Energy
Laws of Nature
Order and Structure in Nature
Atoms
100

The definition of heat

What is energy in transit

100
The theory that describes the origin of the universe.

What is the Big Bang?

100

The theory of relativity describes this.

What is gravity?

100

The subatomic particle with a negative charge

What is an Electron?

**Daily Double: Where are electrons located?

200

The sum of all the kinetic energy of the particle of a substance.

What is internal energy

200

The phrase that refers to everything in the entire domain of science from laws of electricity, to the behavior of how an animal hunts.

What is the Laws of Nature?

200

This describes all electricity and magnetism in the universe.

What is Maxwell's equation?

200
Where the protons and neutrons are located.

What is the nucleus?

300

The three different types of heat transfer.

What is conduction, convection, and radiation?


300
These are some examples of evidence of the laws of nature?

What are the seasons, the water cycle (rain cycle), chemical reactions, regularity of day and night...

300

These are examples of mathematical structures in nature.

What is the image of the eye of the fruit fly, the eye of the krill, the fibonacci sequence of a shell, the orbit of the planets...

300

The hypothetical weightless gas scientist thought heat was.

What is caloric?

400

When the applied force causes an object to move in the same direction.

What is work?

**Daily Double: Give an example of Work

400

These are three possible explanations for why laws of nature exist.

What is just happens by chance without logic or purpose, there is some underling principle that's part of nature, intentionally and intelligently designed by God

400
Name at least 4 of the 6 conditions necessary for complex life to exist.

What is the need of a lot of water, the right distance from the sun, atmosphere to trap heat, a large moon, magnetic field

400

This scientist proposed that electrons were scattered around positively charged space.  Also know as the plum pudding model.

What was J.J. Thomson's atomic model?

500

What is mass-energy equivalence?

Mass and energy are related, and one can be converted into the other.

500

These are three features of earth that help our efforts to explore the universe.

What is a transparent atmosphere, our galactic location, and the moon is just the right size and distance from the earth to produce solar eclipses.

500

This provides protection for our planet from the "solar wind" of the sun.

What is the magnetosphere?

500
When objects are at the same temperature and no heat is flowing between them.

What is thermal equilibrium?