Physics
Biology
Chemistry
STEM
YOLO!
100
You throw a ball at the wall and it bounces back and bops you in the face. What kind of energy did the ball have when it was in motion?
What is Kinetic Energy
100
All living things are made of these.
What are Cells
100
What is the chemical symbol for Oxygen? (draw it on a piece of paper and have the answering student show me)
What is O
100
A manufacturer wants to create a food container that is inexpensive, airtight, microwave safe, and does not break easily. They/she/he use(s) this material.
What is Plastic
100
What continent is this?
What is South America
200
What do the following variables stand for and what is this a formula for?
What are density, mass, and volume. What is the formula for calculating density.
200
You observe a cell that has a nucleus, and a cell wall. What type of cell are you most likely looking at?
What is a plant cell.
200
You tear apart a piece of paper to make confetti to celebrate Mr Erickson coming back today. What type of change did the piece of paper go through?
What is a physical change.
200
You are working for a company that is testing a medicine to help damaged tissues. Which part of this company are you working for?
Communications Department
Research and Development Department
Human Resources Department
Accounting Department
What is Research and Development Department
200
Make two observations and one inference. (You may volunteer someone to answer this question and bypass the dice.)
What is answers will vary
300
Identify each state of matter and one an explanation of why each model is drawn that way.
What is: solid, liquid gas. Each picture shows an increase in energy, heat, or motion. Answers may vary.
300
At the Museum of Science, you see an exhibit displaying a bat wing and a whale fin. You remember Barbs telling you that these two animals shared a.... (two words for full points)
What is common ancestor
300
Mrs MacLaughlin asks you, "How do you know when a chemical change happens?". What do you tell her?
What is answers will vary. Change in color, change in temperature, production of a gas (bubbles), formation of a precipitate (solid), production of an odor (smell).
300
Mr Brady brings you into the cafeteria and shows you a three meter long trough full of water. The trough is 25cm wide. You are instructed to build a boat out of Styrofoam to reach the other end as fast as you can using wind power. How big would you make your boat? Why?
Answers will vary. Less than 25cm wide because the trough itself is 25cm wide and it would not be able to move very well. (Too small and it will tip over, too big and it gets stuck.)
300
Who wrote The Outsiders?
Who is S.E Hinton
400
I see a lot of students jumping in the hallways to touch certain objects. I told them they would have more luck trying it on the moon. Why did I tell them this and what about you stays the same and what is different on the moon?
What is there is less gravity on the moon. Your weight changes but your mass stays the same.
400
What is one advantage to sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
What is one advantage of asexual reproduction over sexual reproduction?
What is variation (allows for better survival rates against disease, changing environment).
What is no competition to find a mate, faster reproduction, easier to restore a population.
400
Mr O found a piece of what appears to be gold on the basketball court. Mr O recalls from substituting for Barbieri that the density of gold is 19.3g/cm3. How can Mr O confirm if what he found is actually gold or not?
What is find the density by calculating the mass and volume. Use a triple beam balance and graduated cylinder.
400
Step 5 of the Design Cycle has you create a working model of your solution. This model is not the finished product, and is often a very rough draft. What is the word for this model? "Step 5: Construct a...."
What is Prototype
400
Mr Erickson and Ms Crafts were chatting about how easy Civics class is. Ms Moore challenged them to name the three branches of government. They couldn't do it. Can you?
What are executive, judiciary, and legislative.
500
Mr Lambresa was wondering how heat gets trasnferred between substances... school was a long time ago for him but he does remember there are three types of heat transfer. He asks you for help. What do you tell him?
What is convection, conduction, radiation.
500
In dogs, there is a hereditary type of deafness caused by a recessive gene. Two dogs who carry the gene for deafness but have normal hearing are mated. What are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of their offspring and the percent chance for each?
What are HH (25%), Hh (50%), hh (25%). What are ability to hear (75%) and not hear (25%).
500
If you had Na and Cl and you put them together with a burst of energy, what did you create through this chemical reaction?
What is NaCl, salt!
500
Name three simple machines.
What is inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, and screw.
500
What is the main cause of the ocean tides on planet Earth?
What is the push and pull of the moon