Science Fun

Crystals

100

All molecules in a crystal have this pattern in common.

What is repeating?

200

All snowflakes have this many sides.

What is six?

300

This is the crystal shape of salt and sugar.

What is a cube?

400

This hot fluid can cause dehydration and the formation of crystals.

What is magma?

500

All crystals are not minerals but...

What are all minerals are crystals?

Changes

100

This is a change of appearance, but the change does not make a new, different substance.

What is a physical change?

200

This is a change of a material that creates an entirely new substance. It is not reversable.

What is a chemical change?

300

This hot element can cause a chemical change to a marshmallow.

What is fire?

400

This act that you can do with your hands can make one piece of paper into many.

What is tearing?

500

This is the type of change that happens when Mentos are added to Coke or Pepsi and the liquid erupts like a volcano.

What is a physical change?

Parts of Atoms

100

These are the positive parts in the center of an atom.

What are protons?

200

These are the negative parts of an atom.

What are electrons?

300

These are the neutral parts of the center of an atom.

What are neutrons?

400

These are the special outer ring electrons which bond with other atoms.

What are valence electrons?

500

To find this, you can add the number of protons and neutrons together. Electrons don't matter too much.

What is atomic weight?

Periodic Table

100

This is the first element on the Periodic Table.

What is hydrogen?

200

There are this many elements on the Periodic Table.

What is 118?

300

This is the position on the Periodic Table placed because of the number of protons in the atom.

What is the Atomic Number?

400

This is the nickname given to Dimitri Mendeleev as he created the modern Periodic Table.

What is the Father of the Modern Periodic Table?

500

There are 18 of these and they run vertically across the Periodic Table.

What are periods?

Miscellaneous

100

Mars lacks this which makes it difficult for a helicopter to gain lift.

What is atomosphere?

200

This unit of measure does not change from one world to another.

What is mass?

300

This unit of measure changes from one world to another, depending on gravitational forces.

What is weight?

400

This is what changes, making you heavier, if you traveled to Jupiter.

What is weight?

500

This is the force that keeps objects pressed towards the center of Earth.

What is gravity?