Motion
Forces
E&M
Waves
Evolution
Cosmology
Tectonics
100
This is the physical quantity measured in miles per hour by your car.
What is speed?
100
This is the name of a contact force that only slows down objects.
What is friction?
100
This is the name of the device picture.
What is an electromagnet?
100
Increasing the wavelength of a wave inherently DECREASES this property of the same wave.
What is frequency?
100
This biologist's name goes hand in hand with the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
This is the most common element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
100
This is the name of the formation that forms when two continental plates collide.
What is a mountain/mountain range?
200
This region of the graph has the highest velocity.
What is "A"?
200
This is the name of the noncontact force that can only pull, not push.
What is gravity?
200
This is one way you could increase the strength of an electromagnet.
What is increase the number of coils (or use a higher voltage battery)?
200
This is the name of the substance a wave travels through.
What is a medium?
200
Natural selection describes the appearance of beneficial traits that help a species _________.
What is "reproduce"?
200
Every closed orbit in the solar system has this specific shape.
What is ellipse/elliptical?
200
This is the name of the formation that forms when oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a volcanic arc?
300
Multiple right answers: ____________ measures the change in ________ over time.
What is "speed/velocity" and "position", or "acceleration" and "speed/velocity"?
300
"Equal and opposite reaction" is the key phrase in this physics law.
What is Newton's third law?
300
Two answers: In both magnets and electrostatics, same sign poles _____ while opposites _______.
What are "repel" and "attract"?
300
Two words: This is the name of the surface shape this picture.
What is "convex mirror"?
300
This is the name of the human practice of making plants and animals exhibit certain traits through repetitive and calculated breeding?
What is "artificial selection?"
300
This planet in the solar system has the strongest gravitational pull.
What is Jupiter?
300
Two answers: A __________ boundary forms from the collision of two plates, while a _________ boundary results from two plates moving away from each other.
What are "convergent" and "divergent"? (In this order)
400
In region B, the object traveling in this graph takes THIS number of seconds to travel 60 meters.
What is two seconds?
400
_______ describes a contact force that only exists as a pull, not a push (like in a chain).
What is tension?
400
This is the name of the device pictured.
What is a motor?
400
Two answers (order matters): __________ waves are best remembered for having peaks and troughs, while ____________ waves have compressions and rarefactions.
What are "transverse" and "longitudinal"?
400
These two creatures share the most distant common ancestor according to this cladogram.
What are tortoise and house cat?
400
The James Webb Space Telescope takes pictures using this part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is infrared?
400
This is the name of the boundary where two tectonic plates contact and slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
500
Owners of exotic cars are bragging about this physical quantity when they compare their "zero to sixty" time.
What is acceleration?
500
This is Newton's second law.
What is "force equals mass times acceleration"? (Or other variant of the same formula).
500
This is the subatomic particle responsible for electricity, electrostatic charge, and even magnetism.
What is the electron?
500
This is the name of the wave behavior that happens when a wave's direction is "bent" from its original path after passing through a transparent (often curved) medium.
What is refraction?
500
This is the name of a structure shared between two species completely by coincidence and not because of close common ancestry.
What is an analogous structure?
500
The pitch of a car horn lowering as it drives past a pedestrian is a good analogy to this important idea in cosmology.
What is redshift?
500
This is the name of the process where one tectonic plate travels underneath another one at a convergent boundary.
What is subduction?
600
You can't measure position of an object without first determining this.
What is a reference point?
600
Finish Newton's first law: An object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest, UNLESS _______________________________.
What is "there is an imbalance of forces"? (Or similar rephrasing).
600
This is the name of a circuit that does not make a complete path (and thus doesn't work).
What is an open circuit?
600
This is the name of the surface shape that causes mirrors to "zoom in" on images and lenses to "zoom out".
What is concave?
600
This is the name of a structure shared between two species because they share a common ancestor.
What is homologous structure?
600
This is the force responsible for the formation of stars.
What is gravity?
600
This is the name of the formation that forms when two oceanic plates collide.
What is a volcanic island arc?
700
This is the rate of acceleration of all objects on Earth due to the planet's gravity (with units).
What is 9.8 (10, rounded) meters per second every second?
700
Three answers total: These are the names of the three NONcontact forces discussed in our class.
What is gravitational, magnetic, and electrostatic?
700
This word describes the "strength" of power source in an electric current.
What is voltage?
700
Two answers: ____________ describes waves traveling through an object, while __________ describes the strength of a wave decreasing as it enters an object.
What is transmission and absorption (in that order)?
700
Two answers: __________ evolution results in analogous structures, while _________ evolution results in two species that look wildly different.
What are "convergent" and "divergent"?
700
The cosmic _________ background is evidence that outer space actually had color to it, but the light from the big bang is now extremely redshifted outside of what humans and even infrared telescopes can see.
What is "microwave"?
700
Two answers: 15 years ago today, a massive _______ devastated the country of _____ after destroying a nuclear power plant in the process.
What are "tsunami (or earthquake)" and "Japan"?