Motion
Quantitative Skills
Cells
Force
Weird Science
100

A rate of change of position.

What is speed?

100

The last three major diamond finds in Arkansas were 4.38 karats, 9.07 karats, and 8.52 karats.  The average would be 

What is 7.32 karats?

100

Prokaryotes are simple, small cells without this.

What is a nucleus?

100

A fundamental force determined by the amount of matter in an object.  On earth it would equal 9.8 m/s2.

What is gravity?

100

The solar system planet that rotates backwards compared to the other planets and has a day length that is longer than its year length.

What is Venus?

200

A brake on a vehicle is capable of creating this type of motion.

What is a negative acceleration?

200

m & m's are in a special bag for Halloween. There are 100 candies in each bag.  The bag has 37 yellow, 30 orange, and 33 brown candies.  This percentage of the bag would be not brown 

What is 67%?

200

An organism that would possess a cell with many organelles.

What is a plant, fungus, protist, or animal?

200

The force calculated by multiplying the amount of matter of an object by the gravitational pull of the body it is on.

What is weight?

200

The only part of any organism that has never actually died and is continually passed on from ancestors.

What is DNA?

300

An object's resistance to change.

What is inertia?

300

A hiker walks 500 m over the course of an hour.  What is the hiker's rate per minute.

What is 8.33 meters/minute?

300

A cellular organelle that allows sunlight to be converted into glucose using water and carbon dioxide.  Plant cells have lots of these.

What is a chloroplast?

300

A fundamental force created by the movement of electrons inducing a magnetic field.

What is electromagnetic force?

300

What a pit viper actually "sees" when it looks at you.

What is a heat (infrared) signature?

400

Unless a net force acts on an object, these 2 things occur

What are "remain in motion" or "remain at rest"?

400

A car travels 150 km in 3650 seconds to the east.  Its velocity would be? 

What is 41 m/s to the east?

400

This critter has a single unit bound by a membrane that contains nucleic acids, but is not considered an organism.

What is a virus?

400

A force loosely described as an immense attraction holding together quark based particles.

What is the strong nuclear force?

400

The animal with the highest blood pressure and a powerful kick capable of killing a lion.

What is a giraffe?

500

An object tends to accelerate in the direction of this

What is the net force?

500

An astronaut weighs 750 N on Earth.  A rocket hauls this astronaut's mass to the moon where gravity is 1.40 m/s2.  The new weight of the astronaut would be

What is 107 N?

500

All cells have one of these three things.

What is a cell membrane, nucleic acids, or cytoplasm?

500

A device used to unify the fundamental forces by smashing together low mass particles at high rates of speed intended to replicate the actions at the beginning of the universe.

What is a particle accelerator?

500

For an object to travel at the speed of light it must have nearly zero of this.

What is mass?