Test Taking Strategies
Matter
Force, Motion, & Energy
Earth & Space
Organisms & Environments
100

A push or pull that causes motion. 

Name 3 types and what you know about them. 

What is a force?

What is an unbalanced force?

100

An organism that makes it's own food.

What is a producer?

200
A push or a pull that changes the motion of an object.
What is a force?
200

A characteristic that helps an organism survive .

What is an adaptation?

300

If I am CONFIDENT that B is the correct answer choice after reading it, what should I do?  

What is continue to read C and D and make sure it is the BEST answer.  

300
Light travels this way. 


The 3 ways light interacts with mediums. Explain.

What is a straight line?

What is reflection off mirrors and shiny objects?The light bounces. 

What is refracted when moving from a medium such as air to water or a lens?  The light appears to bend or change direction?

What is absorption?  The light is taken in by black cloth, wood door, carpet etc.  

300

This takes about 365 days.

What is Earth's revolution around the Sun?

400

This takes about 1 month.

What is the moon's revolution around the Earth?

500

Materials that do not let light pass through them.

What is opaque?

500

The Earth does this in a 24 hour period and it is the cause of these 3 things. 

What is rotate on it's axis?

What is day/night cycle, the appearance of the sun moving from east to west, AND shadows. 

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