Scientific Inquiry
Ecosystems
Landforms
Properties of Matter
Force & Motion
100
A test to find something out
What is an Experiment.
100
The smallest unit of life that had major structures within it that allow it to live.
What is a cell
100
Deposition, landslides, volcanic eruptions and floods are all examples of this type of force.
What is Constructive Forces.
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter
100
The needle on a compass moves because of this.
What is Earth's Magnetism
200
The item you are changing or testing in an experiment.
What is Independent Variable (manipulated variable)
200
These are the four major cell structures.
What is cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and vacuole
200
The destructive process that describes the breaking down of rock.
What is weathering.
200
What are the three states of matter and what does their particle make-up look like?
What is Solids - particles tightly packed Liquid - Particles loosely flowing Gas - Particles floating wide-spread
200
This is used to reduce friction by making surfaces smoother
What is lubrication
300
variable in an experiment that is the result or response to the item being changed.
What is dependent variable. (responding variable)
300
These are the living factors in an ecosystem
What is Biotic Factors.
300
Underwater volcanic mountains that are not found on the mid-ocean ridge.
What is Seamounts.
300
This tool is used to measure the volume of an irregular object.
What is a Graduated Cylinder
300
The describes an object's location relative to another object or reference point. Uses words like above, below, beside, behind, or ahead of.
What is Position
400
This is the best graph to show data being collected over a period of time.
What is line graph
400
This is an organism that lives on a host organism, eventually resulting in the host's death.
What is a Parasite.
400
The highest point of the mid-ocean ridge where the volcanic activity adds mountains to either side of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is Rift Zone
400
These are the six main separation techniques.
What is Filtration, Floatation, Sifting, Evaporating, Magnetic Attraction, & Chromatography
400
Describes path in which an object is moving. Uses words like north, south, east, west, up, down, etc.
What is Direction
500
This is the kind of data collected in the form of words or sentences that describe what happened during a science experiment.
What is Qualitative data. (It describes the qualities)
500
These are the four limiting factors in an ecosystem.
What is food, water, space & shelter.
500
Islands with sandy beaches that serve as a protector to the mainland
What is Barrier Islands
500
The relationship of the amount of solvent and solute determines this.
What is concentration
500
This changes the rate and direction of the motion of objects because they are unequal in strength and opposite in direction.
What is unbalanced forces.
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