Energy
Earth Landforms
Structures of Organisms
Natural Resources
RANDOM
200
This summer you decided to build a solar oven. Your first attempt was to make hotdogs. You placed the hotdog in the oven where _________ energy is converted to _________ energy and your hotdog is cooked.
What is light energy to heat energy?
200
What do we call the plates that make up the surface of the earth?
tectonic plates or continental plates
200
Beavers build dams in water as a way to provide shelter for their families. What unique feature does the beaver have that allows them to cut through strong trees that help build their dams?
What is large, strong front teeth?
200
Natural resources can be divided into two categories. One type of resource is abundant, the second has a limited like fossil fuels. What are the names of these resources?
What are renewable and non-renewable?
200
What is weathering
When weather breaks down rock into smaller pieces
400
Sammy is building a small toy car. He wants to use a balloon to power the toy car. He fills a balloon with a small amount of air and then attaches a straw to the balloon. He tapes the balloon-straw combination to the car and then releases the end of the balloon. The toy moves forward a little bit as the air from the balloon comes out the back of the straw. What can Sandy do to make the toy car move faster?
What is put more air into the balloon?
400
What could form when the tectonic plates push against each other?
Mountains or earthquakes
400
How does tasting bitter to predators help the dandelion plant survive?
What is keeps other animals from eating it?
400
What non-renewable resource has to be mined, uses up a lot of the environment, and is very dangerous for workers because of the mining. It was used to power steam engine trains a long time ago.
Coal
400
Name a landform, any landform
Accept reasonable answers
600
During a collision between a moving object and a stationary object not all energy is transferred as kinetic energy from the moving object to the stationary object. What other types of energy transformations could take place?
Some of the energy is transformed into sound, heat or light energy.
600
How can scientists use animal or plant fossils to understand what an area was like long ago?
The fossils can show if an area had water, was dry land, what food was available for animals, what the environment was like.
600
A lion has sharp, teeth with very strong front canines. A giraffe has dull teeth that are short. What does this tell us about each animals diet?
A lion uses its teeth to tear apart tough meat while a giraffe uses its teeth to chew plants and leaves
600
This chart shows renewable vs non renewable energy sources from the US a few years ago. What is the least common energy source?
Nuclear
600
When magma pushes up from under the earth's surface in between tectonic plates a _________ is formed
volcano
800
You construct a simple circuit with a battery, a wire and a light bulb. What energy transformations occur to light the bulb?
Battery turns chemical energy into electrical energy which turns into light energy
800
Clara does an experiment to test how a canyon was formed. She builds a tall structures of sand and dirt. What should she put on this structure to imitate how a canyon is formed?
water ice more dirt
water
800
Pit organs are holes near the snake’s nostrils that allow them to collect infrared light. What does this help the snake do?
see hear taste
see
800
Wind energy, solar energy, and hydroelectric power are all types of....
renewable energy sources
800
_________________ is the process that helps to breakdown soil/small sediment and move it to another place. (hint: not weathering)
erosion
1000
While investigating energy, Krista placed a soccer ball on a flat, paved surface and rolled a basketball toward it. The basketball collided with the soccer ball and she recorded the results. What would best describe what she recorded?
Energy transferred from the basketball changed the soccer ball's motion.
1000
_____________ is the process of weather (such as rain, snow, ice, etc.) breaking down rocks or soil
weathering
1000
This image shows birds and their different beak shapes. What does this tell us about the birds?
difference in diet difference in wingspan difference in color
Difference in diet
1000
This picture shows how water is turned into ____________ energy (hint: look at the power lines)
electrical/electricity
1000
Layers of sedimentary rocks found high on some mountain ranges have been found with fossils of clams and other marine life. What does this indicate about these mountain ranges?
The area was once underwater