What type of heat transfer is primarily involved in heating up a spoon in a bowl of soup?
What is conduction?
100
Element, compound, or mixture (if mixture, name the type): air
What is a mixture of compounds? (will also accept mixture of elements and compounds)
100
What are families on the periodic table also called?
What are groups or columns?
100
What is the SI unit for force?
What is Newton (N)?
100
A car battery running. Name the energy transformation.
What is chemical to mechanical to electrical?
200
What type of heat transfer is caused by the direct collisions of atoms with their neighbors?
What is conduction?
200
Element, compound, or mixture (if mixture, name the type): Iron
What is an element?
200
Name an element that shares similar chemical properties with helium.
What is Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, or Radon?
200
A car with a mass of 2000 kg experiences a force of 500 N to the left. What is the car's acceleration in what direction?
HINT: divide your numbers
What is .25 m/s2 to the left?
200
A candle burning.
What is chemical to radiant and thermal?
300
Which types of heat transfer can NOT happen in a vacuum?
What are conduction and convection?
300
Element, compound, or mixture (if mixture, name the type): H2SO4
What is a compound?
300
Name an element that shares similar chemical properties as Beryllium?
What is Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, or Radium?
300
What is the force required to accelerate a 20 kg object 4 m/s2 to the right?
HINT: multiply
What is 80 N to the right?
300
A solar-powered car.
What is radiant to electrical to mechanical?
400
What type of heat transfer is primarily involved in heating your hand by a camp fire?
What is radiation?
400
Element, compound, or mixture: Which of these are also considered pure substances, and why?
What are elements, because they only have one type of particle.
400
Name an element that shares similar chemical properties as Carbon?
What is Silicon, Germanium, Tin, or Lead?
400
An object experiences a force of 50 N to the right. What other force must it experience so that it will not speed up or change direction?
What is a force of 50 N to the left?
400
A turbine.
What is mechanical to electrical?
500
In what direction does heat always flow?
What is from hot to cold?
500
Daily Double: The person who chose this question gets to wager anywhere from 0 to all their team's points.
Name two methods of physically separating mixtures.
What is using a magnet, filtering, sorting by hand, or dissolving it in water and evaporating the water?
500
On which side of the Periodic Table are the non-metals?
What is the right side of the Periodic Table or to the right side of the stair step lines?
500
An object is experiencing force but is not accelerating. How can this happen?