WEATHER
ROBOTICS
DATA AND GRAPHS
CATAPULTS
STEM
100
This tool measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
100
This process creates and describes the specific steps that a robot would take in action.
What is Computer Programming?
100
These are useful when comparing parts (percentages) to a whole.
What is a pie graph?
100
This team had the largest trebuchet.
Who is Leyton and Gage?
100
This field involves numbers, quantities, and equations!
What is Mathematics?
200
This tool measures the air temperature.
What is a thermometer? (inside a radiation shield)
200
This device can detect color for the robot.
What is the Color Sensor?
200
These are used when analyzing how a variable changes over a time period.
What is a line graph?
200
The SI unit for length is the ________.
What is meter?
200
This is the act of creating and building objects to accomplish a specific purpose.
What is Engineering?
300
This tool measures the amount of rainfall or snowfall.
What is a rain gauge? (Tipping Spoon Mechanism)
300
This device sends a signal when the robot comes into contact with another object.
What is the Touch Sensor?
300
When comparing a variable between two or more categories, use these.
What is a bar graph?
300
This type of energy is stored in the counterweight of a trebuchet.
What is Potential Energy?
300
This is the application of science to advance human society, usually involving tools and computers.
What is Technology?
400
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
This device detects other objects at a distance.
What is the Ultrasonic Sensor?
400
These display the distribution (spread) of the values of a single variable.
What is a histogram?
400
Trebuchets differ from catapults with this characteristic.
What is a counterweight?
400
This process attempts to understand the physical world through observations, experimentation, and data analysis.
What is Science?
500
This tool measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
What is Rotate, Move Forward for 50 seconds, Rotate.
500
A line of best fit is often drawn on these in order to identify an overall trend between two variables.
What is a scatterplot?
500
This is the ideal angle above the ground at which to launch an object from a catapult.
What is 45 degrees?
500
Sometimes the A in "STEAM" stands for this.
What is Art?