Solar System & Beyond!
Genetics
Natural Selection
Waves
Force & Motion
100

It's thought that our early solar system was more or less chaotic then our present day solar system?

What is more chaotic?

100
How many chromosomes do humans have?

What are 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs of chromosomes?

100
This is a random change to DNA that can cause genetic changes over time in populations.

What is a mutation?

100

Minute to Win It Challenge: Drop in the Cup - 

How to Play – Each player or a team of two players together is given 5 ping pong balls. When the timer starts players need to roll their ping pong balls and try to get all their balls to land in a cup in 1 minute.

If you roll all your ping pong balls and still have time on the clock players can pick up balls that fell on the ground and keep going.

The winner is whoever gets the most ping pong balls in the cups in 1 minute.

100

When a paper airplane is flying through the air at constant speed, then forces acting on it are...

What is balanced?
200

Minute to Win It Challenge: Marble Transfer - Players have one minute to transfer five small marbles from one cup to another using only a spoon held in their mouths (if it tips over you restart)

Team with the most wins!!!

200

This is the probability problem-solving technique often used by geneticists to work out possibilities of different genetic crosses. 

What are punnet squares?

200

This is a group of individuals in the same species that can interbreed.

What is a population?

200

We studied this type of wave earlier this year and it cannot propagate without a medium, so it does not travel through space.

What are sound waves?

200

The supporting force that keeps you from falling through your seat and through the floor

What is normal force?

300

the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

What are moons of Jupiter?

300

Minute to Win It Challenge: Ping Pong Drop - Place a plastic cup on the floor and a chair directly behind it. Players must stand on the chair and attempt to drop as many ping pong balls as possible directly into the cup without tipping it over in the span of a minute. Each time the cup tips the players must empty it and restart.

Team with the most when the timer ends wins!

300

At the end of our paper airplane population simulation so individuals had several offspring and others had none. This is called... ?

What is differential reproduction?

300

The James Webb Telescope is primarily built to detect this type of light wave.

What is infrared waves?

300

Force is equal to mass times acceleration.

What is Newton's Second Law?

400

Ceres, Pluto, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris are all in this class.

What are dwarf planets?

400

If two dogs that are heterozygous for black fur have puppies, than what are the odds that their offspring will also have black fur. 

Assume that black fur is dominant over brown fur.

75% or 3/4

400

Minute to Win It Challenge: Try to stack as many wiffle balls as you can! The team with the most staked when the 1 minute timer goes off wins!

Team with the most balloons still in the air after 1 minute wins!

400

This determines how much energy a wave carries/transfers.

What is amplitude?

400

According to Newton's Third Law of Motion if my cell phone hits the ground with 1.2 N of force then...

What is the ground hits my phone with 1.2 N of force (equal and opposite reaction).

500

What are two factors that can cause gravitational pull between two objects to increase.

What is distance and mass.

500

All genes code for different ____________ which do most of the work in cells and are required for the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs.


What are proteins?

500

Any reason for organisms with certain phenotypes to have either a survival benefit or disadvantage.

For example, hunting, drought, and habitat loss.

What are selective pressures?

500

This determines whether a sound is high or low pitch.

What is frequency?

500

Minute to Win It Challenge: Build a Unicorn - Using pennies, have players stack the coins on top of their partner’s forehead while they lean back. Whoever can stack the longest unicorn horn without it falling wins (if it falls you need to start over!)

Team with the most when the timer goes off wins!