Math
Solve for the sum of 4,582 and 2,937.
Answer: 7,519
If you take a solid gold bar and melt it into a liquid, or saw it into tiny pieces, what happens to the total weight of the gold?
The total weight stays the same.
Which marine mammal holds hands with its family members while sleeping to prevent drifting away in the ocean currents?
The Sea Otter.
This is the city where Seminole Science Charter School is located.
Answer: What is Lake Mary?
This process is used by plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
Answer: What is photosynthesis?
This device is used to put images or printed text into a computer by "reading" them and turning them into a digital file.
Answer: What is a Scanner?
Subtract 1/4 from 5/6 and provide the answer in its simplest form.
Answer: 7/12
Least common denominator is 12
Most of the physical material that makes up a giant redwood tree (the wood, bark, and leaves) comes from which two sources?
Carbon dioxide from the air and water.
Which farm animal has been proven by researchers to have "best friends" and becomes stressed when separated from their favorite companion?
The Cow.
SSCS is heavily focused on this four-letter acronym, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
Answer: What is STEM?
This is the most abundant element in the entire universe, making up about 75% of all normal matter.
Answer: What is hydrogen?
This is the collective name for programs and apps that tell a computer what to do, such as Minecraft, Google Chrome, or Word.
Answer: What is Software?
Multiply 12.5 by 0.04.
Answer: 0.5
In a forest ecosystem, what is the primary role of "decomposers" like fungi and bacteria?
To break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
Which bushy-tailed rodent is responsible for planting thousands of trees every year simply because it forgets where it hid its winter nut stash?
The Squirrel.
Name the 3 Middle school Math teachers.
Lown, Malca, Kempe
This type of bridge, like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, uses thick cables draped over towers to support the weight of the deck.
Answer: What is a suspension bridge?
In coding, this is an instruction that repeats a set of actions over and over again until a specific condition is met.
Answer: What is a Loop?
Find the area of a right triangle that has a base of 12cm and a height of 7cm.
42cm2
The Sun appears much larger and brighter than other stars like Sirius or Polaris. Is this because the Sun is the largest star in the galaxy, or for a different reason?
It is because the Sun is much closer to Earth than any other star.
Unlike most fish that have skeletons made of bone, a stingray’s skeleton is made of this flexible, lightweight material—the same stuff found in your nose and ears.
Answer: What is Cartilage?
Name the 3 Middle School Science Teachers
Lataille, Rodriguez, Barut
This four-letter acronym refers to the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies, serving as a decentralized and distributed digital ledger.
Answer: What is blockchain?
This service allows you to save your photos and files on the internet instead of taking up space on your actual phone or computer.
Answer: What is Cloud Storage (or The Cloud)?
A recipe calls for 3 cups of flour for every 2 eggs. If a baker uses 12 eggs, determine the total number of cups of flour needed.
Answer: 18 cups
If the population of "primary consumers" (like rabbits) in a meadow suddenly decreased, what would most likely happen to the population of "producers" (like grass) and "secondary consumers" (like foxes)?
The grass population would increase (less being eaten), and the fox population would decrease (less food available).
Which sea creature has three hearts and nine brains—one central brain and a "mini-brain" in each of its limbs?
The Octopus.
Name the two front office staff members at SSCS.
Wess, Harris
In statistics, this term refers to the middle value in a list of numbers ordered from smallest to largest.
Answer: What is the median?
When a computer program has an error or a flaw that prevents it from working correctly, it is commonly called by this _____ name.
Answer: What is a Bug?
Evaluate the expression 3x2 - 5 when x = 4.
43
3(4)2 - 5
42 = 16
3X16=48
48-5 = 43
Provide an example of how the Geosphere (the ground/rocks) and the Atmosphere (the air) interact to change the Earth's surface.
Wind (Atmosphere) blowing against a rock formation causes mechanical weathering and erosion (Geosphere), slowly breaking the rock into sand over time.
How do honeybees tell their hive-mates exactly where to find flowers using the sun as a reference point?
Answer: By performing a "waggle dance."
What is the deputies name?
Deputy Watson
This constant, approximately 3.00 X 108 meters per second, represents the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and information in the universe can travel. Answer:
What is the speed of light?
This two-letter acronym refers to computer systems that are trained to "think," learn, and perform tasks that usually require human intelligence.
Answer: What is AI?
In a bag of 20 marbles, 40% are blue, 1/4 are red, and the rest are green. Calculate the exact number of green marbles in the bag.
Answer: 7 green marbles
(Logic: 8 blue, 5 red, leaving 7 green)
Does sound travel fastest through a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
Solid, because the particles are closest together, allowing vibrations to transfer fastest.
What is the name of the specific jellyfish species that can hit the "reset button" on its life cycle, transforming from an adult back into a polyp to avoid death?
The Immortal Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii).
SSCS is accredited by this organization, which is now part of Cognia and signifies that the school meets rigorous international standards.
Answer: What is AdvancED?
This is the name for the boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which no light or radiation can escape.
Answer: What is the event horizon?
Computers don't speak English; they use this number system consisting of only these two digits to process every piece of information.
CAnswer: What are 0 and 1?