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100

This is energy in motion.

Kinetic Energy

100

 This is a bar or handle which moves around a fixed point.

Lever

100

This is the nearest planet to the sun.

Mercury

100

This part of the plane propels it forward.

Engine

100

This part of the process involves a group using wild ideas to come up with a large list of options. 

Imagine (or brainstorm)

200

This force, which pulls objects to the Earth, will slow the speed of a roller coaster when it climbs a hill.

Gravity.

200

This is a movable joint that connects two objects.

Hinge

200

This was the first type of animal ever to be cloned. Her name was Dolly.

Sheep

200

Flight, from a bird or a place, requires a high degree of THIS under the wing in order to take flight.

Air Pressure

200

This is the step where the team will build a prototype.

Create

300

A roller coaster's potential energy turns into THIS as is starts down it's first hill.

Kinetic energy

300

This is a word used to describe an object that is being thrown or shot forward.

Projectile.

300

This is the study of weather. 

Meteorology

300

This is the force that holds the airplane in the air. 

Lift

300

This step involves talking to specialists and looking into what ideas already exist. 

Research

400

This states that energy is neither created nor destroyed

Law of the Conservation of Energy

400

This is the point on which a lever rests. 

Fulcrum

400

This animal group includes frogs and other organisms that can live both on land and in water. 

Amphibians

400

Around 550 miles per hour, this is the term for how fast an airliner goes once it has reached its full altitude.

Cruising Speed

400

The step of the process where you determine how you could make your product even better.

Improve

500

This happens to a roller coasters potential energy as it climbs a hill.

It increases.

500

This shape is valuable when building because when it  is under compression, the force is distributed evenly throughout the shape.

Triangle

500

70% of the sun is this gas.

Hydrogen

500

Weighing in at around 35 pounds, this is today's heaviest flying bird.

The Great Bustard.

500

This is often the hardest step, and involves selecting ONE solution to move forward with. 

Plan