Science Olympiad
Name 5 Science Olympiad events.
Example: What is Codebusters, Crimebusters, and Mission Possible?
Solar System
Balsa
Helicopter or Boomilever
What instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?
Barometer
The person who proved that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of a right triangle equals the square of the length of the hypotenuse.
Who is Pythagoras?
These form from snow and run off and have a significant impact on geography.
What is a glacier?
This American statesman and inventor installed a rod on his home to test his theory that the tall metallic rod would attract lightning.
Benjamin Franklin
This is the formula to find Density?
Density = Mass / Volume
The number of divisions Science Olympiad has.
What is 3?
Eddies
Dynamic Planet
Action Potential
Anatomy and Physiology
What type of simple machine is a screw most closely related to?
Inclined plane
The guy famous for E=mc^2
Who is Albert Einstein
What are sesamoid bones?
Round, circular bones (patella).
Edward Jenner developed the concept of vaccination as well as a smallpox vaccine based on this other more mild disease.
Cowpox
How do you calculate Retention Factor (Rf)?
Distance the solute travels/distance solvent travels
The number of events Division B Science Olympiad has.
What is 23?
Retention Factor (Rf)
Chrime Busters
Stopping Mechanism
Scrambler
What type of study compares individuals with a disease to those without to identify risk factors?
Case-control study
The first person to discover the shape of DNA (double helix).
Rosalind Franklin.
RNA stands for....
What is ribonucleic acid?
In this year, Watson and Crick published a paper that outlined the double helix structure of DNA
1953
This is what Snell's Law calculates.
Refraction
The state of the first Science Olympiad competition.
What is North Carolina?
Salinometer
Water Quality
Patristocrats
Codebusters
Using Ohm’s Law, calculate the current if voltage is 12 V and resistance is 4 Ω.
3 A
The person who introduced Arabic numerals (like 1, 2, 3) to Europe.
Who is Fibonacci?
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit the same?
-40 Degrees
The oldest branch of science.
What is astronomy?
Something is considered aerodynamic if it reduces this.
What is the drag?
The year of the first Science Olympiad competition.
What is 1974?
Hemiptera
Entomology
Chargaff's Rule
Heredity
What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?
Genotype = genetic makeup (alleles); Phenotype = observable traits.
One of the people who discovered/invented calculus.
Who are Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton?
Factors in an ecosystem that are not alive.
What is abiotic.
This is what Alexander Flemming discovered in 1928.
Penecillin
The larger the star is, the ____ luminous it is.
more
At which university will the 2026 National Science Olympiad tournament take place?
University of Southern California
Rocks and Minerals
Start Action
Mission Possible
What type of metamorphosis includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages?
Complete metamorphosis
This person is considered the father of genetics.
Gregor Mendel
These are some of the oldest fossils, and are considered layers of sediment and microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria, that keep an important record of ancient climate and life.
What are stromatolites
1869
Binary number systems, often found in computer programming, use only these two digits.
1 and 0