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100

What are the three common states of matter?

What is a solid, liquid, and gas?

100

This is where you can hold a value (in a program).

What is a variable?

100

Name one engineering discipline/major

What are Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace, 

100

A bridge has a 90% success rate. What is the probability it fails?

What is 10%?

100

Where did the teachers go to college?

What are Cornell University and Virginia Tech?

200

True or False: A faster chemical reaction always means a bigger explosion.

What is false?

200

This type of statement lets a program make a decision based on whether a condition is true or false.

What is an if statement?

200

What is the first step in the Engineering Design Process?

What is Identify/Define the problem.

200

A standard six-sided die is rolled. This is the probability of rolling a 5.

What is 1/6?

200

Which cephalopod has three hearts and blue blood?

What is an Octopus?

300

Most nutrients from digested food are absorbed through this section of the digestive tract.

What is the small intestine?

300

This small programmable board is often used to control sensors, lights, and motors.

What is an Arduino?

300

Define a design constraint

What is a limitation such as cost, materials, time, or safety?

300

A $50 item is discounted by 20%. This is the amount of the discount.

What is $10?

300

This bird can fly backward.

What is a hummingbird?

400

Many cephalopods release this dark substance to confuse predators.

What is ink?

400

This Arduino command pauses the program for a specified number of milliseconds.

What is delay()?

400

What is the difference between a prototype and a final product?

A prototype is a test version (initial attempt)

400

A rectangular prism measures 3*4*7. This is its volume.

What is 84 cubic units?

400

What state touches the most other states? 

What is Tennessee?

500

Yeast or potassium iodide speeds up the reaction by acting as this.

What is a catalyst?

500

This programming structure repeats a block of code multiple times.

What is a loop?

500

This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

What is the law of conservation of energy?

500

The average of 60, 80, and 100 is this number.

80

500

This metal is liquid at ordinary room temperature.

What is mercury?

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