Physics
Solar System
Electricity
and Magnets
Weather and
Climate
Pot Luck
100

Energy provided by the sun.

What is Solar Energy?

100

The planet nearest to the sun.

What is Mercury?

100

Solar cells convert this into electricity.

What is sunlight?

100

Rain, snow, hail and sleet.

What is precipitation?

100

The chemical formula for water.

What is H2O?

200

A push or pull that causes an object to move, stop or change direction.

What is a force?

200

This man was the first human to walk on the moon.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

200

A magnet that has a magnetic field only when an electric current runs through it.

What is an electromagnet?

200

Scientific word for the amount of moisture in the air.

What is humidity?

200

The person who reads a prescription and prepares medicine.

What is a pharmacist?

300

The energy of motion.

What is kinetic energy?

300

The scientific study of objects outside of earth's atmosphere.

What is astronomy?

300

Any material that allows an electric current to run through it.

What is a conductor?

300

The coldest desert on earth.

What is Antarctica?

300

The study of earthquakes.

What is Seismology?

400

A change in speed and/or direction.

What is acceleration?

400

The proper name for the North Star commonly used by explorers to navigate.

What is Polaris?

400

A glowing light bulb has this kind of circuit.

What is closed?

400

The calm center of a hurricane.

What is the eye?

400

The largest mammal that has ever lived.

What is a Blue Whale?

500

Inertia is the principle behind this law.

What is Newton's First Law of Motion?

500

This occurs when Earth passes through a New Moon's shadow.  (Needs a two word answer)

What is a Solar Eclipse?

500

The glowing part of the light bulb.

What is a filament?

500

Air pressure is measured by this.

What is a barometer?

500

The five States of Matter.

Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma and Bose-Einstein Condensate.