The Universe
Light
Force
Magnetism
Vocabulary
100

The Earth rotates on its axis causes which of the following.

A)Day and Night

B) Changing months

C) Earth's year

D)Moon revolving around Earth

What is A)Day and Night?

100

What is being transferred with a wave?

A matter             B  medium

C energy             D   water

What is Energy?

100

What is the net force on the box in the following image?

A   10 N to the left       B     5 N to the right


C)  0 N to the right        D)10 N to the right

What is D)10 N to the right?

100

Which of the following best describes what happens if you increase the number of turns of wire in an electromagnet?

A    The wire burns up.                         

B     The magnetic field gets bigger.

C    The magnet’s strength lessens.    

D    The magnetic field reverses poles.

What is B     The magnetic field gets bigger.?

100

A push or pull

What is force?

200

Astronauts in space would not be able to hear a landslide on the Moon because

A)    the lunar dust deadens sounds.   

B) intensive sunlight destroys sound waves.

C) the magnetic field of the Moon is too weak to carry sound     .

D  there are no air molecules on the Moon to carry sound.



What is D) there are no air molecules on the Moon to carry sound?

200

What color do we see when all light is reflected?

A) white                 B) red

C) black                  D) rainbow

What is A) White?

200

What is A?

200

A student places one magnet above another magnet as shown below.Why does the top magnet appear to float above the bottom magnet?

A  The magnets are made of different materials. 

B     The like poles of the magnets repel each other.

C The opposite poles of the magnets repel each other.    

 D  The magnets have a different gravitational pull.

What is B     The like poles of the magnets repel each other?

200

Allows electricity to follow

What is a conductor?

300

What location has the similar amounts of solar radiation year round?

A) north pole

B) equator

C) south pole

D) axis

What is B) equator?

300

What is the visible light spectrum in order?

A) red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet  

 B) orange, blue, green, yellow, red, violet, indigo

C) red, green, blue, orange, violet, yellow, indigo  

D) yellow, blue, red, green, violet, orange, indigo

What is A) A) red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet?

300

What is 2?

300

Which of the following best describes what happens to the force of attraction if the distance between two objects is decreased?

A  It varies.                 B It increases.

C It decreases.              D  It stays the same.

What is B) It increases?

300

Energy from the sun

What is Solar energy?

400

Which object has the greatest influence on tides?

A) sun

B) earth

C) moon

D) atmosphere

What is C) moon?

400

What allows us see the color green?

A) The green wavelength is absorbed.  

B) The green wavelength is reflected.

C) All colors but green are reflected back.  

 D)The green wavelength vibrates the air particles

What is B) The green wavelength is reflected.

400

What is position 1?

400

Doubting Dennis doesn't believe in electromagnetism so he makes an electromagnet to prove his teacher wrong. To his surprise, the electromagnet works and he's able to pick up metal objects with it. Even still, he's not satisfied with his electromagnet because it's very weak. What can he do to make it stronger? Circle the best answers


a) use a stronger battery 

b) use a plastic nail

c) wrap the wire around the nail more times 

d) use a weaker battery

e) glue the wire to the nail

What is A and C?

400

Light that we can see

What is Visible light?

500

The Earth orbits around the Sun , this causes which of the following.

A)Day and Night

B) Changing months

C) Earth's year

D) Moon revolving around Earth

What is C) Earth's year?

500

A pencil is  sitting in a bowl of water and looks like it has a bend to it. What is the best explanation for what looks like a kink in the pencil?

A) partially broken pencil                   

b) reflection of light

c)manufacturing defect                        

 d)refraction of light






What is d)refraction of light?

500

What is 75N

500

Two positively charged objects are separated by a large distance. One of the positively charged objects is replaced by a negatively charged object, and the two objects are moved closer to each other.
Which of the following occurs in this situation?

A) The attractive force becomes a repulsive force, which increases as the objects move closer to each other

B) The repulsive force becomes an attractive force, which increases as the objects move closer to each other.

C) The attractive force becomes a repulsive force, which decreases as the objects move closer to each other.

D) The repulsive force becomes an attractive force, which decreases as the objects move closer to each other.

What is B) The repulsive force becomes an attractive force, which increases as the objects move closer to each other.?

500

a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter

What is a galaxy?