6th Grade
This movement of the Earth affects seasons in the Northern and Southern hemispheres; it takes 365 days to complete one.
What is revolution?
This cell structure controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This is the SI unit for force.
What are Newtons?
This term describes the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
This is the variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
These tides occur when the moon is in New or Full phase; they are the equivalent to a high tide.
What is a spring tide?
This is the process that plants use to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of bond occurs between two nonmetals.
What is a covalent bond?
This is the formula for density.
What is mass / volume?
The reason it is important to conduct multiple trials in an experiment.
What is reliability or validity?
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
These traits come from an offspring's parents.
What are inherited traits?
This type of heat transfer occurs through empty space.
What is radiation?
This is the ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
This tool is used to measure liquid volume accurately.
What is a graduated cylinder?
Water is given this nickname because of its capability of dissolving many substances.
What is universal solvent?
These organisms break down dead organisms and recycle the nutrients.
What are decomposers?
This law explains why an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force.
What is Newton's 1st law of motion?
This is the number of times a wave passes in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
These are representations of things that are either too large or too small to study.
What are models?
Hurricanes form in this region of the Earth because of warmer waters.
What is the equator?
Mitochondria produce this in cells, as it is needed for cell function.
What is ATP or energy?
This is the main difference between speed and velocity.
What is direction?
This is the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.
What is friction?
What are constants?