Physical Science
An invisible force that pulls objects down
What is gravity?
The category of organism that breaks down all animal and plant matter
What are decomposers?
The sun appears larger and brighter than other stars in our solar system because it is this.
What is closer?
This structure helps move objects, like a ball or a car, from a higher position to a lower position with ease
What is a ramp?
Bees have a critical role in helping plants to survive and to populate using this process: __________
What is pollination?
An object that is moving faster has more _______ that it can transfer to another object
What is energy?
A complex network of interconnected food chains that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
The bones or imprint of an animal left in the layers of the earth
What are fossils?
What is a bridge?
Patterns or collections of stars
What are constellations?
These can be defined as solid, liquid, and gas.
What are states of matter?
Skin, hair, wings, feet, claws, are all examples of what type of structures?
What are external structures?
One is the short term conditions in an area, and the other is how the atmosphere "behaves" over a long period of time
What are weather and climate?
A city has issues with electrical costs. These structures help to utilize the sun in order to cut costs and efficiently use energy.
What are solar panels?
This type of science studies how materials interact with each other when mixed or combined.
What is chemistry
Waves, like sound waves, can differ in their _____ and their ____.
What are amplitude (height) and spacing (wavelength)?
The characteristics that give animals their features. They can be inherited or acquired.
What are traits?
This is the process when rock and sediment are moved by wind and water
What is erosion?
The process of asking, imagining, planning, creating, modifying, and reflecting.
What is the engineering design process?
Most earthquakes and volcanoes are found in bands located here.
What are on the edges of continents or plates?
Name 3 ways that energy can be transformed
What are heat (thermal), light, sound, and mechanical (motion), electrical
What do all food chains and food web start with?
Sun's rays
Resources that humans use for fuel and energy can be classified as _________ or ___________
What is renewable and nonrenewable?
In engineering challenges, there are certain features that the solution must have. These are called the ______. There are also limits on materials and time. These are called the _______.
What are criteria and constraints?
The names of the 4 major spheres/systems of the earth
What are the hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere?