Your Resistance is Futile
It's Getting Hot in Here
Transformers (More than meets the eye)
Magnificent Magnetism
Sola' Powa'
100
This is the amount of voltage carried across a 75 Ω resistor with 1.6 A of current. (Include the unit or it's wrong.)
What is 120 V?
100
This is a round-and-round movement of matter due to differences in density and temperature.
What is convection?
100
This is the 2 part energy transformation used by a blender making a smoothie. (Do not use PE or KE.)
What is [Electric Energy] > [Mechanical Energy]?
100
The only combination of charges which will attract one another.
What is positive and negative?
100
The phase change in which radiation, from the sun, turns water into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
This is the resistance of the copper wire with a potential difference of 12 V, producing a current of 0.3 A. (Include the unit or it's wrong.)
What is 40 Ω?
200
The reason why a fire-poker gets warm when moving logs on the campfire.
What is thermal conduction?
200
This is the 3 part energy transformation as a windmill produces power. (Do not use PE or KE.)
What is [Fluid Energy] > [Mechanical Energy] > [Electric Energy]?
200
The magnetic pole which pulls the indicator arrow on a compass.
What is the magnetic south pole?
200
The insulating substance which retains the majority of the heat energy in our homes.
What is air?
300
This is the current carried by a nickel wire with 25 Ω of resistance, connected across the terminals of a 3 V flashlight battery. (Include the unit or it's wrong.)
What is .12 A?
300
Electromagnetic waves of energy which can travel through outer space.
What is radiation?
300
This is the 3 step energy transformation as a person peddles a bike.
What is [Chemical Energy] > [Mechanical Energy] > [Kinetic Energy]?
300
An element concentrated in Earth's core, responsible for our planets magnetic shield.
What is iron?
300
This is the 3 step energy transformation as a solar-cell on a rooftop is used to run a water heater in the basement. (Do not use PE or KE.)
What is [Radiation] > [Electric Energy] > [Non-mechanical Energy]?
400
A category of material that prevents the flow of electricity. In terms of temperature, these materials also reduce the flow of heat energy.
What is an insulator?
400
The name for an individual particle of visible light radiation.
What is a photon?
400
This is the 3 step energy transformation within an automobile.
What is [Chemical Energy] > [Mechanical Energy] > [Kinetic Energy]?
400
This is the continent where the magnetic north pole is located.
What is Antarctica?
400
The average distance radiation from the Sun must travel to reach Earth. (Within 3,000,000 miles +/-)
What is about 93,000,000 miles?
500
This is the proper/full name for the SI unit of current (I).
What is the ampere?
500
This is a type of heating system which uses nothing but sunlight to warm fluid and does not require any additional energy to be effective.
What is a passive solar heating system?
500
This is the 3 step energy transformation within a microwave warming leftovers. (Do not use PE or KE.)
What is [Electric Energy] > [Radiation] > [Non-mechanical Energy]?
500
The name of the region of space protected by Earth's magnetic core.
What is the magnetosphere?
500
The temperature a solar cooker (or any heat source) must reach in order to pasteurize or clean water.
What is 150 degrees Fahrenheit / 65 Celsius?