Life Science
These are animals that eat meat.
What is a carnivore?
These rocks are formed when lava or magma cools and becomes solid.
What are igneous rocks?
This is the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
When scientists group objects into categories, they are doing this.
What is Classifying?
This captures energy from the sun during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The energy transferred through food webs all begins with this.
What is the sun?
This layer of the earth is where convection currents occur.
What is the mantle?
This type of change in matter results in a state/phase change, but not in the formation of a new substance.
What is a physical change?
Colleen waters the plants in her greenhouse once every day. She wants to find out if the plants will grow more leaves if they are watered more often. She counts the number of leaves on each plant before she starts. She then continues to water half of each type of plant once daily, but she waters the other half of each type twice a day.
What is the dependent variable in Colleen's experiment?
What is the number of leaves the plants grow?
The surroundings and conditions in which an organism lives is this.
What is its environment?
What is a predator?
This is the length of time it takes for the earth to make one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
What is force?
You are conducting an experiment to see if exposure to more sunlight increases happiness levels for workers who typically spend the entire day in windowless offices.
What are the independent and dependent variables?
What are IV: Sunlight
DV: Happiness
If an animal is close to extinction, it is considered this.
What is an endangered species?
These are animals which have fur/hair, give live birth, and drink their mother's milk.
What are mammals?
These are the planets, listed in order starting with the one closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
This is the energy something has because of its position or structure.
What is potential energy?
This refers to how close a measurement is to the true value.
What is accuracy?
This is Earth’s most important energy source.
What is the sun?
This is a chemical process in which a plant traps light energy and uses it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
In the Northern Hemisphere, why do we have the fewest number of daylight hours in the month of December?
What is because the earth is tilted away from the sun?
This is an object's tendency to resist change in motion.
What is inertia?
The curve of a liquid in a graduated cylinder is called this.
What is a meniscus?
This is Florida's groundwater supply.
What is the Floridan Aquifer?