Land & Environment
What is one positive effect of building a tourist pier like the Galveston Pleasure Pier?
What is it brings visitors who spend money and create jobs.
True or False: Electrical energy needs a closed path (circuit) to make a bulb light.
What is true
Which force makes the skateboarder go down the half-pipe again and again?
What is Gravity
Is a copper penny a conductor or an insulator?
What is a conductor
What should you do to decide who to vote for?
What is research information about the candidates.
Name one negative effect of building a pier on a coastal area.
What is it can destroy animal habitats or increase pollution.
Paloma connected post A of the bulb to the battery positive. What must she do to complete the circuit?
What is connect post B of the bulb to the battery negative with a wire.
Which force most slows a rolling skateboard: gravity, magnetism, friction, or pushing?
What is friction
Is a wooden cork a conductor or an insulator?
What is an Insulator
Name one way a citizen can participate in civic affairs at the local level.
What is Write letters to public officials OR volunteer on historic preservation projects OR campaign for candidates.
If you find a fish fossil in your backyard, what does that tell you about the past environment?
The area used to be covered by water / aquatic environment.
Describe what happens to electrical energy in a closed circuit with a light bulb.
What is electrical energy travels through the closed path and can produce light and thermal energy.
Choose the best question for testing gravity in a descriptive investigation:
How does the strength of a magnet affect the number of paper clips it attracts?
How do different surfaces affect the distance a marble rolls?
What is How does the height of releasing a ball affect the number of times the ball bounces?
Which part of a pan conducts heat to boil water quickly — the metal pan or the wooden handle?
What is the metal pan conducts heat
Which TWO Texans helped preserve the Alamo?
Who is Clara Driscoll and Adina de Zavala.
Explain one reason why humans should conserve natural resources when building new structures.
What is to protect habitats and ensure resources remain for future generations.
Explain why a circuit with the switch connected back to the same battery terminal as the bulb will not light.
What is because the path is not complete between positive and negative battery terminals; current cannot flow through the bulb.
Describe how gravity affects your day to day life.
Gravity is the invisible "glue" of the universe, and while we often take it for granted, it dictates almost every physical action you take from the moment you wake up.
Which two items from the list are conductors: stainless steel spoon, glass marbles, aluminum nails, wool gloves?
What is a stainless steel spoon and aluminum nails.
Explain why historic preservation is an example of voluntary civic participation.
People choose to help preserve sites to protect community history without being paid or required to do so.
Compare a positive and a negative consequence of human modification of the environment in Texas (give one example of each).
Example positive — new jobs and tourism;
Example negative — habitat loss or increased pollution.
What is a circuit?
HINT: Think of it like a racetrack for electrons.
what is a closed loop that allows electricity to flow from one point to another.
Explain why mass or height would change how an object moves on a ramp
Higher release gives more potential energy so object moves faster and farther; heavier objects may keep moving due to more momentum, while friction can slow them.
Explain why a wooden handle is used on a hot pan even though the pan is metal.
Wood is an insulator so it does not transfer much heat, keeping the handle cooler and safer.
Describe the duty of an individual in state and local elections beyond voting (give one example).
Being informed — learn about issues and candidates; or respectfully holding public officials to their word