Properties of Matter
If you drop a rubber ball into a bucket of water and it floats, what does that tell you about its density?
What is it’s less dense than water?
What kind of rock is formed when layers of sand, mud, and tiny pieces of rock are pressed together over time?
What is sedimentary rock?
What do we call the path through which electricity flows?
What is a circuit?
After dead plants and animals sink to the bottom of oceans or swamps, what three things are needed over millions of years to turn them into fossil fuels?
What are fossil fuels?
his type of factor includes non-living things like sunlight, water, and temperature in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
You stir sugar into a cup of water, and it disappears. What property of sugar does this show?
What is solubility (it dissolves in water)?
Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are formed from the remains of what?
What are plants and animals that lived millions of years ago?
Name two things a circuit must have to make a light bulb turn on.
What are a power source (like a battery) and a complete path?
What are fossil fuels made from?
What are dead plants and animals buried under heat and pressure?
How do webbed feet help animals survive in their environment?
Webbed feet help animals swim
A metal spoon heats up quickly in a pot of hot soup. What type of energy is it conducting?
What is thermal energy?
After erosion moves sediments, what is the name of the process that drops them off in a new location?
What is deposition?
What type of line does light always travel in?
What is a straight line?
What is they pollute the air and can run out?
What’s a disadvantage of using fossil fuels like coal and oil?
Why do animals in the tundra have adaptations like thick fur or fat layers?
To keep warm in the freezing cold temperatures of the tundra.
This metal is commonly found in paperclips and sticks to magnets. What is it?
What is iron?
What is it called when rain or rivers slowly wear away rocks and carry the pieces to new places?
What is erosion?
When light bounces off a mirror, this happens.
What is reflection?
Name 4 nonrenewable resources.
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Petroleum (Gasoline)
Name 2 things fossils can tell us about the past?
Fossils can tell us about the
climate, how animals looked, what plants existed, and how animals lived millions of years ago.
You drop a cork, oil, penny, water, and a plastic paper clip a into a container of water. Which order shows them from the most dense (sinks the most) to the least dense (floats the most)?
Penny, water, plastic paperclip, oil, cork
What are the main processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rock over time?
What are weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
When an object appears closer, like a fish in a pond, what causes this effect?
What is refraction—light changing direction?
Which kind of resource can we use over and over again—renewable or nonrenewable?
What is renewable?
(Sun, Wind, Water, Plants, and Animals)
What are abiotic factors?
sunlight, water, air, temperature, and soil.