Life Science
Earth/Space
Physics/Chemistry
Technology and Engineering
Inquiry and the Nature of Science
100
The body system that removes waste products from the body and includes the bladder and the kidneys.
What is the excretory system?
100
Large masses of snow and ice that have accumulated over years of snowfall and have flowed at some point in their lifespan
What are glaciers?
100
A measure of how acidic or basic a substance is (by measuring how many hydrogen ions there are)
What is pH?
100
The energy you gather when going down a ramp.
What is gravitational potential energy?
100
An example would be setting the balance to the wrong setting in an experiment.
What is human error?
200
The chemical used by your poor stomach to break down all the junk food (or otherwise) that you eat. Also known as stomach acid.
What is hydrochloric acid?
200
Rocks formed when other types of rocks are subjected to heat and pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
200
"The subject of the relation of heat to forces acting between contiguous parts of bodies, and the relation of heat to electrical agency" (also a scioly event..)
What is thermodynamics?
200
"A device that controls the angle of a piece of machinery" Used in robotics, also in model airplanes. Has: "a three wire DC motor, a gear train, a potentiometer, an integrated circuit, and an output shaft bearing"
What is a servos?
200
example: How many pieces of turf grass are on the Fremont field?
What is a fermi question?
300
The reason you aren't super hot or super cold all the time. AKA Heat regulation...The hypothalamus in our brain controls this.
What is homeostasis?
300
A diagram that relates the absolute magnitudes and luminosities of stars with their spectral types and temperatures. They're important in stellar evolution. They were created by *ahem* Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell .
What are H-R diagrams?
300
"A repeating pattern that is at regular levels", or in our case, repeating chemical and physical properties of elements.
What is periodicity?
300
"A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure" "a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints " Three types: Warren, Pratt, and Howe Used in the boomilever..
What is a truss?
300
AAAAHHH! IT'S DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Recreate this object: Listen as I read aloud.
Refer to the object...
400
The site of ion and water reabsorption, and where urine is produced... The average human kidney contains 800,000- 1.5 million of these.
What are nephrons?
400
Any ridge or mound of glacial debris that is deposited in glaciated regions. Moraines can consist of boulders, gravel, sand and clay, among other sediments.
What is a moraine?
400
A vehicle run by means of EMS (electromagnetic suspension).
What is mag lev? Magnetic levitation :D
400
Good, lightweight wood to use when building.
What is balsa?
400
"a chemical analysis procedure in which the absorption of a certain colored solution corresponds with its concentration" C _ _ _ _ I _ E T _ Y
What is colorimetry?
500
The study of distribution and determinants of health-related states in specified populations, and the application of this to control health problems. It kinda sounds like the word epidemic. ( I wonder why... :D)
What is epidemiology?
500
AKA: Radio Detection and Ranging
What is radar?
500
Element used in chips to make semiconductors BONUS: It is an electromagnet that has an ability to store a charge in a magnetic field AND maintain a constant current in a circuit.
Silicon BONUS: What is an inductor?
500
roll, pitch, yaw
What are the three different rotations of axises?
500
a measure of how spread out numbers in a data set are root-mean-square denoted by the symbol sigma ( and an o with a tail... )
What is standard deviation?
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