Disease Detectives
Rules!
Remote Sensing
Circuit Lab
Write it Do it
100

This is an infection that results in signs and symptoms.

What is disease?

100

This event covers topics including photosynthesis.

What is botany?

100

This is sent from the satellite to the ground in a raw digital format.

What is satellite data?

100

Circuit Lab study of circuitry, electricity, and this other factor?

What is magnetism?

100

In this event, one person is the "doer" and one person is this.

What is the writer?

200

A disease that causes sickness when given the opportunity of a damaged or weakened immune system.

What is opportunistic disease?

200

This event requires students to know the difference between dependent and independent variables.

What is Experimental Design?

200

RADAR is an acronym for this.

What is Radio Detection and Ranging?

200

When you touch a wire onto both ends of the battery at the same time, you have created this.

What is a circuit?

200

True or false:  The writer may use pictures and diagrams.

What is false?  The writer cannot use pictures or diagrams.

300

An infection where the agent is continuously present and detectable.

What is a Chronic infection?

300

This event includes things like satellite orbits.

What is remote sensing?

300

These types of images are images where multiple individual satellite images have been combined.

What are composite images?

300

This is the rate of flow of charge past a particular point.

What is a current? 

300

True or false: The writer must be sure to write out directions using proper grammar.

What is false? Do not use any words that aren't necessary.

400

What is the term for 'the study of what causes disease, how disease is distributed, and how we can control the spread of disease'.

What is epidemiology?

400

This event address topics including injury, health and disability in groups of people.

What is Disease Detectives?

400

These types of satellites are used for Earth observation, weather, research and Starlink.

What is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite?

400

Electrons do not simply move on their own. They move only in response to a force. This notion of the ability to move a charged particle describes this term.

What is voltage?

400
In order to be able to describe how far one object is from another object, learning how to measure this is important in this event.

What are distances?

500

The rate of death in a population.

What is Mortality?

500

Baconian Cipher is just one of the potential puzzles that students participating in this event might solve.

What is code busters?

500

This is the topic or emphasis for the 2027 Remote Sensing event.

What is Climate Change Processes?

500

Power supplies deliver constant voltage output. Name another power adapter besides AC.

What is DC?

500

Partners who develop these shortened words and terms for different colors, sizes, shapes, and lengths have an advantage. 

What are abbreviations?

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