Geology
This rock makes up the majority of oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
Change in the water level of a cup of water with floating ice which is melting.
What is: the water level does not change?
The nearest star to the earth.
What is Proxima Centauri?
This scientist created the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This process of when a gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
This plate boundary describes two plates sliding past each other (eg. San Andreas Fault)
What is Transform Plate Boundary?
What is the kinetic energy of a 2.00kg ball moving at a speed of 13.0m/s?
What is 169J?
Planets outside our solar system are called...
What are exoplanets?
This scientist is credited with creating the science of genetics by being the first to describe various aspects of heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium’s family
What are Alkaline Earth Metals?
[DAILY DOUBLE]
Name the tectonic plate which is currently subducting under the North American Plate nearest Vancouver. (Bonus points if you can name the plate boundary between this plate and the North American Plate.)
What is the Juan De Fuca Plate and the Cascadia Subduction Zone?
A solid sphere, hollow sphere, solid tube, and hollow tube are rolled down a sloped surface. All other things being equal, name the object which reaches the bottom first.
What is the solid sphere?
In our Local Group, this galaxy is the biggest.
What is The Andromeda Galaxy?
This scientist discovered the expanding universe.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
Balance this chemical equation:
Al + CuCl2 -> AlCl3 + Cu
What is 2Al + 3CuCl2 -> 2AlCl3 + 3Cu ?
Name a mineral with a mohs hardness of 7
What is Quartz?
An angry mother yeets a child into the pool with a launch angle of 45 degrees and a launch speed of 13.86 m/s. She releases at a height of 1m at the edge of the pool (d = 0) Name the distance that the child travels before hitting the water. (Remember sigfigs!)
What is 20.55m
This astronomical event causes the creation of detectable gravitational waves.
What are colliding neutron stars / black holes?
This scientist fought with Newton over the discovery of calculus.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
This rule states that at a constant temperature, the volume of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its absolute pressure.
What is Boyles Law?
Name the 3 types of seismic waves, and rank them from least to most destructive.
What are primary waves, secondary waves, and surface waves?
What is the resulting motion when a charged particle enters a magnetic field with a velocity that has both parallel and perpendicular components to the field?
What is Helical motion?
The amount of time it takes for a photon to travel from the center of the sun to the earth.
+- 50%
What is 5000 years?
These people discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
If [H3O+] = 5.83x10^-6M, [OH-] =
What is 1.72x10^-9?