Hi I’m new to Science Olympiad, and I was just wondering if anyone participated in Science Olympiad before, please tell me all about it! I’ve already read the rule book manual and schedules, but I feel like there’s not enough information—for example, the highlighted blocks as listed below are the ones I’m choosing to participate in this year, but what exactly are we studying in there? In Block A, what do we study for in Rocks and Minerals? Do we identify rocks? Tell me everything about it, especially the block events and try-outs please! And for the try-out test, I would like to know what that’s mainly about as well :) Thanks!

The first element on the periodic table of elements is carbon. a. true b. false

The earth's moon is unusually large. two popular theories of the moon's origin include the "sister world" hypothesis, which states that the moon formed from the same materials as the earth, near enough to the earth that they fell into orbit around each other. a second theory is the "capture" hypothesis, in which the moon formed elsewhere in the solar system, and the earth's gravity pulled it into its orbit. studies of what the moon is made of indicate that some of its materials had to come from the earth or from the same area of the solar system where the earth had formed. at the same time, the moon does not contain much of the material that makes up the earth's core, so the moon could not have formed from the same materials as the earth. how do the two facts above affect the described theories of the moon's origin? a. they show that scientists will never agree on where the moon came from. b. they show that more experiments on moon formation need to be done. c. they show that no theory accounts for the existence of the moon. d. they show that neither theory is complete and entirely correct.

What is the ima of the 1 st class lever in the graphic given? 2 3 0.5