Matter & Atoms
Sources of Energy
Conservation of Energy
Forces & Fields
Order & Design in Creation
100
The three subatomic particles that comprise an atom
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
100
The energy possessed by an object by virtue of its motion
What is kinetic energy?
100
Mass and energy are related, and one can be converted into the other
What is Einstein's principle of mass-energy equivalence?
100
Simply, a push or a pull
What is a force?
100
The three most basic things the universe is made of
What are matter, energy, and intelligence?
200
This holds everything together and enables any process to happen
What is energy?
200
A quantum of electromagnetic energy
What is a photon?
200
The law of conservation of energy
What is "Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed in form"?
200
The weakest of the four fundamental forces
What is gravity?
200
The orderly and very mathematical system of rules that objects in nature obey
What are the laws of nature?
300
Neutrally charged subatomic particles found in the nucleus
What are neutrons?
300
Six major forms of energy harnessed by mankind
What are solar energy, wind energy, hydroelectric energy, fossil fuels, geothermal energy, and nuclear energy?
300
On moving objects it always causes heating, which always releases energy into the environment
What is friction?
300
He said that all objects with mass attract all other objects with mass
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
The belief that the only way to reach objective knowledge is through modern science
What is scientism?
400
The zones of residence occupied by electrons in an atom, according to their energies
What are orbitals?
400
Stored energy due to an object’s location in a gravitational field
What is gravitational potential energy?
400
A mechanical process whereby energy is transferred from one object to another by a force pushing through a certain distance
What is work?
400
The force responsible for the beta decay
What is the weak nuclear force?
400
The hierarchically ordered sequence of existence, starting with God and descending to minerals.
What is the Chain of Being?
500
The atomic model theorized by J.J. Thomson, where negatively charged particles are embedded in a positively charged whole
What is the plum pudding model?
500
The six regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, in order from highest energy to lowest
What are gamma rays, X-rays, UV radiation, visible light, infrared light, microwaves, and radio waves?
500
When hot and cold particles in a fluid mix and collide, causing slower, cooler molecules to gain kinetic energy and speed up
What is convection?
500
The cause of an electric field
What is any charged particle?
500
A broad term for the study of the natural world and its methods, made possible by the laws of nature and the intelligibility of the universe
What is science?