Weather & Measurement
Plants & Growing
Starts & Projectiles
Reading a Graph
The Printing Press & History
100
What instrument would a scientist use to find out how deep a body of water is?
A bathometer
100
What is the name of the method used to grow plants in water instead of soil?
Hydroponics
100
True or False? Astronomy is the branch of science that studies how the movements of stars and planets influence people's everyday lives.
False — that is astrology, not astronomy
100
True or False? The vertical axis of the graph shows which candy is being asked about.
False — the vertical axis shows the number of students; the horizontal axis shows the candy names
100
What do we call the act of producing many identical copies of something?
Mass production
200
What do we call the amount of water vapor present in the air?
Humidity
200
True or False? The majority of plants thrive when their roots are fully submerged in water.
False - They need oxygen, and unless they are designed to be underwater, they will drown.
200
True or False? Once a projectile is launched, its path depends only on the forces acting on it after it leaves — not on how it was fired.
False
200
Looking at the graph, which candy was chosen as the favorite by the fewest students?
Snickers (2 students)
200
True or False? The invention of the moveable-type printing press made books cheaper and more widely available, which changed the course of history.
True
300
What tool does a meteorologist use to measure the moisture in the air?
A hygrometer
300
What is the single most important thing that a plant's roots take in from the soil?
Water
300
Looking at the graph, which candy was chosen as the favorite by the most students?
Reese's (11 students)
300
True or False? The moveable-type printing press had a major effect on science, but religion and Christianity were largely unaffected by it.
False - It made it possible for people to own a personal copy of the Bible.