Botany
Treaties
Optics
Thermodynamics
Misc. Physics
100
The organelle plants use to produce energy via photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
100
The treaty that ended WW1.
What is the Treaty of Versailles
100
A lens that bulges out on both sides.
What is a convex lens?
100
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
100
The S.I. unit of momentum.
What is a Kg*m/s?
200
A group of trees of the same species in close proximity to each other.
What is a stand?
200
The treaty granting independence the U.S. from the U.K.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
200
An optical device that splits a beam of light into a transmitted and a reflected beam
What is a beam splitter?
200
The physical quantity that determines the arrow of time.
What is entropy?
200
The type of radiation predicted to be emitted by black holes.
What is Hawking Radiation?
300
An ecosystem based on temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
What is a prairie?
300
A treaty signed in 1972 to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
What is the SALT treaty?
300
An optical instrument with a periodic structure that diffracts light, or another type of electromagnetic radiation, into several beams traveling in different directions
What is a diffraction grating?
300
The steady-state in a chemical reaction, where the reactant’s concentration is equal to the product’s concentration.
What is dynamic equilibrium?
300
The units of Planck's constant.
What is J*s?
400
A seed that contains a single embryonic leaf.
What is a monocot?
400
The treaty limiting the size and weaponry of naval vessels during the interwar period.
What is the Washington Naval Treaty?
400
The kind of glasses a near-sighted person should wear.
What are concave glasses?
400
What is a refrigerator?
400
A function which summarizes the dynamics of the entire system in terms of energy.
What is a Lagrangian?
500
A species of pine tree that had evolved to be resistant to burning native to New Mexico.
What is a ponderosa pine?
500
The treaty that ended the 30 years war.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
500
An instrument in which the interference of two beams of light is employed to make precise measurements.
What is a interferometer?
500
The law states that if two thermodynamic systems are both in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then the two systems are in thermal equilibrium with each other
What is the Zeroth law of thermodynamics?
500
A fundamental physical constant that quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.
What is the fine structure constant?