Modules 1-4 (science history)
Module 5 (astronomy)
Module 6 (geology)
Module 7 (meteorology)
Module 8 (chemistry)
Module 9 (physics)
Module 10 (life science)
Module 11 (biology)
Bonus Jeopardy
100

An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name.

What is Papyrus?

100

The gaseous layer surrounding Earth or another heavenly body.

What is an atmosphere?

100

A noticeable change in density between the Earth's crust and mantle.

What is the Moho?

100

The one thing that drives all weather on Earth.

What is the sun?

100

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

100

The speed of an object in a given direction.

What is velocity?

100

Six statements organized to describe what it means to be alive.

What are the criteria for life?

100

The two main divisions of all animals.

What are vertebrates and invertebrates?

100

The color of Mr. Knight's car.

What is red?

200

One of the best ways to write this is with an "If,...then" statement.

What is a hypothesis?

200

The four planets furthest from the sun; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

What are the Jovian Planets (or gas giants)?

200

The decayed remains of once-living organisms.

What is Humus?
200

The most abundant gas found in Earth's atmosphere.

What is Nitrogen gas?

200

A table organizing all of the known elements, as shown below.

What is the periodic table of the elements?

200

A device that either multiplies or redirects a force.

What is a simple machine?

200

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

200

All of the genes that a human has.

What is a human genome?

200

Mr. Knight's birthday.

What is May 8th?

300

A description of a natural phenomenon or principle that is supported by a significant amount of evidence and often includes mathematical terms.

What is a scientific law?

300

An organized system of millions or billions of stars, gas, solar systems, and dust that are held together by gravitational attraction.

What is a galaxy?

300

The theory stating that Earth's crust is broken up into a bunch of little pieces, floating on the liquid mantle.

What is the plate tectonic theory?

300

The second layer of our atmosphere (where ozone is found and where jets fly).

What is the stratosphere?

300

A simplified model of what an atom looks like, as shown below.

What is the Bohr Model?

300

A scientific law relating mass and acceleration using the mathematical term below:

 F=m*a 

What is Newton's second law (or law of acceleration)?

300

The nucleotide base that always pairs with Thymine.

What is Adenine?

300

The powerhouse of the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

300

The number of siblings Mr. Knight has.

What is 6?

400

Experiments in which neither the experimenters nor the participants know the objects' identities in the setup.

What are double-blind experiments?

400

A planetary phenomenon in which the Earth falls in between the sun and moon.

What is a lunar eclipse?

400

Inorganic crystalline structures found naturally in the Earth.

What are minerals?

400

The process summarized by all of the water on Earth moving through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

What is the water cycle (or hydrologic cycle)?

400

Man-made molecules (consisting of monomers) that are formed into specific shapes and textures, called plastics.

What are synthetic polymers?

400

Small packets of light energy that travel in beams, but behave mostly like waves.

What are photons?

400

A cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles.

What is a eukaryotic cell?

400

Organisms that obtain their nourishment from dead organisms.

What are saprophytes?

400

What Mr. Knight wants to be when he grows up.

What is a teacher?

500

A form of textual criticism that asks two questions: "How many years have passed between the original document and the first copy?" and "How many copies are there?"

What is the bibliographic test?

500

The name of the moon phase with this shape

What is a Gibbous?

500

The theoretical collection of all of the fossils in the world, used to help us determine how old the Earth is (also where we first discovered Mauricio).

What is the fossil record (or geological record)?

500

The device used to measure humidity.

What is a hygrometer?

500

The words that stand for pH, and of which a scale is used to classify how acidic or basic a substance is.

What is Potential for Hydrogen?

500

The term used to describe how a beam of light may look bent under certain conditions.

What is refraction?

500

The full name for DNA.

What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

500

The four major compounds in cells.

What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?

500

Mr. Knight's favorite subject in school.

What is English?

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