Life Science
The five senses
What are: touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell
Properties to sort objects
What are: size, shape, color, temperature, weight, and texture
The boundary where two air masses meet
What is a front?
These will always orbit a planet
What is a moon?
The steps of the Scientific Method
What are:
- question/observation
- create a hypothesis
- experiment
- results
- conclusion
Provides the food for a plant
What is the leaf?
The three states of matter
What are: solid, liquid, and gas?
When wind, water, and ice break down earth material
What is erosion?
The eight planets in order, starting from the sun.
What are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (and I guess not Pluto)?
The reason scientists repeat investigations
What is: to see if investigations give the same results?
A habitat that is full of trees with wide, thin leaves. It has a moderate climate with four distinct seasons.
What is a temperate forest habitat?
A push or pull that changes the motion of an object
What is a force?
The three categories of rocks
What are: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Classification of a dwarf planet
What is:
- orbits a star
- round(ish)
- larger than an asteroid and smaller than a planet
- does not clear its surroundings (does not have a large gravitational pull)
An inherited behavior that an animal can do without ever having to learn it
What is an instinct?
The taxonomy of living things (how we classify organisms)
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
A change in an object's velocity
What is acceleration?
The order of the water cycle (starting at the ocean)
What is: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff or percolation.
The phases of the moon, in order
A tool used to measure volume
heart beats to move blood through lungs to bring in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide
The difference between chemical and physical changes.
What is:
- a chemical change cannot be reversed, as it is physically different (example - wood burning to ash)
- a physical change can be reversed, as the properties stay the same (example - H2O)
The gas that makes up most of Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
The type of galaxy that the Milky Way is
What is a spiral galaxy?
The variable in an experiment that we can change
What is an independent variable?