Physics
Chemistry
Biology
People of Science
Wild Card
100
Draw the free body diagram of the forces acting on this soccer ball while it is soaring through the air assuming air resistance is negligible
mg arrow downwards
100
Chemistry is the study of...
matter
100
Animals at the top of a food chain in an ecosystem are referred to as...
Apex Predators
100
Created the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
100
Order the planets from closest to the sun to the farthest
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
200
Conceptually, what does it mean when work is negative?
Displacement vector and the force vector go in opposite directions
or
Kinetic Energy is decreasing
200
Protons are made out of these particles
quarks
200
What happens during transcription of DNA? Translation?
Transcription: The process in which mRNA is made from DNA.
Translation: The process when proteins are synthesized from mRNA
200
Discovered that DNA was a double helix and was not given proper credit initially
Rosalind Franklin
200
From least specific to most specific name all the taxonomical classifications in biology
(Life), (Domain), Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
300
Define what an electric field is
"The electric field is a vector quantity that exists at every point in space. The electric field at a location indicates the force that would act on a unit positive test charge if placed at that location."-Khan Academy
E=F/q
300
Heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth
+100 for naming an economic use of an isotope of this element
Uranium
300
What is a prion?
Misfolded protein capable of inducing abnormal folding of other proteins
300
Discovered radium and polonium
Marie Curie
300
Malaria is caused is caused by what kind of microbe?
Bonus +200 for saying the name of one of the species that causes Malaria
Parasitic Protozoa
Plasmodium Falciparum
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale
Plasmodium malariae
400
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is given by...
F=G(m1m2/r2)
F is force
G is gravitation constant
m is mass
r is distance between centers of mass
400
Give the common name for the following molecule
HC2H3O2
acetic acid
400
How does polymerase chain reaction testing works
DNA is denatured and primers are annealed to the individual strands to create copies of the DNA and thus increase the quantity of the DNA sample (amplifying it.
400
Her special cells were harvested and used for medical research without her knowledge, and her case remains a staple in the establishment of medical ethics
Henrietta Lacks
400
What element(s) are diamonds made out of?
Carbon
500
The Einstein Rosen Bridge Theory suggests the existence of...
Wormholes (passages between fabrics of space-time)
500
Name three basic types of ionizing radiation and what materials they are blocked by
Alpha particles (paper)
Beta Particles (aluminum)
Gamma rays (lead)
X-ray (lead)
positron (concrete)
Neutron Particles (Numerous feet of concrete and lead) (water)
500
What are the reactants and products of the Krebs Cycle
+200 for the specific quantities
Partial (300) credit for main function of Krebs Cycle
Reactants: 2 Acetyl CoA (C23H38N7O17P3S), 1 Oxaloacetate (C4H4O5)
Products: 4 CO2, Oxaloacetate, 2 ATP, 8NADH,
2 FADH2
Production of ATP and intermediates for biosynthesis
500
Proposed the theory of Continental Drift and was shunned for it
Alfred Wegener
500
Why is the sky blue?
White light from the sun is scattered by the gases and particles in the air. Blue light scatters the most because it travels in shorter and smaller waves