Light Energy
This term describes a material that allows all light to pass through it clearly, like a glass window.
What is Transparent?
This is the transfer of heat through direct contact, like your hand touching a hot spoon.
What is Conduction?
This massive star provides the energy that powers the entire water cycle.
What is the Sun?
These massive, swirling storms form over warm ocean waters and have a calm "eye" in the center.
What are Hurricanes?
Known as the "brain" or control center of the cell, this organelle contains the genetic material.
What is the Nucleus?
When light hits a smooth, shiny surface and bounces off, it is called this.
What is Reflection?
This type of heat transfer travels through space or air in waves, like heat from the Sun or a campfire.
What is Radiation?
The process where liquid water heats up and turns into water vapor (a gas).
What is Evaporation?
This type of precipitation forms when raindrops are tossed up into freezing air by strong winds inside a cloud.
What is Hail?
This nicknamed "powerhouse" of the cell turns nutrients (food) into energy for the cell to use.
What is the Mitochondria?
This is the "bending" of light as it passes from one medium to another (like from air into water).
What is Refraction?
This describes the transfer of heat in liquids or gases through currents (warm rises, cool sinks).
What is Convection?
When water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
What is Condensation?
To get a thunderstorm, you need moisture, unstable air, and this—a process that pushes air upward (like a cold front).
What is Updraft?
These are the two structures found in plant cells that are NOT found in animal cells.
What are the Cell Wall and Chloroplasts?
This type of material, like frosted glass or wax paper, scatters light so you can only see blurry shapes.
What is Translucent?
A material that does not allow heat to flow through it easily, like rubber, wood, or Styrofoam.
What is an Insulator?
This is the process where plants "sweat," releasing water vapor into the air through their leaves.
What is Transpiration?
Most thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes come from this specific type of "towering" dark cloud.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
Half points for "Thunderhead"
This molecule carries the "blueprint" or instructions for all living things; it looks like a twisted ladder.
What is DNA?
What are the seven colors of the visible light spectrum in order from longest wavelength to shortest?
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet (ROY G. BIV)
In which direction does heat always flow: from cold to hot, or from hot to cold?
From hot to cold
This term describes water that flows over the land surface into rivers and lakes, rather than soaking into the ground.
What is Runoff?
This instrument is used by meteorologists to measure air pressure; a drop in pressure usually means a storm is coming.
What is a Barometer?
In genetics, this type of trait (like brown eyes) will always show up and "hide" a weaker, recessive trait.
What is a Dominant trait?