NATURE OF SCIENCE
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
EARTH/SPACE
LIFE SCIENCE
POTLUCK
100
Experiment or Invesitgation?
This involves testing variables, establishes a cause and effect relationship, use classic scientific method
Experiment
100
The amount of matter in something is ____________.
Mass
100
What is made of gas, dust, stars, and objects orbiting stars?
DOUBLE POINTS
Galaxy
100
What do all food chains and food webs start with?
A producer
100
Which organ is part of the digestive system and removes water from food?
Large intesting
200
What is a statement saying what you think your end result will be (an educated guess)?
Hypothesis
200
What materials make the best conductors of heat and electricity?
Metals
200
What are the first four planets called and what are they made of?
Inner, rocky
200
What breaks down dead organisms?
DOUBLE POINTS
A decomposer
200
Which organ creates special juices to digest food and makes hormones like insulin to control blood sugar?
Pancreas
300
What is the measurements and observations from your experiment that you put in a table, chart, or
graph called?
Data
300
When you leave a metal spoon in a bowl of hot soup, the spoon gets hot. This is an example of what type of heat transfer?
DOUBLE POINTS
Conduction
300
Earth's ________________ cause day and night.
DOUBLE POINTS
Rotation
300
What is a special body part or behavior that helps a plant or animal survive in its home (environment).
A adaptation
300
The orbit of the Earth around the Sun in a fixed path is called a _________________.
Revolution
400
What is the first step in the scientific method?
Ask a question
400
The amount of space matter takes up is called _____________________.
Volume
400
The average pattern of weather that occurs in a certain location over many years is called ______________.
Climate
400
What is an example of a behavioral adaptation?
Migration, hiberrnation
400
When pollen joins the ovule (egg) it is called ______________________.
TRIPLE POINTS
fertilization
500
What are the things in your experiment that you change on purpose called?
DOUBLE POINTS
Independent variables
500
What is "anything that has mass and takes up space"?
Matter
500
An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun is a _________________.
DOUBLE POINTS
Comet
500
What is an example of a physical adaptation?
Camouflage, mimicry, type of beak, webbed feet, fur color
500
The wearing away of rocks cause by wind, water, animals and/or humans is called _______________.
Weathering
600
What 2 things should your data always have?
Date
Time
600
Which propery is "something that can be observed, measured, or described when looking at a piece of matter"? Ex: shape, color, size, texture, and weight
Physical Property
600
A stage of the water cycle in which water is changed from a gas (water vapor) to a liquid is called ____________________.
Condensation
600
What is the process of passing physical or behavioral characteristics, called traits, from parents to their children (offspring) called?
TRIPLE POINTS
Heredity
600
What will happen when two positively charged balloons are close together?
They will repel.
700
The group that stays the same in your experiment and doesn't receive the new treatment or change being tested is called the __________________ group.
Control
700
What kind of change is boiling eggs? Physical or Chemical
DOUBLE POINTS
Chemical
700
The process by which rock, soil, and other weathered earth materials are moved from one place to another is called _________________________.
Erosion
700
What is the four-stage life cycle where an insect changes from an egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult called?
Complete metamorphosis
700
What d non-flowering plants like ferns and mosses produce?
Spores
800
What is the systematic approach that scientists use to investigate observations, solve problems, test hypotheses, analyze date, and form a conclusion called?
DOUBLE POINTS
Scientific Method
800
What is any change that causes a new substance to be formed?
Chemicsl change
800
What is a type of rock that is formed over time from existing rock due to extreme pressure and/or heat?
Metamorphic rock
800
What is something that young organisms gain through observation, experience, or being taught rather than being born with it?
Learned behavior
800
What Type of plants produce seeds in a cone?
TRIPLE POINTS
Non-flowering, conifers