Climate Change
Physics of Bridges
Food Chemistry
Miscellaneous
8th grade
Field Trips
100

The most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere

What is carbon dioxide?

100

The bridge with the longest span in NYC

What is the Veranzzano bridge?

100

The type of macromolecule found in butter

What is a lipid?

100

The name of the Engineer in Residence at BC

Who is Mr. Byrne?

100

The name of the town where we did the Civil Rights walking tour

What is Cambridge, MD?

200

The two carbon sinks

What is the ocean and trees?

200

The types of forces experienced on the top and bottom of a deck

What are compression and tension?

200

The organ that is responsible for producing pepsin

What is the stomach?

200

The room number for Ms. Kosnik's science room

What is 214?

200

The name of the element that produced the egg smell when walking in the marsh

What is sulfur?

300

Three types of proxy records

What are dendrochronology, stratigraphy, speleothems, ice cores, ocean sediments, or pollen fossils?

300

The type of bridge that can span the longest distances

What is a suspension bridge?

300

The type of reaction that causes fruit to rot

What is enzymatic browning?

300

The names of the 6th-grade science teachers when the Class of 2024 was in 6th grade

Who were Ms. Rubenstein and Mr. Dorn?

300

The ecosystem that is covered at high tide and exposed during low tide

What is the intertidal zone?

400
When the life cycles of two interconnected species are no longer in sync

What is a phenological mismatch?

400

The type of force that causes bridges to twist

What is torsion?

400

The monomer form of fats

What are fatty acids and glycerol?

400

The names of Ms. Kosnik's and Mr. Dorn's dogs

Who are Althea and Luna?

400

The bridge that was considered "ugly" by the public when built

What is the Williamsburg Bridge?
500
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be absorbed by greenhouse gases 

What is infrared?

500

The names of the three new cable-stayed bridges built in the tri-state area in the last several years

What are the Koscuisko, Goethals, and Mario Cuomo bridges?

500

The name of the muscular contractions of the esophagus

What is peristalsis?

500

The subject that Ms. Kosnik majored in in college

What is Biology?

500
The name of the architect that gave us the boat tour

Who is Joe?