Science Olympiad
Name three Science Olympiad events.
Example: What is Codebusters, Crimebusters, and Mission Possible?
These form from snow and run off and have a significant impact on geography.
What is a glacier?
How many continents have glaciers on them?
All 7.
Tell me something you need to know to determine if a dinosaur was walking, running, or trotting.
stride length, footprint sz
The person who proved that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of a right triangle equals the square of the length of the hypotenuse.
Who is Pythagoras?
The number of divisions Science Olympiad has.
What is 3?
What a sesamoid bones?
Round, circular bones (patella).
List a historical application of wind power.
What is 1969?
How do you calculate Retention Factor (Rf)?
Distance the solute travels/distance solvent travels
The guy famous for E=mc^2
Who is Albert Einstein
The number of events Division B Science Olympiad has.
What is 23?
RNA stands for....
What is ribonucleic acid?
These are some of the oldest fossils, and are considered layers of sediment and microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria, that keep an important record of ancient climate and life.
What are stromatolites
This is what Snell's Law calculates.
Refraction
The first person to discover the shape of DNA (double helix).
You can request a hint.
Rosalind Franklin.
The state of the first Science Olympiad competition.
What is North Carolina?
A relationship between two organisms where one benefits and one is hurt.
parasitism
The oldest branch of science.
What is astronomy?
Something is considered aerodynamic if it reduces this.
What is the drag?
The person who introduced Arabic numerals (like 1, 2, 3) to Europe.
Who is Fibonacci?
The year of the first Science Olympiad competition.
What is 1974?
Factors in an ecosystem that are not alive.
What is abiotic.
This describes weather and environment over time.
What is climate?
The larger the star is, the ____ luminous it is.
more
One of the people who discovered/invented calculus.
Who are Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton?