Chapters 1-3
Fastest Land Animal
What is cheetah?
Includes precipitation, evaporation, and condensation
What is the water cycle?
Water as a solid
What is ice?
Means Burning
What is combustion?
First to invent powered flight
Who are Wright Brothers?
Sweet liquid that flowers use to attract insects
What is Nectar?
wing footed
What is pinneped?
temperature to go from a liquid to a gas
What is boiling point?
Measures the antiknock quality of gasoline
What is octane number?
Invented and perfected steam engine
Who is James Watt?
Bending of Light
What is Refraction?
Two types of fossil fuels
What are coal and petroleum?
the two states that are fluids
What are gas and liquid?
special jet engine used in some high speed missiles
What is ramjet?
Scientist who studies the structure of the earth
Who is a geologist?
Transparent outer layer of eye
What is Cornea?
Mineral used in watches that has wide range of colors
What is quartz?
the tendency of gasses to float away and spread themselves out
front end of a rocket
What is payload?
Invented the reflecting telescope
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Only domestic non-social animal
What is a cat?
Highest and lowest tides are located here
What is the Bay of Fundy?
The state of matter that has its molecules as hexagons
What is a solid?
joins wheel to piston rod in steam engine
What is connecting rod?
Scientist who studies fossils
Who is a paleontologist?