GPS uses at least 3 satellites to locate a point in a method by this name. During the GPS worksheet activity, you were all able to do this by using the relative locations of 3 satellites.
What is triangulation? Or What is to triangulate?
300
The name of the electrical component to which wires were added to complete circuits connected to our microcomputers. This component has the name of a popular carbohydrate used for sandwiches.
What is a breadboard?
398
The name of the piece of equipment used to read voltage with 2 metal prongs
What is a voltmeter?
398
This side of the bacteria battery was devoid of oxygen, making it
What is anaerobic?
398
This laboratory is named after a famous African American Scientist, it is the same room you are sitting in. This scientists is known for being a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs and writer.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
398
The acronym GPS stands for a longer phrase by this name.
What is Global Positioning System?
398
The process of writing computer code to execute a function. Computer ______ is also a career.
What is programming?
500
The location in an electrochemical cell (battery) that allows the exchange of ions. In our MFCs, we used nafion (very expensive, clear plastic sheeting) paper to serve this purpose.
What is the proton exchange membrane? or What is the cation exchange membrane? or What is the semipermeable membrane?
500
This group of the periodic table contains elements such as iron and sodium and acts as the electron source for the bacteria used in our batteries
What is metal?
500
This is the year that CSL was first founded.
What is 2014?
500
The name of the cargo carried by a weather balloon. This cargo can be carried in something such as a styrofoam cooler.
What is a payload?
500
The name of the special wires used to connect components of an Arduino to a circuit board. Also the name of an individual partaking in the act of pushing oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet.
What are jumpers?