Science Labs
Forensics
Senses
Heat and Energy
Science Fair
Life
World of Water
Space
100
The number of Science Labs in GHS
What is 5?
100
This liquid can be separated using a technique called chromatography, to solve crimes
What is ink?
100
The three primary colours of light
What are red, green and blue?
100
Plastic, wool, and rubber are materials that have this property (I__________)
What is an insulator?
100
This step in a science fair investigation is where you make a prediction (H________)
What is hypothesis?
100
This important life process, getting rid of waste products, starts with an E in MRS GREN
What is excretion?
100
This creek, in Greymouth (not Grandjeans!), is where we collected samples to measure water quality
Sawyers creek
100
This celestial object controls the tides on Earth
What is the moon?
200
Lab equipment that is placed on top of a tripod
What is a gauze mat?
200
The three types of fingerprint pattern (W____, L____ and A____)
What are whorls, loops, and arches?
200
This kind of energy, picked up by one of our senses, is a vibration through air, water, or solid
Sound energy
200
This state of matter is when the particles are moving very very fast
What is a gas?
200
This animal's color choices were tested in a 9E Science Fair entry
What are horses?
200
This phylum is the group of animals with backbones, which includes humans
What are are chordates?
200
This test, which turns pure water green, tells us if water is acidic or basic
What is the pH test?
200
This planet, the largest in our solar system, is fifth fartherest from the Sun
What is Jupiter?
300
Fire from a bunsen burner set up like this will be this
What is hot, blue, loud, and hard to see?
300
The criminal who stole Mr. Tangney's chicken
Who is Dr. Hunter?
300
The units to describe how loud a noise is
What is decibel?
300
This kind of heat transfer is how the sun keeps us warm
What is radiation?
300
This important step in a science investigation will make sure your results aren't because of a fluke, and let you take an average
What is repeating the experiment?
300
These physical adaptations help a fish do the life process of Respiration
What are gills?
300
These two chemicals found in fertiliser are important to help things grow, but cause problems in streams
What is nitrate and phosphate?
300
This cosmic event, which happened a couple weeks ago, occurs when the Moon ends up in the Earth's shadow
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
The best lab equipment for measuring the volume of water in a spoon
What is a measuring cylinder?
400
The weakest magnification on a compound microscope
What is 40x magnification?
400
Light refracts when passing from one medium through ot another. refraction is when light...
What is bending?
400
This kind of heat transfer happens through direct contact - metals are particularly good at it
What is conduction?
400
This variable, in science experiments, is the one you change to see what the effects are
Independent Variable
400
These "male" parts of a flower produce the pollen/plant sperm
What are the stamen, anthers and filaments?
400
This group of microbes, found in the creek, is a sign that something is pooping in the water
What is coliform bacteria?
400
This future NASA mission aims to send people to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions, and eventually to Mars
What is the Artemis Program?
500
These gas taps are currently switched to...
What is on?
500
A drink with sugar in it will turn this colour if you do the Benedicts test
What is orange?
500
This kind of lens bulges out, found in magnifying glasses, helping bend light to a single point
What is a convex lens?
500
These three kinds of energy are also called "stored" energy (G_____, C______, E______)
Gravitational, Chemical, Elastic
500
This science fair exhibit won the People's Choice award
What is Sugar in Smoothies?
500
These sea animals exist in their own phylum called "echinoderms"
What are starfish and sea urchins?
500
This explosion of microscopic plant growth, caused by high nitrate and phosphate levels in streams, can have serious problems for stream quality
What is an algal bloom?
500
These two probes, bearing messages in case they run into extraterrestrial life, are the furtherest any man-made object has travelled
What are the Voyager spacecraft?