What is a trait that a parrot can inherit from its parents: a broken tail feather, the type of food it is given, the color of its beak, or saying "thank you?"
The color of its beak.
100
The force that acts on a ball that is thrown into the air.
What is gravity?
100
What is the role of seeds in the life cycle of a tomato plant?
What is help the plant reproduce?
100
This has the greatest effect on weather and climate conditions on Earth.
What is the sun?
200
Which of these is a form of matter: heat, light, air, or magnetism?
What is air?
200
An example of an instinctive behavior is: a dog begging for food, a goose flying south in the fall, a seal balancing a ball on its nose, or a parrot repeating words it hears?
A goose flying south in the fall.
200
A positive charge and a negative charge are attracted to each other. What happens if you have two negative charges?
They repel.
200
How are consumers and producers related?
What is producer organisms provide energy to consumer organisms.
200
This is the step after hypothesis in the scientific method.
What is collect data or procedure?
300
Give an example when a liquid changes to a gas.
What is boiling water?
300
What kind of beak is best for collecting nectar from plants?
A long, skinny beak.
300
An incomplete circuit is used to test this.
What is conductivity.
300
Name the three stages in the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
300
Why is the climate drier on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
The mountains cause water vapor in the air to condense on their western side.
400
What is the difference between a mixture and a solution?
A mixture can be easily separated and the components keep their original properties. A solution is a mixture where one of the substances dissolves in the other (ex. salt in water).
400
Give an example of an inherited trait.
What is the ability to bend your thumb back? Teacher can give points for other correct answers.
400
Order these objects from closest to Earth to farthest away from Earth: Venus, sun, Pluto, moon
What is moon, Venus, sun, Pluto?
400
What types of organisms are the producers in most food webs?
What are plants?
400
What process contributed most to the formation of the Grand Canyon?
Rock sediment were carried away from the canyon by water in the river (erosion and deposition).
500
Why do stars appear in a different place every night?
Earth has rotated on its axis.
500
Give an example of a physical characteristic.
What is eye color? Teacher can give points for other correct answers.
500
Name the 3 types of energy that are used when a lamp is turned on.
What is electricity, heat, and light?
500
What adaptation allows killer whales to maintain their body temperatures in arctic marine environments?
What is the layer of fat beneath their skin? Blubber
500
Provides a way to measure the strength of an earthquake.