Biology
Chemistry
Physics
General Science
Have you been paying attention?
100

The difference between a monkey and an ape

What are tails?

100

The symbol Hg on the periodic table

What is mercury?

100

T/F Energy can be created and destroyed

What is false? Energy cannot be created or destroyed (it is only ever transformed)
100

Sputnik 1 is famous for this.

What was the first man-made object to reach space?

100

The number of assessments we have had this year?

What is six?

(STWE x2, Geology, Heat, Plants, Chemistry and Digestion)

200

T/F Birds are the only animals that can fly

What is false? (bats are animals!)

200

The process for a solid turning directly into a gas

What is sublimation?

200
The type of heat transfer that moves the tectonic plates

What is convection?

200

The type of rock that Te Whanganui-a-Tara is mostly built on

What is greywacke?

200

The number of staff that work in the science department?

What is 19? (teachers and science technicians!)

300

The length of time for the current longest breath hold

How long is 24 minutes! (and 37 seconds)

300

The most abundant gas in the atmosphere

What is nitrogen? (78%)

300

The name of the phenomenon where light changes direction when it passes from one medium to another

What is refraction?

300

This phenomena causes the seasons on earth

What is the tilt on the axis?

300

The correct procedure to light a Bunsen burner

What is put on glasses and tie back long hair, connect the Bunsen to the gas, close the air hole, light the match, light the Bunsen?

400

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

What is the fear of long words!

400

The name of the reaction between hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide?

What is a neutralisation reaction?

400

The way sound travels

What is through vibrating particles in waves?

400
The location of the largest desert on earth

What is Antarctica?

400

The name of the mutation where one eye is partially or fully a different colour

What is heterochromia?

500

The names of the 5 key parts of a flower

What are: Stigma, stamen, sepal, petal, ovary

500

Name of a base that we eat and the purpose of using it in cooking.

What is baking soda, and making baking rise?
500

A simple parallel circuit containing two lightbulbs and a switch that only operates on bulb

What is.... (being drawn on the board)

500

The controversy behind this published science paper: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"

What is the scientists made it up?!

500

How many practical lessons have we done this year?

THIRTY FIVE (over a third of the lessons we had)