Electricity
Opposites __________
What is attract?
Like things ___________
The smaller of the two: an electron and an atom
What is an electron?
A con of coal power
What is CO2 emissions, dirty pollutant emissions, or being nonrenewable?
An effect of climate change
What is drought, hotter summers, colder winters, increased precipitation, extreme weather, flooding, populations being out of sync, or increased rates of wildfires?
If two positively charged particles move away from each other, then the force between them ____________ (increases or decreases)
What is decreases?
The definition of a compass
A freely spinning magnet allowed to point North
Do protons attract or repel electrons?
What is attract?
A con of solar power
What is unreliability or unrecyclable waste?
Where did Mr. Marino go to college?
Electrons have this charge
What is negative?
One way to increase the strength of an electromagnet
The reason why noble gasses are the least reactive
What is that they have full valence electron shells
A pro of hydroelectric power
What is reliability, a lack of CO2 emissions, or high output?
Our messiest lab together
What is either making elephant toothpaste or lava lamps?
Whichever has less resistance: a thicker or thinner wire
What is a thicker wire?
The opposite of a motor
What is a generator?
When an acid and base combine, they form this molecule
What is water?
The importance of Yucca Mountain
What is the location where the U.S. had planned to store its radioactive waste?
True or False: when you were in kindergarten, Mr. Marino was in 8th grade
What is true?
In terms of polarity, the reason why water has a high surface tension
Polarized water molecules form a "chain-linked" fence
The reason why magnets work
Electrons spin in the same direction, generating an electromagnetic field that controls nearby electrons
The number of electrons in a single bond
What is two?
A reason why people are afraid of nuclear power
What is the risk of nuclear disasters, uncertainty regarding nuclear waste disposal, or connections to nuclear bombs
Our first lab together (other than Rube Goldberg machines)
What is building thermometers?