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Cells and Body Systems
Fluids
Light
Mechanical Systems
Water
100
This organelle is the "command centre" of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
100
This is the name of the principle that pressure applied to one part of a closed system, will be applied equally to all other parts of the system.
What is Pascal's Law?
100

Light bends closer to the normal when entering a denser medium thanks to this concept

What is refraction?

100
Many types of sporting equipment provide good examples of this type of lever, which has fractional mechanical advantage, but provides greater speed.
What is class III?
100
When snow gradually accumulates over an extended period of time, it can become a flowing sheet of ice. What name is used for these structures?
What is glacier?
200

A group of tissues working together 

What is an organ?

200
This term is used to describe the process of a solid, becoming a gas.
What is sublimation?
200

A lens in which the middle is thinner than the edges.

What is concave?

200

This law states that if you apply pressure to any point of a fluid in a container, that pressure is transmitted throughout the fluid with equal strength.

What is Pascal's Law?

200

This number represents the percentage of water on Earth, that is fresh (frozen or not).

What is 3?

300
This structure allows plant cells to maintain their shape.
What is the cell wall?
300
This measurement is often used to describe the viscosity of a substance.
What is flow rate?
300

When all colours are reflected back at us, this colour is produced.

What is white?

300
No machine can ever be 100% efficient. This happens because some energy is always lost to heat, as a result of this force.
What is friction?
300

The most expensive and also most efficient desalination technique.

What is reverse osmosis?

400
The kidneys are an important part of this system, in the human body:
What is the excretory system?
400
In this state of matter, the particles are tightly packed, and vibrate slightly, from side to side.
What is solid?
400
This form of radiation is produced in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum where waves have the shortest wavelength.
What are gamma rays?
400

This term describes the number of times a machine multiplies the effort put in.

What is mechanical advantage?

400

Most of the water in the Edmonton area eventually drains into this body of water.

What is the North Saskatchewan River?

500
This term describes the movement of water into or out of a cell, in order to balance the concentrations of solutes on either side of the membrane.
What is osmosis?
500

If the temperature of water decreased, the solubility of a liquid would do this.

What is decrease?

500
This part of the human eye is analagous to the digital array, in a digital camera.
What is the retina?
500

In a gear train, if the driver gear turns clockwise, the follower gear will turn in this direction. 

What is counter clockwise?

500

This is the main cause of tides, on the oceans of the world.

What is the Moon?