| Test of Genius | Result of Genius | Chapter |
| What do you need to change something? | |
| What is energy in the form of motion? | |
| What is the SI unit of energy? | |
| What is energy stored in an object? | |
| Which has more potential energy, a rock rolling down a hill or a roller coaster at the top of a cliff? | |
| When an object is heated, do it's particles move faster or slower? | |
| What two types of energy do you add together to get thermal energy? | |
| The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 Kg of a substance by 1 degrees Celsius is called what? | |
| Conduction and Radiation are both ways to transfer thermal energy, what is the third way? | |
| What is a material that doesn't let much heat through it called? | |
| Do opposite charges attract or repel? | |
| What does not pass through insulators easily? | |
| What do electrons pass through easily? | |
| What likes Abe Lincoln and is a good conductor? | |
| What does a dry cell use to generate energy? | |
| What does an electrical current flowing through a wire create? | |
| We use dams to turn what to create electricity? | |
| How many directions does a direct current flow? | |
| How many directions does an alternating current flow? | |
| Magnets don't have east and west poles, instead they have what two types of poles? | |
| What holds protons and neutrons together in a an atomic nucleus? | |
| What is the emission of energy or particles from an unstable nucleus is called? | |
| A decaying nucleus emits alpha and beta particles, what is the third type of particle that can be released? | |
| What is the amount of time it takes for half of the atoms in a radioactive substance to decay called? | |
| What tool is used to detect radioactivity? | |
| If waves don't transfer matter, what do they transfer? | |