Energy
Motion
Agricultural
Techniques
Biogeochemical
Cycles
Planets and
Kepler's Laws
Medical
Technologies
100

The two basic types of energy are what?

Kinetic and potential
100

What does velocity have that speed does not?

Direction

100

What is pictured here?

Vertical Farming

100

What are the four Biogeochemical cycles we studied this semester

water, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorous

100

Name the eight planets, from innermost to outermost.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

100

What was the very first artificial organ?

Heart, kidney, liver or brain

Kidney

200

What is the formula for gravitational potential energy?

GPE = mgh (mass x gravity x height)

200

What does the slope of a distance vs. time graph tell you?

Speed (or velocity)

200

What do you call the incorporation of trees into traditional farming practices?

Agroforestry

200

In the atmosphere, carbon is generally found in what form?

Carbon dioxide

200

Name the four Gas Giants

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

200

The first robot-assisted surgery was a stereotactic brain biopsy using an industrial robot arm called PUMA 560. In what decade did this occur?

1980s. 

300

How much kinetic energy does a 10 kg cheetah have, when running 10 m/s (no calculator)?

 


500 Joules

300

How many MINUTES will it take to drive to your grandmothers house? She live 80 km away and your parents drive 40 km/hour

120 minutes

300

What do you call the technique of growing plants using a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil?

Hydroponics

300

In the water cycle, clouds form by the process of evaporation followed by _________________.

Condensation

300

What is the hottest planet?

Venus

300

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist discovered _________ in 1895 while experimenting with a cathode-ray tube. Röntgen observed a mysterious green light on a nearby screen and, after further investigation, realized that these rays could pass through opaque objects like the human body.

X-rays

400

A tennis ball is dropped from 10 m, bounces several times, and comes to rest. What happened to its original energy (two things please)?

It became heat and sound

400

A hanglider leaping off a cliff accelerates from 1 m/s to 6 m/s in 10 seconds. What is her acceleration? 

0.5 m/s2

400

What do you call the process of turning natural, organic wastes into useful fertilizers?

Composting

400

In photosynthesis, plants covert water and carbon dioxide into what and what?

sugar and oxygen

400

Kepler's First Law says that planetary orbits are in the shape of ______________ with the sun at one of the ____.

An ellipse/ foci

400

What does MRI stand for?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

500

A man is walking at 1 m/s, then starts running at 4 m/s. By how many times did he increase his kinetic energy?

16

500

A fast tortoise creeping along at 1 m/s will travel how many kilometers in one hour? 

3.6 km

500
Name the practice of raising aquatic organisms in controlled environments, such as ponds, tanks, or open water.

Aquaculture

500

Peas, beans and clover have nitrogen fixing bacteria in nodules on their roots. This group of plants is called ____________. 

Legumes

500

The point in the orbit of a planet or comet in which it travels the fastest is called the ______________. 

Perihelion


500

____________ is a type of treatment that harnesses the body's own immune system to fight cancer and other diseases. It involves boosting or modifying the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells or to target specific cells within the body.

Immunotherapy